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By the year 2020, nearly 75% of all Americans will be obese (Isaacs). Obesity is one of the many health problems that affect Americans today. Most of the illnesses that plague Americans, share the same causes. These include diets high in fat, cholesterol, and sugar, as well as inactive lifestyles. These health complications can be harmful and even life threatening. However, they are preventable and reversible with regular exercise and good diet. Despite the common misconception that physical…

A low carb diet refers to a diet that has a limited content of carbohydrates and is high in proteins and fat. There are many kinds of low carb diets that exist. Since carbohydrates are the integral source of calories, low carbs are known to work great for weight loss; in fact, they work beyond weight loss, such as reducing risk from factors like diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Elaborating further, carbohydrates that are consumed by a human body can be segregated into: naturally occurring…

have more tendencies to developing diabetes than others. There are some risk factors such as smoking, high blood sugar, poor eating habits among over the age of 45, and have family history of hypertension, inactive low HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides. These risks, as well as the people of a particular race take more to get diabetes as Hispanic / Latino, Asian American, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native and non-Hispanic blacks in (Type 2 Diabetes Causes………

Blood pressure is measure of blood flow forcing against the walls of the arteries. Hypertension is a medical condition when the systolic blood pressure measures more than 140mmHg and diastolic measures more than 90mmHg. The World Health Organisation considers hypertension as a serious epidemic. According to the last estimate by WHO, 40% of the adults aged 25 and above had been diagnosed with hypertension. In 1980, 600 million people around the world had Hypertension, by 2008, there were 1…

Health Effects Eating Prehistorically The future is now! As civilization grows, our advances in technology, science, and business are increasing as well. With this new technology, people are found to be lazier and eating more unhealthy foods or simply just the wrong types of foods. Many people diet and try every new program but fail to succeed only bringing more physical and emotional pain. A new lifestyle change has taken interest with the public and it is called the Paleo Diet . This…

carboxyl group, a long chain is formed, called as fatty acids. Alternatively, when fats react with water, they break into fatty acids and glycerin. Three chains of fatty acids when react with glycerol molecule, they combine to form triglycerides. Molecules of triglyceride are the basis of fats and oil. The difference in their chemical structure creates alteration in their appearances, properties and functions. There are two types of fatty acids, saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty…

Analysis of the Molecular Basis of Wolman Disease Wolman disease is an autosomal recessive condition that is characterized as the complete deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme, lysosomal acid lipase (LAL).1 LAL is responsible for hydrolyzing triglycerides and cholesterol esters in the body that have been internalized via receptor mediated endocytosis.2,3 Therefore this enzyme functions inside the lysosome to carry out hydrolysis of lipids. Wolman disease is contracted by an estimated 1 out of 350…

2002) In john’s case as he is 40kgs over recommended weight and can be referred to as developing the disease (Stafford et al. 1482-1490, 2008) “diabesity”. (Stafford et al. 1482-1490, 2008) the major plasma lipid abnormality in obesity is elevated triglycerides (TGs) in the form of VLDL and low HDL cholesterol. Insulin inhibits the production and release of glucose by the liber through blocking gluconeogenesis and…

In this lab, we did four kind of different test, to mimic the chemistry of digestion. The first one was to test for sugar. We used a dropper and measured 2 ml of maltose and 2 ml of benedict’s solution in a pyrex test tube. After, using a test tube holder, we placed the test tube in a boiling water bath and heated for 5 min. After the 5 min, using a test tube holder we removed the test tube from the water bath. We then repeated the same procedure using starch solution instead of maltose. When we…

astaxanthin10. Astaxanthin defends cells and DNA10. Krill oil is also significantly easier for the human body to absorb than fish oil is10. Krill oil is in phospholipid form, which is what is found naturally in the human body10. However, fish oil is in triglyceride form, which creates a barrier around the actual beneficial part of the oil10. In addition, fish oil has more mercury content in it than krill oil10. The benefits of krill oil are similar to those…