Obesity Epidemic and Eating Disorders Stephanie D. Snyder-Wilson SCI/241 Dr. Douglas Beaudette January 3‚ 2013 Obesity and eating disorders have become an epidemic in the United States. With society focusing on the health of people‚ obesity seems to be the hot topic. Everywhere you look‚ there are more obese people. Many people blame their genetic makeup while others blame the abundance of convenience foods that are now available; but one thing is for certain‚ there are health risks associated
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Academic Services Learning Development Course Code: PP0701 An Introduction to PowerPoint 2007 Version 1.0 www.istraining.bham.ac.uk What’s New in PowerPoint 2007? PowerPoint 2007 is very different from previous versions of the program. The table below gives you an overview of what to expect. Table 1: What’s New in PowerPoint 2007 New user interface Live Preview Themes Create a custom layout Presenter view Save as PDF Digital Signature Allows you to preview how a formatting change
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Intro: Carbohydrate‚ any of a large group of compounds in which hydrogen and oxygen‚ in the proportions in which they exist in water‚ are combined with carbon; the formula of most of these compounds may be expressed as Cn(H2O)n. Structurally‚ however‚ these compounds are not hydrates of carbon‚ as the formula would seem to indicate. Carbohydrates‚ as a class‚ are the most abundant organic compounds found in nature. They are produced by green plants and by bacteria using the process known as photosynthesis
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Austin Peay State University Department of Chemistry CHEM 1021 IDENTIFYING CARBOHYDRATES (adapted from Blackburn et al.‚ Laboratory Manual to Accompany World of Chemistry‚ 2nd ed.‚ (1996) Saunders College Publishing: Fort Worth) Purpose: To become familiar with some of the characteristic reaction of carbohydrates. To identify an unknown carbohydrate. Caution: Wear eye protection because of the possible shattering of dropped glassware and because acids are used in this experiment
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Course Name: SCI/256 WEEK ONE: Question #1: Provide a brief summary of the history of the environmental movement? Answer #1: The environmental movement started around the end of the 1700’s. However‚ most people did not join in to or even know about the environmental movement until many decades later. You could say that there was at first a sharp increase in the awareness of the environmental problems and the environmental movement to stop these problems around the mid 1950’s. This is
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Body Fat and Eating Disorders With more than 60% of the U.S. adult population overweight and 25% of those considered obese‚ it is important to understand the obesity epidemic and the serious effects it has on health. To understand obesity‚ it is important to understand body composition. Body composition is the body’s relative amount of fat to fat-free mass. The body’s fat-free mass is compromised of all the body’s non-fat tissues; this includes bone‚ water‚ muscles
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SCI/230 Food Web Diagram Food Web Diagram: The Everglades By: Ashley Earp Due: Sunday May 12 Class: SCI/230 Instructor: Ethel Garcia SCI/230 Food Web Diagram Food Web Diagram of the Everglades. |-------------------------------- Alligators/Anaconda/Pythons(C)--------------------------------| /
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January 1999 B io Factsheet Example glucose fructose galactose Number 39 Carbohydrates: Revision Summary Carbohydrates contain 3 elements: Carbon (C)‚ Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O). Thus‚ if we remove water from carbohydrates‚ all that remains is carbon. Carbohydrates can be divided into 3 categories; monosaccharides‚ disaccharides and polysaccharides (Table 1). Table 1. Structure of monosaccharides‚ disaccharides and polysaccharides Category Monosaccharide (made of 1 sugar molecule)
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SCI 230 Week 1 Checkpoint Theories of Biology.doc The Major Theories of Biology Evolution by natural selection: This theory came about as a result of Charles Darwin trying to find an explanation for “why there are so many different living beings on earth?” (Pruitt‚ N. L.‚ & Underwood‚ L. S. (2006). His theory contains two parts‚ the first part states that species change over generations. The second part states that what causes this change is natural
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contribute too many deaths Risk factors such as hereditary‚ life style choices or poor nutritional habits also contribute to life threatening diseases. | 3. What are the six classes of nutrients? What are essential nutrients? What are the sources of nutrients? What do nutrients do? | The six classes of nutrients include: Carbohydrate—composed of hydrogen‚ carbon‚ & oxygen provide a major source of calories for the bodyLipids (fats & oils)—made up of carbon & hydrogen- used for
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