“Forks over Knives”, a documentary film directed by Lee Fulkerson released in 2011, examines the career of the physician Cardwell Esselstyn, and the nutritional biochemistry professor Collin Campbell, to suggest that degenerative diseases that affect most of the society could be controlled—or maybe reversed—by avoiding the presence of processed and animal-based foods. In this documentary, Fulkerson promotes a plant-based and a low-fat whole-food diet as a suggestion to combat the number of diseases related to bad eating habits. In addition, “Forks over Knives” supports an analysis made from the 20-year China-Cornell-Oxford Project, which led the findings of Professor Campbell. In his findings, he recommends that diseases such as diabetes, obesity,…
Introduction In 1948 the longitudinal based Framingham heart (FHS) study began. This used an initial cohort of 5, 209 men and women from Framingham MA, USA to instigate the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease (Dawber 1980). The study continued to capture data from the spouse and offspring of the initial cohort; these became the second and third generations.…
In the article, “Diet Supplements and Recent Controversy” by Dick Benson, it talks about the controversy over the bad and good of dietary supplements Dietary supplements can be dangerous if people don’t pay enough attention to the products. Consumers should always careful and do research on the products before they consider to buy them. Practitioners advise that people should take dietary supplements if they need fulfill their nutritional. They work with a lot of compete people like researchers, practitioners, supplement manufacturers, and ingredient manufacturers to research on dietary supplements. They are all believed that dietary supplements can a healthy lifestyle for someone if individual carefully research for the supplement before he…
In the book, The Botany of Desire, the author Michael Pollan describes the relationship between human and potatoes. After discussing the history of potatoes and the famine in Ireland, he relatively focused on the genetic engineering of the potatoes. The famous seed industry, Monsanto, have change the genes of potatoes by adding some genes of Bacillus Turingiensis(Bt) into the potato to make anti-biotic potatoes. One interesting thing is that Monsanto has the patent of new plants, and if farmers keep their potatoes more than one year, they are literally breaking the law and will get punished. Pollan talked about his experiences of invited this kind of potatoes to others and got rejected.…
Arthur Peter Yagubyan Bio 360 Genetics 10/08/15 Malone Effect of the consumption on buriti oil on the metabolism of rats induced by iron overload a) What was the hypothesis of the figure? b) What question(s) did they ask to address the hypothesis in the figure? c) What did the study do in this figure (NOT overall paper)? d) How did they do it (in this figure)?…
Pollan states, “People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic disease that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets” (435). The only reason to not get these chronic diseases mentioned is only by stopping to eat the Western diet. The foods and meats American’s put in their bodies include one or all antibiotics, hormones, and waste products. It is also known to have lack of transparency, which means the people don’t tell the customers what is exactly in their foods. They tend to hide the main information that people may want to know before buying the item.…
Pollan’s theory of Western diet is extremely useful because it sheds insight on the difficult problem of Western diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. According to Pollan, “People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets” (Pollan 421). I agree that a western diet of processed food does aid in the cause of chronic illnesses that Mr. Pollan states. In Escape from the Western Diet, the…
Based off a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Women’s Fitness website claims that a decrease in the amount of red meat and dairy products consumed can reduce your risk of developing pancreatic cancer in an article titled “Animal Fat Linked to Pancreatic Cancer”. After the study and claim were both evaluated, this argument turns out to be inductively weak. The study conducted is a good study as it was a controlled study with one variable. However, the sample used to conduct the study does not seem to be very representative. According to Russel a good sample is one that is both large and representative [1].…
The article “Why All Humans Need to Eat Meat for Health,” written by bodybuilding enthusiast Kadya Araki, talks about the benefits of eating meat and how it contributes to human body growth. She argues that meat is necessary for physical and mental health, and thus shouldn’t be cut out of a person’s diet. Araki believes that humans need to eat meat to be healthy, and claims that a meatless diet can’t provide the necessary nutrients for muscle growth and good health; however, her argument used insufficient evidence for proving that we can’t live on a vegan diet, did not account for other factors that may have had an influence on people’s health, and dismissed one of the main reasons why people choose to be vegan. Before delving deep into the…
It is now evident that an increased serum apo-β concentration is an important coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factor. Even in hypertriglyceridemic models, however, most of the total plasma apo-β is associated with LDL, making apo-β a good surrogate for LDL particle concentration. The larger apo-β carrying particles may be less atherogenic than the smaller LDL particles, suggesting that specific measurement of apo-β might be a better predictor of heart diseases [38]. The protective effect of soy and sesame against elevation of cardiac disease biomarkers may due to their content of linolenic acid .Soy…
Critique: Side effects from dietary supplements send 23,000 people a year to ER This article discussed the impact of dietary supplements on the general public. It claims that these mostly unregulated supplements are endangering the people and causing people to succumb to unforeseen health issues often sending these people to the hospital. While this article references what is perceived as a rather large number of dietary supplement victims, these numbers can be truly misleading. In fact, the data provided can lead to very little conclusions about the safety of such supplements.…
The author includes conflicting points of view concerning the effectiveness of low-fat diets in paragraph 6 and 7. Low-fat diets are foods that people eat that basically have no fat. Why does the author include this information, which sentences from these paragraphs are most effective in contradicting the author’s point of view, and how does the author respond to the information. The author includes this information because the author needs to support his reasoning effectively.…
College students struggle to find reliable, valid sources of information. Students who rely on incorrect information often draw incorrect conclusions. The scientific paper “Biological Impact Of Feeding Rats With A Genetically Modified-Based Diet” demonstrates a professional academic research paper appearing to look accurate, listing studies and facts. In this essay “Biological Impact Of Feeding Rats With A Genetically Modified-Based Diet” will be examined to see if it is a reliable scientific source consisting of accessible academic evidence, a qualified author, verifiable support for claims, and correct grammar/math.…
In the early twentieth century, Europe and the United States imported Manchurian soybeans for oil. Beginning in 1930, however, tariffs protected the American soybean industry. Gradually, soybeans (whole, as meal, and as oil) became the America's primary agricultural export; currently almost half the U.S. crop is sent abroad. This trade is controlled by a handful of powerful international grain companies. The expansion of U.S. (and Argentine) soy exports for human consumption is, however, hampered by concern in Europe (and to a lesser extent Japan) over the safety of GM soy; Brazilian soy is often preferred in these markets.…
1.3.3 Lipid oxidation While not a direct outcome of proteinaceous compounds, aldehydes such as hexanal and (E)-2-nonenal have been attributed to the oxidation of lipid components present in the raw material (Aaslyng et al., 1998b). They are often present in much higher concentrations in enzyme hydrolysates and have been correlated to beany off-odours described in numerous literature. Solina et al. (2005) compared the volatile components of soy protein isolate (SPI) and acid-hydrolysed soy protein and concluded that the significantly higher lipid content of SPI was responsible for green or beany odours attributed to high levels of aliphatic aldehydes and ketones.…