How health care reform affects your burgers and tans

Recently, a health bill was signed in my President Obama. This bill is the most sweeping news within four decades. It changed restaurants and tanning salons. Restaurants now had to have it so twenty locations contain calorie information on their products. This calorie information would now definitely go unnoticeable. Average people consume two thousand calories a day. When eating at a typical chain restaurant, people consume more than twenty-five percent of their daily diet. This routine of eating can, and most likely, will lead to obesity. The bill permitting this information about calories is most certainly positive because it will allow common citizens to be more aware of their eating habits and hopefully change to a better diet. In the situation of tanning salons, a change was made a well. Because of their danger to the body, the bill states an extra ten percent must be added to the total. To pay more just to put yourself in harm, while being aware of the precautions, just seems absurd so me and probably most people who do not go indoor tanning. Overall, it has come to my attention, that this bill made appropriate changes for the wellbeing of people and now guarentees citizens to have more significant information of taking care of themselves and their health.

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Baby Survives Risky Surgery

Technology lately has been becoming more and more advanced. With this fact, advantages and disadvantages are included. One advantage is the being with illnesses, more cures and positive surgery results are occurring. Recently, a baby was born with Cogenital High Airway Obstruction Syndrome (CHAOS) as a newborn. This disease can be described as the fetus having a dilated trachea and the and enlarged lungs or flattened diaphragm. The mother of this baby was aware of it having this syndrome after one of her sonograms. This mother knew that she as well as her baby could be in great danger because of this. Doctors warned that this baby could either die or suffer severe brain damage. To make the baby healthy, doctors planned on performing an operation called tracheotomy while the mother was giving birth and the baby was still attached to the mothers placenta. With such a big operation, nearly three dozen doctors and nurses were needed for this operation to be a successful one. This operation was noted very risk for the reason that, it was during the process of the mother giving birth and could have caused unstoppable bleeding. However, all several doctors did an exceptional job from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in making this surgery news breaking. Unfortunately, although healthy at this time and alive, this baby still has a report of airway blockage. This case is as well rare and only located in 50 other people across the United States. Overall, the baby and its mother are now both healthy thanks to well trained doctors and nurses and are both allowed to go home now after the babies 4 month recovery at the medical center.

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AOL Current Event Blog

Because of money shortage and more reasons, the United States is in a reccession at this time. As a result, many hundred of thousands or even millions of peoples jobs are lost or layed off. Losing your job or getting layed does not just occur with certain occupations. The AOL company proves this. Starting December 4th and until December 11th, AOL said it will be searching for participants to lay off. In addition, once all of the laying off is done, AOL will decide what jobs will get layed off. After all of this tradgedy occurs for a lot of AOL workers, about one third of the entire jobs at AOL will be lost. This is an estimate of about 2,300 people losing their jobs. As AOL's Chief Executive, Time Armstrong has decided to give up his 2009 year bonus . Armstrong giving up his bonus adds money to go towards the company. I think Armstrong's actions represent his maturity and dedication he is to his job and company as well. Plus, even though one persons bonus is a small amount of money compared to the whole businesses, it still makes a difference because everything has to begin from something small. Along with money, it is estimated that the restructuring will save AOL 3 million dollars annually. However, it will cost about 2 million dollars within the first years. Overall, the AOL company is at an advantage gaining more money that lost. With this, hopefully the employees who unfortunately get layed off or lose their jobs, will be able to regain what they loss during the time of this recession.


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Connecting TV Show to Science Extra Credit**

Recently, I have watched a television show named Friends. On this show, there are six friends who go through life like any other person would. Because it is about life there is much science to be seen. For instance, one of the characters, Ross Geller, is a paleontologist. A paleontologist is a scientist who studies dinosaurs. Obviously if someone has the suffix -ologist in their occupation title, then they deal with science in some manner. Science can fall under almost any category. If your occupation involves studying or working then your job has to do with science. This is exactly how Ross Geller's life is because he studies dinosaurs. As a result, he has to do with science.= and can be related to the subject.

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Recently, a women from Massachusetts experienced a near death situation. Intoxicated my large consumed amounts of alcohol, this women stumbled down into the path of an oncoming train. Unable to get up, bystanders wove down the oncoming train warning it to stop. Fortunately, the train is able to make a complete stop inches away from the women. In addition, when try to make her way up before the train came to a stop, she almost got electrocuted by the third rail. Escaping two near death experiences this women is lucky to be alive.
All events no matter how categorized can be related to science. In this case, the fact that this lucky women could have almost died from the trains third rail is how this event can be related to science. Although everything is science, in this situation the electrical matter of the third rail is just one of the science parts. A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway train, through a continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails o f a railway track. It is so because third rail systems are a means of providing electric traction power to railway trains. Third rails contain so much power that even by the slightest touch, an electrical shock could cause someone death such as the women situated in the train incident.


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Ditch the Braces! current event blog

Nowadays, there are inventions that can help cure issues. For instance, crooked or unaligned teeth can be resolved with braces. We all know what braces are and how whenever a kid opens their mouth that has them, they are easily noticeable. Some kids may not mind the braces being visible for approximately two years. However, some kids, probably older ones, would prefer not having metal attached to their teeth and having all their friends notice. As a result of these actions, a new invention was made. Or more specifically two new inventions were made. One is called Invisaline. It is a clear plastic liner in which fit right over you teeth making it unnoticeable. The other invention is braces that are on the inside of your teeth. Just like normal braces, they are made of metal and contain the need of rubber bands, but this time they correct your teeth the same way, but just from the inside. With three choices of correcting mechanics, some questions may come to mind. For, example if the amount of time shall vary for each gadget. This questioned can not precisely be answered because the reason for needing braces is different with each patient. However, in my opinion, they would most likely take about the same amount of time. All these gadgets seem equal, although the price ranges are not. With normal braces you spend less money then what you would if buying Invisaline or the braces that go on the inside of your teeth. It is the parents or child over 18's decision on what type of braces they would prefer. If it were be i would want the Invisaline because if seem the most comfortable. In addition, I find the idea for adding more choices of braces types exquisite to be rather helpful. My thoughts are that now more people can have a perfect smile without going through having metal in your mouth, or metal being shown in your mouth, and that is a great thing.




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Why Some People Can't Keep Weight Off

Nowadays, there are new unhealthy delicious foods that make it harder for everyone to keep off weight. With these delectable foods it is easier to gain weight rather then lose it. Research involving weight loss has been occurring and some results have showed that people who lose weight and kept it off actually paid attention to the food they consumed. Maybe they even counted calories. However, those who can not keep off weight as easily, obviously do not pay as much if any attention to calories or even what ingredients are in what their body is consuming. Specific people who lost weight at a point and kept it off were shown pictures of food in a study, and resulted in using the part of their brain associated with controlling behavior. Thus, resulting in that if you lose weight you will most likely have more willpower and be able to control what you eat. Earlier studies show that healthier eaters would rather vegetables over a candy. In my opinion, that sounds like willpower because i even know for me that it is a hard decision to choose vegetables over an unhealthy candy bar. These people who chose the vegetables over the candy bar use a small area in their brain associated with control that indulger's do not use. Another experiment related to weight loss was later conducted. This experiment involved 18 normal weight, 16 obese, and 17 who lost 30 pounds and kept it off for over three years. After four hours without eating, and all were hungry, everyone was shown pictures of food, involving low-calorie, high calorie, and non foods, such as rocks, were shown. While this went on brain scans were used to document their reactions. The results were that those who were successful in weight loss exhibited a strong signal in the left superior frontal and right middle temporal region. Jeanne McCaffery, study leader of Miriam Hospital stated, "It is possible that there brain responses may lead to preventive or corrective behaviors - particularly greater regulations of eating - that promote long term weight control." I think that a new experiment should be conducted seeing how those who can not control what they eat as much can do to try to lose weight easier. For now however, more research is being conducted for more information to soon be determined.

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