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medical studies

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31/07/2007

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Regular physical activity is an important component of a healthy lifestyle. In the 1980s and 1990s, a large body of epidemiologic and clinical evidence linked regular physical activity with a variety of health benefits. Although the strength of the data supporting these associations varies from condition to condition, physical inactivity is clearly a major contributor to premature mortality and morbidity from chronic disease.

Motivational processes vary across the lifespan. Children are motivated by different factors than older adults. In class we discussed the importance of motivating people to lead physically active lives beginning in childhood and continuing throughout older adulthood to maintain good health and longevity. As an aspiring cardiac rehabilitator, motivating older adults to lead active lives is vital in my field. Helping patients to initiate or regain physical activity in their lives will insure a faster and more successful recovery following cardiac surgery.

A research study was conducted to determine elementary school children's motivation in physical education.
Another research study was conducted regarding physical activity promotion among older people.
Motivating people of all ages to move is critical for active lifestyles. Active lifestyles are critical for optimal health.
Trends we see from a developmental perspective with regard to motivation is a decrease in competitiveness leading to a decrease in the importance of beating peers and mastering new skills and an increase in the importance of positive reinforcement and maintaining old skills.

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A developmental perspective in research involves describing an individual’s psychological, social, and behavioral changes across a span of time. It also assesses the similarities and differences in changes observed over time between individuals. The study may cover a lifespan, which constitutes infancy through adult hood, or limit its participants to a specific category such as children or the elderly.

What does a developmental perspective in research involve' What criteria must a study satisfy to be considered 'developmental' in nature?
Explain how involvement in physical activities influences the development of self-perceptions and how this process varies for boys and girls
Children are also unable to distinguish between their 'real' self and their 'ideal' self early in development.
While involvement in physical activities generally influences development of self-perception in children, there is also a substantial difference in its effect on boys and girls.
Beginning around early to middle childhood and continuing throughout adolescence similar trends are seen for both boys and girls.
Development from early childhood through adolescence yields time for various people to influence children.
Parents play many roles in their children's experience with sports. First and foremost they are the initiators; parents are responsible for enrolling their children in sports.
Coaches influence children in numerous ways as well.
In general parents' input is more highly regarded at a younger age while feedback from coaches and peers tends to be relied on more by older children and adolescents.

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medical studies

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03/01/2008

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As Becky waits for the bus on a chilly Thursday night she paces back and forth in anticipation. Stressing over why the bus is taking so long, she feels a pang of hunger in her stomach and realizing that she hasn’t got anything at home to eat, she decides to quickly run across the street and grab a meal at the local McDonalds. “Would you like to super size that?” asks that girl at the register as Becky places her order. “Sure!” she exclaims enthusiastically, feeling content about how much more she is able to get for just 39 cents. Hurrying out the door she sees her bus pulling away from the bus stop. “Damn!” she says to herself as she walks back to the stop. Sitting down wearily on the bench she considers her options. She could walk home; after all it is only a ten minute walk, eight if she walks quickly. Then again, what if another bus is not far behind? Recalling one time when she had decided to walk and saw a bus fly right by her, she decides against walking home and resolves to stay put. Two minutes pass, then eight, then twelve. Finally, seeing a bus in the distance, Becky picks up her bag of food and rises from the bench, feeling glad that she had decided to wait for the bus after all and not realizing that she had just wasted over twenty minutes waiting for the bus when she could have been home a long time ago if she had simply decided to walk.

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38 slides .ppt

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medical studies

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31/07/2007

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Medicine is practiced in a social, economic, and political context. It takes more than excellent medical care to improve the health of patients because many of the determinants of the health of individuals and populations lie outside traditional clinical activity. By contrast, 40% of premature deaths are attributed to personal behaviors, including patterns of eating and physical activity and decisions about smoking, drinking, illicit drug use, and sexual behavior...

“Before the Forty-five, ‘every man was a soldier, who partook of national confidence, and interested himself in national honour. To lose this spirit, is to lose what no small advantage will compensate’” (qtd. in Herman 153). This comment from Samuel Johnson sums up a worry that had begun to weigh on Scottish minds that with the final defeat and disarming of the Highland clans, something of the martial spirit that was seen as central to the Scottish (male) identity had been irretrievably lost. It was not quite as simple and romantic as this, but it was true that society was moving in a new direction in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially economically with industrialization, and traditional forms of masculinity—i.e. the stereotype of the ‘hard man’—needed to be renegotiated. Adam Smith addressed this problem in terms prescient of the problem of “alienation of labor” later defined by Karl Marx. Among the early remedies that were suggested was the formation of citizen militias, but it soon became apparent that masculine energies and violence were to be channeled in a different form—though still retaining the idea of the ‘hard man’—that of sport, especially football.

Football was not simply a sport. It also became a powerful focus of national identity
On 16 April 1746, the Battle of Culloden proved to be the last stand for the Jacobite rebels
The myth of the heroic Highlander disarmed and oppressed persisted
This sense of loss and the resultant mythification of the Highlanders
Ferguson saw the progress of both the fine and the 'lucrative arts?
It is evident that the concern is more with the appearance of the volunteer in nostalgic uniforms of his own invention

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29/08/2007

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Illness provoked by the deficiency of production and/or action of insulin, that drives to acute symptoms and chronic complications. The disease involves the metabolism of glucose, fats and proteins and has serious consequences in either if it appears quickly as when it is installed slowly. In the current days it constitutes a problem of public health specially because it affects a large number of people.

Illness provoked by the deficiency of production and/or action of insulin, that drives to acute symptoms and chronic complications.
Classification
1. Type I:Caused by the destruction of the beta cell of the pancreas
2. Type II:Provoked predominantly by a state of resistance to the action of insulin associated with a relative deficiency of its secretion.
3. Gestational diabetes
Other Types
Evolution
Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment:
Physical Activity
Pharmacological Treatment
Prevention
Recommendations

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social sciences

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02/10/2007

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“Super Size Me”, rather than being a straightforward example of debauchery, is an allegory for the desperate need to change personal nutrition in America. Morgan Spurlock challenges the limits of obscenity in making “Super Size Me”, in which he goes on a thirty day “adventure”, eating only McDonald’s food and recording the tolls it takes on his body. Yet this movie’s purpose is not for the reader to sneer and laugh at the obese, there is a bigger point. Morgan Spurlock tries to depict the average consumer as innocent, while targeting corporations in his quest to prove them guilty. He created an ingenious movie, filled with many obvious and some not so obvious claims to why America is overweight, but there is a flaw in his reasoning. American diets, as “Super Size Me” claims, are destroyed by a luring corporate America, yet what Mr. Spurlock doesn’t realize is that the individual is more responsible for his own diet than the corporations are. He takes away from the importance of individuality by rendering many people he interviews as helpless and manipulated by corporations. He even manages to contradict himself on many occasions, making the purpose of the movie very unclear.

'Super Size Me', rather than being a straightforward example of debauchery, is an allegory for the desperate need to change personal nutrition in America.
Spurlock's contradictions begin at the start of the movie, from the first sentence he utters on camera.
It's not that Spurlock has the wrong idea; he just implements it the wrong way.
Other people in the documentary are not as fortunate, in terms of the opinions they bring across.
Spurlock had other silent strategies for showing the negative effects of fast food on an individual
The big companies that Spurlock constantly refers to in his documentary are not the cause of the problem; they are the effect of it
The corporations that Spurlock refers to are indeed heartless and will probably do anything for money, but as life teaches us, not everything is going to be handed to you on a silver platter
In essence, this movie does not come as a complete shock, but rather convinces the average American to eat healthier and cook his or her own food

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sports

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20/11/2007

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Athletes voluntarily agree to partake in sporting competitions. These contests require opponents to promise to play the game, at the same time, and under the same conditions.7 Performance enhancement substance use is a core ethical issue in sports today. Some athletes feel the use of steroids and other substances violate the equal conditions requirement for sport as well as good sportsmanship conduct, due to the unnatural enhancement they provide. Others feel due to the ubiquity of the drugs they are fair game and see no ethical infraction of equal conditions or sportsmanship by using them to enhance performance.

A performance enhancing drug is a substance consumed for the purpose of enhancing performance.
Three methods are listed as prohibited chemical and physical manipulation, gene doping, and most notably enhancement of oxygen transfer.
Steroids are becoming easily detectable by drug tests and many have been replaced with their tweaked counterparts termed, 'designer' steroids.
Erythropoietin (EPO) is a common protein hormone used in blood doping today.
A common argument against performance enhancers is that they provide an advantage over other athletes and are not internationally available at the same quality.
Another common argument is the ethical differences in the common methods of enhancement such as increasing endurance capabilities and increasing muscle mass.
Enormous amounts of pressure are placed on athletes to win and be exceptional.
Both sides offer interesting viewpoints on this ethical issue. It is a conflict of personal morals and ideals.

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sports

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date published

13/11/2007

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