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    Alternative Lifestyles

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    An alternative lifestyle is a lifestyle generally perceived to be outside the cultural norm. A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat‚ fish‚ or fowl or products containing these foods.The eating patterns of vegetarians may vary considerably: • Vegan: follows a strict diet excluding eggs‚ dairy‚ and all other animal products; • Lacto-vegetarian: Excludes animal flesh and eggs; • Lacto-ovo-vegetarian: Eats a diet of mainly grains‚ vegetables‚ fruits‚ legumes‚ seeds‚

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    The History Of Medicine

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    The History of Medicine The history of medicine  Prehistoric and primitive medicine  they treat their wounds similarly on how animals treat themselves:  immersing in a cool water  applying mud to irritated areas  sucking stings  licking wounds  exerting pressure to the wounds to stop the bleeding. The history of medicine  Prehistoric and primitive medicine  9th century: 1. Medical treatment was intertwined with religion and magic by means of kindness. 2. Disease was thought

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    Alternative Tourism

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    The alternative forms of tourism combine tourist products or separate tourist services different from the mass tourism by means of supply‚ organization and the human resource involved.  These are rural‚ ecotourism‚ adventure (biking‚ horseback riding‚ snowshoeing‚ ski mountaineering‚ rafting‚ diving‚ caving‚ climbing)‚ thematic tourism – connected with the cultural and historical heritage‚ the esoteric‚ religion‚ wine‚ traditional cuisine‚ ethnography and traditional music and handicrafts.  Sustainable

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    Folk Medicine

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    Plantain – Medicine that Treats Everything Throughout years‚ I was taught to believe that the best medicine is not a pill‚ but a folk medicine. The most common folk medicine in my culture was plantain. This herb meant to help in a variety of sicknesses. For instance‚ when I got food poison followed by high fever‚ vomiting‚ and diarrhea‚ my mother prepared a tincture based on plantain‚ vinegar and salt. I had to drink 15 drops of this mixture every hour and after 5 hours the reaction

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    History of Medicine

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    Throughout the history of medicine‚ many innovations have occurred that impacted the world and vastly transformed the future of medicine. In my opinion‚ the four most important innovations in medicine are Vesalius’s book and view on anatomy‚ inoculation and vaccination‚ the microscope‚ and MRIs and CAT scans. The 16th century contained some of the greatest innovations of all time; one in particular was Vesalius’s anatomy book‚ De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius’s book was the first medical book

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    Tropical Medicine

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    centimeters long‚ are angular in shape‚ narrow in the end and the top is shortening. In various parts of the world‚ the uses of this plant are very diverse. A multipurpose plant which providing food‚ and medicine to the people. This essay will discuss on how a pandan tree can be used as a tropical medicine and its effects. 38 year old Hellen‚ a mother to three beautiful daughters. Suffers from asthma and every time she has an asthma attack‚ she always relies on her medication which she gets from her previous

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    Herbal Medicine

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    Herbal Medicine I would like to start out by saying a verse from Genesis 1:29-30 "And God said‚ behold‚ I have given you every herb bearing seed‚ which is upon the face of all the earth‚ and every tree‚ in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth‚ and to every fowl of the air‚ and to everything that creepeth upon the earth‚ wherein there is life‚ I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." This verse from the

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    Running Head: NANOTECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING ITS CONCEPTS IN MEDICINE Nanotechnology and Medicine Gladys Masker Contemporary Applications of the Sciences SCI215 Argosy University Online NANOTECHNOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING ITS CONCEPTS IN MEDICINE To understand the concepts of nanotechnology and its uses‚ we must first get an understanding of what nanotechnology is. The size of a nanometer is a billionth of a meter‚ or 10-9 of a meter. To illustrate the size of a manometer‚ picture 100

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    Medieval Medicine

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    Shaan Sarode Ms. Davis English IV – Per. 3 20 October 2010 Impact of Medieval Medicine Imagine when a friend gets sick or catches a “bug”‚ they may have two different reactions to it. The first is the realistic approach‚ which re-visits their recent actions and pinpoints the cause of the symptoms. The other is the non-realistic‚ which tends to blame supernatural causes. People during the medieval times almost always blamed the supernatural as the cause of these diseases. There were also many

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    Prehistoric Medicine

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    tribe there were shamans who would ‘exorcise ill people’ demons’ and apothecary. They had medicine men who were shamans and witch-doctors. They would provide supernatural treatments like charms‚ spells and amulets to ward off evil spirits. If someone was ill the medicine man would initiate a ceremony over the patient where they would use magic formulas prayers and drumming. People thought that the medicine men could contact the spirits or Gods so people looked up to them. They used healing clays

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