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Personal Care and social activities
Feeding, personal care and social activities
Social activities and bathing
Personal care, feeding and bathing
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Cleaning, cooking, shopping and social activities
Cooking, shopping and bathing
Shopping, cooking and feeding
All the options that are listed in this question
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Do good and heal
Love your neighbour as yourself
Do no harm
Do as you are told to do
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Develop health disorders and conditions
Fall
Have children
Develop health disorders and conditions and fall
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Becomes thinner
Becomes thicker
Doesn't change
Becomes less wrinkled
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Helps move toxins out of the brain and spinal cord
Assists to repair the body and brain
Helps create permanent memories
Removes toxins, repairs and helps create permanent memories.
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Are the results of our beliefs
Are protective mechanisms
Affect the brain and brain chemistry
Result from our beliefs, protect us and affect the brain and brain chemistry
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Rejection, lust and love
Hunger, pain and false beliefs
Lying, truth and correct beliefs
Rejection, lust, love, beliefs, lying and truth
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A common problem
Always occurs with some other problem
Easily controlled with medication
Never fatal
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Saturated fat
Unsaturated fat
Protein
Carbohydrate
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Too much sugar in the blood
Too little insulin for the amount of sugar in the blood
Mainly suffered by those both old and obese
Can be avoided with exercise
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Permanent and cannot be altered
Permanent or temporary and is always accurate
Is never changed simply by suggestion
Is permanent or temporary and not always reliable
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Vitamin C therapy is completely useless
Nutritional therapy is completely useless
Chemotherapy is completely useless
We really don’t know enough to determine what is completely useless
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Go to the bathroom (restroom, toilet)
Some medications
Emotions
Bathrooms, medications and emotions
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Dementia
Depression
Alzheimer's
Behaviour disorder
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Brain growth (new neurons or connections)
Head growth (bigger skull to hold a bigger brain)
Stronger neck muscles to hold the bigger head
Nothing – it is automatic
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Always bad
Always good
Can be good or bad
Simply an excuse for a badly managed life
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Only humans
All humans and animals
Only animals
Only those that allow it
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Another term for split or multiple personalities
A special form of depression
A disorder that involves altered perceptions of reality
A physical disorder that can be cured with surgery
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Hard physical work
Emotionally difficult
Rewarding
Hard, difficult and rewarding
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Release hormones through small tubes into the blood stream
Release hormones directly into the blood stream
Release hormones into the brain only
Release hormones into the heart only
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Signal action by other cells
Sometimes signal action by specific cells
Sometimes signal action by all cells
Signal action by other, sometimes all and sometimes specific cells
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2
4
8
16
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Brain
Upper chest and throat
Upper abdomen
Lower abdomen or groin
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Brain
Upper chest and throat
Upper abdomen
Lower abdomen or groin
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Brain
Upper chest and throat
Upper abdomen
Lower abdomen or groin
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Brain
Upper chest and throat
Upper abdomen
Lower abdomen or groin
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Hypothalamus
Pituitary
Adrenals
Thymus
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Hypothalamus
Pancreas
Adrenals
Thymus
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Pancreas
Pituitary
Adrenals
Thymus
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Hypothalamus
Pituitary
Adrenals
Pancreas
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Hypothalamus
Pituitary
Pancreas
Thalamus
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Blood pressure
Sleep and wake cycles
Other glands
Just about everything
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Obesity
Depression
Metabolic syndrome
High metabolic rate
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Weight loss and mania
Weight gain and depression
Bradycardia
Obesity
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Hyperthyroidism
Hypothyroidism
Cancer
Goiter
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Client not taking medications as prescribed
Clients medication may need adjusting
Client is dehydrated
Client not taking meds or meds need adjusting
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Hypothymusism
Autoimmune diseases
Cancers
Heart attacks and strokes
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Isles of Langerhans
Isles of Longer
Jersey Islands
Lost isles of England
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Immediate Death
Long-term health problems
Excess energy
High blood pressure
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Immediate Death
Long-term health problems
Excess energy
Longer life
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Estrogen and Progesterone
Testosterone
Insulin
Estrogen, Progesterone and Testosterone
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Stress
Sleep
Wakefulness
Blood pressure
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A straight line along which the glands are located
A point around which the glands are located
A group of glands that assist and regulate each other
None of the provided options are correct
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Hypoglycemia (provide glucose)
Hyperglycemia (provide insulin)
Both (provide glucose and insulin)
Do nothing
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Posture, mobility, balance and coordination
Muscles, skeleton, motion and gravity
Eye-hand coordination when transferring a client
A good self body image and self esteem
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Posture, joint mobility balance and coordination
Gravity and air
Muscles and gravity
Shoes and levers
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15%
25%
50%
85%
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