Health benefits of avocado This fruit grows in warm climates in Mexico and South America. Avocadoes are creamy and buttery fruits. Also this fruit is known as butter fruit or alligator pear. It contains 20 vitamins and minerals. Avocado is naturally nutrient-dense food. Here we give you some benefits of avocado: Healthy for the heart: According to studies made for benefits of avocado‚ avocado contains 25 mg per ounce of a beta-sitosterol which is natural plant sterol. It is recommended from the
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nuts‚ seeds‚ mushrooms‚ herbs and spices). Phytochemicals are beginning to take into account in recent years‚ as they are discovering its health benefits‚ some of them and the most outstanding are protection against cancer since they act in the detoxification of drugs‚ toxins‚ carcinogens and mutagens as blockers or suppressors‚ neutralize free radicals‚ inhibit enzymes that activate carcinogens and induce detoxifying enzymes thereof. And cardiovascular protection since they prevent the oxidation of LDL
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Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease which causes obsessive drug seeking and use even though they’re aware of the damage it causes to their family and themselves. The drug seeking becomes compulsive mainly by the effect the prolonged drug use has on behavior and the brain. Drugs have a huge effect on the human brain. They alter they way you think and act. The chemicals in drugs enter your communication system in the brain and change or disrupt the way your brain can send‚ receive
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since bioremediation is a natural process. Also‚ waste products are usually not generated‚ as bioremediation often results in complete degradation of the contaminants. These characteristics make bioremediation techniques potentially ideal for detoxification of chemical pollutants. However‚ there are a number of problems which are encountered with bioremediation as well. First‚ in order for organisms to successfully reduce pollutant levels‚ their population must
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English 21A 2 November 2011 Do you think fruits and vegetables are a good alternative to fight diseases instead of other drugs? Research has proved that there are many benefits in eating fruits and vegetables that can help prevent or control a lot of diseases. Though we were taught to have a daily dose of these healthy foods‚ many people choose not to eat fruits and vegetables. With the possibility of these foods stopping a disease‚ would one rather take prescription drugs to fight a disease
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Drug abuse in Africa Sections ABSTRACT Introduction Historical background Current drug abuse situation in Africa Effects of drug abuse in Africa Control mechanisms Future trends Details Author: T. ASUNI ‚ A. O PELA Pages: 55 to 64 Creation Date: 1986/01/01 Drug abuse in Africa T. ASUNI Department of Psychiatry‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Lagos‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria A. O PELA Clinical Pharmacy Unit‚ Faculty of Pharmacy‚ University of Benin‚ Benin‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT Apart
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tone for what follows: a series of head-on collisions that Johnson’s narrator—an on-the-run junkie—encounters over the course of eleven electrifying stories. Johnson hurls his readers on a shotgunned journey through emergency rooms and dope dens‚ detoxification wards and rest homes for those whose “impossible deformities…made God look like a senseless maniac.” The world of Jesus’ Son is a place‚ a purgatory of sorts‚ where “the rapist met his victim‚ the jilted child discovered its mother. But nothing
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Breast Cancer I would like to understand Breast Cancer and how you receive it‚ how your body creates it‚ and if it is hereditary. Through research I would like to be able to know my chances of obtaining this cancer and what I can do to prevent it. “In cancer‚ cellular balance has gone awry. The normal cellular process became abnormal with mutated cells that have not self-destructed. Without apoptosis‚ or programmed cell death‚ the damaged cells have not committed suicide. Instead‚ the abnormal
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treatment‚ the person checks into a treatment facility and lives there for the entire duration of the program. In-patient programs normally last 28 to 90 days depending on the unique needs of the patient. Usually‚ the patient will first undergo detoxification then proceed to counseling‚ and therapy later. Out-patient
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Alcoholism Alcoholism is a complex chronic psychological and nutritional disorder associated with excessive and usually compulsive consumption of alcohol. Alcohol dependence affects many different kinds of people around the world; men‚ women‚ rich‚ poor‚ business people‚ laborers and people from many different religions and cultures. Alcoholism dates back hundreds of years. In the early 1900s alcoholics would be viewed immoral and of weak character and would be punished. Today‚ about 62 million
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