Nutrition Analysis

I thought the result of my food tracking was overall pretty well. I realized that the amount of calories i ate a day were very little. During the food market activity, i learned that many of the foods were out in servings, so reading the calories straight off the bag was not for the whole bag, but rather just a portion. I also learned that calories are not the only thing you should look at. Just because something is a lot of calories, does not mean it is always unhealthy. You should always look at how much sugar, protein, and fats are in the portion. I could improve my diet by eating more dairy and less fruit. I found out that one day, i went over my fruit portion. I also needed a lot more grains. If i had an opportunity to coach someone on proper health and nutrition, I would tell them that eating a certain amount of food is important and that calories are not always unhealthy. I would also suggest to look at the amount of protein and sugar is on a food before eating it. My advice overall would to always keep track of how much food you are consuming because eating to little is just as unhealthy as eating too much.

Adrienne Nguyen, September 16, 2015

I think health is your physical and mental being, whether it is healthy or unhealthy. Your daily activity, eating habits, and stress amount all contribute to your health. I think the pilar that i am strongest at is my eating habits and my weakest pilar is the sleep portion. In regards to health, i would like to learn more about calories and if all calories are unhealthy to your health.

Unit 1 Reflection

This unit was about different anatomical terms, he difference between anatomy and physiology, biological molecules, and the histology of different muscles and tissues.

Some themes and essential understandings were the presence of the different macromolecules and how their locations affect the way a cell acts and its corresponding tissue. The function of the tissue is directly related to its structure.
I learned about the monomers of each macromolecule. The building block for carbohydrates is sugar, the building blocks for proteins are amino acids, the building blocks for lipids are fatty acids, and the building blocks for nucleic acids are nucleotides. I also learned that the human body is organized on six levels: the chemical level, the cellular level, the tissue level, the organ level, the system level, and the organismal level, which all have a different function.
Something that i do not fully understand are the difference between cuboidal and squamous and how to define which is which when given a picture. I am also not clear on the difference between cardiac and smooth muscle tissues.
Next unit, i am going to try to take more notes and try to understand the concepts that i do not fully comprehend better.
In the future, many of these concepts will be helpful depending on the career you choose. Personal trainers, for example, need to understand the body and how it works, so knowing the different terms to describe the body is very important. Most jobs that involve the anatomy of the body will find this unit very helpful.

Histology Lab

In this lab, we looked at different cells under a microscope and and looked for the tissue types and drew them. There were many cool cells, such as the human lung and the human aorta. Some tissue types were clearer than others and some looked more complex than others. From the posters we looked at, I learned that bone tissues were composed of several osteons surrounded by lameile. In the epithelium slide (picture below), i learned that epithelial tissues cover a body surface or lines a body cavity. I saw in the human nerve that there were many nerve fibers and axons and learned that nervous tissues are composed of a central axon surrounded by wrappings of Schwann cells.