It takes 3500 calories to makes a pound. In contrast, that means we to lose 1-2 pounds a week, we would need to eliminate 3500-7000 calories a week. Or simply, 500-1000 calories less a day. The US Food Guide Pyramid recommends from a 2000 calorie diet that 30 carbohydrates. To calculate a person’s BMI.
These numbers reflect the daily energy expenditure for a 30 year old 5’3” female weighing 174 pounds that exercises moderately three times a week. On average the author’s diet contained 1105 total calories, of which 351 kcals from fat, 544kcals from carbohydrates, and 52g of protein. As the reader can see the authors diet is deficient in all areas of energy intake. Three dietary habits that need to be removed from the diet are skipping meals, poor caloric intake, and inadequate amount of exercise. These three habits have put the author’s body in a type of starvation mode.
At the age 20 of Miss Gladys started suffering from uncontrolled hypertension which runs in her family and contributed to her parents’ death, Miss Gladys is short in height and overweight. What Nutrition related risk factors have you identified in her eating pattern? The Nutrition related risk factors I identified in her eating patterns are high blood cholesterol and obesity/overweight which are caused as a result of eating large breakfast with ham, eggs, bacon which contains high cholesterol and drinking large container of soda at every meal which contains high level of sugar. Because hypertension runs in her family linage therefore her cholesterol level may be affected by heredity. The result of excess body fat increases the risk to develop heart disease and stroke even if they have no other risk factor.
After a certain period of time Morgan found himself short on energy, hungrier more often, loss of sex drive, and sometimes he would experience sickness. After one of his super size meals he threw up in the parking lot. 2. The film Super Size proved to many Americans that what we eat doesn’t just affect our weight, but almost every part of us. By Morgan consuming over five thousand calories a day for thirty days he gained over twenty four pounds and increased his body mass by thirteen percent.
10. If the liver breaks down about 0.4 oz of alcohol in one hour, how long will it take to rid the body of all the alcohol from the drink in #9? It will take about 1 hour and 30 minutes. 11. If a girl weighs 120 pounds and has three drinks in one hour, what will her BAC be?
Blood glucose levels then slowly declined for each successive measurement. Levels decreased an additional 25.1 mg/dl to 118.9 mg/dl at the 60 minutes measurement, 3.3 mg/dl to 115.6 mg/dl at 90 minutes, and 14.6 mg/dl to 101.0 mg/dl at 120 minutes. At the two-hour measurement, the blood glucose level was 12.3 mg/dl over the baseline measurement of 88.7 mg/dl. For the control group, consuming 296 ml of water did not greatly affect blood glucose levels. The trend was a slight decline from the baseline measurement of 99.0 mg/dl to the two-hour measurement of 89.4 mg/dl.
Computer Solution 3. The production manager for the Whoppy soft drink company is considering the production of 2 kinds of soft drinks: regular and diet. Two of her resources are constraint production time (8 hours = 480 minutes per day) and syrup (1 of her ingredients) limited to 675 gallons per day. To produce a regular case requires 2 minutes and 5 gallons of syrup, while a diet case needs 4 minutes and 3 gallons of syrup. Profits for regular soft drinks are $3.00 per case and profits for diet soft drinks are $2.00 per case.
This is because we are eating too many foods that are high in saturated fats which are available in many different ways from fast foods and sweets. We also have one of the highest rates of diabetes with 1.6 million sufferers, data shows by 2025 4 million people will be diabetic. This illness is caused when a diet does not include enough high-fibre, starchy carbohydrate foods and if we eat too many sugary and sweet foods. Other health issues include coronary heart disease which is caused if a diet is high in saturated fats, osteoporosis which is when bones become less dense and become very fragile. This happens if there is a lack of calcium in the diet and a lack of vitamin D and constipation, bowel cancer or diverticular disease which is caused if you don’t eat enough fibre in the diet(fruit and vegetables).
Anorexia usually begins when a diet is started. Most anorexics still fell fat even when one fourth of their body weight is lost. A person with anorexia has a lack of self confidence. Not only women have anorexia but men too can have this eating disorder. The average teenage or adult woman needs to eat between 4000 to 7500 kilojoules each day to stay healthy.
According to the study, 36 percent of black women were overweight or obese, compared with about 10 percent of Hispanic and Asian women in the city. More than 7 percent of black women suffered from diabetes, compared with 2 percent of Hispanic women and 3 percent of Asian women. Fewer than 1 percent of white women suffered from diabetes, and 7 percent were overweight or obese. "Black women in the District are really struggling," said Cara James, a senior policy analyst at Kaiser and the study's lead author. "This is a chronic condition that we know is related to poverty and the availability of nutritious food and the opportunity to exercise."