Body Fat and Eating Disorders Nutrition 3/27/2013 Thea Leonard Body Fat and Eating Disorders Obesity and eating disorders have become a major problem in the United States. More than one third of U.S. adults are obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Excess body fat can present many problems such as heart disease‚ diabetes‚ stroke and even cancer‚ but not only do Americans struggle with obesity they also struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa
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I. Introduction A. Concepts in nutrition‚ medical nutrition therapy‚ and organ systems concerned Nutrition is the study of food in relation to health. The Food and Nutrition Council of the American Medical Association defined nutrition as the “science of food‚ the nutrients and other substances therein‚ their action‚ interaction and balance in relation to health and disease‚ and the processes by which the organism ingests‚ digests‚ absorbs‚ transports‚ utilizes and excrete food substances
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Doug McArthur is hospitalized with pancreatitis and cholecystitis. Neither his gallbladder nor his pancreas is functioning normally at this time. Doug is placed on a NPO (nothing by mouth) diet order‚ given intravenous fluids and pain medication. The nurse is aware that the pancreas has two functions one being endocrine‚ secretion of hormones to assist with glucose control and the other being exocrine‚ aiding the digestive system. Doug is scheduled for gallbladder removal in the morning to treat
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Eating Disorders Eating disorders are sweeping this country and are rampant on junior high‚ high school‚ and college campuses. These disorders are often referred to as the Deadly Diet‚ but are often known by their more popular names: anorexia or bulimia. They affect more than 20% of females between the age of thirteen and forty. It is very rare for a young female not to know of someone with an eating disorder. Statistics show that at least one in five young women have a serious problem with
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I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic‚ while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” --Dean Ornish‚ M.D. In the Theory of Leisure Class: Conspicuous Consumption‚ Thorstein Veblen once wrote‚ “The ‘successful’ are thin to show that they are assured of their next meal.” This sentence gave insight to why people wanted to be thin. Furthermore‚ it tends
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two types of anorexia. In the restricting type of anorexia‚ weight loss is achieved by restricting calories (following drastic diets‚ fasting‚ and exercising to excess). In the purging type of anorexia‚ weight loss is achieved by vomiting or using laxatives and diuretics. Anorexia is not about weight or food Believe it or not‚ anorexia isn’t really about food and weight—at least not at its core. Eating disorders are much more complicated than that. The food and weight-related issues are symptoms
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Retonda Dawson SCI/241 May 2‚ 2013 Kristin Ellsworth Face the Facts What are bad fats? Bad fats are saturated fat and trans- fat. Saturated fat have chemical makeup in which the carbon atoms are saturated with hydrogen atoms. Saturated
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view of themselves; he or she perceives a larger form than what they actually are in reality. They are very aware of their body and they often set dangerous weight goals. Someone with these disorders will repeatedly abuse diet pills‚ diuretics‚ laxatives‚ or they will exercise excessively. Anorexics and bulimics weigh equally when it comes to psychological matters. As it is explained by medical experts‚ “between 40% to 96% of all eating-disordered patients experience depression and anxiety
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from the illness. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that can cause a person to literally “waste away‚” in some cases starving to death. They may try to stop eating entirely‚ exercise excessively‚ or purge their food by vomiting or misusing laxatives. This disorder is not only limited to teenage girls as many think‚ some men as well as older women also develop the problem. This is a very dangerous disorder. Today I will talk about the causes and consequences of anorexia. The causes of anorexia
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Write an exhaustive drug information sheet for morphine. The information that should be included: 1- Name: generic‚ trade: According to drugs.com morphine’s trade names are Avinza‚ Kadian‚ MS Contin and the genetic name is morphine sulfate. 2- Pharmacotherapeutics: Burcham and Rosentheal (2016) describe the pharmacotherapeutics of morphine. It is used for moderate to severe acute or chronic pain; it relieves postoperative pain‚ chronic cancer pain‚ and other conditions. Morphine also helps reduce
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