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    like heart disease and stroke. Heart disease has controllable risk factors like‚ hypertension‚ high cholesterol‚ diabetes tobacco use‚ obesity and poor diet. It is important for one to address these risks early because only then he or she can prevent the problems of cardiovascular disease. A poor diet that consists of high fat‚ high cholesterol and excess salt can add to causes for heart disease. The chemicals in cigarettes harm ones’ blood cells‚ and damage the function of his or her heart and blood

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    Heart of Darkness

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    situations‚ as he must distinguish which parts of the text are coherent in his adaptation of the novella and the audience’s reaction to it. Coppola chose to retain the main themes of Heart of Darkness. The criticizing and mocking of imperialism was a prevalent theme that surfaced throughout Apocalypse Now. For instance in Heart of darkness‚ Marlow exemplifies the basis of imperialism. "The conquest of the earth‚ which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly

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    Bringing Up a Child Today we often complain about unreasonable and disrespectful behavior from children and teenagers. In the article “Punishment Outcry”‚ published in The Daly Express‚ November 10‚ 1995‚ Richard Lynn and Penelope Leach highlight the arguments for and against physical punishment of children‚ when they misbehave. At the first glance parents are sure that they do everything to their children will succeed in life. But someday we wonder why some families are raising successful children

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    Hypertension Heart

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    killer." People who have high blood pressure typically don’t know it until their blood pressure is measured. They are: headache‚ dizziness‚ blurred vision‚ nausea and vomiting‚ chest pain and shortness of breath. Commonly seen in hypertension: heart attack‚ heart failure stroke or transient ischemic attack‚ kidney failure‚ and eye damage with vision loss What are symptoms of Hypertension? High blood pressure usually causes no symptoms and high blood pressure often is labeled "the silent killer."

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    Heart Failure

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    right Before a heart Attack Your Body Will Give You These 4 Signs w3.newsmax.com Heart Failure  Definition Heart failure is a condition in which the heart has lost the ability to pump enough blood to the body’s tissues. With too little blood being delivered‚ the organs and other tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients to function properly. Description According to the American Heart Association‚ about 4.9 million Americans are living with congestive heart failure. Of these‚ 2.5 million

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    Heart disease Stress symptoms: Effects on your body‚ feelings and behavior By Mayo Clinic staff Stress symptoms may be affecting your health‚ even though you might not realize it. You may think illness is to blame for that nagging headache‚ your frequent insomnia or your decreased productivity at work. But stress may actually be the culprit. Indeed‚ stress symptoms can affect your body‚ your thoughts and feelings‚ and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can give you

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    Heart Disease Stephanie Rodriguez CHCP Abstract According to the World Health Organization‚ cardiovascular disease is the most common death in the U.S. These heart attacks and strokes are responsible for more than 15 million deaths worldwide each year. Doctors assure that every day nearly 2‚500 people in many other countries around the world die from heart diseases. In my opinion‚ the heart is a major important

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    Heart in a Box

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    Per: 7th November 22‚ 2011 Heart in a Box "How long can a human heart sit in a cooler of ice—thirsty for vein-borne blood‚ detached from ox y gen and lungs—before it becomes useless to the transplant patient who desperately needs it?" (Ballingall) Studies have shown that for up to 4 hours a transplanted heart can stay strong and healthy in a cooler of ice‚ but past six hours is too long for the heart to be stable‚ and its impossible to predict whether the heart will reject the recipient or not

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    Heart Disease

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    HEART DISEASE NOTES Video was made outside of Boston in Framingham. Studies started in 1948. Heart disease is # 1 killer in U.S. It starts squeezing your heart‚ and you feel a sharp point. 1/2 the people in the U.S. die with it‚ and 80% die from it. More men have it and more women die from it. Every minute heart disease kills someone in the U.S. Half the deaths in the U.S. population die by heart disease. Get tightness in the throat. Cholesterol is most deadly. Smoking hardens the arteries. High

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    The Broken Heart

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    The Broken Heart‚ by John Donne‚ is a poem that illustrates imagery of how love destroys the heart.      In the first stanza‚ it states “He is stark mad‚ whoever says‚ (1) that he hath been in love an hour.” (2) The author is giving an exploration that a man is out his mind or insane if he feels that love last only an hour. For instance‚ “decays” (3) and “devour” (4)‚ love does not decay‚ or pass away gradually‚ but love do devour a person. It can consume them and take over all aspects of the mind

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