Thursday, November 17, 2016

Human Body Redesign 2.0

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Summary: During this project I learned a lot about the esophagus and the digestive system. First of all the esophagus has one major problem. Acid reflux. Acid reflux is when your stomach acids come up and burn your lower esophagus.This causes pain to many people in the USA and the world. My team and I decided we needed to find how to fix this. Of course to do this we needed to find the source of the problem. That is the mucosa. The mucosa is what the interior of the esophagus is made of. The mucosa can burn. This is when things got simple. What doesn't burn easily? Muscles! This is when we got our design. I learned that adding smooth muscle would be the best way to get rid of the burning. We decided to chose smooth muscle and the project was complete!

Backwards Looking: Before we started this project I didn't not know as much as I knew now but I had a general understanding of it. Any time that I had researched it before it was only general facts. I have never gone this in depth with any other system and I have feeling it was very beneficial. Getting to see how a everything works deeper than just the first layer made me see the digestive system very different.

Inward Looking; For this project I did have a few goals. One of the goals was to have an interactive presentation. When I heard that we should not do a presentation  because it was boring I knew we had to make ours special. I had a feeling people would either just still do a presentation or do a video. So one of my first goals was to find a presentation that would engage our audience. My second goal was to make sure we had all our work done within the time. This may seem like a silly goal because of course you must do that, yet there was a point when I really thought we would not be able to get this project done. So I made a goal that we must get it done in whatever ways we can. Then finally my last goal. My goal was to make sure my presentation was fun. Since we added the skit and other fun things to the presentation I wanted to make sure I was having loads of fun. My thoughts are even if you mess up people will respect you if you just go for it. Thats a lot more impressive than the person that just does nothing and shies away.

Outward Looking: I feel that we did our work very differently than the rest of the groups. First of all we were behind everyone. We took a lot of our time to get our redesign idea. Looking through at our idea now I can tell that paid off. Since we did extensive research our idea was very well planned. Then after that we also were the only group to make a 3d model.  This was very surprising because usually people like to do that but no this time we were alone. Then last of all our presentation. Our presentation was more of a skit and ignite presentation. This was unlike anything anyone else did. It was almost out of the box in my opinion. In the end I felt that ours stood out because of our changes.

Forward Looking: Next time I would like to work on a few things. The main thing I would like to work on is focus. During this project I struggled a lot to focus on the task. This made it hard for me and my team. I just was really struggling to keep my attention on all the facts. I think though that just the reading and reading of articles bored me so I struggled. Another thing is I would like to have practiced the script. Before we presented we had never practiced so I was worried. Over all though it was a wonderful project with a wonderful group  making it an even more wonderful experience.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Redesigning the Digestive System

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Summary: There are a lot of flaws with the digestive system. My team and I have found one that is exceptionally bad. We are now on a mission to solve this terrible problem. The problem of acid reflux.  I know it terrifying try not to fall out your seat. This terrible phenomenon is when your stomach acids come up and burn the esophagus. Pretty painful right, well it can even get worse. If this happens a lot to you it means you are more likely to get esophagus cancer.  Esophagus cancer is in the top ten list of worst cancers. We are now researching deeply to find a new innovative way to fix this catastrophe.


S&EP: This week we asked question and defined problems. We had to ask lots of questions based on our previous understanding of the digestive system. We asked things like, What causes acid reflux?, How common is it? ,What does it do to the body? Of course it became our mission to answer all these questions. Every time we discovered  the answer to one question we had many more. The real question that trips everyone up though is how do you fix it? Even my "highly qualified" group and I are having trouble answering this question. The real mission over all is making your questions problem. Then making your problems fixable.  Its a difficult task yet the future is now thanks to science!

XCC: This week we worked with Systems and System Models. I hope you know by now that the digestive SYSTEM, is just one of many systems in your body. The real challenge of such a huge systematic order is one change completely off sets it all. When you have systems you need  a good balance. You have to fix the problem or problems to the needs of the system yet you cant change it where it will hurt another system. For example if I wanted to prevent choking hazards I cant just say lets close the wind pipe completely, That would make it so we cant breathe. Not such a good idea. When balancing systems and studying them you learn so much about the machine that is the human. A real beautiful thing now isn't it?

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Science Omnivores verses Vegetarians WAC Essay


The Vegetarian Diet is over all healthier than the Omnivores Diet. Millions of people die each year from starvation, and diseases. With a Vegetarian Diet we can prevent this. The Vegetarian diet has a way of making the bodies overall health tremendously better. Since you are not putting in all the impact that meat can hold on your life you have a much less likelihood of getting a handful of deadly diseases. Diseases are a main killer on our globe. If we want to have the health of ourselves be better, the health of our country be better. Than we must go for the best solution the Vegetarian Diet.

Reason 1:
 In the Article Should People become Vegetarian? By ProCon. Org it states, " Vegetarians have a 24% lower chance of getting heart disease and it lowers blood pressure." This is referring to the high blood pressure that meat brings to your body. High blood pressure is bad for many reasons. The main reasons though are that it causes many heart related diseases and it is horrible for people with diabetes. Let me give a better understanding why this is so crucial. Your heart is an organ that you can not live without and a heart related disease would prevent it from being able to do its good. So in the end you would die without it all because you were eating meat. Then people with diabetes take up 9.3% of the population. With vegetarian diet there life will not be in danger as often. This high blood pressure levels are very bad for these people and with them it will decrease there health. This is why a Vegetarian diet will make you over all healthier  with or without disease.

Reason 2:
 In the Article Should People become Vegetarians? By ProCon. Org it states, "It takes over 10 pounds of crop life to make 1 pound of meat. If we just go straight to giving this crop to people we will make it so 800 million people around the world could not suffer from starvation." As you can tell Omnivores are using this crop life and making less food. If people turn over to the vegetarian side then we can save people from starvation. Using this much resource on a pleasure is unnecessary and unreasonable. With more people with a vegetarian diet means more over all health in countries. Why waste when we can save?


Reason 3:
In the Article Is it healthier to be a Vegetarian or an Omnivore? by SENCER it states, " Animals cause high cholesterol and helps aid to cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and obesity."  Pretty crazy right! Just choosing a life style can make your health terrible if you were to get anyone of these things it would make your life much more difficult. The overall health of the human would be majorly effected. You would always have to be careful and you would never know when something could happen to you. Animals can be good yes but they can also be like a knife cutting into someones perfect health. Don't choose a life style that can lead to disaster. Be a Vegetarian.


Strong Finish: As you can tell choosing a lifestyle like this is almost suicidal. It can give you so many life threatening diseases when our goal here is to preserve our bodies. Giving yourself a higher likelihood of disease or even death is almost a joke to this problem.  We want to make yourself live longer. Stay stronger and be able to live a healthy life. Choose Vegetarian if not for yourself do it for other. DO it for the world's overall health.

Counter Argument:

Omnivores may say.....
Meat is the easiest way from your body to get the required iron for blood.With this source of iron  humans would die! We need a consistent intake of it for the new blood cells. Why choose a lifestyle that cant provide? When meat goes through your digestive system since it is high in iron because once your meat did have iron in its blood it makes it so your blood can use that. We need to give our body a source. The goal is to live here right?

Vegetarians would say.....
Even though meat may be the easiest way doesn't mean its the best. Actually vegetables are the best source of iron you can get. Even though meat may be able to have its impact in a time restraint this is not a race. Also then way that you get iron from meat is actually bad for you. It has a bad effect on the circulatory system. The goal here is to provide. Base line that's it, it doesn't have to be the fastest to be the best. This is yet another reason why the vegetarian diet is better.

Conclusion:
In conclusion we can make the clear statement that Vegetarians diet is overall healthier. We have seen this in the strongest way our disease. Disease take people way more painfully then a bullet does. We want to be healthy as a nation as a world. We need to prevent this from happening. Supporting meat eating could be somes demise.  If we want to stay healthy and live in peace. We should give peace of mind. Be a Vegetarian.