Sugar love 11.class Causes of obesity Surfeit Unhealthy food Lack of exercises Excessive eating sweet Mosques of marzipan The beginning, on the island of New Guinea, where sugarcane was domesticated some 10.000 years ago People picked cane and ate it raw It is used medically The problem with fructose The glucose in sugar is metabolized throughout the body The resulting risks: Obesity Hypertension Insulin resistance Type 2 diabetes Candy Particularly to Americans, who spent 32 billion on sweets Formerly a luxury item for the rich The world itself comes from candy: Arabic for a sugar confection The culprit As far back as 1675, when western Europe was experiencing its first sugar boom As a result, fat makes up a smaller portion
Some studies also show that a higher incidence of impaired vision and hearing, motor incoordination, and problem with balance are possible attibuted to alcohol use by the mother before birth of the infant. Fetal exposure to alcohol can also result in adnormal thyroid function and some decrease in the immune system effectiveness. No one is sure the role alcohol plays on the fetus, some of the possiblities are: -Acetaldehyde which is the primary product when alcohol is metabolized; -fetal malnutrition especially if the mother is undernourished. Even when she haseaten the proper foods, the placenta may not beable to carry yhese vitamins, minerals and other nutrients which are so important to the developing fetus; -lack of oxygen due to less blood flow to the fetus through the placenta; and -disturbance of prostaglandins which control normal blood flow to the placenta. LIVER DISEASE You can not live with out your liver, it is the biggest organ in you body
demethylation of N-, S-, and O-methyl compounds. After oxidation of formaldehyde to formate, the carbon atom is further oxidized to carbon dioxide (CO2) or incorporated into purines, thymidine, and amino acids via tetrahydrofolatedependent one-carbon biosynthetic pathways. Exogenous formaldehyde appears to be readily absorbed from the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, but poorly absorbed following dermal application. Formaldehyde is metabolized to formate by the enzyme formaldehyde dehydrogenase; this appears to take place at the initial site of contact. Being normal components of intermediary metabolism, neither formaldehyde nor formate are stored to any significant extent in any tissue of the body. Formate is excreted in the urine (primarily as formic acid), incorporated into other cellular molecules, or oxidized to carbon dioxide and exhaled. Formaldehyde vapors are readily absorbed from the respiratory tract
the actomyosin bonds becoming essentially When the activity is of lower intensity, the permanent. muscle will utilize a higher proportion of energy sources from the blood stream and lipid stored in the muscle cell. These will be Muscle Metabolism metabolized to produce ATP using aerobic From a metabolic point of view, energy use pathways. Obviously, ample oxygen is and production in skeletal muscle is simply required for this process to proceed. During nothing short of amazing in its range and high intensity activity, during which ATP is responsiveness. In an actively exercising used very rapidly, the muscle uses intracel- animal, muscle can account for as much as lular stores of phosphagens or glycogen.