Due to the lack of nutrients this diet provides and such low calorie intake, this diet can be used for no more than 6 weeks, with a 3 week break in between. Now that we have discussed where these two diets began, let’s discuss the diet plans. HCG and Slim-Fast have two very different diet plans. Slim-Fast offers shakes, snack packages, and meal bars while, The HCG diet consists of a hormone called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. This hormone is something that already exists in men and women, but it is increased in pregnant women and is said to speed up your metabolism.
An oral dose of 7.5 mg should be taken once per week for an adult who is treating rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, and it should be taken 2 hours before dinner or 2 hours after dinner. To determine what dose a child should take would be based on his/her weight. This medication is given four different ways orally, intravenously, intramuscular, and a spinal tap. If injecting Methotrexate the doctor would put the needle under the skin and inject 25mg per every milliliter. The advantages of having this medication injected is it works faster because it goes straight into the vein, the disadvantages is having to go to the doctor once a week to get the shot.
Many of the long term side effects have not made their appearances but they will soon enough. From what doctors have seen in the past 10 years we only know the side effects of a sudden overdose in the drug. The side effects in overdose are symptoms of tourettism, aggression, depression, high blood pressure, delusions, sweating, vomiting, dehydration, and unexplained muscle pain. We will only know the full danger of Adderall and similar drugs 50 years from now. When people who take the drug now become extremely dependent on it, and they are so old that their body will not allow them to take it.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a series of birth defects such as physical, mental, behavioral and learning problems caused by the mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Kenneth Jones and David Smith at the University of Washington in Seattle officially identified Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in 1973 (Golden 1). The exact reasons certain fetuses are affected and others are not, is not fully understood. CDC reports state that 0.2 to 1.5 per 1000 babies are born each year in the United States with alcohol related birth defects (CDC 1). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be prevented with education.
Lupus can be triggered at puberty, after childbirth, through sunlight, after prolonged course of medication, during menopause, after viral infection, or as a result of trauma. Lupus occurs in different ethnic groups. The reason for this is not known. In Caucasians the ratio is 1:1000, African Americans 1:250, and in Latinos 1:500. Ninety percent of the affected are women.
1. Information on Congenital Heart Defects More than 32,000 infants (one out of every 125 to 150) are born with heart defects each year in the United States. The defect may be so slight that the baby appears healthy for many years after birth, or so severe that its life is in immediate danger. Heart defects are among the most common birth defects, and are the leading cause of birth defect-related deaths. However, advances in diagnosis and surgical treatment over the past 40 years have led to dramatic increases in survival for children with serious heart defects.
Prevention of Teen Pregnancy: The Benefits of Sexual Education Programs In the United States, the rate of teen pregnancy continues to remain the highest in the developed world with approximately 26.6 births for every 1,000 adolescent females between the ages of 15-19 this past year. This totals to an unfavorable measure of 274,641 infants born to young women in this stage of life. Although prevention programs continue to grow and become more available throughout the states each year, their approach to influencing minors is questionable. Most engage in an abstinence-only education and believe that having teens refrain themselves from sexual intercourse is the only way to put a stop to unwanted pregnancies. Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention gives national marriage and divorce rate trends for the last ten years. In the year 2000 there were 2,315,000 recorded marriages, however, there were 944,000 divorces. This is a rate of 40.77% of marriages ended in divorce (“National Marriage”). The rate in 2009 was 40.38% (“National Marriage”). This is a minimal down shift in the rate of divorce.
As stated in their study, on average a homosexual will have from 20 to 106 partners a year. A heterosexual person will have, on average, under 10 partners a year. In a study which asked about homosexuals and their sex lives, 43% admitted to having 500 or more partners in their lifetime; 28% admitted to having 1000 or more partners in their lifetime. As a result, many homosexuals have contracted different sexually transmitted diseases. According to the study, homosexuals account for 3.5% of gonorrhea cases, 60% of syphilis cases, and 17% of
High rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are an important problem (Kirby, 2009). The Center for Disease control says that one-third of girls get pregnant before the age of 20, there are 750,000 teen pregnancies annually. They also report that eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended and 81 percent are to unmarried teens. Statistics suggest that in spite of school based sex education, sexual abstinence campaigns and access to contraception, teen pregnancy continues to be a serious