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    immense control over all body functions. A human brain has not fully developed until the age of 25‚ which is why the legal drinking age should not be at the age of 21. It gives off harmful alterations in the functions of the development of the brain and therefore doesn’t give the brain the full amount of time that it needs to grow. While the brain is still developing‚ drinking a heavy amount may cause damages to certain brain functions and have lasting health effects. Some examples to body functions

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    Even though the legal age for drinking is 21‚ substance abuse is still relatively high for adolescences. According to the text book‚ only about 20% of U.S. college students stay away from alcohol. The college students in the 90% who drink‚ might even be binge drinking. Basically‚ binge drinking is when an individual has five or more drinks in a row‚ it’s not just regular drinking. Also‚ extreme binge drinking is when an individual has 10 or more drinks in a row. However‚ the book does state that

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    Binge Eating disorder 1. What is a binge eating disorder? People with binge eating disorder often eat an unusually large amount of food and feel out of control during the binges. People with binge eating disorder also may: • eat more quickly than usual during binge episodes • eat until they are uncomfortably full • eat when they are not hungry • eat alone because of embarrassment • feel disgusted‚ depressed‚ or guilty after overeating 2. What are the signs and symptoms of a binge

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    minimum drinking age should be in the United States. Many people think that it should remain at 21 years old and others believe that it should be lowered to 18. While both have their own various reasons‚ this has been an important topic in our country for a long time. President Ronald Reagan signed and passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Law in 1984 which obligated states to raise their legal drinking age to 21 or suffer reductions in Federal highway funds. The highway funds and drinking age was

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    Should the drinking age be raised to 21? Teenagers between the age of fifteen to eighteen are drinking an average of nine to eleven cans of beer per week. They will ruin their lives if they don’t cut down on the alcohol. Should this be enough to raise the drinking age up to twenty-one? Teenagers do not understand how dangerous alcohol can be. BBC News proved that the UK has one of the worst problems in Europe‚ with a fifth of children aged eleven to fifteen drinking at least once per week.

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    Readers Question: Evaluate the case for raising the legal drinking age to 21. Will it be more effective than other methods for reducing the harmful effects of alcohol?  There are several reasons to be concerned about the over-consumption of alcohol‚ especially amongst young people. In the UK‚ abuse of alcohol has contributed to several social‚ economic and health problems‚ including: Alcohol related accidents. Health problems Alcohol addiction major cause of family breakdown. According to a report

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    Based on the movie showed in the curriculum‚ underage drinking is such a common phenomenon in the college campus that approximately eighty percent college students drink alcohol and half of them consume it through alcohol abuse. The film introduces and analyses minor’s drinking issue though three aspects: the causes of college drinking‚ negative consequences brought by it‚ and some solutions to subtract underage alcohol consumption. As for the reasons why college students have high incentive to

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    Before You Quit Drinking

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    What You Need To Know Before You Quit Drinking By Jason Bacot Jun 5‚ 2009 When you have a drinking problem‚ the answer lies within you to fix it. In order to obtain any help to quit drinking‚ you first have to admit that you do have a drinking problem. There are now a number of treatments available to alcoholics‚ but going in for such treatment is a waste of time‚ unless you first take responsibility for your drinking and the problems it has caused you in your life. There are two things that you

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    problem. Parents don’t know how to stop it or they choose to bury their heads in the sand and not have to deal with it. There are many consequences associated with underage drinking. Parents need to be able to talk to their children about it. There are strategies that parents can use on their child to prevent underage drinking. Alcohol is the most broadly abused substance among America’s childhood. Immature liquor use is not an adequate transitional experience‚ but rather a genuine risk to juvenile

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    Binge Eating Disorder

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    time‚ the definition of the word ‘binge’ has evolved to mean different things altogether. In the 70s‚ people binge when they go on a "drunken spree." (The American Heritage Dictionary) Today‚ people binge when they overindulge‚ not in alcoholic beverages‚ but in food. Many like to use this word trivially‚ to describe an episode of slight overeating. There are some‚ however‚ who cannot afford to see binging as an insignificant rise in food intake. When they binge‚ these people gorge and find themselves

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