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    can have serious threats to the user’s health, including liver damage, crippled reproductive functions, tumors in the liver as well as kidneys, heart conditions, and even psychiatric symptoms. Steroid abuse can also disrupt the body’s production of hormones, causing both some reversible and permanent changes. Reversible changes include reduced sperm count as well as shrinking of the testicles. Some of the reversible changes include male-pattern baldness and even breast development in men. Steroid abuse

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    Prader-Willi Syndrome, named after the doctors who described it in 1956, is a rare genetic mutation involving missing genes on chromosome 15. The syndrome has two distinct stages and affects the growth and development in patients diagnosed with the disorder. The most major symptom of this disorder is the irregular appetite causing severe weight gain. Prader-Willi syndrome is the most common genetic cause of life-threatening childhood obesity and affects a patient for their entire life span. The syndrome

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    OF PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS There are many athletes that have confirmed positive for performance enhancing drugs (PED’s), which are also commonly referred to as a process called “doping.” Competitors use medications such as stimulants, human growth hormone, anabolic steroids, supplements and other methods to help them elevate their performance. The reasons many chose to “dope” are obvious; more strength/quickness leads to better performance, recognition and can often lead to bigger contracts

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    Turner Syndrome

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    (National Organization for Rare Disorders 2012). Individuals are usually diagnosed before birth, shortly after birth or during early childhood. It is important to diagnosis Turner Syndrome as early as possible. Genetics and Genotype The normal human body body is comprised of 23 pairs

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    individuals feel as if being dependent upon a substance is something that could be preventable and that the human body can live without. Though most substances an individual is addicted to are not needed to live a healthy life, the addiction could potentially kill that individual. Other substances such as food, one cannot live without. Food, unlike other additions, is a substance that the human body needs to survive. In recent years, there has been an upcoming epidemic regarding the obesity rate and

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    important is to not listen to the bad stigma media has created for a naturally occurring thing in the human body. HGH ( human growth hormone) is a worldwide known supplement used from normal people looking just to get that “younger look” to our most influential actors and athletes looking to boost energy and enhance performance capabilities. It is known to help manage body composition, bone and muscle growth, body fluids, fat and sugar

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    whether we should support the progression of genetic enhancement or do everything in our power to stall or halt it. Genetic enhancement refers to the use of genetic engineering to modify a person’s nonpathological human traits. This concept is aimed at improving the quality of life of humans. Baylis and Robert suggest that, using genetic enhancement, a person could make a physical alternation like increasing muscle mass or slowing down the

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    that a great number of them lack sleep. Sleep deprivation has been and is currently a growing “epidemic” that is affecting human beings of all sizes and ages. It’s crucial, yet it has been thrown aside and we’ve completely disregarded its evident consequences that are taking its toll on our bodies. Sleep, an uncomplicated action that requires minimum effort, is vital to human life; though most people takes its importance lightly, sleep has an abundant amount of benefits: stronger immune system, lower

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    communities. But also on a brighter side explains how supporting local farmers benefits the consumer as well as the local economy, and explains the many ways to support small-scale, local farms. Key Words: Farm, Feeder Lots, Agriculture, Economy, Hormones The average American consumes about 630 pounds of dairy, 185 pounds of meat, 415 pounds of vegetables and 273 pounds of fruit each year, as well as an extra 197 pounds annually in wheat and grains (Aubrey, 2011). But does the general public really

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    (Steroids and their). All of these words are slang for the illegal substance known more commonly as anabolic steroids and HGH (human growth hormone). The controversy surrounding anabolic steroids and HGH in sports has stormed to the forefront of the many problems that plague America today. Anabolic steroids are synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of the male sex hormone testosterone. Some athletes seeking increased muscular strength and size abuse anabolic steroids (Ricki Lewis). According to

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