Blood Components Normally‚ 7-8% of human body weight is from blood. In adults‚ this amounts to 4.5-6 quarts of blood. This essential fluid carries out the critical functions of transporting oxygen and nutrients to our cells and getting rid of carbon dioxide‚ ammonia‚ and other waste products. In addition‚ it plays a vital role in our immune system and in maintaining a relatively constant body temperature. Blood is a highly specialized tissue composed of more than 4‚000 different kinds of
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Absorbance of Non-diabetic and Diabetic “Blood Samples” In the experiment‚ I tested the blood glucose level of diabetic and non-diabetic people every 30 minutes starting from right before a meal was eaten up until two hours. I did this by measuring the amount of light absorbed by the solutions through a spectrophotometer. By doing so I found that for diabetics the maximum blood glucose increased more quickly than non-diabetics‚ which increased and decreased at a steady rate. With this information
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giving an hour of your day? I wasn’t aware of how many people I can help until there was a blood drive at my high school. The blood drive was run by the ARUP Blood Services and I learned a ton about donating blood. Before you donate you can talk to a representative and learn more about donating blood. I learned that the blood donated can be stored for about 28 days until it goes bad. The phlebotomist told me blood donations are given to several patients who need transfusions to live. If there are many
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How Sugar Impacted the World In the dispute of sugar‚ one debatable issue has been whether sugar is beneficial or harmful to the world. People who believe sugar is harmful argue that it is one cause of diabetes. On the other hand‚ those who believe that sugar is beneficial claim that sugar taste good and it is in every food so it cannot be avoided. Sugar has not had a positive impact on the world because it causes obesity‚ diabetes‚ and sugar also helped promote slavery in the past. What is your
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When performing this experiment make sure all materials are present this includes: Blood Pressure Probe‚ a Sphygmomanometer‚ computer with Logger Pro software‚ Stethoscope‚ Logger Pro cables‚ and a timer if you so chose. Using the Blood Pressure Probes‚ Logger Pro cable‚ and the software you are ready to begin the experiment. Have a scary video pulled up from youtube that is within the time limit of 0-120 seconds. It would be wise to have the video around 60 seconds because that is the time frame
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When reading “The Toxic Truth about Sugar” the reader may believe it is just another essay telling Americans they are all obese and will die at an early age if they don’t start eating healthier. However‚ it brought up some different points the reader may not be aware of. The authors brought up some valid points to support their argument. The title was creative because many people do not believe sugar is toxic to their body. In the world today people love sugar and it is all around. Many foods people
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6.2 The influence of an inhomogeneous spatial distribution of sugar on a biscuit’s appearance A biscuit’s appearance was influenced by the amount and spatial distribution of sugar. Table 6 shows that more participants thought biscuits A and B should be darker than that they though biscuits C and D should be darker. Qualitative data shown in table 10 partly supports this‚ as biscuits D were observed to be the darkest. Table 7 partly supports this as well. For the question “How is the appearance of
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The production of reducing sugars by acid of carbohydrate cereals powder‚ jams (total sugar content) and jams (reducing sugar content) were performed in order to study reducing sugar production. The study involved hydrolysis carbohydrate cereals powder and jams by immersing in boiling water at environmental temperature. Acid hydrolysis was carried out through reflux boiling for 20 minutes with 10ml 0f 1.5M concentrations of diluted sulphuric acid. Reducing sugars concentrations were determined
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First‚ we must establish whether sugar over-consumption is damaging to one’s health. In the Vice article‚ the writer made an eyebrow-raising statement when she said‚ "sugar is devoid of any real nutrition‚ messes with your metabolism‚ and rots your teeth...How bad could it really be?" This was interesting to me because I always thought sugar was an extremely important source of energy and that our body had a built function to regulate the amount of sugar we consume. Hilary Pollack reported on a study
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Data Analysis The question for this experiment was‚ “Does sugar effect recalling memories?” The hypothesis was‚ “If sugar causes drowsiness‚ then it will slow the memory process also.” For this experiment‚ the independent variable was the participants‚ and the dependent variable was the accuracy percentage. The control variables were the amount of numbers required to memorize‚ the time before recalling the numbers‚ and the type and brand of donuts. The participants who did not eat the donuts were
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