...Next, MSG also promotes liver inflammation and dysplasia. Chronic inflammation is a common theme in a variety of disease pathways, including autoimmune diseases. It is a concern due to its increasing prevalence in the westernized world and its direct correlation with lifestyle factors, particularly the diet. Diet caused liver damage may lead to liver cancer. In a study reported in the February-March, 2008 edition of the Journal of Autoimmunity, researchers reported that injecting MSG in mice leads to significant liver inflammation along with obesity and type 2 diabetes. To address the long-term consequences of MSG on inflammation, they performed serial analysis of MSG injected mice and focused in particular on liver pathology. Third, Boiling does not reduce damaging effect of MSG. Dr. Jennifer S. Xiong, Debbie Branigan, and Minghua Li explored possible ways of preventing or reducing the MSG damage of neurons. They first determined whether boiling MSG for 10 min reduces its...
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...unfortunately empty in nutrition which leaves you still hungry. C. Dopamine is released in the brain in large amounts 1. The chemical released in the brain for pleasure. But the more often you release dopamine from a particular source, the more you grow a tolerance to it. 2. Due to these releases and the tolerance build up, there are people who are susceptible to becoming addicted to these sugary food. D. When sugar is broken down in the body it becomes two simple sugars, Glucose and Fructose. a. Glucose is in every cell and is produced by our own bodies b. Fructose is not produced by use and our body has no real need for it i. Fructose can only be metabolized by the liver ii. Overeating sugar overloads the liver which makes the liver turn the fructose into fat. Doing this in repetition leads to a fatty liver and other serious health effects. This is similar to drinking too much alcohol. IV. Avoiding sugar A. Sugar has been packed...
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...highly contagious infection that affects the liver and causes the liver to become inflamed and function improperly. Hepatitis A can be contracted several ways; the most common way is through food that has been contaminated by fecal matter or through contaminated water. Another way is through intravenous drug use or sexual activities with an infected person through oral-anal contact. People who work in daycare centers or senior living facilities are at a higher risk of contracting Hepatitis A because of the frequent diaper changes and assisting seniors with wiping themselves after bowel movements. Also people who travel to other countries such as Asia, South or Central America where water treatment is not sufficient (NIH, 2011). Symptoms of Hepatitis A usually do not show up for 2-7 weeks after being exposed. The symptoms are usually mild but they may last for several months after being exposed, especially in adults. The symptoms include, dark urine, loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, yellowing of the skin, clay like stool, muscle aches, and pain on the right side of the belly (WebMD, 2010). You can only get Hepatitis A once, after you have been exposed to it, your body builds up a defense against it. Hepatitis A usually goes away on its own but it can be assisted by drinking plenty of water and getting plenty of rest. Unlike the other forms of Hepatitis, Hepatitis A does not lead to chronic liver damage or long term illness; most people who...
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...to be more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol and should be more careful in preventing brain damage. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and liver disease are two of the most common problems that can arise from alcohol abuse. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome is the result of brain damage caused by excessive drinking and it can be either long lasting or short lived. Liver disease is also caused by drinking and the liver is damaged because it is responsible for breaking down the alcohol and harmless byproducts but after a while it starts to not be able to keep up with too much alcohol for an extended period of time. Alcohol can also harm developing minds of unborn babies causing them to have fetal alcohol syndrome or FAS. FAS is can cause long term or even lifelong problems for the child effected. The second article I read was about vicodin addiction and how it affected people. Vicodin addiction has just recently been becoming more and more common with even more people living in denial but there are ways to kick the addiction. The reason that most people with the addiction don’t think that they have a problem with vicodin is because it’s prescribed and given by doctors. Many addicts of the drug obsess on how they’re going to get their hands on more pills and they try everything from having different doctors prescribe it for phantom pains to buying them from people. Most people get addicted to the drug without...
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...1. | CHAPTER 4 QUIZ ALL | | The process that plants use to make glucose from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of the sun's heat and light is called | | | Student Response | Feedback | A. | biosynthesis. | | B. | anabolism. | | C. | photosynthesis. | | D. | glycogenesis. | | | Score: | 1/1 | | | 2. | | | Which of the following breakfasts would be highest in carbohydrate? | | | Student Response | Feedback | A. | Grapefruit half, 2 fried eggs, 3 bacon slices, 1 slice of toast with butter, coffee | | B. | 8 ounces orange juice, 2 cups Cream of Wheat with 2 tablespoons sugar, English muffin with jelly, 1 cup whole milk | | C. | 8 ounces orange juice, 2 bran muffins, 8 ounces nonfat yogurt, coffee | | D. | 1 cup whole milk, 2 ounces sausage, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice of toast with butter | | | Score: | 1/1 | | | 3. | | | fv | | | Student Response | Feedback | A. | glucose | | B. | fructose | | C. | glycogen | | D. | lactose | | | Score: | 1/1 | | | 4. | | | If you had the condition phenylketonuria, which should you not use? | | | Student Response | Feedback | A. | Acesulfame-K | | B. | Aspartame | | C. | High fructose corn syrup | | D. | Saccharin | | | Score: | 1/1 | | | 5. | | | In the U.S. diet, carbohydrate supplies approximately what percentage of total kcalories? | | | Student...
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...The buying and selling of organs is a huge business for Europe's poorest country, Moldova. According to organ trafficking specialists, Moldova is one of the key suppliers to the world organ trade and Moldovan kidneys are the cheapest priced in Europe. The country is one of the top 3 suppliers in the thriving global black market in organ sales, according to a just-released report on organ trafficking. According to the report, a record rise in human organ-farming has made Moldova one of the leading source countries although with just over 3 million inhabitants it is much smaller in size than the world's two other organ trafficking centers, Brazil (184 million people) and India (1.12 billion people). The prominent position of Moldova in the illegal organ trade is because "this place is a black hole, no one cares about the population and government officials can just do what they want," in the words of a lawyer who recently left Moldova and today lives near Copenhagen, Denmark. Along with Brazil and India, Reuters has named Moldova is one of the top 3 source countries in the world for organs. Worldwide, the buying and selling of organs is a huge business, and the export of human raw material is bringing hard currency to Moldova. Officially listed as Europe's poorest country, Moldova is now the West's center for the illegal organ trade. The country shares a common border with the European Union, but is officially outside EU jurisdiction and not subject to international scrutiny...
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...There is graffiti in Vietnam around the hospitals with people's blood type and phone number because of how such an overwhelming majority want to sell their kidneys and other organs. Vietnam is using a system far ahead of the rest of the world as a solution to the available organs until growable organs become a reality. Therefore the legalization and creating of a system for the monetary compensation for organ donors to motivate them to save the lives of millions. Thus I chose to write my thesis advocating the use of such a system. With this system the medical world can, like Vietnam, not only eliminate the organ shortage of organs such as kidneys and liver, but we can save medical expenses to those receiving said organs. Yet there are still...
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...Organ Transplant in the United States Stephanie Daniels UCA Certificate of Authorship I hereby certify that I am the author of this document and any assistance I received in preparing this report is fully acknowledged. I have also cited in APA format all sources of data, data analysis, ideas, words, phrases, or sentences. I also hereby certify that I have not submitted this paper to any other professor, at Webster University or elsewhere, during the course of my educational career. I have properly cited and acknowledged material that was presented in previous papers of my authorship. Signature: __________________________________________________ Date: __________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Page # Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………3 Organ Transplant…………………………………………………………………………..4 What Organs and Tissues Can Be Donated……………………………………………….6 Organ Transplant Cost…………………………………………………………………….10 Ethical Issues: Organ Transplant…………………………………………………………..11 Strength and Weaknesses……………………………………………………………….....14 Alternatives and Key Challenges: Organ/Tissue Transplant……………………………...15 Summary and recommendations…………………………………………………………...17 References…………………………………………………………………………………19 Abstract Organ transplant experiments began in the 1800’s on animals and humans as a need...
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...Critical Thinking and Ethics Krystal Borrego ETH/316 January 12, 2015 Tim Tietjen Critical Thinking and Ethics When it comes to human organs and individuals buying them from prisoners that have been executed to survive one would have to ask themselves if they are making an ethical decision. Buying and selling human organs is illegal in the United States yet it is happening right now as we enter into the year 2015, a lot of critical thinking has gone into this industry and made a world wide business out of it. Although China was the leading source of this crude and horrid operation, the buying and selling of human organs is happening right here on American soil. Blood Money Analysis Do the leaders of China and the prisoners understand what ethical decision making really is? Ordering an execution and then knowingly preparing the bodies for a liver transplant is something that you or I would say it unethical but this just goes to show that everyone has different decision making skills. How these individuals apart of this business were raised and taught ethics is very different from how we were taught here in the United States. Some would say that because it is a foreign country that they have different beliefs and find no wrong doing in this exchange of organs, their critical thinking was done on their own ethical template. Providing a perfectly healthy organ from an executed prisoner to help save someone’s life is completely ethically correct to them. Critical Thinking...
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...ongoing research of its effectiveness; however, the burning question that needs to be addressed today in order to provide my recommendation for Sovaldi is how the benefits outweigh the cost in the long run. An estimated 3.2 million people suffer in the USA from Hepatitis C and that number is still expanding (Sanger-Katz, pg 1). When performing scientific studies, we have learned that in order to evaluate the efficacy of a substance, you have to remove it from the equation first and examine the outcome. Without Sovaldi on the market, millions of patients are forced to rely on other treatments that only tackle the symptoms of Hepatitis C, leaving the root of the problem unresolved. Over time, 60 percent of these people will end up with chronic liver disease and as many as 20 percent will end up with cirrhosis along...
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...the states then ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the constitution, which was the banning of alcoholic beverages. It forbade the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States. This amendment had been passed largely on the strength of rural votes. Then congress passed the Volstead Act a law that officially enforced the amendment. People that said the ban of alcohol was the right thing were advocates of prohibition. They were called “dry’s”. They said it improved individuals; strengthen families and then society on a whole. It was also that liver disease and so forth declined during this prohibition. The “wets” also known as the opponents of prohibition countered that the ban of alcohol did not stop people from drinking. They said prohibition created hypocrisy and increased organized crime. The Volstead act did not stop Americans from drinking but it did stop them from buying it legally. So instead people made homemade alcohol or smuggled it in from other countries. Bootleggers sold illegal alcohol to consumers. In different cities they were secret establishments known as speakies , attracted eager customers for alcohol. The government tried their best to stop illegal alcohol but it got too out of control, the demand for alcohol was too great, and there weren’t enough policemen to stop this. In some cities if alcohol was involved in a situation the government and police men looked the other way. They said if people wanted the drink they were...
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...Dealing with food adulteration problem Muhammad Mustafa Posted: 28 Mar, 2015 00:00:00 Source : http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2015/03/28/86548 The adulteration or contamination of food is an alarming problem in Bangladesh. It affects the life of each and every person irrespective of gender, age or economic status. It poses serious threat to the development of the growing children – even when a child is still in the womb of the mother. The number of disabled and autistic children in the country is around 1.5 million, according to child health specialists. Access to pure and safe food is a fundamental right of every citizen of the country but unfortunately adulteration of food with toxic chemicals has reached such a level that pure and safe food is hardly available in the market. So, knowingly or unknowingly, people have to buy poisonous adulterated food with their hard-earned money to eat and to feed their children. The media, particularly the newspapers, have raised the awareness of the people about food adulteration. They have been writing how food grains, vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, milk, bakery products, sweetmeats, ice-cream and soft drink are being adulterated. Recently, it was published in many dailies that poultry, dairy and fish feed are produced from the waste of tannery factories, which are contaminated with heavy metals like cadmium, chromium, lead, etc. These harmful heavy metals are entering our body through consumption of fish, meat, chicken and...
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...General Purpose: lay audience persuasion speech Specific Purpose: Why you should drink coffee Introduction Attention Catcher: How many of you had a cup of coffee today? How about in the past week? Coffee in America is an everyday drink for most people. It is the second most consumed beverage behind water. Thesis: I believe that we need to drink coffee and that there are many positives for consuming coffee. Preview: Positive Information on Coffee Coffee may counter several risk factors for heart attack and stroke. First, there's the potential effect on type 2 diabetes risk. Type 2 diabetes makes heart disease and stroke more likely. Besides that, coffee has been linked to lower risks for heart rhythm disturbances (another heart attack and stroke risk factor) in men and women, and lower risk for strokes in women. In a study of about 130,000 Kaiser Permanente health plan members, people who reported drinking 1-3 cups of coffee per day were 20% less likely to be hospitalized for abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) than nondrinkers, regardless of other risk factors. And, for women, coffee may mean a lower risk of stroke. In 2009, a study of 83,700 nurses enrolled in the long-term Nurses' Health Study showed a 20% lower risk of stroke in those who reported drinking two or more cups of coffee daily compared to women who drank less coffee or none at all. That pattern held regardless of whether the women had high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and type 2...
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...effects of the alcohol on them. This has only more recently changed as teenagers have been seen to drink considerably more alcohol. Different Medias have shown that teenagers have been seen to binge drink more than the average adult drinks. “Media coverage has been given to news that “British teenagers are the third worst binge drinkers in Europe” Teenagers may have many reasons to drink such as issue as home, to fit in, peer pressure or even to feel a sense of thrill from the alcohol. Drinking alcohol carelessly which is what teenagers currently do, causes many health issues. Binge drinking can cause different illnesses and can stop some process from functioning accordingly; these include heart disease, strokes, liver problems, alcohol poisoning and pregnancy. Liver cirrhosis is one of the most common illnesses developed from binge drinking. “Two 17-year-olds, an...
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...nutrients than processed foods. When attempting to get the full benefits of fresh foods, one should purchase fresh fruits and vegetables. These fresh foods contain vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fibers that are all needed in order to maintain optimal health. Eating fresh foods over processed makes it easier to lose and maintain weight as well as providing more energy because processed foods are not nutritious. A big part of fresh food and its vitamins is when it is consumed. Fresh foods start losing their vitamins the moment they are picked and sometimes sit in stores or warehouses for weeks before being purchased. This is a good reason to try and purchase food from a farmers market where everything is fresh. There are different ways of buying and consuming fresh foods, one is referred to as a raw diet. A raw diet consists of foods that is not cooked, applied to a fire or fragmented in any way. The thought is that when you cook anything it will decrease the nutrient content and kill the enzymes. Another way of purchasing fresh foods besides the local grocery store is to go...
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