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The only treatment for celiac disease is to follow a gluten-free diet. When a person is first diagnosed with celiac disease, the doctor usually will ask the person to work with a dietitian on a gluten-free diet plan. A dietitian is a health care professional who specializes in food and nutrition. Someone with celiac disease can learn from a dietitian how to read ingredient lists and identify foods that contain gluten in order to make informed decisions at the grocery store and when eating out.
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When establishing new turf areas or when renovating disease-damaged turf, it is important to select grasses that are resistant to diseases known to be common in your area or that have damaged your turf in the past. The seeding of disease-resistant grass varieties is an excellent way to minimize turf loss from diseases. For example, certain varieties of Kentucky bluegrass are resistant to leaf spot, a devastating disease on many Kentucky bluegrass turfs. Varietal resistance to other common diseases is available in all cool-season grasses. Another strategy is to seed a grass-species that is resistant to a prevalent disease problem. For example, ryegrass may replace bluegrass in an area damaged by summer patch disease, or bluegrass might replace ryegrass in an area where Pythium blight is a problem.
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In general, self-responsibility for one’s health is a critical way to prevent disease. The person who takes responsibility for not smoking reduces risks for several diseases such as heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and throat cancer, to name a few. In the same, way responsible alcohol consumption can reduce the risks for cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholism, and some mental diseases. In the same manner, taking responsibility to avoid addicting drugs can prevent disease. A person taking measures for responsible sexual behavior can ... help prevent or reduce risks for several diseases, including HIV-AIDS. Using a mosquito proof net and using insect repellent while traveling in an region with insect-borne diseases can reduce such incidents, and making sure needles are sterilized can prevent infection.
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Black-band disease was first discovered on the reefs of Belize and Florida in 1972, and has since been identified in 26 countries including Fiji, Australia and the Philippines (Green and Bruckner, 2000). In the western Atlantic, BBD most commonly affects massive reef-building corals, but other types of stony corals and sea fans can be affected as well. Caribbean staghorn and elkhorn coral appear to be resistant to the disease (NMFS, 2001), though acroporid corals in the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific are affected by BBD. A total of 16 species have been observed with BBD in the western Atlantic, and 26 species in the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific (Green and Bruckner, 2000).
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Cereal fibers, particularly soluble fiber from oatmeal, may protect women against the risk of heart disease. Daily consumption (5 or more servings per week) of cold breakfast cereals reduced the risk for heart disease in women by 19 percent, while oatmeal consumption reduced the risk for heart disease by 29 percent. In effect, oats are 50 percent more effective than other fiber-containing breakfast cereals. In 1997, oatmeal was the first product approved by the Food and Drug Administration to communicate a food-specific health claim. The claim, which appears on Quaker Oats packaging, reads "Soluble fiber from oatmeal in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease."
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Affecting only star corals in the genus Montastraea and the brain coral Colpophyllia natans, yellow blotch disease (YBD) was first identified in 1994 in the lower Florida Keys. It is now known to occur throughout the Caribbean (Green and Bruckner, 2000). Yellow blotch disease begins as pale, circular blotches of translucent tissue or as a narrow band of pale tissue at the colony margin, with affected areas being surrounded by normal, fully pigmented tissue. As the disease progresses, the tissue first affected in the center of the patch dies, and exposed skeleton is colonized by algae (Bruckner, 2001). The area of affected tissue progressively radiates outward, slowly killing the coral.
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