BODY WORKS Flashcards
Why do we have Boogers?
Our nasal cavity is coated with mucous from our mucous gland. The musous acts as a solvent “capturing” the gaseous odor molecules. Odor receptors send nervous impulses to the brain via the olfactory bulb.
As the mucous dries out, we pick our nose to clean out the “Boogers”.
How much protein do we need each day?
Nutrition 101. REF: I think Sam’s club
Protein. Eat half a gram of protein for each pound you weigh. 170 = 85 grams of protein each day.
8 Grams of protein in each ounce of meat, fish or poultry. Other equivalents; one egg, 1/4 cup of beans, 1/2 ounce of nuts each has 8 grams of protein.
Most fruits contain little to no protein. When hungry, eat protein to satisfy hunger, not carbs, like chips.
[MN: So my 85 grams of protein would be like 10.5 ounces of meat for example per day.]//The formula is://Weight/20 Multiplied by (8) = Grams of protein//Example for me. //Weight is 168. So, 168/20 = 8.4//Next multiply 8.4 by 8 which equals 67.2//So for my body weight at 168 is 67.2 grams of protein each day for a healthy body.//The KEY is to use the food label grams of protein. Add these grams of protein up each day to ensure you are getting what you need.
For example: 1 veggie burger is labeled as 10 grams of protein.//1 turkey sausage is labeled as 11 grams of protein.//So you eat these two items which adds 21 grams of protein to your daily total of 67.2 grams of protein.//Remember, we are only interested in grams of protein. Nothing to do with how many ounces the meat weighs.
Weightwatchers says, For every 20 lbs of weight, I should get 8 grams of protein each day. //Here are some helpful protein grams in regular meals://3.5 oz of chicken breast = 30 grams of protein.//When you google or ask Siri about a protein measurement ask like “How many grams of protein are in 3 ounces of chicken breast?” Then you will get the correct protein number for a specific weight of chicken breast.
Sleep: Why we get tired
A nerve signaling chemical called Adenosine builds up in our blood while we are awake and causes drowsiness.
This chemical breaks down while we sleep.
In the brain adenosine acts as an inhibitor to our central nervous system. It promotes sleep and suppresses arousal. When awake the levels of adenosine in the brain rise each hour.
MN: It is the brain that governs the need for sleep, not our body. The brain gets the signal to sleep.
Smoking, 2017.
How many Americans smoke today?
36 Million Americans smoke today.
3,200 Teenagers start smoking each day!
Smoking kills 480,000 Americans each year.
REF: NBC Nightly 7/28/17
A smoker is 2,000 times more likely to get cancer than a non-smoker. Ref: NBC Nightly News 2016.
Murderers.
When their biological age is 16, what is their brain development at in maturity?
Ten to eleven years old.
REF: Wormhole, 2017.
The Sun is our source of energy. We eat protein for energy.
So how is our protein connected to our Sun?
Protein comes from the Sun.
The Sun shines on our plants. Animals eat the plants. Animals eat other animals.
The plants make complex carbon atoms, which all animate beings must have to live. Animate objects are made up of complex carbon atoms. Inanimate objects do not have these complex carbon atoms. This is what makes the difference on a living thing versus a non living thing.
Obese people. How many are there?
Around 604 million adults and 108 children are obese.
This is more than 10% of the global population. The United States has the highest rate of obese children at 12.7%.
Hay fever:
Allergy season affects about 50 million Americans each year.
$18 Billion is spent on treatment each year.
Apples contain vitamin C and the antioxidant quercetin in their skin, both of which are helpful in fighting allergies.
Pollen counts tend to go up the day after a significant rain, increasing the risk for an allergic reaction.
Flower pollen is the least common allergy trigger. Heavier than tree and weed pollen, it isnt carried through the air; it falls to the ground instead. [So weed and tree pollen are the troublemakers.]
Hay fever is the most common condition (sneezing, stuffy or runny nose, watery or itchy eyes).
85% of people who receive allergy shots report improvement from hay fever symptoms.
17 Million adults suffer from asthma.
REF: Sam’s club Healthy living made simple 4/17.
REF: Time 6/5/17 Losing Weight excerpts.
- 71% of American adults are overweight.
- The body will, in the long run, fight like hell to get that fat back.
- On biggest loser, 13 of the 14 contestants gained on average, 66% of the weight they had lost on the show, and four were heavier than they were before the competition.
- The vast majority of American adults are overweight; nearly 40% are clinically obese. And doctors now know that excess body fat dramatically increases the risk of serious health problems, including Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, depression, respiratory problems, major cancers and even fertility problems.
- A 2017 study found that obesity now drives more early preventable deaths in the U.S. than smoking.
- 155 million Americans are overweight.
- NY housewife, Jean Nidetch began hosting friends at her home to talk about weight and dieting. Her weekly meeting helped her so much, she lost 72 lbs. in about a year. She ultimately turned those living room gatherings into a company called Weight Watchers. It went public in 1968. She and her co-founders became millionaires overnight. WW now has 3.6 million active users and $1.2 Billion in revenue in 2016.
- When people went through the low fat craze back in the 1970’s, they actually started gaining weight. In 1990, adults with obesity made up less than 15% of the U.S. population. By 2010, obesity was at 25%. Today it is at 40% for adults and 17% for teens.
- More than 80% of people with obesity who lose weight gain it back. That is because when you lose weight, your resting metabolism slows down–possibly an evolutionary holdover from the days when food scarcity was common.
- The biggest losers who gained back some weight, their resting metabolism did not speed up along with it. Instead, in a cruel twist, it remained low, burning about 700 fewer calories per day than it did before they lose weight in the first place.
- Most people who lose weight gain back the pounds they lost at a rate of 2 to 4 pounds per year.
- The secret of keeping the weight off by the vast majority say they eat breakfast every day, weigh themselves at least once a week, watch fewer than 10 hours of TV per week, exercise about an hour a day.
- Long term weight loss tends to be motivated by something other than a slimmer waist, like a health scare or the desire to live a longer life.
UNDERSTANDING FREE RADICALS AND ANTIOXIDANTS
REF: Healthchecksystems.com/antioxid.htm
Cells are composed of many different types of molecules. Molecules consist of one or more atoms of one or more elements joined by chemical bonds.
Atoms consist of a nucleus, neutrons, protons and electrons. The number of protons in the atom’s nucleus determines the number of electrons surrounding the atom. Electrons are involved in chemical reactions and are the substance that bonds atoms together to form molecules. Electrons surround, or “orbit” an atom in one or more shells. The innermost shell is full when it has two electrons. When the first shell is full, electrons begin to fill the second shell. When the second shell has eight electrons, it is full, and so on.
- The most important structural feature of an atom for determining its chemical behavior is the number of electrons in its outer shell. A substance that has a full outer shell tends not to enter in chemical reactions. Because atoms seek to reach a state of maximum stability, an atom will try to fill it’s outer shell by.
- Gaining or losing electrons to either fill or empty its outer shell
- Sharing its electrons by bonding together with other atoms in order to complete its outer shell.
Atoms often complete their outer shells by sharing electrons with other atoms. By sharing electrons, the atoms are bound together and satisfy the conditions of maximum stability for the molecule.
HOW FREE RADICALS ARE FORMED://Normally bonds don’t split in a way that leaves a molecule with an odd, unpaired electron. But when weak bonds split, free radicals are formed. Free radicals are very unstable and react quickly with other compounds, trying to capture the needed electron to gain stability. Generally, free radicals attack the nearest stable molecule, “stealing” its electron. When the “attacked” molecule loses its electron, it becomes a free radical itself, beginning a chain reaction. Once the process is started, it can cascade, finally resulting in the disruption of a living cell. //Some free radicals arise normally during metabolism. Sometimes the body’s immune system’s cells purposefully create them to neutralize viruses and bacteria. However, environmental factors such as pollution, radiation, cigarette smoke and herbicides [agent orange] can also spawn free radicals./It is important to understand that free radical damage accumulates with age.//[MN: In the book “Brain rules”, Dr. Medina tells us that our digestive system rips apart atoms by nature. The Electrons are ripped apart in our digestive system. These damaged molecules become FREE RADICALS that attack the closest healthy cell. This is perfectly normal, but we need 5 helpings daily of veggies and fruits to get our antioxidants into this battle of free radicals.]
Antioxidants neutralize free radicals by donating one or their own electrons, ending the electron “Stealing” reaction. The antioxidant nutrients themselves do not become a free radical by donating an electron because they are stable in either form. [MN: It appears to me that since this is true, that eating healthy fruits and veggies is nature’s method of keeping us healthy. So eating junk food must be full of molecules just waiting to become free radicals. Since junk food gives us zero nutrition, and junk food turns into free radicals, it is obvious then that junk food is potentially killing us with a lifetime of free radical accumulative damage!]
Vitamin E and vitamin C are the two best sources of antioxidants.
Vitamin E protects against cardiovascular disease including plaque formation.
Vitamin C protects against cancer.
Be warned. More is not better on mega doses of these vitamins.
The United States in 2017 lost 63,000 people from opioid overdoses.
REF: NBC nightly news 12/29/17
[MN: This is more than all the American soldiers killed in the Vietnam war.]
Weight Loss trick
Many people can only lose so much weight quickly, then the remaining pounds take forever to come off. How can you speed this up dramatically?
REF: Time magazine and NBC Nightly News.
Staying with your same amount of points or calories, only eat in a 9 hour window. Then do not eat anything after that until nine hours later the next day.
Example: First eat not before 0900 in the morning. Eat until 6:00 PM that night. Now do not eat again until 0900 the next morning!
Why does this work?
It normally takes you 4 to 5 hours to metabilize your food. While you are sleeping, you already metabilized your last food. Now the body will metabilize your stored body fat until you eat calories again the next morning. If you ate a late night midnight snack, your body would metabolize that food first before working on your reduced time to burn up fat! This results in only burning up a small amount of body fat
How many Genes are in the typical human body?
The typical human body has 20,000 genes.
A general rule of thumb is the more genes a species has, the higher evolved lifeform they will become.
How many codes in in the Human DNA?
The human DNA has 3.2 billion codes!
REF: Just Visitors here factoid.
