Essays Tagged: "lose weight"

'Speed' Methylamphetamine

vels up their stomach that causes massive weight loss. One of the reasons' women use the drug is to lose weight, which is an extremely unhealthy way of doing it. What Speed does is it effects the midd ... the drug for all sorts of reasons. Often times when people can not keep up with their work, need to lose weight, depressed, insecure, loneliness and insecure about themselves.Over all I feel sad about ...

(3 pages) 83 1 3.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Quackery

sily solve our most vexing problem. With this product, we're told, we can eat all we want and still lose weight. We can grow taller or have bigger breasts. Or we can overcome baldness, age, arthritis, ... n a few generations back carried an array of 'natural' remedies to sell to a public that was still close to the frontier. And today, quacks take advantage of the back-to-nature movement, capitalizing ...

(5 pages) 59 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

This paper is about anorexia in teenage girls discusses the problems

rexia manifests itself in different forms, the most common symptoms occurring when girls attempt to lose weight by eating less foods, eating very infrequently or extremely tiny portions, and even fast ... ny may be inducing their own weight loss out of a general sense of overall inferiority. In order to lose the weight that they consider a staple of this inferiority, and in an effort to boost their inn ...

(12 pages) 197 0 4.6 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Marijuana: Marvelous Medicine.

ing patients to feel weaker as the slow process continues.No doubt many sick patients will begin to lose weight. Smoking marijuana will stop weight loss and improve patients' appetite. As Marcus Conan ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Fat Burners, or Life Burners - A persuasive essay to discourage use of weight-loss pills

ations, American people have had serious trouble with obesity. These people, desperate for a way to lose weight, have been looking for a way that will free them of their problems with ease. These peop ... heir problems with ease. These people have been fatally misguided by "miracle pills" that help them lose weight and suppress their appetites. Dietary supplements such as Stacker 3, Xenadrine, Metaboli ...

(3 pages) 275 1 4.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

A Principle to Live By: Working out.

can be harmful to clients because of the side effects of the particular drugs. The effective way to lose weight is through exercise.Exercise is definately healthy for bodies. It keeps the immune syste ... who want to keep fit. They think doing physical training cost them more than any other ways to help lose weight. Exercise is actually cheaper than any other way to lose weight. Jon, a friend of mine, ...

(2 pages) 36 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Dr. Atkins diet. A short essay on the Atkins diet compared to the Hollywood diet. Plus Dr. Atkins four phase strategy and four nutritional principles to lose weight.

loss programs. Just reading over this, you are able to see that they are really trying to help you lose weight and be healthier. They have different steps and principals to help walk you through thei ... diet program due to the fact that you are able to do things at your own pace and you can gradually lose the weight. The only thing about this diet that I question is "does it really work?" There are ...

(2 pages) 195 0 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

anerexia

a young woman leaves home, or it may develop in connection with mental depression, peer pressure to lose weight, sexual temptation, the use of psychedelic drugs, or the discontinuance of oral contrace ... f menstruation could lead to a damaged uterus making it hard for the woman to get pregnant. She may lose weight to the point of life-threatening exhaustion, which often requires hospitalization. The p ...

(2 pages) 82 4 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"The Best Little Girl in the World." By Steven Levenkron

attention or love from her parents. It all starts off when her ballet instructor tells Francesca to lose weight if she actually wants to become a professional. From there Francesca starts to not eat a ... f she does she throws it up. After a couple weeks of starving her self and binging and purging, she loses too much weight and her parents get nervous. At first they yell at her and tell her they will ...

(2 pages) 20 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Dieting myths.

Dieting MythsI wrote this to warn those wanting to lose weight.Myth 1:Miracle diets really exist. It is possible to lose weight that easily through a s ... asily through a safe process.Answer:Wrong. No diet will work without the proper exersize. If you do lose weight as fast as "miracle diets" claim on T.V. you are doing your body harm. Truthfully it is ... ast as "miracle diets" claim on T.V. you are doing your body harm. Truthfully it is recommended you lose only lose a ½ to two pounds a week.Myth 2:Some foods actually burn fat.Answer:in truth n ...

(1 pages) 103 2 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Research paper on the dietary supplement Ephedra.

phedra. Ephedra is a hit with athletes, particularly bodybuilders and the average person wanting to lose a little weight. But the lawful use of ephedra as a dietary supplement has been debated for a n ... of the product. It is also a fact that athletes as well as common individuals have used ephedra to lose weight as it is intended without death or any illness. I believe that the dietary supplement ep ...

(8 pages) 187 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Biology Coursework: The effects of Osmosis on a potato chip in Sugar Solution

o to gain weight and expand. If the concentration levels of the solution are higher, the cells will lose water and cause the potato to lose weight and therefore shrink.PredictionI predict that when th ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Osmosis Investigation

n that is isotonic with potato cell sap. A piece of potato in such a solution will neither gain nor lose any weight.HypothesisMy hypothesis is that the isotonic point will be between the 80 and 120g/l ... es the same inside as the outside of the chip. The potato chip in the 90g/l will become flaccid and lose weight because outside the chip there is a high concentration of sugar and the chip will give o ...

(5 pages) 37 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Athletes with eating disorders

disorders are diets and fitness or sports programs gone horribly wrong. A person wants to get fit, lose weight, excel in his or her sport, but then loses control and ends up with body and spirit rava ... cessive workouts, she may insist that if she were easier on herself, she would gain weight and then lose her ranking or her position on the team. She believes that even the smallest omission from her ...

(6 pages) 77 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Atkins diet, fact or fad

THE ATKINS DIET: Fact or FadIntroductionIn order to lose weight people think about dieting. Diet is a customary allowance of food and drink taken by any ... kins diet (low carbohydrate, high fat) is a diet plan suggested by Dr Atkins, which enables weight, loses in a natural way by inducing a change in metabolism. The Atkins Diet consists of the following ... nance and maintenance. Induction is the first 14 days of the plan, during which Atkins says you can lose up to 15 pounds. This rapid weight loss is due to limiting carbohydrates intake to 20 grams a d ...

(8 pages) 359 5 3.6 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Colleen and Anorexia Nervosa

her weight due to a variety of issues and sadly became addicted to losing weight. Colleen chose to lose weight by nearly starving herself and exercising herself into a frenzy. She ate only plain sala ...

(3 pages) 60 2 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Anorexia - Eating disorder Works cited

are the restriction of food and the refusal tomaintain a minimal normal body weight. Most anorexics lose weight by restricting theirfood intake. To improve the level of information about anorexia in o ...

(4 pages) 187 1 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Suffering: Aneroxic

dered "healthy"; at least that's what her doctor said. Well, Alexia decided that she would begin to lose 10 lbs. and hope that the results would improve her status as one of the "pretty" girls. Alexia ... ope that the results would improve her status as one of the "pretty" girls. Alexia had never had to lose weight before so she did what seemed right, she ate at the bare minimums. Maybe a carrot, a sma ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Truth About the Atkins Diet

bout boosting your self-confidence? Would you like to feel more attractive? Have you ever wanted to lose weight and keep it off? How about minimizing the risk factors for certain diseases? In the past ... about minimizing the risk factors for certain diseases? In the past, did you think that in order to lose weight the right way you had to cut out red meat, remove the skin from chicken, eat a lot of sa ...

(4 pages) 114 1 3.5 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Anorexia Nervosa; a very serious psychological disorder!

eating high-calorie foods, and exercise constantly. Someone with Anorexia will start out dieting to lose weight. Eventually, losing weight soon becomes an obsession or addiction just like gambling or ...

(1 pages) 59 0 3.9 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders