...Nutrition Health and Wellness Beverly Blackwood May 8, 2015 The Digestive System Parotid salivary gland Pharynx Esophagus Liver Stomach Gall bladder Pancreas Transverse colon Descending colon Small intestine Ascending colon Appendix Rectum Anal canal Location of the parts of digestive system Parotid salivary gland: There are two parotid glands, one on each side of the face. They are located in front of the ears and extend to the lower borders of the jawbones. Pharynx: The tube begins at the base of the skull and ends inferior to the cricoid cartilage. Esophagus: Is a muscular tube that runs behind the windpipe (trachea) and heart, and in front of the spine, which connects the throat with the stomach. Liver: Located in the upper-right portion of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm. Stomach: The stomach is located in the upper-left area of the abdomen below the liver and next to the spleen. Gall bladder: located under the liver and on the right side of the abdomen. Pancreas: about 6 inches long and sits across the back of the abdomen and, behind the stomach. Transverse colon: crosses the abdomen from the ascending colon at the hepatic or right colic flexure with a downward convexity to the descending colon. Descending colon: is located on the left side of the large intestine, extending from the bend below the spleen to the sigmoid colon. Small intestine: Is continuous tubing running from the stomach to the anus. Ascending colon:...
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...“The Causes, Effects, and Prevention of Child Obesity” Jennifer Like ENG 122 English Compositions II Instructor: Jessica Hamman November 12, 2012 Obesity is more than a looking good concern. It does not just affect the way people look. It can change the development of our lives, and not for the better. It sets us on a fast track for health complications such as heart disease, type-two diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. In addition, it is not just a problem for adults, but it has also become a health concern among teens and children. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) A child who fights obesity and carry extra weight threatens their future and their quality of life. So what is obesity, what causes it, what effects can it have on an individual and is there any ways to prevent it? Obesity is the state of being well above one's normal weight. An individual that is twenty percent or more above their ideal weight is considered as being obese. The ideal weight consists of the height, age, sex, and build of an individual. Obesity defined by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) as a BMI of thirty and above. A BMI of thirty is about thirty pounds overweight. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The BMI (body mass index), a key index for relating body weight to height, is a person's weight in kilograms divided by their height in meters squared. Since the BMI describes the body weight relative to height, it correlates strongly with the total...
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...Exersice vs diet pill for weight loss Lul Mukhtar University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125 Obesity has become epidemic health problem in developing and developed countries. There are more than 1 billion adult globally who are overweight, and 300 million are clinically obese according to World Health Organization (WHO).Obesity has become a major epidemic health problem since 1980, and over the past 20 years it has been increasing (Hardman & Stensel, 2009).Recent report indicates that More than one-third of adults and 17% of youth in the United States are obesed. Obesity is the second leading cause of death according to WHO, more 3 million adults die each year as result of overweight or obese. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI, weight in kg/height in m2) of 30 or more in body female and male. Morbid (also known as class II obesity) is defined as having BMI of 40 or more. BMI calculated from a person's weight and height, is easy way to find if person has weight problem. BMI is not always reliable, its best advice to look for alternative way of measurement such as skinfold, DXA, underwater weighing, and bioelectrical impedance. Obesity is an excess of body fat that put us at risk for major chronic disese such as, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension , and stroke. We not born obese , but obesity can be the result of inblance between energy intake and energy ependiture , this inbalance occurs when...
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...Action Plan for Optimal health and Wellness Josue Ramirez SCI/163 May 23, 2013 Dr. Sara Love Action Plan for Optimal Health and Wellness To achieve optimal health and wellness we must be able to incorporate and balance the six dimensions and/or elements of health; Physical, spiritual, social, intellectual, emotional and environmental. We must change our attitudes, beliefs and our unhealthy behaviors. Change is never easy, in fact the majority it is quire difficult, taking at least five tries before succeeding in changing the unhealthy behavior (Donatelle, p. 17, 2011). Increasing society’s awareness about the effects of these elements puts us on a path to optimal health and wellness. Top Three Elements Three elements we would increase in society are physical, spiritual and environmental. Although we agreed social wellness was is important we believed that taking care of our environment would impact both our physical and spiritual elements, especially if we committed ourselves to actively cleaning up our neighborhoods and communities. As we should be exercising at five days a week for at least twenty minutes a day and eating well balanced meals, learning more about taking care of our environment would produce the knowledge of creating a healthier environment to live in. Like taking on the physical aspect of walking through our neighborhoods picking up trash or going door to door letting our neighbors know of the benefits...
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...P3 and M2 A possible influence on Mr. Kumar’s diet would be the fact that he is Hindu. This would come under the category of cultural, as this is his religion. Most Hindu’s do not eat beef but others will only eat it if it comes from the animals sacrificed in rituals (ask.com). It is possible that the fact that he is a widower may make a difference to his diet because it could have been possible that his wife used to cook him most of his food and therefore when she passed away part of his lifestyle changed as his family dynamics changed therefore he is not able to cook for himself. He also has type 2 diabetes and this would come under a health factor, this will mean he doesn’t have to completely exclude sugary foods from his diet but he must have less than other people and they and avoid and limit them as much as the can. It is important he has enough starch, carbs as well as fruit and vegetables. (Nhs.uk) Another point coming under the category of lifestyle would be how much exercise he does, this would affect his diet. He does not do much exercise except a little bit of walking each week meaning he is not burning many calories away, this adds to the fact that he should possibly try and live a healthier life style with what he eats. He is apart of HomeLink and this is also part of lifestyle because although he may struggle with dinner he is always guaranteed a hot lunch cooked for him in HomeLink and as for dinner he will go to his daughters who live in a ‘granny flat’...
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