Medical Anthropology and Nutrition

Daniela here! I am currently a senior at UNCC studying Exercise Science. With the vast growing information that falls under kinesiology and exercise science, I decided to make this informative blog. I'll be focusing on nutrition and medical anthropology and how the two have benefited population for centuries even now with modern medicine.

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Healthy Food Haul: Weight Maintenance

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I found this great video (click the title that is hyperlinked) with amazing tips that can help people transition into a healthier lifestyle with their food. Even though opting for an apple instead of Doritos is not the ideal choice for many people, it can help the overall health of the population. As an exercise science major it is important to inform people about how to implement the information I have learned to their life. Weight maintenance seems like a chore to many, that’s why diets exist. We find that quick results are better than a steady healthy progression that is overall ideal for our body to function.

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Scientists Find Fluoridated Water Causes Hypothyroidism, Weight Gain, AND Depression

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This blog is amazing to find quick tips and insightful knowledge to health problems. The first link correlates to weight maintenance specifically. Hypothyroidism is a hormone imbalance where your thyroid hormone is being under produced. One of the main symptoms is weight gain. It is important to be informed about this because the general population do not correlate weight gain to hypothyroidism. Let alone fluoridated water being the cause of it all. This is news to me because I never expected fluoridated water to be such an impact to the thyroid gland.

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Seared Scallops with Quinoa and Apple Salad + Butternut Squash Purée | A Thought for Food

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This blog is fantastic for daily healthy recipes that definitely tie in creativity and flavor to certain foods that may not seem so appealing. However as you can see this recipe contains most of all your essential nutrients to help fuel you up. This blog is very inspirational to my blog because it shows how eating healthy doesn't have to be boring. It can slowly help build a life style change that can help benefit many people.

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How Culture Effects Weight

Even though modern medicine has helped many humans thrive longer and find ways to lessen and live with the symptoms of many diseases some countries choose to opt for a more natural method. America as a society view consuming healthy food as a type of  diet or game changing life style. When in certain cultures it’s honestly just a regular daily routine where they don't stop and think about “their fresh pressed kale juice.” For example, Japan has one of the most healthiest and varied foods which keeps their population in tip top shape. Consuming a colorful wholesome diet has earned their title of longevity. 

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Recent Research Finds That A Japanese Diet May Cut Down On The Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

Recent Research Finds That A Japanese Diet May Cut Down On The Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

Does sushi make you go weak at the knees? Will you do almost anything for the perfect piece of sashimi? We feel you. However, the tragedy is that in India, Japanese fare is often outrageously priced; after all, it has a focus on fresh seafood and premium ingredients. Luckily, recent research gives you the perfect excuse to splurge on sushi; a study has shown that Japanese cuisine can go a long…

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Another blog inspiration is this one. It complies many current health articles that informs the general public on how to maintain their overall health. This article specifically shows how Japan’s diet can benefit the whole world. Japan maybe one of the world’s most knowledgeable countries in health.

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Alzheimer’s Origins Tied to Rise of Human Intelligence: Factors that drove the evolution of our intellectual capacity are also implicated in the memory disorder

by Nala Rogers

“Alzheimer’s disease may have evolved alongside human intelligence, researchers report in a paper posted this month on BioRxiv. The study finds evidence that 50,000 to 200,000 years ago, natural selection drove changes in six genes involved in brain development. This may have helped to increase the connectivity of neurons, making modern humans smarter as they evolved from their hominin ancestors. But that new intellectual capacity was not without cost: the same genes are implicated in Alzheimer’s disease.

Kun Tang, a population geneticist at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China who led the research, speculates that the memory disorder developed as ageing brains struggled with new metabolic demands imposed by increasing intelligence. Humans are the only species known to develop Alzheimer’s; the disease is absent even in closely related primate species such as chimpanzees.

Tang and his colleagues searched modern human DNA for evidence of this ancient evolution. They examined the genomes of 90 people with African, Asian or European ancestry, looking for patterns of variation driven by changes in population size and natural selection” (read more).

(Source: Scientific American)

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Is this not a humorous anecdote? We see how starting off as a society we relied on what was surrounding us, what the earth provided for us naturally to stay healthy. As times progressed we see a change in how we view health. Now it changed to resolving everything with a pill. Tying this photograph in with weight management, we can compare it to taking weight loss pills. People truly do not give eating healthy a chance. We live in a society were we want results immediately. So we resolve to pills that sound quite gimmicky. What happened to eating enough of your essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals? What happened to exercising your recommended 15-30 minutes everyday?

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History: Modern Medicine

Louis Pasteur, Florence Nightingale, Sir Fredrick Banting, and Charles Hebert Best are some of the many great medical discovers in the history of modern medicine.

Scientist Louis Pasteur: Came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization; he also developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies.

Florence Nightingale: Pioneer of modern nursing.

Banting and Herbert: Discovered Insulin.

However before the 18th century/ the turn of modern medicine how did people maintain their health? How did people from different continents function to live when fallen ill?