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Pineapple
Pineapples have exceptional juiciness and a vibrant tropical flavor that balances the tastes of sweet and tart. They are second only to bananas as America’s favorite tropical fruit. Although the season for pineapple runs from March through June, they are available year-round in local markets.

Pineapples are a composite of many flowers whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Each fruitlet can be identified by an "eye," the rough spiny marking on the pineapple’s surface. Pineapples have a wide cylindrical shape, a scaly green, brown or yellow skin and a regal crown of spiny, blue-green leaves and fibrous yellow flesh. The area closer to the base of the fruit has more sugar content and therefore a sweeter taste and more tender texture.

This chart graphically details the %DV that a serving of Pineapple provides for each of the nutrients of which it is a good, very good, or excellent source according to our Food Rating System. Additional information about the amount of these nutrients provided by Pineapple can be found in the Food Rating System Chart. A link that takes you to the In-Depth Nutritional Profile for Pineapple, featuring information over 80 nutrients, can be found under the Food Rating System Chart.

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Health Benefits

Potential Anti-Inflammatory and Digestive Benefits

Bromelain is a complex mixture of substances that can be extracted from the stem and core fruit of the pineapple. Among dozens of components known to exist in this crude extract, the best studied components are a group of protein-digesting enzymes (called cysteine proteinases). Originally, researchers believed that these enzymes provided the key health benefits found in bromelain, a popular dietary supplement containing these pineapple extracts. In addition, researchers believed that these benefits were primarily limited to help with digestion in the intestinal tract. However, further studies have shown that bromelain has a wide variety of health benefits, and that many of these benefits may not be related to the different enzymes found in this extract. Excessive inflammation, excessive coagulation of the blood, and certain types of tumor growth may all be reduced by therapeutic doses of bromelain when taken as a dietary supplement. Studies are not available, however, to show these same potential benefits in relationship to normal intake of pineapple within a normal meal plan.

Bromelain extracts can be obtained from both the fruit core and stems of pineapple. Potentially important chemical differences appear to exist between extracts obtained from the stem versus the core fruit. However, the practical relevance of these differences is not presently understood. Most of the laboratory research on bromelain has been conducted using stem-based extracts, however.

Although healthcare practitioners have reported improved digestion in their patients with an increase in pineapple as their "fruit of choice" within a meal plan, we haven’t seen published studies that document specific changes in digestion following consumption of the fruit (versus supplementation with the purified extract. However, we suspect that the core fruit will eventually turn out to show some unique health-supportive properties, including possible digestion-related and anti-inflammatory benefits.

Antioxidant Protection and Immune Support

Vitamin C is the body’s primary water-soluble antioxidant, defending all aqueous areas of the body against free radicals that attack and damage normal cells. Free radicals have been shown to promote the artery plaque build-up of atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease, cause the airway spasm that leads to asthma attacks, damage the cells of the colon so they become colon cancer cells, and contribute to the joint pain and disability seen in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. This would explain why diets rich in vitamin C have been shown to be useful for preventing or reducing the severity of all of these conditions. In addition, vitamin C is vital for the proper function of the immune system, making it a nutrient to turn to for the prevention of recurrent ear infections, colds, and flu.

Manganese and Thiamin (Vitamin B1) for Energy Production and Antioxidant Defenses

Pineapple is an excellent source the trace mineral manganese, which is an essential cofactor in a number of enzymes important in energy production and antioxidant defenses. For example, the key oxidative enzyme superoxide dismutase, which disarms free radicals produced within the mitochondria (the energy production factories within our cells), requires manganese. Just one cup of fresh pineapple supplies 128.0% of the DV for this very important trace mineral. In addition to manganese, pineapple is a good source of thiamin, a B vitamin that acts as a cofacto

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What are vitamins?
Vitamins are substances that your body needs to work properly and keep you in good health. Most vitamins cannot be made by the body, so they have to be provided by your diet in small regular amounts.1
Why do I need vitamins?
Your body uses vitamins to do a number of things, including building and maintaining tissues and organs. Vitamins provide energy, boost the immune system, keep skin healthy and help keep the brain and nervous system in good working order.2
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DRUGS are chemicals that can prevent, prolong the life, treat other effects of a health condition, improve the quality of life, and/or cure ailments and diseases, or alter the function of any part or chemicals inside the body. These drugs have approved therapeutic claims.
Drug Side Effects
A side effect is usually regarded as an undesirable secondary effect which occurs in addition to the desired therapeutic effect of a drug or medication. Side effects may vary for each individual depending on the person’s disease state, age, weight, gender, ethnicity and general health.
Side effects can occur when commencing, decreasing/increasing dosages, or ending a drug or medication regimen. Side effects may also lead to non-compliance with prescribed treatment.Medication
A medication or medicine is a drug taken to cure and/or ameliorate any symptoms of an illness or medical condition, or may be used as preventive medicine that has future benefits but does not treat any existing or pre-existing diseases or symptoms.
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In medicine, an adverse effect is a harmful and undesired effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as surgery. An adverse effect may be termed a "side effect", when judged to be secondary to a main or therapeutic effect, and may result from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or procedure, which could be due to medical error. Adverse effects are sometimes referred to as "iatrogenic" because they are generated by a physician/treatment. Some adverse effects only occur only when starting, increasing or discontinuing a treatment. Using a drug or other medical intervention which is contraindicated may increase the risk of adverse effects. Adverse effects may cause medical complications of a disease or procedure and negatively affect its prognosis. They may also lead to non-compliance with a treatment regimen.
The harmful outcome is usually indicated by some result such as morbidity, mortality, alteration in body weight, levels of enzymes, loss of function, or as a pathological change detected at the microscopic, macroscopic or physiological level. It may also be indicated by symptoms reported by a patient. Adverse effects may cause a reversible or irreversible change, including an increase or decrease in the susceptibility of the individual to other chemicals, foods, or procedures, such as drug interactions.
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Chemotherapy
The overall impact of chemotherapy on cancer survival can be difficult to estimate, since improved cancer screening, prevention (e.g. anti-smoking campaigns), and detection all influence statistics on cancer incidence and mortality. In the United States, overall cancer incidence rates were stable from 1995 through 1999, while cancer death rates decreased steadily from 1993 through 1999.[1] Again, this likely reflects the combined impact of improved screening, prevention, and treatment. Nonetheless, cancer remains a major cause of illness and death, and conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy has proven unable to cure most cancers after they have metastasized.

As is obvious from their origins, the above cancer chemotherapies are essentially poisons.

Side-effects
The treatment can be physically exhausting for the patient. Current chemotherapeutic techniques have a range of side effects mainly affecting the fast-dividing cells of the body. The most common side effects include (dependent on the agent):[citation needed]
Pain, Erythema, Nausea, Diarrhea or constipation, Anemia,Malnutrition
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they want to keep people ill… so they can get continues income.

I’m teaching myself about psychology using a book, but the answers to the self-assessments aren’t included. So I was hoping you could help me figure out the right answers to these questions:

1. Eclecticism is a psychological approach that draws upon many theories to understand the person as a whole. What does this statement suggest?
a.No one theory can completely explain every aspect of human behavior.
b. Eclecticism is a complicated approach and often contains contradictions.
c. Since psychology is not an exact science, psychologists rarely agree on theories.
d. Human behavior is difficult to study, and theories are often not based on research.

2. Max wants to know how people understand, diagnose, and solve problems through mental processes. Which subfield of psychology would Max be most interested in?
a. clinical psychology
b. cognitive psychology
c. developmental psychology
d. social psychology

3. Sal became interested in psychology when his friend was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which subfield of psychology would interest Sal the most?
a. abnormal psychology
b. cognitive psychology
c. educational psychology
d. social psychology

4. Ms. Smith is a school psychologist. She wants to describe how the top-performing students in her school deal with stress. Which method would she most likely use to obtain detailed information from these students?
a. correlational study
b. double-blind experiment
c. interview method
d. naturalistic observation

5. Which option is an example of naturalistic observation?
a. a researcher follows the development of individuals over their lifespans
b. a researcher writes a paper about patients in a clinical therapeutic setting
c. a researcher gives medication to one group and a placebo to another group
d. a researcher records findings about children in a school setting

6. Which statement is true about industrial-organizational psychologists?
a. They apply psychological principles to the workplace.
b. They treat mental disorders like anxiety and depression.
c. They give psychological tests to assist with learning problems.
d. They prescribe medications to their patients as necessary.

7. Dan is interested in becoming a psychologist or a medical doctor. Which profession would best give him the opportunity to practice both psychology and medicine?
a. Industrial-organizational psychology would allow him to apply psychological principles by training hospital employees.
b. Clinical psychology would allow him to get a doctorate degree before he could treat mentally ill patients in a clinical setting.
c. Psychiatry would allow him to specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness and give medication to patients.
d. Mental health counseling would allow him to listen to problems of individuals, couples, and groups in a mental health facility.

8. Your friend has an anxiety disorder. If you are to refer her to an expert, who would you go to for help?

I. industrial-organizational psychologist
II. psychiatrist
III. clinical psychologist
a. I
b. II
c. I and II
d. II and III

9. Which option best describes a correlation?
a. A basketball player thinks that whenever she wears her gray socks, she performs better, so she recalls this association.
b. A basketball player believes that wearing his favorite shoes causes him to score high in games, so it becomes a habit.
c. More students have been coming to basketball games, so the team is encouraged to practice more, and the players begin performing better.
d. The new basketball coach is superstitious, so the team members start noticing relationships between what they wear and how they perform in games.

Thank you!

Well. I guess if you don’t have the answer key that wouldn’t be helpful. It is always good to check your answers, so I ll help you out assuming you already tried figuring out the answers to these questions.

1.a.

2.b

3.a

4.c. because she wants detailed information.

5. d. naturalistic observation is when you observe things in a natural setting

6.a. they apply psychology in practical applications like working .

7. c

8. d

9. c

Definitely try picking Myer’s textbook and study guide. They will help you learn if you want to learn on your own. The study guide is specifically designed to help you learn the materials adn provide answers with reasons to it.

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The Restoration Of Appearance and Function Trust explain
their work on skin cancer prevention, treatment and safety to young people.

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Grace is a Science & Engineering Ambassador for Surrey SATRO, an educational charity.

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RAFTs scientists are working on the PREVENTION of melanoma, on therapeutic TREATMENT and on providing information for the public about SAFETY in the sun.

Skin cancer in the UK is on the increase. Almost every day of the year in the UK a woman between 20 and 29 is diagnosed with malignant melanoma the deadliest form of skin cancer. In this age range, there are twice as many cases of melanoma as there are of breast cancer. Malignant melanoma has now become the most common type of cancer for women in their 20s (CRUK figures).

Prevention
We are studying the different parts of sunlight – visible light, ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B that can trigger the onset of skin cancer. The team has uncovered a problem with current sunscreens which protect against burning from high UVB but give inadequate protection against free radical damage caused by UVA and visible light.

RAFT scientists are looking at how different skin types respond to this UVA and visible light. Dark skins are not necessarily safer from harm. The research has shown that melanin (the natural sunscreen produced during tanning) protects against damage when at the very high concentration found in Afro-Caribbean skin but when it is at lower concentrations it fails as a sunscreen. RAFT’s findings will reveal whether some people are more susceptible to skin cancer than others.

Treatment
The antioxidant system is the body’s natural defensive system against free radical damage. If this becomes unbalanced (as present in some cancers), one route to cancer therapy is to turn the cancer cells machinery against itself. A very well known antioxidant vitamin C appears to be more toxic to cancer cells than normal cells cultured in the laboratory. This is when it is given by intravenous injection at much higher levels than normally found in the body. Other antioxidants at high dose may also be effective at destroying cancer cells but not the normal cells.

Safety

As RAFTs groundbreaking research becomes more well known, young people will be able to make better informed decisions about safety in the sun. A good way to start is to keep your skin’s sun exposure to before 11am and after 3pm in the UK in summer months, and encourage your friends to do the same rather than take the risk of rushing a suntan and triggering deadly skin cancer.
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Massage at home can be very enjoyable because it allows you to relax in a comfortable environment after your massage.

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Magnetic-materials specialist Kevin O’Grady predicts a big future for magnetic nanoparticles in clinical applications ranging from targeted drug delivery to the heat treatment of cancerous tumours.

Kevin O’Grady, professor of physics at the University of York, UK, provides an accessible overview that unpicks the fundamental science of magnetic nanoparticles as well as looking ahead to the delivery of real-world diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticle technologies for clinical medicine.

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excellent therapeutic treatment

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Bob Zima discusses how anger is not only a natural behavior fueled by hurt and fear; anger is an awesome doorway for healing. Anger is a behavior. Anger IS NOT AN EMOTION. Anger is a signal that the emotions of HURT and FEAR are stuck in our sours and prevent HEALING. If you want HEALING and to STOP ANGER the you need to clean out the hurt and fear

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Cardiac electrophysiology is the science of elucidating, diagnosing, and treating the electrical activities of the heart. The term is usually used to describe studies of such phenomena by invasive (intracardiac) catheter recording of spontaneous activity as well as of cardiac responses to programmed electrical stimulation (PES). These studies are performed to assess complex arrhythmias, elucidate symptoms, evaluate abnormal electrocardiograms, assess risk of developing arrhythmias in the future, and design treatment. These procedures increasingly include therapeutic methods (typically radiofrequency ablation) in addition to diagnostic and prognostic procedures. Other therapeutic modalities employed in this field include antiarrhythmic drug therapy and implantation of pacemakers and automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (AICD).

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From www.athenaweb.org : Scientists of today are breathing life into one of the myths of the past, human regeneration.
At the root of this potential for regeneration are cells, known as stem cells.

Stem Cells

To understand what a stem cell is, and as to why we apply a certain definition to say that a given cell is a stem cell, we need to understand what the function of a stem cell is.
A stem cell is above all a cell. And one of the major functions of every cell is to divide and give rise to two twin daughter cells, which will each in turn give rise to two daughter cells.
As soon as the egg is formed by the fusion of an ovule and a sperm, it rushes to divide again and again… until the embryo resembles a little blackberry composed of eight stem cells which are highly potent : each of them could in theory give rise to a full embryo, a foetus and finally a baby. Then around the fourth day, the dividing stem cells begin to specialise. They give rise to two types of cell : in the centre, a small internal mass will eventually become the future foetus, and at the periphery, the cells that will go on to form the placenta…
The cells of the internal mass are called embryonic stem cells. If we take cells from the internal mass, we find that every one of them has the potential, on dividing, either to form cells identical to themselves which can be grown to large quantities in culture, or alternatively, to form muscle, cartilage, neurons, blood and other tissues.
As the embryo advances in its development to become first a foetus and then a baby, most stem cells gradually specialize and lose their ability to form a wide diversity of different types of cells.

Medical Treatment by Stem Cells

There is already an example of medical treatment by stem cells, which has been used for ten years : patients suffering from leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, can today be treated by the transplantation of blood stem cells obtained from the placenta. This is now simple and routine.

Transplantation of Dopamine Producing Cells

The idea is to cure patients suffering from Parkinsons disease. Parkinsons disease is a rather selective destruction of a certain type of nerve cells in the brain, those that produce dopamine. These patients cannot control their movements properly because dopamine is essential for the transmission of information between nerves.
In the last fourteen to fifteen years cells have been transplanted into eighteen patients suffering from Parkinsons disease, taking tissue from aborted foetuses, six to nine weeks old. The problem we are now facing is that we dont have enough cells to transplant into patients. So we’ve got to find alternatives to foetal cells and to do so we are focusing on the alternative of neural stem cells. These cells have been cultivated from cells taken from an aborted foetus that was ten weeks old. This is how the neural stem cells grow in cell culture. The next step is to analyze what they can do after being transplanted into the brain and we do that with rats. The researchers have not yet worked out how to make these cells produce the right kind of dopamine. Nor do they know how to get them to survive, grow and function correctly, in the same way as the normal dopamine cells. To solve these problems extensive research is needed.

Therapeutic Cloning

A major problem in stem cell therapy is the incompatibility between grafts and the patient which leads to rejection. Some scientists hope to overcome this problem using a technique called therapeutic cloning – a technique which has the potential to produce tissues and organs that are 100% compatible with the patient due to collecting embryonic stem cells from the fusion of a patients cell with a donors ovum.
A cell from the skin or muscle or indeed any sort of cell from the future recipient patient, and an ovum from a consenting donor are needed for this technique. The nucleus is taken out of the ovum, and replaced with the nucleus from the recipients cell.
The embryonic stem cells are collected and grown in a test tube. They carry all the genetic information contained in the nucleus of the recipient and are therefore a 100% compatible with all organs of his or her body. If we could learn to control the mechanisms by which stem cells differentiate into the various tissues, it would be possible to produce banks of muscle cells, bone cells, nerve cells and indeed all cell types, made to measure cells ready to repair all the organs of every individual person, with no risk of rejection.

Conclusion

Some of these techniques raise ethical questions : to what extent do we have the right to use embryos, and even create embryos, with the aim of healing the sick?

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