...October, 24 2011 Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister 148 B South Block, Raisina Hill New Dehli, India 110001 Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh: I was recently given the chance to visit the country of India. It was an amazing adventure unlike any other I have had before and I enjoyed it immensely. However, while I was there I had the pleasure to visit some communities where the great people of India were stricken with poverty and hunger. I witnessed children, pregnant woman, mothers, and entire families severely famished, underweight and unhealthy. I saw mothers watch their children starve to death and met many orphans who had lost their entire families, left to fend for themselves all because of lack of nourishment. I realize that famine has become a recurrent way of life for the people of India. It has taken over 60 million lives over the last three centuries (Famine In India), yet no one has taken any action to change the problem. It is said that at least 50 million Indians are on the brink of starvation and over 200 million Indians are underfed, even as I write you this letter now. (Ramachandran). Simply having a meal to eat and food in our bellies is something many of us take advantage of every day and something every human being deserves to have access to. For this problem I’ve created the DirtMaster 3000™. I know right now you’re thinking, “Dirt?” So let me explain. The DirtMaster 3000™ is a microwave like appliance that anyone can use. You put dirt inside and turn it...
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...into the wild 4 Into the Wild is a popular film, based on a non-fiction novel written by Jon Krakauer, detailing the journey of Christopher McCandless, a young Emory university graduate who hailed from Virginia, and who took a hike in solitude, in an attempt at self-actualization by bonding with nature and seeking spiritual nourishment. This essay briefly examines the crux of the film. Having graduated on top of his class in 1991 and having attained repute as an athlete, Christopher McCandless left everything in his possession, donated his lifetime savings to the tune of $24,000 to Oxfam International on charitable grounds and set for his pilgrimage. In April 1992 he departed from his daily well-to-do life, torched his wallet with cash inside, renamed himself “Alexander Supertramp’’ and like a pilgrim, headed to the north of Mt. McKinley on his way to Alaska. While on his way there, he stumbles upon a succession of different people and events which influence his life. Though he was cash-strapped, he was determined to make it to the ‘promised land’. He sojourned in America to experience her as a country and her citizens. Among the activities he was involved in on his way to Alaska included a trip with a canoe on high waters, a sojourns with a couple and old widower. He had to endure the vagaries of a long, unplanned expedition: fatigue, hunger and cold, which nearly worked against him. All this while his family never heard from him nor anything related to his whereabouts...
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...what the celebrities are doing. In chapter 5, it discusses how 66 percent of adults in America are overweight. People aren’t working out nor are they eating healthy. A lot of people tend to not be happy within to change anything. I often wonder if most women only consider losing weight when it comes to only looking good. You never hear about anyone really wanting to lose weight because of health issues. In the article, Bridal Hunger Games, they discuss a woman names Jessica Schnaider who spent 8 days on a feeding tube just to lose weight to fit in to her wedding dress. Brides tend to gain weight a lot during planning of a wedding because they are nervous eating. It’s a new procedure that uses a nasogastric tube to provide all nourishments eliminating carbohydrates, for tend days. The body burns...
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...Week 7 assignment Antoinette Brooks Adelia Cozart-Amos Eng 115 November 26, 2012 Thesis Statement Today, youth in America face an obesity crisis that is unprecedented in our history. Obesity rates have skyrocketed by 300% over the last 30 years, with dramatic implications for our children and our society. Introduction Children born in 2000 have a 1-in-3 chance of developing type 2 diabetes during their lifetime, and 70% of obese 5- to 17-year-olds in a population-based study had at least 1 risk factor for cardiovascular disease.” A statement written by KM Richardson. If the childhood obesity epidemic is not reversed, our society will bear the pain and cost of high rates of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and other obesity-related chronic diseases. The tragedy is that these consequences are preventable. We know that prevention of disease is cost-effective and ethical; treatment is costly and painful. If we know what our children need to be healthy, why don't we, as adults, fix the problem? Is it lack of education about nutrition; an inadequate food supply; the power of food marketing; lack of access to healthy, affordable foods; or a failure of will? The Obama administration announced its long-awaited changes to government-subsidized school meals, a final round of rules that adds more fruits and green vegetables to breakfasts and lunches and reduces the amount of salt and fat. Specifically, 38.8 percent of students who routinely eat school...
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...Psychosocial Theory Erik Erikson proposed the theory of Psychosocial Development. He believed that the development occurs throughout the total lifetime. His theory provided new insights into the formation of a healthy personality of a child. Children’s personality develops in response to their social environment. The same is true of their skills for being able to interact with others. Erikson has stages that show these issues. At each stage, a social conflict occurs. These conflicts require solutions that are satisfying both personally and socially. He believed that each stage must be solved before children can go into the next stage. Maturity helps the resolution of the conflict. Teachers and parents of the child play a powerful role in recognizing each stage. By providing social support to the child, teachers and parents can help children overcome the crisis. The first four stages of Eriksons theory occur in the early childhood years. The first stage is the stage of Trust Vs. Mistrust. During the first 18 months of the child’s life, children learn to trust or mistrust their environment. To develop trust, they need to have warm, consistent, predictable and attentive care. Children need caregivers who accurately read and respond to their signals. When infants are distressed, they need to be comforted. They also need loving physical contact, nourishment, cleanliness and warmth. They then will develop a sense of confidence and trust that the world is safe and dependable. Mistrust will occur...
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...Many people struggle with weight problems and find it close to impossible to shed pounds. Making realistic goals, cleaning up your nutrition, and daily exercise can make it easier to lose weight. While making goals it’s crucial to set a time period and to be realistic; don’t expect 50 pounds to be gone in one week. It’s also best to keep in mind to be specific on how much you wish to lose, measurable such in a scale or dress size, and attainable with their daily schedule kept in mind. Keeping a nutritious diet (such as fruits, vegetables, and unprocessed foods) will help better your body and help your body get rid of the extra unnecessary glucose, fatty acids and amino acids. Even with a nutritious diet one’s weight loss goals cannot be accomplished without some form of exercise that best fit the individual’s needs, for example walking or jogging, yard work (mowing, raking, digging), dancing, swimming, biking, climbing stairs or hills, or playing a sport like tennis or basketball. Together these three key steps will help you lose weight without losing your mind. Losing weight is similar to writing an essay; you have to start by planning it out. Make your goal attainable, specific, measurable, and set a specific date on which you’ll reach your goal. Start off by specifying your weight loss goal to ten pounds and the time period by which you’d want to have accomplished this such as in one month’s time. You have to prerequisite a daily schedule to plan out how to make this goal...
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...Chronic diseases all around the world have been causing lots deaths and having devastating effects on families (CDC, 2011). In this essay, I will discuss coronary heart disease symptoms, detection, prevention, causal mechanisms, treatment, and effects. I will also analyze its global variations and recommend how public health officers can be able to promote prevention and treatment measures. Coronary heart disease is a disease that develops over a long time. This disease involves accumulation or deposition of plaque in the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscles with oxygen and nourishments. The plaque hardens with time and it can burst at time and formation of a clot can occur in the artery causing more narrowing or blockage. In the long run, the accumulation leads to a decrease of the coronary artery diameter. This causes limitation of the oxygen and other nourishments supplied to the heart muscles. This weakens the heart muscles hence impairing the function of the heart resulting to angina, myocardial infarction, heart attack/heart failure and finally death (Krasner & Riegelman, 2013). A coronary heart disease has several causes or factors that are affiliated to it. These factors are classified into modifiable and non-modifiable depending on whether they can be prevented or not. Some of the modifiable factors are: smoking, high and chronic alcohol use, high levels of cholesterol in the blood, high blood pressure, blood vessel inflammation and high levels...
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...Introduction McDonald's is the world's driving worldwide nourishment administration retailer with more than 36,000 areas serving around 69 million clients in more than 119 nations every day. More than 80% of McDonald's eateries worldwide are claimed and worked by free nearby representatives and ladies. The business was overseen as particular geographic fragments through June 30, 2015, that incorporated the U.S., Europe, Asia/Pacific, Center East and Africa (APMEA) and Different Nations and Corporate (OCC) including Canada, Latin America and Corporate. Starting July 1, 2015, McDonald's begun working under another authoritative structure with the accompanying four sections that join markets with comparable attributes, difficulties, and open doors for development. The business was overseen as particular geographic sections through June 30, 2015, that incorporated the U.S., Europe, Asia/Pacific, Center East and Africa (APMEA) and Different Nations and Corporate (OCC) including Canada, Latin America and Corporate. High Development Markets - markets with generally higher eatery extension and franchising potential including China, Italy, Poland, Russia, Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Together these business sectors represented around 10% of the Organization's 2014 working pay. The McDonald's Administration Advancement Educational modules take newcomers from student director to Eatery Administrator. This comprises of at work preparing and opens learning advancement modules...
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...urethra he is mixed with a secretion from the prostate gland containing substances that facilitate his long journey to the female ovum, or Edna. First, Sammy the Sperm and the prostate secretion are discharged with immense force by the way of contractions of the pelvic muscles, and then they are followed by a sugar-containing fluid from the seminal vesicles (glands emptying into the vas deferens). From there he exits the penis into the vagina where his journey of fertilization begins. Edna's day; Edna has had a much longer life than Sammy because she was formed while still in the fetus of a human being. Her chances of becoming fertilized are about one in 500 million, even then a women's body only ovulates about 400 times altogether in a lifetime. Her time of ovulation is a dynamic process that takes place in the course of one or more minutes. The portion of the follicile facing the abdominal cavity ruptures fairly rapidly and the fluid...
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...THE SPERM AND THE EGG 01 The Sperm and the Egg Jessie Stolberg PSY/265 Jori Reijonen, Ph.D THE SPERM AND THE EGG 02 Twenty-six years have passed, and Grace, one of the many million eggs produced while still in the fetal ovaries will finally take the journey to become fertilized. It has been a long wait for her, but soon she will join with Leon, the lucky sperm who will help Grace form a new individual. Leon, being the only sperm discharged out of many million for the day is on a mission to successfully complete his journey. His sole purpose is to meet up with Grace and let the creation of a new individual begin. In the seminiferous tubules, inside the testes, Leon's life begun. He moves himself to the epididymis before the ejaculation, waiting for the push that will guide him through the urethra. While in the urethra, a secretion from the prostate gland is mixed with him in order to help him on his journey to find his female ovum better known as Grace. Leon and the secretion are discharged by strong forces due to contractions of the pelvic muscles. They are followed by a fluid containing sugar from the seminal vesicles, which are glands that empty...
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...Dieting Fad vs. Healthy Eating Trend Amanda Smith COM/155 UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I April 20th 2014 University of Phoenix Are you a food fad victim or a healthy trendsetter? Don’t jump on the bad diet ban wagon. Healthy eating is just that, healthy. Healthy eating is a safe life change with positive and lasting results. If losing weight is the goal, short lived fads will leave short live results. The only long term results from dieting is possible health problems. It is better to stick with proven nutrition trends to lose weight, because dieting fads can cause more harm than good. So what makes one way of eating a fad and the other trend? A fad is any form of behavior that develops among large populations and is collectively followed enthusiastically for a time. The behavior will normally fade quickly once the perception of novelty is gone.* Popular diets follow this same description. They become very popular through mass media, social networks and word of mouth as the new wonder diet. Dieters rave about the mass amount of weight that they lose in such a short time. Everyone eager to lose a few pounds joins the craze enthusiastically, in hopes the miracle diet will work. This popularity hits its peak when the weight loss plateaus or the restrictions become too much to follow. The diet fizzles and is replaced by the new “amazing diet” in line. They cannot maintain their reputation because the results never last for one reason or another...
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...The peoples of the dominant human societies lost their sense of attachment to the living earth, and societies became divided between the rulers and the ruled, exploiters and exploited. The brutal competition for power created a relentless play-or-die, rule-or-be-ruled dynamic of violence and oppression and served to elevate the most ruthless to the highest positions of power. Since the fateful turn, the major portion of the resources available to human societies has been diverted from meeting the needs of life to supporting the military forces, prisons, palaces, temples, and patronage for retainers and propagandists on which the system of domination in turn depends. Great civilizations built by ambitious rulers fell to successive waves of corruption and conquest. The primary institutional form of Empire has morphed from the city-state to the nation-state to the global corporation, but the underlying pattern of domination remains. It is axiomatic: for a few to be on top, many must be on the bottom. The powerful control and institutionalize the processes by which it will be decided who enjoys the privilege and who pays the price, a choice that commonly results in arbitrarily excluding from power whole groups of persons based on race and gender. Herein lies a crucial insight. If we look for the source of the social pathologies increasingly evident in our culture, we find they have a common origin in the dominator relations of Empire that have survived largely intact in spite...
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...In our society, there are many different types of diseases and disorders that plague us. The origins for these diseases and disorders are all different. Some are merely physical diseases while there are others that may only affect the mind. Some are genetic; some are a physical response to the body’s exposure to outside elements. Anorexia Nervosa, however, is a disorder that is both physical and mental in nature. This disorder is not genetically based; however, it is something that affects both a person’s physical health and their mental well being. What is anorexia nervosa? It is a condition that is more than just someone’s concern with gaining weight or excessive dieting. A person with anorexia often initially begins dieting to lose weight. Eventually, the dieting turns into a need for control. The desire to be thinner is no longer the main concern, where as it turns into a need to have complete control over fears that are in relation to the body. It turns into a downward spiral of restrictive eating, often accompanied by other behaviors. These behaviors include but are not limited to excessive exercising, abuse of diet pills which helps suppress hunger, and the use of diuretics or laxatives to help manipulate body weight. This will usually lead to a point close to starvation in order to feel a sense of control over his or her body. It becomes an obsession and, in this way, is similar to an addiction (“Anorexia nervosa,” 2009). Anorexia nervosa most often...
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...EATING FOR WELLNESS Class Activity 1 – Why Do I Eat? I eat because I’m hungry. I eat because I want to increase my level of physical activity. I eat because I need to survive. Eating Trends Past: * Agricultural; manual labor * More fruits, vegetables, and grains eaten * Choices limited to what can be produced by the individual Present: * High-tech; fast-paced * Dual career families and packaged and processed foods (more fats, sugars, and salts * More eating out; more choices; poorer selections * Choices predicated on convenience, time and cost efficacy Eating Trends Nutrition and dietary habits have implications for each of the dimensions of wellness: * Physical – physiological nourishment; growth * Emotional – as a reward; soothe feelings; response to stress * Social – events, gatherings, and family interaction * Intellectual – understanding dietary principles and food contents; informed consumerism * Spiritual – rituals; searching for inner truth/direction * Environmental – food and crop quality; protection of the food chain * Occupational – business contacts; coffee breaks; income affecting food selections Eating Trends * General shift away from meals to snacks, at-home to away-from-home * On any given day in the U.S., 25% of the adult population visits a fast food restaurant * Americans now spend more on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software...
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...Honey bees: Most of the food that humans eat are derived from the pollination of honey bees. Some of the many crops that bees pollinate are cucumbers, almonds, cherries, pears, apples, plums,cantaloupes, kiwi, blueberries, cranberries, and etc. Bees are responsible for pollinating nearly 85% of all food crops for humans, as well as numerous crops that grow the food fed to cattle.(the benefit of bees) Without them,the worlds options for nourishment would seriously be miserable, research has conducted that if the environment were to collapse, should they no longer exists. Many plants would have no way of reproducing and they would eventually die off without the help honeybees. Honeybees play a very important role in the life cycle of many plants....
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