Unit 3 Health & Medicine 1

The Uncommon Cold

1. What are the symptoms of a cold?
There are the sore throat, runny nose, constant sneezing and headaches.

2. What are the two major difficulties of finding a cure of cold?
(1) The common cold itself is not a single disease, and some cold viruses have the ability to change their molecular appearance.
(2) The cold virus does not actually cause our cold symptoms.

3. Describe BIRR4 project.
BIRR4 is an anti-viral molecule, and can prevent the binding of the virus to cells in the nose. This binding is an essential first step to start a viral infection and, were it preventable, many of the infections would be by passed.

4. Why did Boehringer drop BIRR4 project?
Because they found that this treatment only worked just prior to getting a cold or in the first stages of infection when most people do not yet realize anything is wrong.

5. How do we get the symptoms from colds?
The symptoms are produced by our body’s immune response, not by the virus itself.

6. What is the possible suggestion for finding a cure for colds?
We must weaken our immune system’s response.

7. What is the cocktail therapy for colds and what is its limitation?
Through a cocktail of certain drugs- interferon, ibuprofen, and chlorpheniramine- cold sufferers would be able to decrease the anti-inflammatory part of the immune response and get rid of their symptoms, while still allowing their body to fight off the remaining viral infection. But a single dose of interferon is too expensive and is unavailable in large over-the-counter quantities.

Lovin' You

↑Minnie Riperton on the cover of her 1975 album Perfect Angel which contains her signature hit "Lovin' You".

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Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979) was an American soul singer from Chicago, Illinois, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single "Lovin' You". Possessing a rare five-octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds.

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Lovin' You
(Music & Lyrics by Minnie Riperton & Richard Rudolph)

Lovin' you is easy cause you're beautiful
And makin' love with you is all I wanna do
Lovin' you is more than just a dream comes true
And everything that I do is out of lovin' you

No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring
Stay with me while we grow old
And we will live each day in springtime
Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful
And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you
Lovin' you, I see your soul come shinin' through
And every time that we, ooh...
I'm more in love with you

No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring
Stay with me while we grow old
And we will live each day in springtime
Cause lovin' you is easy cause you're beautiful
Every day of my life is filled with lovin' you
Lovin' you, I see your soul come shinin' through
Every time that we, ooh...
I'm more in love with you

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When I first heard this song, I though it was an amazing song.

The lyrics of this song are so beautiful, and I have vision of an eternal love story spontaneously.

Words cannot describe the feeling of the frame of my mind.

I should like to commend this song to you, guys, and it is really appealing to the ear.

Staying up

People nowadays staying up late is become a habit gradually. For modern people, the habit to stay up late is more and more popular! Not only because of works or the study people stayed up helplessly, but also because indulging oneself in loafing away the whole evening. It is not good for health when a person gets used to stay up late. Staying up excessively is the same as fuddle and smoking in excess, and will damage the health gravely.

In any event, some people still maintain the good life habits. When the person meets the problem of staying up late or not, she is often puzzled regarding the choice because of different reasons. But her decision will be able to affect health profoundly. We can estimate approximately why people choose to stay up and how the choices affect health.

Most people have stayed up because of different reasons. In order to complete the work, take a test, or approve for the social associates, people must choose to stay up late. Of course students are included. Now many students begin to have a habit to stay up because of reports, exams, and parties. It is worried to find that the time a student spends enjoying having fun now is much more than before; especially, the case of undergraduates is even much worse. Day after day, the student will become sleepless at night. Then she studies in very low spirits, and her grades may go backward.

People know that staying up is not good, but they often have no idea of the side effects to which staying up will bring. At first, the simple sequelae of staying up may be a headache, and a black eye and whelks. If people do not realize to control their life habit, the situation will become worse. The function of the immunity system will deteriorate; for example, the liver function and the quantity of adrenalin secretion will be aberrant. And we can also find the person who often stays up suffers from adult chronic illness is easier than a normal person. It is generally believed that staying up is able to hurt human body, and it is a really bad lifestyle.

Even though there are so many people included me to stay up late. If a person must stay up late, supposed to get more sufficient nutrition to protect her form harm. When feeling tired from staying up, she should supplement enough vitamins such as vitamin B and vitamin C. Do not eat the food which has high calories like the sweets and fast food because the kind of food will burn internal vitamin B that makes human body weary more easily. We can not avoid the harm from staying up; at least, we can let the bodily injury reduce to the smallest one.

However, staying up is still an ungainful thing. We should work and rest normally, and avoid staying up late. Keeping the lifestyle regularly and people will get a good health.