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Bones help animals move, shape and support for an animal’s body. Bones are made up of tissues that continue to grow throughout the animal’s lifetime. But, as an animal gets older the body adds new bone quicker than getting rid of the old. With growth, an animal can run into many issues, one being bone disorders. Bone disorders can affect the growth of a healthy bone, can cause infection, and injure the animal. Bone disorders can be treated with nutritional treatments to help the bone or bones…

MyPlate is a dietary recommendation implemented by the US department of agriculture in 2011. It aims to educate us on what a healthy diet should be, but oddly, water isn’t included in that diet. Parents everywhere obviously know that their kids need to drink enough water, but are they aware of how much that should be? It is essential that parents understand the recommended water consumption for the sake of their children. The Harvard Healthy eating plate encourages consumers to drink water,…

in bone formation. Another bone cell, osteoclasts, is involved in maintenance of calcium and other minerals within the bone. The life of bone is fluid and varying and is constantly refashioned on the basis of one main factor—levels of calcium in the blood. Calcium levels are kept in homeostasis due to the works of several hormones that include parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, and vitamin D. When low levels of calcium presents in the blood, parathyroid hormone is released from parathyroid glands…

osteoporosis are calcium which is a foundational substance in building bones, and Vitamin D which allows for the absorption of calcium. When looking at Vitamin D ingestion, it has been said that from the day you are born, until the age of 70, it is recommended that you intake 600 to 800 international units (IU) of Vitamin D per day and by age 70 and on, you should consume 800 to 1,200 IU. In relation to calcium intake, an individual age 1 to 3 should be consuming 700 milligrams (mg)of calcium a…

Imagine waking up, tripping over a rug, and immediately breaking a hip bone or shoulder without any hesitation. With the right amount of calcium in your diet, this can reform immensely for the state of one’s bone health. The root “osteo” actually means bone; moreover, Osteoporosis is a disease in which the bone is tremendously brittle, which can be preventable with the right precautions. Bones are the formation of the skeletal system in which helps with mobility and structure. Unfortunately,…

Cinthya Montoya September 18, 2014 Period 4 Biology Surface Tension of Water I. Objective: How does soap affect the surface tension of water? II. Background: The surface tension of water is due to cohesion forces that allow water to stick to its same molecules. In a liquid, such as water, molecules are strongly attracted by each other causing a phenomenon called surface tension of water. Surface tension could be defined as the force that implies a liquid to resist external forces produced by…

Osteoporosis is a disease of the skeletal system that is often thought to be just a disease of postmenopausal women. Men are carriers of the disease and account for 25 to 30 percent of all hip fractures because of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is on the rise in America and seems to be on a scaling upward trend without signs of slowing. Recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors are performing experiments with the drug alendronate to increase bone density. In this study 241 men, ages…

Calcium in the human body has role of preserving or storing calcium supply so as to meet the body metabolic processes in cases of calcium deficiency. In children calcium deficiency (lack of calcium) it may affect growth, delay the strengthening of the skeleton bones. In adults, lack of calcium causes deployment and weakening of bones and leads sooner or later to osteoporosis. When calcium is absorbed in the body it helps in the normal functioning…

should take calcium supplements. Calcium is one of the most abundant minerals in the body, yet so many people still have trouble consuming enough calcium rich foods. Calcium is by far the most important mineral for our structure. One circumstance under which a person should take calcium supplements is if a doctor specifically prescribes a patient a calcium supplement due to having any kind of deficiency. Another circumstance is if you are aware that you are not getting enough calcium in your…

reasons. One reason is it can make peoples bones strong. It has been a recomendation by doctors that if people want to have strong bones, they should drink 3 cups of milk everyday, also when they have weak bones they should drink milk because it has calcium, which that will make your bones big and strong. It’s so important because if people don’t drink it, our bones will be very soft. Another reason is, because milk can help lose weight. In fact, people who drink a very little amount of milk…