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Lately, I have been extremely thirsty. I do not know what is wrong with me! I weight a normal weight. I thought it might be early signs of diabetes - but i wasn't sure. I know that none of you can diagnose me, but any opinions?

thanks!

and by the way, my sister and dad both have diabetes - the one where they need to have sugar at certain points of the day or something!

Being excessively thirsty is an early sign of diabetes, but then again you could just be dehydrated. If your sister and your dad both have diabetes then it's pobably genetic to you have a higher chance of getting it. Here are some of the other early symptoms:

Signs and symptoms
The signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes often appear after a flu-like illness and gradually intensify over the course of a few weeks. Typical features may include:

Increased thirst and frequent urination. With type 1 diabetes, excess sugar (glucose) builds up in your bloodstream. A high level of blood glucose pulls water from your body's tissues, making you thirsty. As a result, you drink more fluids and urinate more. The excess sugar in your bloodstream passes through your kidneys and leaves your body in your urine.
Extreme hunger. The basic defect in type 1 diabetes — an inability to produce insulin, the hormone necessary for glucose to enter cells and fuel their functions — leaves your muscles and organs energy depleted. That triggers intense hunger. Eating fills your stomach, but the hunger persists because, without insulin, the glucose produced from dietary carbohydrates never reaches your body's energy-starved tissues.
Weight loss. Despite eating a lot to relieve their constant hunger, people with type 1 diabetes lose weight, sometimes rapidly. That's because the body's cells are deprived of glucose and energy as glucose is lost into the urine. Without the energy glucose supplies, cells die at an increased rate before they can divide and replace themselves. Muscle tissues and fat stores shrink, and body weight declines.
Blurred vision. A high level of blood glucose pulls fluid from all your tissues, including the lenses of your eyes. The decrease in fluid affects your ability to focus.
Fatigue. When your cells are deprived of glucose, you become tired and irritable.

okay my teacher was explaining how there are two types of action verbs- ones you can see, and ones you cant see.

which one are transitive?

are the verbs
- to think
- to feel
- to imagine

transitive?

What are transitive verbs?

Transitive verbs take objects. That is, these verbs carry the action of a subject and apply it to an object. They tells us what the subject (agent) does to something else (object).

Examples: He bought a shirt.
(agent) (did something) (object- answers the question "what?")

She brushes her hair every hour.

Marina will lose the race.

Note that the transitive verb can take any tense.
What are intransitive verbs?

Intransitive verbs do not take an object; they express actions that do not require the agent's doing something to something else.

Examples: Tom danced.

The intransitive verb "danced" is a
complete action by itself and does not require a direct
object to receive the action.

They ran down the road.

They ran, but they do not run "something" in this sentence.
The sentence contains no object.

Jack fell on the rocks in the alley.

Tip: Some verbs can function as both transitive and intransitive verbs.

Example:
intransitive: She dances.
transitive: She dances the rhumba.

I was just wondering if any of you really like, celebrate a year and a half anniversary with your boyfriend/girlfriend? If so, what are some cute, little gifts you get your significant other? You don't have to know anything about my boyfriend, just general answers for anyone would be fine. Or, do you think just spending the day together is enough? Thank you. =)

You should totally celebrate your year and a half anniversary, that's big. Well it is to me anyways. Does he want to celebrate? If he hasn't said anything about it, then just spend the day together. You don't have to do anything extravegant to celebrate. If he does want to celebrate and do something special for your aniversary, you should do something more secluded where it's just you two instead of a big crowd. For a gift you can make a scrapbook of your relationship so far, like pictures of you together and other things you've saved from your relationship, or just a book or CD he likes. Anyways Happy Anniversary, I hope I helped.

i just read the book "Twilight" by stephenie meyer, and i loved it.
but now i cant find ANY good books.
is there any book like Twilight that you would recommend?

ive read the sequel, too.

Prince of Misery by Heather Crews & Blood Bond by Suzy Minor. Both are vampire books and really good.

do you have to be a certain age to buy diet pills at like cvs, brookes, walgreens and such?

also, what are the cons of taking diet pills?

thanks!

Pros and Cons:

The positive side of diet pills to most people is that they achieve their objective of loosing weight. Adding "quickly" is the main key of the story lock, I must say.

However, medical reviews are against the use of diet pills. It has recently been found that diet pills, even after many years of consumption, could cause a thickening of the heart valves in some cases. In most cases the thickening is mild and does not cause any health problems. In a few cases, this valve thickening can prevent the heart valves from closing properly (known as mitral or aortic incompetence).

Diet pills speed up the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Some weight-loss products contain stimulants or diuretics that can cause high blood pressure, irregular heart rate, sleep problems, nervousness, seizures, and even death. Excessive weight loss can be dangerous.

Diet pills are not considered an addictive drug like cocaine, heroin or alcohol because they do not produce the same compulsive drug-seeking behavior.

i have been trying to lose weight for qutie some time. i do school volleyball, school basketball, traveling volleyball, and traveling basketball so it is not like i am not active. after school i always go rollerblading then biking. the problem is food. my family are all health nuts and we have so much organic food and healthy food around- so too much junk food around is not the problem. but i seem to be atracted to like the granola bars and trail mix and the m&ms in the trail mix. i also eat a lotttt but a lot of times i dont feel stuffed but sometimes i do. i tried different things not trying to tempt myself. what should i do not to tempt myself?

A little snacking may not only keep your hunger in-check between meals, but may also leave you less tempted to overeat at dinner or any other time. However, some Research suggests that snacking throughout the day instead of sitting down for regular meals may lead to greater weight loss. Also eating several litle meals a day is better than eating 3 big meals a day, it's easier on slow metabolisms which might be the reason your not losing weight. Drinking 6-8 glasses or bottles of water a day is also proven to help lose weight faster.
If you have a faster metabolism you'll lose weight faster and have an easier time keping it off. Here a some ways to boost your metabolism:

1)GREEN TEA isn't known only for its cancer-fighting benefits: It may help boost your metabolism, too.

2) WEIGHT TRAINING is the ultimate way to burn calories fast. A pound of muscle burns up to nine times the calories of a pound of fat. Weight training increases your resting metabolic rate, which is the number of calories you burn while sitting on your butt. Try these: squats, bench step-ups, lunges, push-ups, pull-ups and crunches. Just do single sets of 10 for each exercise — you'll get optimal results for the time invested.

3) DO MORE DAIRY. Women who ate low-fat dairy products, such as nonfat yogurt and low-fat cheese, three to four times a day lost 70 percent more fat than low-dairy dieters, according to a study published in the journal Obesity Research. Calcium serves as a switch that tells your body to burn excess fat faster.

4) DON'T BLOW OF BREAKFAST. Studies show that eating breakfast plays a part in successful weight loss — almost 80 percent of people who successfully keep weight off eat breakfast, according to a study published in Obesity Research. Your metabolism slows as you sleep, and the process of digesting food revs it up again. Aim for a 300- to 400-calorie breakfast, such as a high-fiber cereal (another metabolism booster) with skim milk and fruit.

And most important get enough sleep. You should atleast get 7-10 hours a slep a night. So try this and se what happens.

Good Luck!

-Jasmine

ok lets say my best friends who are also best friends with my crush tell me that my crush (who says he likes me) never actually liked me or maybe that he was only using me to get some, what's a good answer to that? (not to my crush, but what do i tell me friends that will sounds cool and not too hurt and stuff, and something not too mean so i dont have to worry about them telling him about it) what do you think?

It sounds like your friends are jealous, If your crush says he likes you than you should believe him until he does somethng to prove different. Tell your friends that. Tell them that he said he liked you, and until he does something to prove otherwise your going to believe him.

do anyone know what the word "entente" mean it's french

It means "Understanding"

My boyfriend told me he loved me the other day.
And I froze because I don't love him back.
What should I have said, and what should I say in the future when I still don't love him and he says it again?

You may not love him, but you shouldn't lie to him. Especially about something like that. Just tell him you really like him but you need more time. Love is a strong word, and you should wait until your 100% sure you actually do love him.
Good Luck with your boyfriend and I hope I helped!

Ok this question is going to be kind of deep, so here goes. When I was 14 I lose my virginity to my first love. I'm 19 now and married to another man. My first love, Tim, and I have been on and off since I was 14. No matter what we always seem to find a way back to each other. The problem is, I have been married now almost 2 years to this other man. BUT I still find myself thinking (alot) about my first, Tim. I don't know if I am in love with him still, or what. I am so confused. Everytime we bump into one another it's like that spark never left. Please help asap.

You'll always remember your first love, because he was a big part of your life. You lost your virginity to him, but that doesn't mean you love him or that you don't love your husband. He'll always be a part of you and you may never forget him, and you may always have feelings for him and that's also okay. Just don't feel like your obligated to him, because you're not. I'v learned that you may not always be able to love someone with all of your heart, because someone else might still hold a part of it. But you can love with what's left of it.

I wish the best to you and your husband, and I hope I helped.

so ive heard that dr. pepper makes your cooch smell. does it?

No, it's just a rumor.

ok my boyfriends friend just died. liek i have no idea what to say to him. i feel so bad

From experiance there's nothing you really can say, because nothing will make it better except time. The only thing you can do is be there for him when he needs. He may not want to talk about because sometimes it's easier to just ignore things like this, and pretend everythings alright. Just be there when he needs you. And make sure he knows your always there for him.

ok im just wondering i hav like around a B+ as a grade for my english class and i didnt do a project that was worth like 10-13%. how much does that bring my grade down? to around hopefully a C?

It depends on how many assignments you have done in that class. If you've only done a couple in the term, then your grade will probably drop a few letter grades. If you've done a lot of assignments, then probably only one or maybe two letter grades.

Can someone teach me how to curl your hair? I know it's stupid but I'm really confused so can someone give me directions to have the prettiest curls for my grad?

I was going to get my aunt to do it but it wasn't what you would call curl because all the curls were different and half of them were curled the opposite direction than the other.

I don't know like whne you but the curling thing on your hiar if you hold the thing straight and just curl straight up, or like hold it diagonally and curl, etc.

Something like this girl's?
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r155/wind_miko/boahair.jpg

Instructions:

STEP 1: Begin by applying a styling gel, mousse or styling spray to clean, damp hair and blow dry until completely dry. Your curls will form better and last longer with the aid of good quality hair products.

STEP 2: Clip your hair back in multiple sections. Release one section and brush or comb it to remove any knots or tangles. Spray lightly with a soft-hold hairspray if your hair is very fine and doesn't hold curls well.

STEP 3: Begin with the undersection of your hair, working your way up to the top. Twist a small section of your hair with your hands for spiral curls, or take a flat, larger section for loose curls.

STEP 4: Open the curling iron by pressing the lever and insert your hair. Close the curling iron barrel on your hair, making sure that all of the ends of that section are completely enclosed in the barrel.

STEP 5: Roll the iron up and hold it for about 10 seconds.

STEP 6: Open the curling iron and release the curls. Proceed with other sections until all areas have been curled.

STEP 7: Flip your head and shake out the curls, then style your hair with your fingers.

STEP 8: Spray with a light hold hair spray to keep your curls in place. For humid climates use a humidity resistant hair spray.

Tips & Warnings
Use a skinny wand for tight, spiral curls, and a thick iron for large, loose curls.
Keep a hot iron away from your scalp and hairline to avoid burning your skin.
Deep-condition your hair once a week if you curl your hair on a regular basis to help guard against hair damage

Is it possible to get pregnant through clothes? i dont just mean underwear, but through our underdwear, jeans, and his pants. my period wont come also, and im really nervous. but thats as far as he and i have gone. please answer men asap because im terrified.

18/f

It's impossible, so don't worry. There are a lot of things that can make your period late. For example if you've gained or lost a significant amount of weight, have been under excessive stress or have taken any new medications. All of these things can affect your menstrual cycle. Also the first couple of years your period can be irregular, even if it's only some of the time.

this is probably really weird.
but i love to get criticism.
i always ask people to tell me things that i can work on to make myself a better looking person.
i don't like geting compliments because most of the time i think that people just want to make you feel better about yourself.

and here is probably the strangest thing.
look at these pictures and honestly tell me what you think. i know that it soudns lame. but please give me criticism.
you won't hurt my feelings or anything.:]
your probably thinking that im like absolutely crazy. but im not. i really just need criticism.
no compliments.lol

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=37478899

and if you dont mind doing more. i can like email other pictures.

and im not crazy. i swear.
i just love criticism.

please&thankyous.hannah

They're private images. I put my pictures on photobucket, it's free and others can see them.

Does anyone have that "How many ways have you kissed" survey? The one that has a bunch of ways (in the rain, on a couch etc) and you count up how many ways you've done. My boyfriend and I want to finish the list :)

- 1 - ICE KISS
Celebrate the first day of winter with an ice kiss. Put an ice cube in your mouth until your mouth becomes cold. Remove the cube, track down your love and plant a kiss that will send chills!

- 2 - ELECTRIC SHOCK KISS
The two of you shuffle your feet furiously on carpet. When you both have an electric charge, lean over and slowly aim for each other's lips. With your lips about one-half inch apart, move in even slower until a spark jumps between the two of you. Instantly after this happens, kiss one another...the please us the kiss right after the shock!

- 3 - CAMPING KISS
On a beautiful cool night, you and your love crawl into a sleeping bag outside. Cuddle and kiss.

- 4 - REWARD KISS
Next time your love performs some disliked home chore like cleaning the bathroom, mowing the lawn, or taking out the garbage, show your appreciation by tucking a candy kiss in a strategic location.

- 5 - POST-IT KISS
Use 3M Post-It notes to make a trail through your house that leads to your lips. Put a lipstick print or lip symbol on each note with an arrow pointing to the next note. You, of course, are at the end of the trail with a Post-It note over your lips that says, "LIFT FOR KISS"

- 6 - KISSING IN THE RAIN
The next time it rains, grab an umbrella, rain coats, and your love. Then go outside and kiss in the rain. If the spirit of the kiss moves you, remove the umbrella and kiss 'till the two of you are soaked.

- 7 - HERSHEY`S KISSES
Prepare a small bag of Hershey`s kisses and slip it into your love's purse, briefcase, or lunchbox. Attach a note that reads "SORRY, I CAN'T BE THERE IN PERSON, BUT THINK OF ME AND DO THE FOLLOWING: Close your eyes and place the candy between your lips. Drop the candy in your mouth and roll it on your tongue until it melts.

- 8 - TRACY AND HEPBURN KISS
Make flash cards, and the two of you re-enact the following kissing scene from WOMAN OF THE YEAR

(1942): (Reclining face to face on a couch, woman on top.) SAM: Something I've got to get off my chest.
TESS: I'm too heavy?
SAM: I love you.
TESS: Me, too.
SAM: Positive.
TESS: That's nice. Even when I'm sober?
SAM: Even when you're brilliant. (The two of you kiss.)

- 9 - KISSES IN A BALLOON
Cut out small red tissue lips, and place them inside an opaque balloon filled with helium (any party store could do this for you) Tie the balloon to your love's chair at dinner. Desert is a shower of kisses delivered by a sharp pin.

- 10 - TOLL KISS
Next time you are driving your love somewhere, stop the car before crossing a bridge or going through a tunnel, and say the toll must be paid before you can go any further. Of course, the toll cost in one kiss.

- 11 - MORSE CODE KISS
If you know Morse code, great, If not, this is a great way to learn. Find a Morse Code chart. Using long and short kisses, spell out a message to your love and have him or her try to decipher them.

- 12 - KISSING METER KISSES
We have parking meters, so why not kissing meters? Turn a box into your own kissing meter and wear it around your neck. Give your love kissing tokens to start your kissing meter. Have an "expired" sign appear when you need another kiss.

- 13 - AUDIO STIMULATION
Make a cassette of kissing noises and place in your love's cassette player (walkman, car or home) with a note attached.

- 14 - BREAKFAST IN BED KISS
Slip out of bed early and prepare a special "Kissing" breakfast to serve to your love in bed. Pick foods that you can easily pick up and feed to your love. Kiss between bites!

- 15 - STAIRWELL KISS
This kiss is to be done at a party or at a gathering with your love. Steal away to a private location like behind a door or tree, or on the stairwell and passionately kiss each other. The risk of being discovered in the act is the key element.

- 16 - SCUBA KISSING
Wearing a diving mask and fins, simulate swimming underwater. Snorkel across the room to your love and kiss him or her

- 17 - EYE TEST KISS
Make an eye chart like the ones that you see in a doctor's office where the letters get progressively smaller. Have the chart read, "IF you can read this you are standing close enough to kiss me." Now find your love and give an eye exam.

- 18 - THYMELY KISS
Thyme, according to the Greeks, is the herb which makes one irresistible kissable. Prepare a meal for your love using the herb. Moments after the first bite, rush to your love's lips with a passionate kiss. Come up for air, announce the Greeks were right, then rush back with another passionate kiss.

- 19 - SHOPPING LIST KISSES
Turn your shopping list into a scorecard the next time the two of you go shopping. The one who finds the item gets credit toward one kiss. Kisses are collected either on delivery to the grocery cart, or later at home.

- 20 - BAD HABIT KISS
Offer to stop a bad habit if your love will pay you kisses. For instance, a kiss for each cigarette not smoked, putting the toilet seat down, and/or every phone call kept under three minutes is rewarded with a kiss.

- 21 - CLOUD SHAPE KISS
Take your love to the backyard or out in a field: lie down on a blanket, and together inspect cloud formations. When both of you see the same thing, reward each other with a kiss.

- 22 - CHECK KISS
With your personal check, make a check out to your love for 1,000 kisses. Tell your love he or she can cash it in any time.

- 23 - TOE KISS
Prepare a foot bath for your love at the end of a long day. After the good soak, you towel dry his or her feet, give a massage and seal each toe with a kiss.

- 24 - CHOCOLATE HEART KISSES
Buy several boxes of little chocolate hearts that have sayings on them. Pick out all the "KISS ME" hearts and put them in a heart shaped box with the note "REDEEMABLE ANYTIME, day or night!"

- 25 - RENDEZVOUS KISS
With a note or phone call, tell your love to meet you at a certain place and time (e.g. park bench, street corner, ice cream stand) for a present. When your love arrives, have a bow stick to your lips.

- 26 - BATH KISS
Surprise your love with a kiss while he/she is showering or in the tub. (WARNING: Prepare to get wet)

- 27 - MACHINE GUN KISS
In rapid succession, plant 12 quick ones on your lover's lips.

- 28 - KISS-A-THON
Passionately kiss your love for at least five minute longer than usual.

- 29 - PINK PANTHER KISS
Humming the Pink Panther theme, prowl toward your partner. On the high note, pounce and pucker. Suggestion-wear only pink!

- 30 - THIRST QUENCHER KISS
For no reason, stare at your love's mouth while licking your lips as though dying of thirst. Inevitably, your love will ask what you're doing. ANSWER: I want them! I have to have them! I yearn to drink from them! Then ask for a kiss to quench your thirst!

- 31 - GREAT EXPECTATIONS KISS
Inform your love one morning that he or she will soon receive a fabulous kiss. Later, call you love with a reminder. When next you see your love, pull out the stops and plant a long, hot, passionate kiss.

- 32 - GOODBYE * 2 KISS
Send off your love in the morning with a quick kiss. As your love turns to leave, pull him or her back for a second, more passionate kiss

- 33 - RIDDLE KISS
Ask you love to solve the following riddle:
I am just two and two
I am warm, I am cold,
I am lawful, unlawful
A duty, a fault
I am often sold dear,
Good for nothing when bought;
an extraordinary boon,
and a matter of course,
and yielding with pleasure
When taken by force.
If your love solves it, ask for a demonstration as proof. If he or she cannot show the answer, of course, the answer is a kiss.

- 34 - KISS MANDATE
Command your love to kiss you. Elaborate on the technique you expect (e.g. long and wet, or the way Rhett kissed Scarlett) and where and when you will get it.

- 35 - UNEXPECTED KISS
When the two of you are doing the usual, lean over and give your love a sweet kiss on the cheek for no good reason and whisper...I LOVE YOU!

- 36 - POST OFFICE KISS
Notify your love you have personal mail to deliver. Pull your love into the nearest dark closet; close the door and play POST OFFICE: No instructions included!

- 37 - KNOCK-KNOCK KISS
Stage the following knock-knock joke with your love:
KNOCK KNOCK
Who is there?
Kiss
Kiss who?
Kiss who? Why me, of course!

- 38 - BEGGAR`S KISS
That's right, on your knees with your hands clasped, plead for any kiss you love is humbly willing to give you!

- 39 - TOOTHPASTE KISS
Brush your teeth together. When your love's mouth is all sudsy, plant a big wet one on the lips. WARNING: MAKE SURE TOOTHBRUSHES ARE OUT OF THE WAY!

- 40 - PALM KISS
Holding your love's chin with your palm, smile and deliver a sweet kiss to his or her lips!

- 41 - 30 KISSES
Inform your love that in honor of the 30th of the month, you will kiss him or her 30 times during the day!

- 42 - CAT KISS
Rub against your love's legs while meowing and purring. Now that you have your love's attention, touch noses. Playfully paw your love while moving in for a kiss.

- 43 - EYELID KISS
While kissing your love, watch for his or her eyes to close. Sweetly place a light kiss on each eyelid. Note: Be careful!

- 44 - EAR KISS
Whisper to your love how special he or she is to you, and then seal your message with an ear kiss!

- 45 - VALENTINE KISS
Celebrate Valentine's Day with kisses in the shape of a "V" on the face of your lover.

- 46 - FOOTBALL KISS
After a pass during a football game, kiss your love.

- 47 - SLEEPING BEAUTY KISS
Awaken your love from slumber with a tender kiss on the lips!

- 48 - No-Cal Kiss
After dinner, give your love a no-calorie desert...your lips.

you know the store the rave? well do they have a website?

i tried googling it but nothing showed up =(

It's at www.lola.com but the website isn't up yet.

It goes like... You are my only girl but your not my ownergirl.

Does anyone know who this song is by and what its called.

Talk To Me, Dance With Me lyrics by HOT HOT HEAT

You are my only girl,
but you're not my owner girl.
Talk to me... dance with me here in the spotlight, girl.
Talk to me... dance with me here.
You're the spotlight girl.
So perfect you paint it... yet so manipulated.
So calm and so patient... yet oh so calculated.
So safe and comforting... this doesn't feel like flirting.
So fun I'm distracted... forgot you keep track of it.

What do you think the poet is saying in the following poem?

The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little spark his heat;
The slender hairs cast shadows, though but small,
And bees have stings, although they be not great;
Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs;
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

Where waters smoothest run, there deepest are the fords,
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is found in fewest words,
The turtles do not sing, and yet they love;
True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

I think it means that even the littlest of things are still important, and that everyone can fall in love and is capable of loving. Those who have faith have no need to defend their faith, because they know they do. Sometimes the littlest thing is the most important, because looks deceive. Love is not proved by words. yet by actions. And eveyones heart gets broken, no matter who you are. Every one loves and everyone loses someone they love.

-Hope this helped, I tried to interpret line by line.

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