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    Introduction Athletes everyone always hear “you have to stay hydrated: make sure you drink plenty of fluids”, etc., but what does that actually mean, and what does it do to improve athletic performance. Our bodies require adequate amounts of water in order to survive because water regulates our body’s temperature, transports nutrients, and circulates blood throughout our entire bodies. If our bodies loose too much water we become dehydrated. During exercise, our bodies sweat out a lot of the

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    believed in.     There are many theories on what really caused cancer. For example, Hippocrates believed that if the body had an imbalance of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, if the patient had more black bile than the other four humors (body fluids), that was determined

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    chambered muscular pumps. The heart weighs approximately 9 ounces. And, has consists of three linings layers. The side of the heart that is affected by congestive heart failure would be both, because the left side (left ventricular) supplies most of the heart pumping power so its-larger than other chambers. And the right side (right ventricular) the heart failure usually loose pumping power, blood backs up in the body’s veins. The fluid accumulate somewhere would go to deliver oxygen rich blood to

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    Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis testing is basically a process that uses statistical inference to test claims about population parameters. In hypothesis testing we begin by making a tentative assumption about a population parameter. This assumption is called the null hypothesis and is denoted by Ho. We then define another hypothesis, called the alternative hypothesis, which is the opposite of what is stated is the null hypothesis. The alternative hypothesis is denoted by Ha. The hypothesis

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    14-18 you need to drink at least 14 cups of water per day. If you play sports experts in the field of sports medicine say that you need to drink two cups of fluid two hours before exercise. Also during exercise they recommend to take a drink of fluid every fifteen minutes and during heavy exercise you can lose up to four cups of water”, (Pruitt, Allegrante and Stith, 2007) (pg.209). So it is important to drink lots

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    Phoenician city, is the pigment that begat the association between purple and royalty. The color was made by crushing the bodies of thousands of mollusks—just for an ounce of pigment over 250,000 of the creatures needed to be crushed, which explains the extreme expense of the color and its association with royalty. A clear fluid was extracted from these organisms which eventually transformed into purple on exposure to light and air. The color was exorbitant in price being at one time worth more

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    Hello I am Marcus Mims from Glen Ellyn, Illinois . I was born prematurely at 26 weeks only weighing 1 pound 8 ounces. That lead to other problems such as my diagnosis with Hydrocephalus at three months long and taking speech therapy for 10 years. Hydrocephalus is a condition, which causes a build-up of fluid in the ventricles of the Brain. The treatment for Hydrocephalus is a shunt, which requires surgery to fix the shunt if it starts to malfunction.Both conditions effected me in different ways

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    muscles. example: bananas, fruit snacks or dried fruit. • sports drinks, gels/ energy chews • NO CAFFINE HALF TIME: PUSH FLUIDS AND CARBOHYDRATES -Orange slices or bananas work great for energy boosts at half time During the first 30 minutes post-game it is vital to replace all weight lost by rehydrating your body. For every 1 pound of weight lost you should consume 20-24 ounces of fluid. This includes a mix of water, sports drinks, protein shakes and/or chocolate milk. To figure out how much you have

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    Because life expectancy has increased while people are having less children, there are many more individuals who are over the age of 80 and this number is predicted to increase each year (Adams, 2012). This is going to result in both families and governments struggling to manage the needs of this growing number of elderly people. Unfortunately care offered at nursing homes and institutions is very expensive, which means that finding alternate ways to care for elderly loved ones is crucial. Adult

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    that this first cognitive development stage encompasses six substages.10 Feeding abilities change as infants meet the development goals of the various stages. For example, when infants gain the ability to coordinate single movements they will be able to pick up small pieces of food and develop the ability to self-feed (Table 6.2).10 General motor skills, behavioral changes, and facial expressions also play important roles in the development of infants’ eating habits and their ability to eat food

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