Word: vallee
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"The packets are a gimmick that makes quitting more fun," said Maura D. Valle, a UHS health educator. "It's not even a cessation program so much as an awareness program," she said, explaining that organizers hoped that abstaining from cigarettes for one day could lead participants to quit for...
In the face of pressure from abroad and complaints from environmentalists at home, Brazil has grudgingly begun to respond. In April, only a few months after denouncing the environmental movement as a foreign plot to seize the forests, the Sarney administration announced a hastily patched-together conservation package dubbed Our...
"Usually, problems will begin in relationships and work down, but they can appear in any of these," Valle says. Health problems can range from injuries incurred while intoxicted to gastro-intestinal problems and weight gain, she says.
The quantity of alcohol that an individual consumes can also be a sign that a dangerous drinking pattern is taking shape, Valle says. "You certainly want to consider quantity," she says, because high tolerance is a natural symptom of alcoholism. Valle says, however, that a person who gets "out of...
While recognition of a drinking pattern that may lead to a problem later on is relatively easy, acknowledgement of a problem is rare among college students. Alcoholism is "a disease of denial," Valle says.