AP+Carbophoiba+HW


 * 1) Read the NYT article via the link below. Why is it called **Carbophobia**?
 * because it is a fear of good calories and bad calories
 * 1) The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called....
 * Good Calories, Bad Calories
 * 1) Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from **protein** and **fat** but low in calories from **carbohydates**
 * 2) Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths.
 * 3) Too much dietary fat causes ... heart disease
 * 4) Lack of dietary fiber causes ...colon cancer
 * 5) Too much dietary salt causes ...high blood pressure
 * 6) Taubes argues that calories from are worse than calories from **s**. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source?
 * A tiny bit of extra food, 50 or 100 calories a day — a few bites of a hamburger, say — can gradually make you fat, and that eating a tiny bit less each day, or doing something as simple as walking a mile, can make the weight slowly disappear.
 * 1) Click on "**diabetes**". What is diabetes? What causes diabetes? What is the normal role of insulin? What are some differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes?
 * life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood.
 * too little insulin causes diabetes
 * The role of insulin to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat, and liver cells, where it can be used as fuel.
 * Type one usually occurs during childhood and makes little or no insulin.
 * Type two are the most common cases of diabetes. The pancreas does not make enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal
 * 1) Click on "**obesity**". What is the BMI range for an obese person? overweight? What percentage of Americans are overweight? How has the percentage of obese adolescents changed?
 * The BMI of an obese person greater than 30
 * over weight is considered 25-29.9
 * two thirds of Americans are overweight
 * the percentage of obese adolescents have tripled over the last 20 yrs.
 * 1) Click on "**colon cancer**". Where does the colon begin? End? Look on this page, who recently had 5 polyps removed from his colon? What is a colon polyp?
 * the colon begins in the large intestine and ends in the rectum.
 * Bush has had 5 polyps removed from his colon
 * a polyp is where cancer begins and then slowly develops into cancer
 * 1) Click on "**cholesterol**" What is cholesterol? What is its function? What is a side effect of cholesterol in your diet? What are food sources high in cholesterol? What is LDL? What is HDL? What percentage of your diet should be fat? What percentage of the diet is fat for the average American? Which diet had more food (the average American diet or the Low-fat diet? Why?
 * Cholesterol is soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body, such as the nervous system, skin, muscle, liver, intestines, and heart. It is made by the body and also obtained from animal products in the diet.
 * Its function is the production of hormones, bile acid, and vitamin D. It is transported in the blood to be used by all parts of the body.
 * a side effect of cholesterol in your diet includes heart disease or atherosclerosis as your level of blood cholesterol increases.
 * Egg yolks and organ meats are high in cholesterol
 * LDL stands for low density lipoprotein and is "bad cholesterol"
 * HDL stands for high density lipoprotein and is the "good cholesterol"
 * 25- 35 percent should be how much fat you intake into your body
 * 38 percent of fat is in the average American diet
 * The low fat diet had more food in it because it had less cholesterol in it.