Dietetics

Mireia Lopez Nowadays vegetarianism is a "fashion" or a trend, meaning that more and more people are vegetarians. Vegetarianism as defined by The World Book Dictionary (1989) is " The practice or principle of eating only vegetable foods and refraining from eating meat, fish, or other animal products". Therefore, limits the nutrition of plant origin. But like everything we found different degrees of vegetarianism. Is called vegetarian or lacto-ovo-vegetarian to the people who does not eat meat,…

1. In what sense are the two notions of Yin and Yang fundamental to the understanding of Chinese religions? According to Mark Cartwright, the Yin and Yan are fundamental to the understanding of Chinese religions because it explains the Chinese principle that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example, day and night, male and female or hot and cold. The two opposites attract and complement each other and, as their symbol illustrates, each side has at its core an…

Physician Assisted Suicide: Why it Should be Legalized “I can’t even tell you the amount of relief that it provides me to know that I don’t have to die the way that it’s been described to me that my brain tumor would take me on its own” (Brittany) says Brittany Maynard, a 29 year old woman who was diagnosed with grade four brain cancer and had been told she had less than six months to live. So when worst came to worst, November 1st 2014, Brittany used physician assisted suicide to die peacefully…

The ideal of being vegetarian has always existed. From the minute as a young child when we find out that the chicken we eat is actually the animal chicken, something registers in our minds, I want to be vegetarian. While most people don’t actually stick with it, there are the people who do with one of them being Jonathon Safran Foer. In his article, “Against Meat”, he explains his lifetime story of his dedication to vegetarianism and the events that took place to help him genuinely become a…

Technology, and its effect on the world has always been argued to be both a gift and a curse. A large majority of those who were born during the Baby Boomer generation and other skeptics have argued that technology has been a derailing gift almost like a paradox and has enacted people to become brainwashed contributing to devolvement. This idea or theory has become a cliché with those of the older yet wiser generation. This cliché is possible to supported and refuted, because technology has not…

An important aspect of inter-professional practice is working with other professionals to achieve a positive outcome for their patients. To achieve this, emerging professionals such as dietitians need a clear understanding of their profession in terms of their roles, responsibilities and skills within their inter-professional practice team. Knowing and understanding the roles, responsibilities and skills of other health professionals dietitians may come in contact with such as speech…

University of the Southwest (Hobbs, NM) The University of the Southwest, founded by B. Clarence Evans, is a nondenominational Christian university established in 1962. Unlike most universities, this university offers three-week “Wintermester” classes, both online and in person, in subjects including criminal justice and sociology. The university offers more than 50 majors and has more than 300 undergraduate students in attendance. The University of the Southwest offers baccalaureate and…

America, the land of the poor, and the home of the obese. A far more accurate title than the one sung in the national anthem. The United States of America, one of the fattest countries in the world, has a ridiculously high poverty rate. For a country supposedly filled with opportunities, there are thousands of Americans unemployed. There is a significant tie between the high obesity rate in the United States and the high poverty rate, which this paper will prove. Before the problem presented…

School lunches, a hot topic that’s been out for a while among healthcare providers, and even the President’s wife. As we all know kids these days are not eating healthy food, whether outside or inside the home and schools are not doing much to resolve the problem. All throughout the U.S. kids in schools are being served food that looks appetizing to the eye, but not so scrumptious to their bodies. Therefore, many parents and students do not know what exactly is in the food unless they were to…

Change is necessary; necessary for moving forward, and necessary in fact for survival. We, as a society, need to change the way we live for the sake of the earth, the animals, and ourselves. The most practical solution, and the one that would have the most impact, is to shift to a more plant-based diet. Vegetarianism means not eating meat while veganism is a lifestyle that entails not consuming or using any animal goods, and while it may seem extreme to some, the benefits of such a diet are…