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Question 1 The family health condition that should be considered when evaluating my diet is diabetes and obesity. Both sides of my family have a history of diabetes. I also saw my aunts and grandmother getting fat due and being overweight. However, it is not because of their diet, it is due to aging. I am personally little overweight myself. However, these health conditions do not affect my food choices. I do realize that I should watch what I eat to reduce my weight, which will make me…

I wake to the same blank walls that greet me every morning, a sleek silver alarm chirps sharply, waiting to be switched off. I slip out of scratchy wool blankets, pushing a small button to silence the alarm that has served its purpose for today. I press a small grey notch in the wall next to my tiny cot to reveal a minimal closet that holds a few dull articles of clothing. The routine of getting ready every morning is so well practiced that I do it now without much thought at all, allowing my…

Honeybees. The little insects have been flying around and keeping our ecosystem alive for millions of years. Many products that modern society takes for granted would not be possible without the help of honeybees, yet they receive little credit for their work. When people think of bees they do not think about the produce they help to pollinate and keep alive; rather, people chose to focus on the buzzing and the painful stinging. Within the past eleven years, beekeepers have been trying to bring…

Obesity has become an epidemic in America, which creates an ample amount of health issues although society and corporations continue to encourage behavior that leads to an unfortunate result. Becoming obese is not fate. It primarily is a result of American society, the food products that we consume, and people’s susceptibility to misleading advertisements. “Although family genetics do influence an individual's susceptibility toward overweight and obesity, the rapid change in its prevalence is…

as strawberries and blueberries, alfalfa, and guar bean. Honey bees contribute more than $15 billion to U.S. crop production alone. Though we wouldn’t starve without the help of the bees, we would lose a lot of the healthy food such as cherries, broccoli, onions and almonds that we eat. The pollinator crisis has now hit Europe and parts of Asia. Bees have been known to…

The Ivy League: a set of the most prestigious universities in the Northeast part of the United States. Known for its competitive academics, Division I sports, and aesthetic appeal, these colleges host only the most eligible and qualified students around the country. When you look at the buildings around these campuses, you often see ivy growing up the rustic brick walls that categorize these specific universities as “Ivy League.” However, this plant species is invasive in the United States and…

significantly the quality of breast milk during the early stages of lactation. Having 2 portions of salmon each week during pregnancy helps improve the supply of fatty acids needed by the newborns. 8. Dark green leafy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and Swiss chard. Any of the leafy dark green vegetables are considered as great foods that increase milk supply. These green veggies are high in calcium and rich in a lot of nutrients which your body and your baby needs. Spinach is rich in…

Introduction- Introduce the problem The worlds’ population is continuously growing at a rapid rate, with in that it is estimated that 9.6 billion people are expected to be living on the earth by 2050. Even now with over 7 billion mouths to feed the food industry is struggling and is constantly being put under immense pressure to produce enough food to feed us and the issue is only exacerbating as the population continues to increase in size. - What is the solution/possible solutions?…

fifteen to eighteen months. I was amazed to find there was a significant amount of difference between a fifteen-month and an eighteen-month baby and how their brain processes information. Betty, the researcher, would take a bite from each bowl, either broccoli or fish crackers, and show her reaction to the baby if she liked the food item or not. Half the time Betty would like the same food the baby liked, then the other time she would like the opposite. After the baby watched her react to the…

Touching back on the aforementioned utopia where poverty does not exist and every single person on the planet can afford to not eat meat, one would typically expect that the entire population would be healthy. And why would they not be? Study after study shows that vegetarians are healthier than the typical meat eating person, but why is that? Most vegetarians are in fact healthier than the typical meat-eater, but it is not simply because they are vegetarian, rather it is their lifestyle. The…