Nutrition Analysis

Falcon Market

As I walked around the classroom looking at the nutritions of several different foods, I learned a lot of new things. One that surprised me most was the Starbucks station. I noticed that the drink I usually get does not contain many calories. There also isn't a lot of fat in it. Another thing that caught my attention was the Seasonal Produce station. I learned that most fruits and vegetables go by seasons and that is when they are best. In summer, its best to eat fruits such as strawberries and cherries!
Some things that I learned are that its better to have low glycemic index and that when shopping for groceries, you should get protein first, then produce, then healthy fats.

Choose My Plate

Another thing we did was track our own food that we eat on a daily basis. Once I entered in information, like my weight and height, I was told that I should eat around 2000 calories a day. When looking at my results, I noticed that I don't eat enough vegetables and dairy, like milk, and that I do eat a lot of protein each day, which surprised me. To be healthier, I should eat more dairy and drink a lot of milk. Below are 3 days of my foods I tracked!
I would want people to know that eating fat is necessary, you just have to eat the right amount. Also, eat fruits and vegetables that are in season because they are better for you and also taste better!

Health Collage

In my opinion, I think that health has a lot to do with being happy overall and being in good condition, physically and mentally. To be physically healthy is to have things such as low cholestral and low blood sugar. To be mentally healthy is to be happy and to be social in a way with the people around you. The 5 pillars are nutrition, sleep, social, exercise, and stress. Its good to have beneficial nutrition and good social skills, plenty of sleep, a limited amount of stress and a fair amount of exercise. I think that I am strongest with excercise because I manage to get over an hour of excercise each day but something that I cound improve on is having a better nutrition. In regards to health, I would love to learn about different exercises that benefit you most and how much we should exercise overall.

Unit 1 Reflection

      This unit was an intro to anatomy and physiology and biology review. We learned different things like macromolecules and tissues. We learned that the presence of different macromolecules and their arrangement directly affect the behavior of the cell and it's corresponding tissue. The tissue's function is directly related to it's structure.
      Some major things that we learned were the four macromolecules and the different tissues. The macromolecules include carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acid. The different tissues were muscle, nervous, connective, and epithelial. The part that stood out to me the most was the epithelial tissue. There were different types like simple, stratifies,or pseudostratified and squamous, cuboidal, or columnar. I enjoyed looking at pictures of these tissues and identifying which type it was.
      Something I did not fully understand was the levels of organizations. I understand that the levels include chemical level, cellular level, tissue level, organ level, system level, and organismal level. I just don't get the detailed difference between the organ level and system level. 
      Next unit, I will try and read the book more and take more detailed notes if possible. Anatomy and Physiology is really similar to Biology. Both classes discuss major parts of the body  but I think that biology goes into detail in other things too. Anatomy and Physiology only focuses of body structures and functions. 

"Windsor Locks High School." Human Anatomy & Physiology • Page -. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015.

Tissue Lab

      In the lab we did today, we walked around to different microscopes around the room and saw around 14 different tissues! Next to the microscopes were posters of the tissue types, which are muscle, nervous, connective, and epithelial. 
      For the muscle tissues, I saw different things like human cardiac muscle and the human skeletal muscle. For cardiac, I knew that it had to do with the heart and was located on the walls of the heart. I also learned from the lecture that muscle tissues look like they have branches and that they push blood in the blood vessels and gets them flowing properly. Looking in the microscopes, I saw different things like multiple nuclei, discs, and fibers. 
       Next to muscle tissues, I saw some nervous tissue such as a human nerve. We learned that the nervous tissue transmits electrical signals from sensory receptors to effectors. We saw a variety of things like a human nerve. 
       Then I saw connective tissues. There were so many like the white fibrous tissue and elastic cartialage of a human ear.  The human ear elastic cartialage was similar to the hyaline cartilage. We knew that connective tissues provided structural and metabolic support for other tissues and organs
      Lastly, I saw epithelial tissues. Epithelial tissues could be simple, stratified, or pseudostratified, and squamous, cuboidal, or columnar. We saw different things like human skin and human lung. The human skin was stratified squamous and dense irregular whereas the human lung was simple squamous and single layer.
Below are some pictures from the lab!

Red Blood Cells

RED BLOOD CELLS

      Red blood cells, also known as erythrocytes, are cells that carry fresh oxygen throughout your body. They are large microscopic cells but they don't contain a nuclei, which makes it different than a eukaryotic cell. There are numerous of red blood cells in our body that look like tiny disk shaped figures. Red blood cells are really flexible so they can carry things in there like hemoglobin, which I will go in further detail on later. People think that because red blood cells don't have a nucleus, they are prokaryotic but actually, red blood cells are generally eukaryotic that have lost their nucleus. So, red blood cells contain many things that a eukaryotic cell would.

      Red blood cells transport oxygen from the lung to living tissues all over the body. Hemoglobin, though, is the protein inside the cells that carry the oxygen. They also take carbon dioxide to your lungs so that you can exhale it. Not only is hemoglobin the protein that transports oxygen and carbon dioxide, its also a pigment. It gives the red blood cell it's red color. The life span of a red blood cell is about 120 days but millions of them are also created every second.

An interesting fact about red blood cells is that they make up about 44 percent of your body and make up about 7 percent of your body weight!

"Hemoglobin Toxicity: New $10.8 Million Study Begins." Hemoglobin Toxicity: New $10.8 Million Study Begins. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Aug. 2015.

Sweet Lab

        Our group did a tasting lab today with all sorts of carbohydrates. We started our lab by separating all our carbohydrates into separate piles. We used sucrose, glucose fructose, galactose, maltose, lactose, starch, and cellulose. I started off by tasting glucose then fructose. Fructose was definitely the sweetest of them all and cellulose was the least sweet.
        Cellulose would most probably be found in vegetables, like broccoli, because they're not sweet which is probably why most kids don't like it. Fructose is found in fruits, such as watermelons and strawberries, because they're sweet. As for the texture of the carbohydrates, most of them felt as if there was nothing in my mouth because they felt just like powder. Those carbohydrates are the galactose, maltose, lactose, starch and cellulose. Sucrose, glucose and fructose, though, felt granular and not smooth. 
The pictures below are of the carbohydrates we tasted!

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