concerns. Unfortunately‚ according to your biography‚ it is reasonable for your doctor to be concerned about your overall health. I believe that she has noticed that you have multiple risk factors that predispose you to cardiovascular disease‚ metabolic syndrome‚ and type II diabetes. Those factors include your cholesterol‚ weight‚ and the fact that you are prediabetic. I would like to begin by explaining that contrary to what you heard on Dr. Oz‚ there is no such thing as lousy cholesterol. However
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Introduction: Basal Metabolic Rate has been defined as the minimum amount of energy needed by an animal to maintain the basic functions of survival (such as breathing). Several factors including age‚ gender‚ weight‚ and exercise affect the BMR. "BMR increases with increasing muscle tissue" therefore‚ exercising will enhance BMR while with increasing age‚ BMR is reduced (Scott‚ 2008). Also gender differences exist between males and females; it has been shown that males have higher BMRs
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Metabolic Syndrome: A Precursor of Heart Disease In 1988‚ Dr. Gerald Reaven was awarded the Banting Medal for Scientific Research by the American Diabetes Association and introduced the term Syndrome X to the medical community. According to Dr. Reaven‚ “Syndrome X is a simple way to refer to a cluster of changes that encourage the onset and development of heart disease.” (Reaven‚ 2000‚ pg. 40) The medical terms Syndrome X‚ Insulin Resistance (IR)‚ or Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) have been used interchangeably
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Week 2 iLab 1. Select a sweetener. Sucrose 2. Explore the history of the sweetener (when it was developed‚ its composition). Sucrose‚ according to our text‚ is composed of one glucose (the most common sugar molecule) molecule and one fructose (the sweetest natural sugar) molecule. The bond is called glycosidic linkage. Because of this mixture‚ Sucrose is known to be sweeter than lactose or maltose (the other 2 out of the 3 most common disaccharides‚ which is a carbohydrate compound consisting
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United States‚ or 7.8% of the population‚ who have diabetes. While an estimated 17.9 million have been diagnosed with diabetes‚ unfortunately‚ 5.7 million people (or nearly one quarter) are unaware that they have the disease (1). Diabetes is a metabolic disorder in which the body’s ability to produce insulin (a hormone secreted by the pancreas to help transport glucose to cells) ceases to exist or in the case of type 2 diabetics the utilization of glucose by the body’s cells is altered. Exercise
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Approved Topic: Dark chocolate helps with emotional stress. Eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. How is it beneficial to one’s mind and body or not? Thesis Statement: "People all around the world enjoy eating a sweet of some sort. A favourite internationally is chocolate. Despite chocolate being a food which is high in calories‚ saturated fat‚ and sugar‚ it can still be a
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Running head: FATTY LIVER DISEASE Fatty Liver Disease Evetta Brown June 08‚ 2011 MA111 Instructor Leila L. Hamka The liver has over 200 functions that it plays. There are over 100 types of liver diseases. Many of these diseases can be life threating if they are not treated correctly. This paper will focus on the fatty liver disease. It will describe the liver‚ discuss the disease known as fatty liver disease‚ alcoholic and non alcoholic‚ give
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Exceptionality Report: Angelman Syndrome The Exceptional Child Andrea Gamber-Smith Dr. Harry Angelman discovered the disease that came to share his name‚ Angelman Syndrome in 1965. Angelman syndrome is impossible to diagnose until approximately the age of three to seven when symptoms become evident. The features of Angelman’s syndrome include a stiff body‚ little or no speech‚ constant giggling or laughter‚ and an easily excitable personality. There are
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BMR (basal metabolic rate) Basal metabolic rate (BMR)‚ and the closely related resting metabolic rate (RMR)‚ is the amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment‚ in the post-absorptive state (meaning that the digestive system is inactive‚ which requires about twelve hours of fasting in humans). The release of energy in this state is sufficient only for the functioning of the vital organs‚ the heart‚ lungs and kidneys and the rest of the nervous system‚ intestine‚
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preparing‚ experience negative stress. Physical Seyle proposed that in humans and non-human animals the body responds to a range of psychological and physical stressors with two pathways of physiological activation. He fabricated the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model which illustrates the short term effects of stressors on the body and suggested that in some circumstances could lead to harmful changes in the body
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