Professor Harumi Okuyama, the senior author, along with seven other prominent scientists have contributed their time and helped with advancements in knowledge towards nutrition and disease. Their findings contradict most of what we once believed was once “heart healthy for us.” Professor Okuyama states, “Certain types of vegetable oil and hydrogenated oil shortened the survival of stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats by decreasing platelet number, increasing hemorrhagic tendency and damaging kidney functions, which could not be accounted for by their fatty acid and phytosterol compositions. These vegetable oils and medicines such as statin and warfarin share, in part, a common mechanism to inhibit vitamin K2-dependent processes, which was interpreted to lead to increased onset of Cardio Vascular Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, chronic kidney disease, bone fracture and even mental disorder.” I know this all seems like a bunch of medical terms swarming around our head causing confusion, but Professor Harumi is making a basic connection between statin (which is a medication diabetics take daily), and polyunsaturated fats. His findings include that when the lab rat was given statin vitamin K2 was inhibited completely; this inhibition also occurred when the lab rat was given any kind of vegetable oils or hydrogenated oils. This makes me question the commodity of food and so much of the false pretenses that were highlighted to lure us into these industry traps. The American Food Industry has pushed vegetable oils and hydrogenated oils down our throats, claiming they were healthy and not saturated in heavy fats like butter. These polyunsaturated fats have been proven to have a causal effect on our bodies; as proven by Professor Harumi and his seven scientists they prevent any kind of vitamin K2 production in our body. Vitamin K2 plays many importance rolls through-out our body. Vitamin K2 works as kind of a mapquest system for calcium, our tissues utilize vitamin K to ensure that our calcium is deposited in our bones; when we become vitamin K deficient because of primal causation, the calcium has no guided direction through out our body, and starts to build up in all the wrong places like our major organs. This calcification in our organs leads to most of the major diseases Amercians suffer from today.
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The change in the composition of fatty acids equated in a significant increase in obesity. This obesity epidemic was something Americans didn’t have to deal with four decades ago. At that time an average American household had an increase of weight which averaged around of five to ten pounds a year. Due to agribusiness and modern agriculture western diets, the average American household is now gaining an average of fifty to hundred pounds a year; this is due to food containing excessive levels of poly-unsaturated fats, and it being stressed to us, to steer clear of any saturated fats.
I watched your video about how to better my essay. The main take away I got from you, was that you really liked it; but you suggested ways to help me improve my essay. In the beginning of my essay I start off by mentioning Dania and I did an intake, once I revise it I will mention where I work. You mentioned that I should mention that Jeanine could have also been a person with resilience and strength , even though she did not make it bc of her horrific circumstances; it doesn’t mean she did not have these characteristics . Also you mentioned my capitalization was very distracting, and it wasn’t needed. I had described a woman’s bruises as purpura type bruising, once I revise my essay I will describe this type up bruising to help my reader understand the severity of this kind of bruising. I’ll also clarify and mention how Jeanine’s ending shouldn’t determine her strength because she could have been a woman with a great source of strength for all I knew. I was trying to set some of my words apart from the essay by capitalizing certain words, but I will leave it as part of the regular text because it maybe very distracting for the reader when I capitalize randomly that way.
For this upcoming unit I will take all these comments in a constructive way, and utilize them to do better. I will reference certain things I say vaguely, to make sure my reader can grasp my ideas and events accordingly. I will not capitalize randomly, if I have an itching urge I’ll use italics. A question I have would be: One of my concerns for writing my first essay in unit 1 was, I didn’t want to have these run on sentences and paragraphs that would throw the reader off, how much is too much? Even the scene with Jeanine and her story, would explaining more in detail about Jeanine’ resilience throw the flow of the story off? It probably won’t though. Usually when I finish my essays, I end up reading it over and over to make sure there’s this flow that I really like. Is that normal for writers to do?
The two possible sources I found for my Unit 2 Essay are:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/diet-fitness/a10965/pufa-free-diet/
Steven Marcari writes, “The primary issue with PUFAs is that they are highly unstable. All fats have a temperature with which they oxidize (i.e. become unstable, go rancid, become toxic). For PUFAs that temperature is very low. An easy way to remember this is that unsaturated fats are unstable and Saturated fats are Stable. Unstable fats are prone to oxidation. Oxidation lead to free radicals. Free radicals lead to cellular damage in your body that can manifest both internally in the form of damaged organs/glands and externally in the form of rapidly aging skin” (Marcari, 2015). Steven Marcari breaks down why PUFAS are so unstable, PUFAS become very unstable in low temperatures, the human body is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (which is way higher than their limit); which basically would cause the PUFAS to go rancid once in our body and create inflammation within our body. It should be noted that diseases in general have tripled since PUFAS have been introduced, also the rate of obesity drastically increased in the average American household.
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