Vitamins Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

The Role of Diet in Human Health

The human immune system is highly developed and complex to ensure that it fights with a wide range of microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, particles and other foreign objects that may affect the body in any way. The system is made up of various components within the body, and all are in some relation with each other to ensure that there is an effective immunity against any foreign body capable of causing some pathological conditions in the body. The major components of the human immune system include a group of immune cells such as the T-lymphocytes, B-lymphocytes, natural killer cells, memory cells, and ...

Having a healthy eating plan is one of the most vital and significant elements that should be embraced by everyone in order to live longer. Healthy eating plans determine and define the type of food, the quantity and the quality of food one should consume at every given moment. Moreover, a healthy eating plan provides a balance of all nutrients which is very essential in providing the body with the necessary factors needed for growth and also provide the body with energy which is categorized as either maintenance or operational ratios. The maintenance ratio or basic metabolic rate is the energy required ...

Do blueberries and strawberries have similar levels of anthocyanins? How could you find out?

No, blueberries and strawberries have different levels of anthocyanins because anthocyanins are responsible for the colors associated with the fruits. (Berries and the Brain, n.d.) Since they have different colors, they have different levels of anthocyanins. Levels of anthocyanins in different fruits can be determined by chromatography or by using a spectrophotometer. The easiest way would be to separate the anthocyanins from other pigments in the fruits using different solvents, and then chromatographing the extracts. Finally, the amount and wavelength of light they absorb can be determined using a calorimeter which would help measure a number of anthocyanins in ...

There are two arguments in question number 1. The first argument can be represented as disjunctive syllogism and the second in the Modus Ponens form (If X, then Y).

The first argument can be represented as disjunctive syllogistic as follows:

P1: P or Q (Either Billy-Bob said he had never had sexual relations with that Lewinsky woman or he said something else that sounded like “I never had sexual relations with that Lewinsky woman”)
P2: Not Q (However, it is false that he said something else that sounded like “I never had sexual relations with that Lewinsky woman”)

C: P (We must conclude that Billy-Bob said that he never had sexual relations with that Lewinsky woman).

The second argument from the same paragraph may be represented as ...

Sickle cell disease is a red blood cells abnormality which results in impairment of circulation, life threatening infections, severe anemia, tissue damage, and infarctions. Pregnancy also called gestation or gravidity is a time when an offspring or several offspring develop inside a woman's womb. This paper will address nutrition role during pregnancy in a sickle cell patient.
Micronutrient deficiencies role has been addressed and research in this area continue to show an individual deficiencies range in sickle cell anemia(HbSS) patients. Some of these can be able to be corrected with supplements. The vitamin D deficiency possible association with ...

Tropical Deforestation

The tropical forests are an ecosystem located in the inter-tropical zone, between 23°S and 23°N. The tropical forests contain the most important biodiversity in plants and animal species. The tropical forests are very important to the planet as a source of oxygen for the planet.
The deforestation is a phenomenon that exists since the human is on earth. From eighteen century the deforestation in all the regions of the world and especially in the tropical forest increases its rate due too many factors as: agriculture, wood, mineral extraction and cities expansion. The deforestation is conducted both by economic ...

List the three nutrient cycles present in an ecosystem.

Nutrient cycles are also called as biogeochemical cycles as they help convert the elemental form of essential minerals into biochemical form for utilization by living organisms. The three important nutrient cycles of the ecosystem are the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorous cycle.
Nitrogen has a vast atmospheric abundance but is not present in a useable form for many organisms. Nitrogen fixers convert nitrogen into ammonium and nitrates to be taken up by plants and passed onto animals.
Phosphorous is the integral part of the building blocks of nucleic acids, ATP and lipids that make up the ...

Q1: Prioritizing patient care will help to complete nurse’s shift duties without any adverse patient complication. Prioritizing will help to plan out the day and in managing the cases in the most effective way (Alfaro-LeFevre 2014). The best path to plan care for the patient with different medical and surgical priorities is to set timed objectives and meet the discharge goals based on the urgency of the medical or surgical condition. The handover from the staff of the previous shift provided the information for 4 patients, of which Lucy’s condition is more of an emergency that will ...

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“Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine” is a book written by Candace B. Pert, a molecular biologist having an important role in the discovery of the endorphin molecule. She is also considered as the mother of psychoneuroimmunology, a field of science dealing with different aspects of brain, immunology, and neurology. Her work on the biochemistry of the brain at the National Institute of Mental Health helped in giving new insights about mind and body (Candace Pert, n.d.).
Main theme of the book is that peptides, which are present throughout the body, are “molecules of ...

Modern agricultural practices and technological advances have led to tremendous success in food production. Despite the success, efforts to increase the production of food have had negative and far-reaching effects on the ecosystem. The persistent decline in biodiversity is affecting food production as well as other food related services (GRiD par 8).
Biodiversity can be defined as the various forms of life on earth regarding the number, distribution and composition (species, alleles, groups, etc.) of the biota (Nair par 9). Agricultural activities have a direct and significant effect on biodiversity while the decline in biodiversity is negatively affecting food ...

As a cohort study, the article “Development and evaluation of a short 24-h food list as part of a blended dietary assessment strategy in large-scale cohort studies” provides information about how German residents were used as samples for developing a longitudinal research on their food intakes in the last 24 hours. Freese, Feller, Harttig, Kleiser, Linseisen, Fischer, Keitzman, Six-Merker, Michels, Nimptsch, Steinbrecher, Pischol, Heuer, Hoffmal, Jacobs, Boeing and Nöthlings aimed to investigate the validity of dietary assessment. The authors of this study followed two objectives: to identify the foods consumed by German people during the previous 24 h and to assess the ...

Genetically modified foods refer to crop plant-produced human and animal use using the new molecular biology methods. The plants are adapted in the laboratory to enhance them with desired traits such as improved nutrition content and increased resistance to herbicides. The enhancement of the desired traits was traditionally got through breeding. Conventional plant breeding techniques are time consuming and at times may lack accuracy. Genetic engineering produces plants that have the desired traits and are fast and very accurate. For instance, plant geneticists can separate a gene responsible for drought tolerance and insert it in a different plant. The new plant ...

Community Health Care Assessment

My country is Whiteside County, Illinois. The population estimate in 2012 for Whiteside County is 57,846 and the population estimate in Illinois as of 2012 is approximately 12,875,255. In 2012, the number of senior citizens or those persons who are over 65 years of age residing in Whiteside is 51,846 or 18.1 percent of the population. On the other hand, the number of senior citizens is Illinois is composed of 1,673,733 or representing 13.2 percent of the population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2013).
In 2012, the number of disabled individuals in Whiteside in ...

What two classes of drugs does most of ethnopharmacologic research focus on? Ethnopharmacology focuses its major research on antihypertensive agents due to prevalence of hypertension and heart complications among minority populations and psychotropic agents. The study is based on uncovering the differences in how metabolism of the drugs occurs in different ethnicities. It entails discovering the effects of the drugs on patients and how the drugs are taken by the body in terms of the speed of absorption, assimilation, metabolism and excretion (pharmacokinetics).

Ethnopharmacology is the assesment of the effects that lifestyle, cultural practices, physiology and environment have on ...

Abstract

Plasmodium falciparum is the parasite responsible for the deadly disease, malaria. The parasite is transmitted through the injection of sporozoites into the human blood stream. These sporozoites are transported in the blood stream to the liver. The sporozoites invade the hepatocytes and differentiate into merozoites. The merozoites invade the RBCs of the host; starting the blood stage of infection. The trophozoite stage ingests and degrades approximately 80% of the hemoglobin in the host cell. The hemoglobin is broken down into peptides due to enzymatic action by a metalloprotease and cysteine and aspartic proteases. Haematin is first released as a byproduct of ...

Introduction

Many organizations face numerous management and technical issues. Laboratory is the most vital part of a medical organization’s system because it deals with life. This is to mean that any kind of mistake can lead to massive negative effects in both the outcomes of the procedures, and also in the systems. This essay will discuss two types of problems that one may encounter in a laboratory environment; the first issue will involve management processes, and mainly the issue of staff shortage. The other problem that the paper will look at will involve Hyperkalaemia, which is a common technical problem, commonly faced ...