Glucose tolerance test

In the article, “Dietary Sugar and Body Weight….Health be Damned! Pour on the Sugar,” dietary experts George Bray and Barry Popkin explore the detrimental effects of sugar on society’s health. The article delineates how rapid increases in the consumption of sugar (particularly fructose) and sugar sweetened beverages over the past 25 years are contributing to the growth of chronic conditions such as fatty liver disease and metabolic syndromes. Both authors suggest that the presence and…

was a definite abnormality or unexpected result. The investigation did have some limiting factors which affected the results and they included: the time period in which the experiment was conducted, this time restriction didn't allow for multiple tests to be conducted. The amount of times the experiment was conduced was also a limiting factor, the results were limited as there was only one set of results given rather then multiple sets of results thus limiting the reliability of the experiment.…

Gluten: Gluten is a type of protein that is found in wheat, barley, rye, spelt, oat and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). It is present in many kinds of foods. It acts as a glue in foods in which it is present and hold food particles together. Gluten gives the elastic nature of dough in food and have the ability to rise bread. It gives chewy and fluffy texture like in bread. Gluten Consumption: Gluten is just fine for most of the people as they consume it regularly like in wheat or in…

Starch It is formed by units of glucose and is a homopolysaccaride. It is found in the vegetable cells and is composed of two types of homopolysaccaride; Amylopectin and amylose. Amylose: Amylose is composed of about 5-600 glucose units and is an un-branched homopolysaccaride. The units are linked by α-(1→4) glycosidic bonds. It is present in the core of starch granules and is soluble is water. The structure of amylose is helix with six glucose units. The glucose units or molecules are linked…

purpose of this experiment was for the researcher to study one of the process of digestion which is absorption, and seeing if starch and glucose could diffuse through the dialysis tubing, and could the two be absorbed by the small intestines, and if so or not, why? To begin, in this experiment, the researchers gathered different solutions, such as, starch and glucose, filling half of each mixtures in a single dialysis tube. The researchers carefully then rinsed and pat dry the dialysis tube, to…

There are three primary functions of the kidneys: Manage blood pressure Produce hormones and red blood cells Remove waste from blood Kidney disease for cats can be a result of a poor diet, genetics, bacterial infection, poisons and/or old age. This paper will provide nutritional guidelines in cases where age, diet or genetics generates chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a cat. While chronic kidney disease cannot be reversed and progresses with time, a diet modified for cats with CKD can help…

According to Edmunds (2014) pharmacokinetics is when the action of a medication in the body is study, which includes the process of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination (Edmunds, 2014). The patient that currently being cared for is a 73 year old female with past medical history of atrial fibrillation, kidney dysfunction and diabetes mellitus. Currently the patient takes the following medications: Pravastatin 10 mg, Lisinopril 2.5 mg, Digoxin 0.125 mg, Warfarin 7.5 mg, HCTZ 25 mg,…

Carbs and diets, we all know they don’t go together. You constantly hear people saying they’re on a diet, so they can’t eat things like pasta and potatoes. Why can’t we eat these things when we are on a diet? what defines a carbohydrate? In lecture and lab, we learned all of the basics about Carbohydrates and how it is applied in real life; things like the different groups, what they do, where they come from, and their importance in the body. In lecture, we learned that carbohydrates are…

Saturated fats that are solids at room temperature are the most common dietary fats. Common sources of saturated fat include red meat, whole milk and dairy foods, cheese, coconut oil, palm oil, many other commercially prepared foods, most deep-fried fast foods and baked goods. The word “saturated” refers to the number of hydrogen atoms that surround each carbon atom. When the carbon atom chain holds as many hydrogen atoms as possible, we say it as saturated with hydrogen. A saturated fats rich…

step1&2&3 of experiment 1 and step 1 of experiment 2, when preparing the solutions, a)even through the experimenter tried, the meniscus may not be read at perfect eye level. b)the experimenter spilt some solution. c)there are solutions left on the wall of test tube that did not mix. 2.in the step 4 of experiment 1 and the step 2 of experiment 2, a)when measuring the absorbance, the experimenter washed the cuvette before filled it with another sample, there was water remaining in the cuvette. …