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Hi there! I am Marc Phillippe Babineau, a Maritimer by birth and in heart (Canadian), and I was a Senior Technical Writer and Training Specialist for Atlantis Aerospace, in Brampton, Ontario. Here, I wrote technical manuals and wrote and taught training platforms

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Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Why is obesity such a widespread problem?: 2 of 20
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is the health industry's calculation for determining if someone is overweight, underweight or obese, and is used world-wide. The BMI is a straightforward and easy calculation, essentially the weight of the person, divided by the square of the height of the person. For obesity to be implied, a person... More..
Health & Fitness > Substance Abuse Should marijuana be legalized?: 16 of 132
Should marijuana be legalized? No, absolutely not. Kind of makes you wonder why this is in the "Yes" side of the debate. The government, upon legalization, would then step up to the plate and sell the weed through licensed stores, and collect taxes on it, much the same as they sell liquor in Canada, only at LCBO's (liquor co... More..
Health & Fitness > Infection Control How to contain the spread of swine flu: 3 of 14
The now renamed Influenza H1N1, formerly known as Swine Flu, is contained only through isolation of all infected persons and swine, and the proper cleansing of the areas in which they were confined. The cleaning behind of contaminated patients with the H1N1 virus is key to eradicating this potential repeat of the dreaded Spa... More..
Health & Fitness > Drug Legislation & Safety How does marijuana treat pain?: 5 of 18
Medicinal marijuana is one of the most overlooked and beneficial drugs for people suffering from motor-neuron diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and any chronic pain ailments. Scientists at UCSF (University of California at San Francisco) have concluded that marijuana's active ingredients, which are provid... More..
Health & Fitness > Infectious Diseases The origins of the 2009 swine flu outbreak: 2 of 6
It is a misconception that the current round of the hybridization of the Type-A influenza strain H1N1 originated in Mexico. Mexico is simply where the largest and most noticeable group of people came down with the illness at the onset of the viruses' making it's presence known. According to the Centre for Disease Control and... More..
Health & Fitness > General Health (Other) Living with a herniated disc: 4 of 11
A herniated disc is a potentially painful problem in which the hard outer coating of the discs, which cushion the spine like shock absorbers, are damaged, allowing the discs' center to leak, irritating nearby nerves. This can cause severe sciatica ( pain, from tingling to severe, and some associated numbness, that is felt in... More..
Health & Fitness > Infection Control How to prevent infection from swine flu: 7 of 19
The only real guaranteed way to prevent infection from the swine flu, which has recently been renamed Influenza Type-A H1N1, is total isolation, or self-quarantine. Head for a country that has no known cases and take your chances that nobody will come down with the viral agent, or simply stay home, have groceries delivered t... More..
Health & Fitness > General Health (Other) Spinal decompression: Causes, symptoms and treatment: 3 of 8
Spinal decompression is a procedure, both invasive and non-invasive, that is used to remove disc cartilage from a herniated disc, or to relieve pressure from spinal stenosis. A herniated disc occurs when the disc leaks out of the lumbars in the spine and causes the lumbars to not work properly, and nerves or nerve endings be... More..
Health & Fitness > Personality Disorders Paranoid personality disorder: Symptoms and treatment: 4 of 8
Paranoid Personality Disorder is basically an ingrained suspiciousness and mistrust of other people. The other people can be friends, family, teachers, basically anyone that the patient interacts with. The patient sees people as being disloyal, untrustworthy and will bear a grudge against anyone, even when no means for the g... More..
Health & Fitness > Medical Issues (Other) Should the DEA enforce federal anti-drug laws in states, like California, where voters have legalized medical marijuana?: 2 of 4
Medicinal marijuana most definitely has it's place as a medicine, for the treatment of patients with motor-neuron diseases, as well as cancer patients and pain sufferers. Many people, with no knowledge of the healing properties of marijuana, still believe the drug, weed or plant to be the "gateway drug", the harbinger of har... More..