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Gum and Heart Disease
Scientists have long noticed a connection between gum disease and heart disease. Now, they’ve found a key piece of the puzzle.
Parasites and Disease
You have probably heard about parasite-borne diseases, but you might not know the specifics of how these diseases are spread and how disease rates can be reduced. In this lesson, research some parasite-borne diseases and report on how parasites infect their hosts and how people are trying to reduce infection rates.
Popping Ears
Have your ears ever popped on an airplane trip? This Science Update explains why it happens.
Phage Comeback
Overprescription and misuse of antibiotics has fueled the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That's why researchers are looking to the past for future alternatives. You'll hear about one possibility in this Science Update.
Responsibilities and Privileges
Artists have frequently used the motif of the life cycle in their creations. In this lesson, students will express their understanding of the life cycle through a dramatic monologue. The monologue will focus on one stage of the life cycle, and will be modeled after the "Ages of Man" soliloquy in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
School Bus Fumes
When we think about pollution from cars, trucks, and buses, we usually imagine the effects on people outside the vehicles. But a recent study of school buses found that the passengers might get the worst of it.
Sun & Skin
Learn about the damaging effects of sunburns and tanning, and how sunscreens work to protect us from the sun’s harmful UV rays.
Technological Advances in Health
Understand how technology influences human existence by examining the benefits and risks of different biotechnological advances.
Toxicology 3: Toxicology and Human Health
Examine the clinical effects of environmental toxicants on living organisms by collecting and analyzing scientific data and identifying ways of detection and diagnosis.
HYGIENE
hy·giene
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Also, hygienics. the science that deals with the preservation of health. |
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a condition or practice conducive to the preservation of health, as cleanliness. |
Heart 2: Changing Lifestyles and Heart Health
Examine and evaluate changes in diet and lifestyle from prehistoric to modern times and how these differences have spurred the development (and better treatment) of heart disease.
Germy Surfaces
If your brother or sister gets a cold, there’s a good chance that you’ll pick up the same bug—either directly or from something he or she touched or sneezed on. In this Science Update, you’ll find out how long a germ can hang around and wait for its next victim.
Health is a Battlefield
There is a war that is going on right now inside your body. It is a war against germs, viruses, fungus and "bugs". This has been an on-going battle since the day you were born. A war between the forces of good (your immune system) and the forces of evil, the creepy crawlies that would love to do you wrong and do you in. |
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Definition of physical education
Physical education:
n. (Abbr. PE)
Intruction in the development and care of the body ranging from simple calisthenic exercises to a course of study providing training in hygiene, gymnastics, and the performance and management of athletic games.
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