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Observing Enzymatic Production of Fatty Acids in the Mouth
Get PDFAs one of the leading preventable medical conditions in the world, obesity persists to exist within the global population. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity is defined as excessive fat accumulation. A more quantitative definition is Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a ratio of height and mass of an individual. Key benchmark levels, BMI \u3e 25 defining overweight and BMI \u3e 30 defining obese, have been implemented for decades in understanding and defining the population at risk. Figure 1 demonstrates the percentages of each national population\u27s obesity occurrences. Alarmingly increasing rates of obesity within the adult as well as juvenile population warrants concern and necessitates further research of the contributing factors. As a brief overview of the pandemic at hand, access to fast food, urbanization, high dietary salt, fat and simple sugars levels, genetic contribution as well as a decrease in physical activity has fostered a sedentary life and bad eating habits within the American population. To be overweight or obese can seriously harm an individual\u27s health. Commonly known consequences of such a lifestyle include heart disease, the primary cause of death in the United States, diabetes and asthma amongst other condition
A Study Whether Humans Can Produce Free Fatty Acids for Tasting
Get PDFA growing concern throughout the world, especially the United States, is the health of our population. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) performed in 2009-2010, approximately 35% of both men and women in the United States are obese (Flegal, 2012). In 2005, more than 300,000 deaths in the United States were attributed to obesity. However, the World Health Organization listed obesity as one of ten most preventable health risks (Wilborn, 2005). Why, then, do we as a society struggle so much with our weight? Some, such as Swinburn, believe this trend of obesity can be attributed to the increasing availability, marketability, processing, and affordability of unhealthy food (Flegal, 2012). Here’s a question to be considered. Does our society actually have a taste preference for cheap, easy, and fatty fast food that is contributing to this epidempic?It has long been known that the human taste system responds to stimuli in five categories: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami (Chen 2011). Could we add fat to that list? My thesis aims to assess the ability to produce free fatty acids from lipids in the oral cavity
The Understanding of a Single Story: Identities Amongst Black Students at Predominately White Institutions
Get PDFThis paper examines the structure of identities amongst Black students at predominately white institutions – particularly focusing on Wofford College. Extensive focus groups were conducted with members of the Black student body to further progress research. Racism regarding Black students and their social identity in addition to how it has structured the social identity amongst students are introduced in along with the identities of students on Wofford’s campus. Discrimination on campus has had the effect of narrowing Black students’ options for creating social identity and participating in campus community life. Black students regularly face a very confining choice to either socialize with a black community only, assimilate into a predominately white community, or float between both white and black communities, but never achieve a complete sense of belonging into either group due to their divided loyalties to these two groups. The limiting identity choices affect not only the social behavior, but also individual identities and academic performance amongst students of color
Flipping Argument
Get PDFThis project utilizes the concept of “flipping the classroom” pioneered by the Kahn Academy to help students understand Aristotelian elements of argument (ethos, pathos, and logos). The four lesson plans require students to preview existing internet resources depicting practical applications of rhetorical concepts, and then invites them to utilize these concepts in the classroom. Students learn to recognize logical fallacies and types of argumentative appeals as they are used (and misused) in popular culture and in literature. The project as a whole has the additional benefit of encouraging students to identify and critically evaluate explicit and implicit arguments in a range of media, from blogs, to YouTube videos, to television drama, to advertising. Students will gain a sense of what makes an effective argument, and how argument is deployed in daily life, popular culture and literature
Transferable Writing Strategies, Individualizing Learning
Get PDFOur group’s hope is to develop a unit of writing instruction that invites a variety of specific instructional strategies, so that she can encourage individual students to meet their potential and transfer their knowledge from project to project, from class to class, and from high school to college