How Smoking Affects Your Body There’s hardly a part of the human body that’s not affected by the chemicals in the cigarettes you smoke. Let’s take a tour of your body to look at how smoking affects it. Starting at the Top As a smoker‚ you’re at risk for cancer of the mouth. Tobacco smoke can also cause gum disease‚ tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth become unsightly and yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And lack of oxygen and narrowed blood vessels to the brain can lead to
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(Simon‚ J.E.‚ 1984)Even though poppy is still considered to be one of the most important medicinal plants it does has its dangerous effects on the body when misused and abused just like any other addictive drug. Short term effects of opium use are mostly related to the euphoric feelings that come from smoking the drug‚ which includes felling sleepy‚ drowsy‚ or relaxation. Similar to the feelings that come from drinking alcohol. Other short term effects include prolonged use can lead
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What affect does exercise have on these parts of your body? Heart‚ Lungs‚ Muscles‚ Joints and Body Temperature? After exercise‚ you’ll find your body experiences immediate and more gradual effects. The minute you start training‚ you’ll notice more frequent muscle contraction‚ raised body temperature and pulse‚ and deeper breathing known as tidal volume. Longer-term effects occur as the body adapts to regular exercise‚ including your heart getting larger‚ bones becoming denser and the vital capacity
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Drug Abuse inside the Mind and Body Brittney Rojo COMM/156 17 February‚ 2013 Professor Nicholas Delzotto Since 1980‚ the number of drug addictions resulting in death has risen 540 percent. (Florida Institute of Technology Counseling and Psychological Services‚ n.d.). Drug abuse is a process that progresses through patterns of repetitive behavior through rewarding feelings that come with substance use. Often unintentional‚ users see drug experience as a recreational crutch. Although
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The effect toxins can have on our bodies shows in our general fitness and health. They can make you feel sluggish and stressful; your body may experience continuous aching‚ diarrhea or constipation‚ or lethargy and clumsiness. Rapid weight gain and the inability to lose excess weight easily can also be signs of having toxins in the body. The toxins are stored in your fat cells. People on a typical Western/North American diet‚ which typically consists of high fat and highly processed foods‚ will
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Glucose is one of the key nutrients required in the body. However‚ its amount in the body has to be regulated and maintained in a very narrow range. This regulation of glucose is performed by insulin hormone. Insulin is secreted at the pancreas and hence is referred to as pancreatic endocrine hormones. Insulin is secreted by beta cells‚ which are normally located at the pancreas. When the amount of glucose in the blood increases‚ the stimulus for insulin secretion triggered. The insulin level secreted
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Drugs some use them to escape pain‚ others use them for pleasure‚ and some use them to just fit in. Either way drugs are a harmful substance that may seriously affect the body. Drugs mess with the brain in ways that we couldn’t even imagine. From destroying brain cells that help with critical thinking to destroying cells that give us the ability to feel pleasure. Drugs take the place of our natural body functions of the body. They fool receptors of the body and make it to where our bodies produce
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From the Mind to the Body‚ Self Comes to Mind The mind emerged from the body through the originations of conscious thoughts in an introspective manner that is accessible to the self. A connection between mind and body eventually developed a proprietor within the thinking mind. The neuropsychologist Antonio Damasio believes that a mind with subjectivity is a conscious mind‚ otherwise one would not know of his existence‚ who he is‚ and what he thinks (Damasio‚ 2010). At some point in time‚ the
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Descartes’ Mind-Body Dualism It can be very simple. Just look at the world and ask yourself‚ “Is everything material? Or are there things in the world that are not material‚ but I still know actually exist?” Then‚ ask yourself a second question‚ “How can I reach at a definition so that the two cannot be mistaken for one another other?” Descartes defined every material thing as having an extension‚ which is another way of saying it occupies space. Furthermore‚ those material things cannot share that
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The mind-body debate works to answer the following question: What is the bond between the mind and body? Descartes claims: “the fact that I can vividly and clearly think of one thing apart from another assures me that the two things are distinct from one another - that is‚ that they are two.” This notion of the mind and body claims humans to have both physical properties (the body and brain) and mental properties (the mind). The physical properties being: sensation‚ reproduction‚ movement‚ etc.
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