The National Institutes of Health reports that each year about 1,825 college students die from alcohol-related, unintentional injuries including car crashes. About 97,000 experience alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape. Much of the drinking is due to social pressures. True to the Animal ...
A flood of alcohol -- about 1 liter (2 pints) of spirits or four bottles of wine -- can depress brain function so much that it fails to send crucial signals to the body, like those that control breathing and heart rate. People die from alcohol poisoning (or acute intoxication) because...
studying harder or drinking less we all have extreme visions of what we’ll be like – fit, intelligent, sober machines – just a couple of months into the new year. We all have such good intentions for our future selves that it’s hard to understand why much of what we promise ourselv...
I have grandkids who I adore and feel incredibly hurt that they will miss out on many things due to the relationship I have with their father. I have recently decided to drop out of the battle. I just don’t have enough of me to keep going back “in the ring ” with him. My ...
In certain developing countries, poverty-stricken infants are nine times more likely to die in their first month compared to babies born in high-income countries.1213Those who live may have hearing and vision problems. Children in poverty tend to miss more school due to sickness and endure more...
increases knowledge about alcohol-related risks among the youth segment [29], whereas other studies have found that alcohol warnings tended to elicit negative and ”on-the-defensive” reactions in young people that could prove to be counterproductive or even increase binge-drinking behaviors [21,30...
21 When a butcher brings a sheep into the monastery, countless monks will attempt to save the animal’s life, and they are rightly praised for their compassion in lay society, yet they do not care what they kill when drinking water. Moreover, they do not care about the many creatures ...
we should take more vegetables and fruit and less candies. Stop eating junk food and drinking beers. Last but not least, we should go to bed early and wake up early. We should have enough sleep, or we will get sleepy in the day time. If we pay more attention to the tips above, we...
First, we should do exercise if we have time.For example, we can go to swim in the summer holiday. Or we can take a walk after supper.Doing exercise makes us healthy and strong. Second, we should take more vegetables and fruit and less candies. Stop eating junk food and drinking beers...
information. Irritability is a barrier to people doing their jobs. When peopleblow upor dish out nasty stares, coworkers and peers soon hesitate to raise important questions or request clarifications. When this happens, the quality of financial reporting suffers due to incomplete or inaccurate data...