Emma+Carbophobia+HW

-Challenges the idea of a low fat diet and focuses on the idea that carbs are bad
 * Read the NYT article via the link below. Why is it called **Carbophobia**?

-Good Calories, Bad Calories
 * The author Gary Taubes has just written a book called....

-protein and fat but low in carbohydrates.
 * Taubes argues that the best diet is high in calories from and _ but low in calories from _.

-A calorie of fat is much less fattening than a calorie of sugar. Evidence such as a complex system of metabolic controls and edfinitive studies done in the 1950s and ’60s by Jules Hirsch of Rockefellar University and Rudolph Leibel of Columbia who suggests that a calorie is a calorie
 * Taubes thinks there are three important diet myths.
 * 1) Too much dietary fat causes ....heart disease
 * 2) Lack of dietary fiber causes ...Colon Cancer
 * 3) Too much dietary salt causes ... high blood pressure
 * Taubes argues that calories from are worse than calories from _. But what evidence suggests that a calorie is a calorie regardless of the source?

-Diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood.Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both. Normally, after glucose enters the bloodstream the pancreas makes insulin to move glucose from the bloodstream into muscle, fat, and liver cells, where it can be used as fuel. Type 1 diabetes is mostly found in children when their body makes little or no insulin and they have to have daily injections of insulin. Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common and usually occurs in adulthood. The pancreas does not make enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal, often because the body does not respond well to the insulin. Type 2 diabetes can be a result of obesity and failure to exercise.
 * 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?

-Obesity is a term used to describe body weight that is much greater than what is considered healthy. Adults with a BMI greater than 30 are considered obese and adults with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 are considered overweight. 2/3 of Americans are overweight. Anyone who is more than 100 pounds overweight is considered obese. The percentage of adolescents who are obese has tripled in the last 20 years.
 * 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?

-Colon cancer starts in the large intestine (colon) or in the rectum (end of colon). President Bush had 5 polyps removed. A colon polyp is a small clump of cells that forms on the colon lining.
 * 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?

- Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body. This includes the nervous system, skin, muscle, liver, intestines, and heart. It is made by the body and also obtained from animal products in the diet. Cholesterol is transported through the blood and is used for normal body functions such as production of hormones, bile acid, and vitamin D., it is made by the liver. Generally, you have a greater risk of developing heart disease or atherosclerosis as your level of blood cholesterol increases. High cholesterol foods are considered to be egg yolks and organ meats such as liver, kidney, sweetbread, and brain. HDL is high density lipoprotein and is considered good cholesterol and LDL, low density lipoprotein is considered bad cholesterol. Limit total fat intake to 25 - 35% of total daily calories. Low fat diet has more food!
 * 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?