Extra Credit Jon George Mrs. Dvorak College Success December 1st 2011 Babe Ruth – The homerun king for ages was Babe Ruth. He played for the New York Yankees. In his earlier years he was a right handed pitcher in the MLB but switched to a hitter. He is now 3rd on the all time homerun list behind Hank Aaron who is second and Barry Bonds. Babe Ruth was born in Pigtown‚ Baltimore. Michael Jordan – In the eyes of many people Michael Jordan was the best basketball player in the world. He
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Mass Media and Racism by Stephen Balkaran Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime‚ drug use‚ gang violence‚ and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans‚ the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans. 1 The history of African-Americans is a centuries old struggle against oppression and discrimination
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In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance” written by Mary Ray Worley‚ she points out that obesity is considered negative‚ because society has determined that it is. She supports this idea‚ by reflecting back to her personal experiences of attending the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) convention in San Diego‚ which is a convention to support and love yourself. Worley claimed it was like “another planet‚” because of the “diversity” of sizes. According to Worley
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flavor‚ taste and nutrients of the raw materials (C. Ma‚ et. al‚ 2008). By salting and preserving crab meat‚ crab paste can be produced; it is a flavorful concentrate that can be used in a variety of dishes. Cholesterol is a soft‚ waxy type of fat or sterol produced by the liver for numerous metabolic functions. High Cholesterol levels have a long association with many diseases‚ particularly Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). High-cholesterol issues arise when LDL is high and HDL is low (Strandberg
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Fat Land Greg Cristler is a journalist who had been considered overweight for much of his life before he decided to make a lifestyle change and ended up losing forty pounds. Over this period of time Cristler reflected on his life and the various things that contributed to him being overweight. These factors included the fact that the social‚ and economic class that he was in at the time were prime contributors to the population of the overweight in the country today. In order to drop this weight
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calculating the fat content in packaged food on “weight basis” whereas the fat content (having to do more with the calorific value of a food item and not its weight) actually has to be calculated on the basis of the calorie value of the food item. So‚ the “calorie basis” is what has to be applied to know how much fat our food items actually carry. Here are three interesting eye-openers!! Breakfast: Oatmeal (Single serving = 45 g) Calories in a single serving = 160 Fat content is 2 g 1 g of fat has 9
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2013)P35. In the modern diet‚ here is a concern that excessive usage of fats leads to increasing propagation of chronic diseases‚ such as diabetes‚ obesity and coronary heart disease. Consequently‚ there is a requirement for production of lower fat products with acceptable sensory properties that can be fairly similar to their full-fat counterparts for consumers (Chung et al.‚ 2016)124
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Obesity Facts”). Mary Ray Worley‚ a writer and member of the NAAFA‚ is one of these 78.6 million; however‚ she has successfully overcome many obstacles society has put in front of her. Through personal experiences in her essay entitled “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance”‚ Worley suggests that it is indeed possible to live a joyful life in spite of obesity. Worley first emphasizes many misconceptions about obesity as well as their effects on overweight people to show how seemingly innocuous
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brief explanation: As soon as your fat cells detect a slightly lower oe- strogen level‚ they come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. (Fat cells pro- ducing oestrogen? This may surprise you‚ but it’s one of their highly evolved func- tions.) They know that eventually your ovaries will stop producing oestrogen‚ so they start preparing to take over the ovaries’ job. They increase their size‚ number and ability to store fat. Interestingly enough‚ the fat cells in your waist grow the largest
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‘Fat’ bodies are routinely marked. They are the abnormal and abject because they pose direct conflict to the norm. But the discourses that determine the norm are subject to the complex social process of normalization. Initially proposed by Michael Foucault in his 1975 text ‘Discipline and Punish’ normalization is the influence of disciplinary power on determining a norm of societal conduct. According to Foucault‚ sovereign power‚ power attributed to a specific authority was superseded by disciplinary
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