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| The act of taking or claiming what is rightfully ours. |
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| acting to prevent problems or to lessen their effects |
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| re-acting to problems after they happpen |
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Our body's complex health-maintenance mechanism to protect us from foreign or "non-self" materials that could harm us
How well it functions determines how vulnerable or resistant we are to diseases, and to psychological stressors.
Acts like a sensory system for detecting infections, allergies, injuries, and invasion by viruses and bacteria. |
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Food grown naturally
without various chemical supplementations or artificial environments |
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| Foods and drinks that have been heavily manufactured and heavily advertised, make countless billions of dollars in profits, makes millions of people fat, providing exceedingly little in nutritional value |
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1.Vegetables and fruits
2. Whole grains
3. Meat or Dairy |
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| (MY PLATE) Desirable daily carb intake |
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| 45-65% of total calories eaten |
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| (MY PLATE) Daily protein consumption |
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| 35% of total calories eaten |
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| (MY PLATE) Fat consumption |
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| 10-35% of total calories eaten (lean towards the 10) |
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Focus on primarily plant foods such as:
legumes (beans), unrefined grains, seeds, and nuts, along with fresh fruit and berries as desert.
High consumption of fresh green, orange, red, and yellow vegetables |
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| (MED DIET) Total Daily Fat |
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25-35% of the calories
Reasoning:
Less saturated fat from meat and dairy products
Daily physical exercise is important (walking) to burn off calories. |
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| What you eat is more important than how much you eat. |
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Produces a chemical that causes the human immune system to react to it with inflammation that can increase bacterial infections, tumor growth, and promote common arthritis.
Little to no effect when young, but as age increases tolerance to this weakens.
Reduce consumption during younger years. |
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| If one usually eats well, the negative effects of these foods eaten occasionally can be handled without harm |
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Pure vegetarieans, eating only plant foods
Extreme ______ only eat RAW plant foods |
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| Eat dairy products as well as plant foods |
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| Includes eggs as well as dairy products for additional protein, with vegetables. |
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Non digestable, woody starches in plant foods
provides bulk to meals, gives feeling of fullness faster than without it. |
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Having too much body fat
Males: 25% of total body weight
Females: 30% of total body weight |
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Minimum amount of fat necessary for good health
Males: 5%
Females: 8%
Regulates body temperature, cushions vital body parts, stores essential vitamins (A, D, E, and K) |
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| 2012 estimates of America's weight |
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| 39% of the adult population is overweight |
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| When is the greatest natural gain in body weight? |
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Many illnesses and diseases are directly related to the amount of increased fat of the body
Moderately over-fat people have a 40% risk of shortening their lifespan
Obese people have a 70% chance |
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Waist-to-hip ratio
Risky-fat ratio |
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Measured around the bellybutton and the largest circle of the buttocks.
Acceptable ratio averages
Male: 0.95
Female: 0.8
If waist is larger than 40 (males) or 35 (females) = higher risk for problems. |
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| Takes into account height, weight(mass), and age for determining healthy body weight or obesity |
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| Caloric relationship between fats, proteins, and carbohydrates |
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FPC = 9-4-4
All fats are loaded with more calories per gram than are equal weights of carbohydrates and proteins. |
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| Saturated and Unsaturated |
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A fatty like substance
Necessary for life. |
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When natural liquid vegetable oils are unnaturally converted to be a solid.
Causes a rise in the body's cholesterol level that is twice as bad as eating saturated animal fats |
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"Good fats"
Comes in two types
Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated |
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Found in deep-sea fish including halibut, herring, mackerel, salmon, and sardines. Also found in walnuts, flax-, pumpkin-, and soybean seeds and oils.
Eases menstrual pains, prevents heart attacks and cancers, increases mental performance |
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Humans need no more than a minimum of 500 mg a day (1/5th a teaspoon)
Max of 2400 mg a day |
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Refers to several simple carbohydrate compounds.
Most common are in sucrose form:
raw (brown), refined (white) cane sugar, maple sugar, etc. |
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The only form of sugar that the body uses directly
More of this is used by the brain than any other structure in the body. |
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A class of primary building blocks of life.
Composed of 3 common chemicals:
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
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| Complex carbohydrate compounds, some of which is eventually broken down into glucose during digestion and other remains indigestible as plant fiber |
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Milk sugar
As people grow older, more likely to become intolerant. |
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| Positive effects of sugar |
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Can be used as quick sources of energy
Has a calming effect, may even promote sleep
Best nonprescription antidepressant |
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1. Maintain enough water that the chemicals in the body can function correctly.
2. Flushing out waste products produced from the body's functioning and from the small amounts of pollutants and poisons that we constantly ingest. |
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Water that contains substances within it.
Can supply other nutrients, vitamins, minerals, stimulants, relaxants. |
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Chemical stimulant
Has half-life of four to six hours (after this time period, half of the amount consumed is still persistent)
In the same chemical family as cocaine
A chemical dependency can develop |
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| Causes more frequent urination than water |
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"100 proof" 50% alcohol 50% water
2 hours are needed to completely "metabolize" a single serving of nearly 200 proof alcohol |
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| Drinking five or more servings of alcohol in a row within two weeks (four or more servings for women) |
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| More than 100,000 deaths each year are related to alcohol |
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1. Relaxation, lowers blood pressure
2. Alcohol decreases heart-attack risks by making the blood less sticky. |
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