Question 1 | 2 points | Save | | A person’s blood pressure rises while walking up stairs. If homeostasis is maintained‚ which of the following will occur when the person reaches the top of the stairs? | | | | | | | | blood pressure will lower‚ causing the person to faint | | | blood pressure will return to near its level before walking up stairs | | | blood pressure will continue to rise‚ leading to hypertension | | | blood pressure will remain at the elevated
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HEALTH Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living organism. In humans it is the ability of individuals or communities to adapt and self-manage when facing physical‚ mental or social challenges.[1] The World Health Organization(WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical‚ mental‚ and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. MENTAL HEALTH Mental health is a level of psychological well-being
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DECE DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION ASSIGNMENTS 1 TO 3 January 2014 & July 2014 DECE – 1: Organizing Child Care Services DECE – 2: Child Health and Nutrition DECE – 3: Services and Programmes for Children School of Continuing Education Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi‚ New Delhi -110068 ASSIGNMENTS 1-3 January 2014/July 2014 Programme: DECE Dear Learners‚ You will have to do three assignments as part of the Diploma Programme. ALL THREE
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FAILURE TO THRIVE INTRODUCTION Failure to thrive (FTT) is a medical term used in both pediatric and adult human medicine. it covers poor physical growth of any cause and does not imply abnormal intellectual‚ social‚ or emotional development‚ although of course it can subsequently be a cause of such pathologies. As written in Organon section -3 ‘’If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in disease‚ that is to say‚ in every individual case of the disease………’’.Here Hahnemann said ‘’perceive’’
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PHYSIOLOGIC VALUE OF FOOD Organic compounds * Protein * Lipids * Carbohydrates * Vitamins Inorganic elements * Water * Minerals Vit & min * Act as a catalysts which prompt the 3 major nutrients –carbohydrates ‚ protein‚fats METABOLISM * “Metabolismos”-to change or alter * Chemical process of transforming foods into complex tissue elements and of transforming complex body substance into simpler ones‚ along with the production of heat energy * Is the totality of the
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Socio Cultural Determinants that Affect Nutritional Status (of elderly above sixty years of age and children below five years of age) in Barangay Banga‚ Talisay‚ Batangas Introduction The effects of malnutrition on human performance‚ health and survival have been the subject of extensive research for several decades and studies show that malnutrition affects physical growth‚ morbidity‚ mortality‚ cognitive development‚ reproduction‚ and physical work capacity. Malnutrition is an underlying factor
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Chapter 2 Genotype-phenotype • Phenotype: an individual’s directly observable physical and behavioral characteristics‚ which are determined by both genetic and environmental factors • Genotype: an individual’s genetic makeup Genes-chromosomes • Chromosomes: rodlike structures in the cell nucleus that store and transmit genetic information • DNA: are what chromosomes are made out of; long‚ double-stranded molecule that looks like a twisted ladder‚ each ladder consists of a specific pair
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Malnutrition Introduction Malnutrition is the condition that develops when the body does not get the right amount of the vitamins‚ minerals‚ and other nutrients it needs to maintain healthy tissues and organ function. Undernutrition Malnutrition occurs in people who are either undernourished or overnourished. Undernutrition is a consequence of consuming too few essential nutrients or using or excreting them more rapidly than they can be replaced. Overnutrition In the United States‚ nutritional
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Food AND Nutrition Scurvy (15) http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155758.php Who gets scurvy? Though scurvy is a very rare disease‚ it still occurs in some patients - usually elderly people‚ alcoholics‚ or those that live on a diet devoid of fresh fruits and vegetables. Similarly‚ infants or children who are on special or poor diets for any number of economic or social reasons may be prone to scurvy. 16) http://www.articlesbase.com/anti-aging-articles/americans-unhealthy-lifestyle-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-407805
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Final Exam Study Guide 1. Life Span Development is from birth throughout adulthood as well as childhood. The traditional approach emphasizes extensive change from birth to adolescence‚ little or no change in adulthood‚ and decline in old age. A great deal of change does occur in the six decades after adolescence. 2. Life expectancy has increased because of the recent changes in human life expectancy. The upper boundary of the human life span is 122 years; this maximum human life span
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