3 Questions #10 5-15-15

1. What tasks have you completed recently? 
2. What have you learned recently?
3. What are you planning on doing next?

1. I have competed a blog on the heart,  I have colored my color plates, and I have done a blood lab.

2. I have learned about the immune system, and how the heart functions through the left and right ventricles, and the left and right atriums.

3. I plan on doing my glogs this weekend, along with studying for my final and my EOC. 

Wake Up Call Blog 5-15-15

Wake Up Call Blog

      The foods that are beneficial for a healthy heart are: Fish, whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables. These types of foods maintain blood sugar. The foods that are unhealthy for you and unbeneficial for a healthy heart are: Salty foods, fried food (this has a lot of fat in it), and fast food. A lot of these foods have have saturated fats in them. Saturated fats can raise LDL's and HDL's.

      Some activities that are hazardous to heart health is smoking, eating unhealthy, doing drugs, not exercising, etc. Some solutions are to quit smoking, avoid second hand smoking, stop doing drugs, and start exercising a little more. Smoking hurts your heart, because if reduces how much oxygen your heart gets, it raises your blood pressure, and can produce blood clots more faster. Some benefits to stopping the hazardous activities is a better heart, a lower blood pressure, and better lungs which help with the filtering of the heart.

     Aspirin can help in preventing heart disease by reducing the blood clot clumping, by doing this, it will thin the blood so that no blood clots can be produced which will help a heart attack.

 http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/glossary/g/saturatedfat.htm

 http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/PreventionTreatmentofHeartAttack/Aspirin-and-Heart-Disease_UCM_321714_Article.jsp

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This is a diagram that shows a myocardial infarction and the troponin levels that rise and decrease during and after a heart attack.

Blood Blog 5-7-15

What are the different blood types people can have?

What determines a person's blood type?

What is your blood type?

How is blood typing done?

Why is it important to know the type of blood?  What are the consequences if you don't?

The different types of blood that people can have are: A-, A+, B-, B+, AB-, AB+, O- and O+. What determines a person's blood type are the antigens on the red blood cells.  My blood type is O+ . Blood typing is done by the ABO grouping system which divides the blood types into 4 categories. It's important to know the type of blood because, the patient in need of a blood transfusion may have a fatal reaction if given the wrong blood type. Consequences include back pain, bloody urine, chills, fainting or dizziness, and flushing of the skin.

  



3 Questions #9 4-30-15

1. I have colored many colorplates 

2. I have learned about the hormones in the Endocrine system

3. I plan on finishing my glogs while doing an extra credit one and studying over the weekend.

Extra Credit Blog: How Does the Brain Work?? 4-20-15

The brain helps us to live our everyday life. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the right side. The brain has many nerves the moves the muscles in our faces. Each part of the brain controls something in our body. It is a really fun organ to learn about. The brain can control temperature, heart rate, breathing, etc. It lets you think, sleep, wake, and experience emotions.It also controls your physical movement by walking, standing, talking, etc. There are over thousands of nerve cells which is why the brain is so important. If something goes wrong in the brain, it makes it very difficult to function.

3 Questions #8 4-20-15

1. I have done a nervous system lab
2.I learned about the different part of the brain and how they nerves function.
3. I plan on taking a test on Wednesday.

Nervous System Blog 4-8-15

What was the point of the lab??
The point of the lab was to show how the nervous system functions by recording electrical activities of neurons. We used the lab with the leech and dissected it to show what happened.
It explained how the nervous system of the leech functioned and the heartbeat.
How is this applicable to people??
It has been a useful specimen to study the function of the nervous system. It helps because you get to study the response of the nerve cells. If we study the nerve cells we can go deeper into learning how the nervous system is studied and we can figure out how some diseases occur.