Anaerobic Cellular Respiration

As I understand, humans would not be able to survive using just anaerobic cellular respiration because we would be usuing more oxygen then our bodies could produce, leaving the body drained and unable to work correctly. Humans rely on anaerobic cellular respiation when they are exceeding the amount of oxygen the body can make, like exercising. From my research, I found that "cold-blooded" animals produce less ATP then "warm-blooded" animals, this would explain why "warm-blooded" animals are more active then "cold-blooded" animals.

Photosynthesis

This week's lecture and reading has been a terrible headach. Understanding how photosynthesis works is a hard topic to understand, but a topic not so hard to understand is the consquences in deforestation. There are many reasons why we need to plant 3 trees for every tree we cut down, one being that planting more trees mean planting more life. Not only do trees need and thrive off Carbon Dioxide, but they also emit a very important thing we call oxygen. I don't know how much energy is produced by photosynthesis, but I do know that it is a ton! Before reading this week, I didn't realize how much we need plants to live. We're extremely dependent on plants. Not only do they proved oxygen, which we need in order to breathe and live, we also need plants in order to eat. Plants provide the animals we eat with nutrients and those animals provide us with the nutrients that we need. Granted, we don't only get the nutrients we need from animals and meat, but we also get them directly from plants!

Back to deforestation! There are people who have thought about what deforestation has done to the environment, so much so that they have created Tree farms. Watch this video: Tree Farms

America is overweight!

I think one of the reasons why America is so overweight is because we are a fast pase society. We don't think about the decisions we make with food, we just think about what is the fastest and easiest way to get food. We eat out a lot more than we should eating at places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, or Carl's Jr. Another reason why we're so overweight is because our serving sizes with foods is much bigger than other societies. We have 62 oz. drinks for what we call "large."

I think our society being overweight makes a huge statement saying that we don't care about our health, as long as the food is some what tasty, fast, and convenient, we don't care what it does to us. Our culture likes to flash the television screen with weight loss pills that claim that they work and you don't have to change a thing in your life in order for them to work. I think that our culture makes it somewhat difficult for people. People think that they need to be a size 1 to look beautiful, which is definitely not the case. The more pressure our society puts on being thin, we can expect that in the future we will have even more overweight people. We have created so many different diseases because everyone wants to be thin. It doesn't matter how you get skinny, as long as you get skinny. Puke it out, binge, or get tummy-tucks.

I think parents can eliminate sugar, fast food, and fast and convenient living styles. Parents need to teach their children at a young age to eat healthy and to eat the right serving sizes, don't teach children to eat whatever is fast and convenient!

Pseudoscience!

Kinoki Foot pads are an obvious pseudoscience. Putting some pads on your feet that take toxins out of your body is a bogus idea, but hey, some people fell for it! http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Stossel/story?id=4636224&page=1

Psychoanalysis is an example of pseudoscience that I am not too sure on along with a lot of other people. Here's a website that decribes what Psychoanalysis is http://www.freudfile.org/psychoanalysis/definition.html. This is a website article that tries to separate fact from fiction with psychoanalysis being a pseudoscience http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/15-10-2008/106563-Psychoanalysis_Pseudoscientific-0.

The risks that we need to understand with pseudoscience is that some people may believe that something like Kinoki Foot Pads actually does release toxins in your body onto a pad fo you to see. What we need to understand is that these "fake sciences" may become engraved into our cultures and may actually be believed by many, changing what we know about science and what we know about our world today.

Trans fat = bad fat?

Legislations has been passed requiring food companies to label their foods with the trans fat content in their foods because trans fat can increase the risks of getting heart disease. I found a website that I thought was pretty good and well informed about trans fats http://thetruthabouttransfat.com/.

The food item I chose is Nature Valley's Sweet & Salty Nut Granola Bars: Peanut. There are 14 natural and only 7 non-natural ingredients. I am concerned about eating healthy foods, but I don't always make the greatest choices with what I eat. I know I should be more concerned about what goes into my body, but at this time in my life, I don't really have the money or the time to worry about it unfortunately.

How do you know you're alive?

To me, being alive means being capable of functioning. I can see, touch, smell, taste and hear and I am capable of interacting with others who do these same things. The scientific definition of living is surviving and adapting to changes. I believe this definition of being alive is a great one. For example, my cat, that I've had for about a year and a half, sort of adopted my boyfriend and I. She is, what I like to say, a cat burglar. She literally broke into the house and has been here ever since. I would imagine that she broke into the house to survive, which she's doing quite well. This example would support the definition from scientists that living is surviving and adapting to changes. What do you guys think? Do you think living is merely breathing?

About me!

So I'm taking this class because I not only have to take it, but it seems fun. I'm currently taking 1o units, soon to be 14, hopefully, if I get an add code for one of the classes I need.

Some interesting facts about me:
I have a boyfriend of 7yrs (8yrs in May).
My favorite color is Green.
My favorite book is Choke by Chuck Palanuik.
I'm a hippie-tree-hugger.

My two suggestions for posting comments is no foul language and correct people when they make mistakes (might make you mad at the time, but hopefully it will save you from making more mistakes).