Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house
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“Fat Tax” Imposing a fat tax on saturated fat‚ junk foods‚ sodas‚ etc. would be best because of many health and money related issues that it could possibly solve. A fat tax could help control many health problems the United States is facing today by giving some incentive to buy healthier foods. Taxing these certain foods may help control the way people eat and in turn change lifestyles to much healthier ones than there are now. The healthier lifestyles would help lower the amount of money spent
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Mariama Barry 11/10/2017 Health‚ Illness‚ and society Greco-Islamic Medicine Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and developed extensive and complex medical literature on medications‚ clinical practice‚ diseases‚ cures‚ treatments‚ and diagnoses. Islamic medicine built on the legacies left behind by Greek and Roman physicians and scholars. Islamic
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“Denaturation of Proteins” Denaturation is a process in which proteins or nucleic acids lose the tertiary structure and secondary structure which is present in their native state‚ by application of some external stress or compound such as a strong acid or base‚ a concentrated inorganic salt‚ an organic solvent (e.g.‚ alcohol or chloroform)‚ or heat. If proteins in a living cell are denatured‚ this results in disruption of cell activity and possibly cell death. Denatured proteins can exhibit
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DENATURATION OF PROTEINS Abstract The experiment aimed to use the concept of viscosity to study the effects of different denaturants on 1% albumin extract. An Ostwald viscometer was used to measure the flow time of 5 mL of the blank and native protein. These were then denatured by adding 1 mL of denaturant and had their flow time measured. The flow time from the blank to denatured protein is increasing. The specific viscosity and reduced viscosity
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An Le Foundation Biology lab BRADFORD PROTEIN DISCUSSION ESSAY The appearance of blue color showed the present of protein in the BSA dilutions. The more diluted the solution was‚ the less blue it was. The R2 value of the standard curve of BSA dilution was obtained to be 0.9972‚ which is close to 1. The closer to 1 the R2 value was‚ the more accurate the linear portion was. The error percentage of each unknown was large: 25.9% for skim milk‚ 95% for soy sauce‚ and 64.7% for egg white. The vast
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Examine health and illness as Social and Biological Constructs 1. The terms ’health’ and ’illness’ do not mean the same thing to everyone. 1.1 Health focuses on definitions‚ which are negative‚ positive and holistic. Negative focuses on the physical approach when there are no symptoms or nothing obvious‚ but meaning that this does not necessarily mean there is nothing wrong and everything is ok. Positive focuses on both physical and psychological approach and the fact that you have to look
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Receptor Protein Protein that binds to a specific single molecule‚ enabling the cell to respond to the signal molecule. i.e. The muscles of a person exercising can not contract without receptor proteins and signal molecules that tell the muscles when to contract and when to relax. Second Messenger Signal molecule produced in response to the binding of a chemical signal. Acts as a signal molecule in the cytoplasm. Signal Molecule Carries information throughout the body and to other
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Trans Fats There is lots of controversy going on about should the trans fats be banned by the government or not. On one side are people who are for ban of trans fats‚ while their opponents think that they should not be prohibited. What are the trans fats? Are they really bad for our health‚ should they be replaced with another substance and why there are so many people against them? Producers have the power over us‚ as well as opportunity to put trans fats into food in small amounts‚ without
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A sociological perspective to health and illness enables health problems to be viewed as social issues. This essay will describe the "sociological imagination" (Mills 1959 cited in Germov‚ 21) and outline the interrelated historical‚ cultural‚ structural and critical factors of which it is comprised. The journal articles‚ "Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people ’ s health and well being" (Holmes‚ Stewart‚ Garrow‚ Anderson and Thorpe‚ 2002) and "Indigenous women
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