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    genetics of obesity

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    Introduction According to the WHO (2010)‚ childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. Globally‚ in 2010 the number of overweight children under the age of 5 is estimated to be over 42 million (WHO‚ 2010). Obesity can be defined in a number of ways‚ e.g. by population means‚ BMI and waist circumference (Odgen‚ 2012). And according to Kleiser et al (2009)‚ obesity may have several short-term consequences (e.g. social discrimination‚ lower quality of

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    Should Circuses be Allowed to have Animals? Animals have been part of the circus since Roman times‚ but should they really be there? Should innocent animals be mistreated so they can ‘perform’ and entertain the public? I believe it’s cruel and animals should be banned from circuses. If you knew how the animals were really treated ‘behind the scenes’ you probably wouldn’t want to go to a circus again. Whilst the animals are being trained‚ their trainers use bull hooks and electric rods to make

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    Cytology, Genetics

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    goes on. All of these cells have unique functions and features. And all have some recognizable similarities. All cells have a ’skin’‚ called the plasma membrane‚ protecting it from the outside environment. The cell membrane regulates the movement of water‚ nutrients and wastes into and out of the cell. Inside of the cell membrane are the working parts of the cell. At the center of the cell is the cell nucleus. The cell nucleus contains the cell’s DNA‚ the genetic code that coordinates protein

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    Guoyi Chen Should Obese People Have Higher Premiums The Obesity epidemic affects millions people of the United States every day. According to the National Institutes of Health‚ “obesity” refers to any individual with a BMI of more than 30 and BMI is simply a calculation that assesses weight relative to height (NIH). In the past decades‚ the number of obese Americans has increased dramatically. Based on the data from Nation Health and Examination Survey‚ about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%)

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    How to Have a Successful Life 1. You must believe in yourself in enough to know you can succeed at anything you put your mind too. Don’t listen to anyone who puts your dreams down or says you can’t succeed at what you’re after. You already know you can and you will. 2. Success just doesn’t come to you‚ you have to go out and take it by the horn. Keep yourself motivated and focused on the prize that lies ahead at the end of the road. You will eventually reach your goal with a mindset like

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    Fendi Writing Brandon You Should Have a Healthy Diet Are there many healthy people in America? The answer is no‚ because so many American people are obese. It is a serious problem that so many American people have unhealthy eating habits. Especially people who live in the city usually eat a lot of junk food. The general reason is that they have no time to choose healthy and delicious food because they are too busy doing their work. Even though people know junk food is not nutritious‚ they eat

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    Should a Woman Have The Right To Choose? I was raised to believe Abortion was wrong. There were always other options. My best friend‚ Kimberly‚ had a sister who used abortion as a form of birth control; we were aware of three before graduation. If she had only known her choices‚ she might have saved innocent lives. In 1994 a friend of mine found herself in an unwanted pregnancy. She had only one year of college left; she knew she couldn’t disappoint her parents by going to them with the dilemma

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    colonize Mars even though they would have to leave Earth forever. Although colonizing Mars would be a huge scientific discovery and help us in many ways‚ it should not be colonized. Astronauts should not colonize Mars as they would be losing everything like Earth‚ food‚ and money. All four of the astronauts that could go and try to colonize Mars on the Mars One Mission cannot ever come back to Earth. The people would have to leave everyone and everywhere they have ever known to venture out to a place

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    Role of Genetics

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    Role of Genetics Brenda Dople PSY 104 Child and Adolescent Development Instructor Andrew Fletcher April 16‚ 2012 There are billions of people on this planet. Everyone is different. Even our closest siblings can look‚ behave and have different abilities than we do. Do you ever wonder how this happens? Environmental and biological factors work together in a lifelong process to determine how a child will develop into an adult. In this paper‚ I will discuss how the biological

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    Should Models Have a Minimum Weight? : What The Size of Models Really Promotes Models over the past decades have become noticeably thinner and thinner creating an ongoing debate: Are models becoming too thin? For a recent example‚ Bethaney Wallace‚ a teenage model‚ dies at the age of 19 from starving herself to death‚ all for the sole purpose of selling clothes. Model deaths are one of the many reasons that have caused the fashion industry to discuss implementation of a minimum model weight standard

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