Dietetics

Carbohydrates are the sugars, starches and fibers found in fruits, grains, vegetables and milk products. Carbohydrates — one of the basic foods groups — is important to a healthy life. - Carbohydrates, together with fats and proteins, provide the necessary energy needs for humans, and constitute, therefore, an integral part of a normal diet. Diet affects the integrity of teeth; quantity, pH and composition of saliva; plaque pH. Sugars and other fermentable carbohydrates after being hydrolyzed…

Current Events In the beginning of September, Jeffrey Johnson was shot and killed by police. A few days before his death, he and his wife had got into an argument and he went to stay in a motel for a few nights. After a few days in the hotel, Jeffrey texted his wife some text messages that she believed were suicidal. She called the police and they found him locked in his room firing a gun. After the police tried to get in, he jumped out the window and into a car. He drove this car to a…

Despite the emphasis the media and society seem to put on dieting in order to lose and maintain weight, large corporations are trying to accentuate the importance of exercise over a nutritious diet. Recently, a new organization known as the Global Energy Balance Network has backed the idea that people should get more exercise and worry less about cutting calories in order to maintain or lose weight. The Global Energy Balance Network has published two research papers claiming that the best way…

Against meat is by Jonathan Safran Foer in the New York Times on October 7, 2009. This essay is about a boy growing up eating dinners with his family, more specifically his grandmother. His grandmother survived World War II and had to scavenge for food. Due to her having to scav-enge, she learned nutritional facts on food and knew what was edible and good for consuming. The grandmother was a great cook declared by the children, although she only cooked chicken and carrots. One day, the…

may help prevent or treat certain diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, promote weight loss, increase immune function, and improve mental alertness. Experts, including Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD, LD, spokeswoman of the American Dietetic Association, say that there does not seem to be any downside to tea drinking, which provides a healthy alternative to drinking coffee. Tea has a lower caffeine…

(2011) as “a formal or inferred relationship between a physical and a patient, which is established once the physician assumes or undertakes the medical care or treatment of a patient.” An article by Stein (2006) published in Journal of the American Dietetic Association define provider-patient relationship as a communicative relationship between provider and patient/client and “good communication is the key to making a correct diagnosis and prescribing successful treatment” (p. 508). In…

Finally, the evening came. It was a chilly, dark night in November. I invited my nine friends over for dinner to dine with a famous Mayan scholar, Ixchel. She is an extraterrestrial human and plans to return to her home planet in a few days, but first, she will share her findings with the group over dinner. I chose to plan an elaborate dinner for such a special occasion. I hired a chef to prepare a five course meal. For the first course there is grilled shrimp cocktail, second course is a light…

Batada, Seitz, Wootan, Story. “Nine out of 10 Food Advertisements Shown During Saturday Morning Children’s Television Programming Are for Foods High in Fat, Sodium, or Added Sugars, or Low in Nutrients.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108.4 (2008): 673-678. Print. The authors of this article hypothesized that more than half of foods marketed to children would be for cereals, restaurants, and snack foods, and that most foods would be high in fat, sugars or low in nutrients. The…

Throughout this paper I will explore and analyze various reasons as to why the 28-year-old patient has the right to refuse the PEG feeding tube surgery along with further medical treatment. Although this refusal has lead her medical team to feel guilty, proper information and respect of autonomy must triumph over personal emotions. One may argue that the doctors in her team took an oath to do no harm, however prolonging her suffering and overriding her wishes is a form of harm to the patient.…

The idea that early hominids shaded into one another in a straight line of descent requires substantial evidence to corroborate. Based upon what we see elsewhere in the fossil record, and even among living species, it is difficult to believe that there were no biological evolution that resulted in ancestor species and descendant species living together for a period. Because of this there is constant researching going on to get information that provides us with more insight of our ancestors.…