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ShareBody Surface Area (BSA)
Body Surface Area (BSA) is the total surface of the human body. This measurement is used in the medical field to help determine the appropriate dosages of medicine and the amount of IV fluids that need to be administered.
Body Surface Area has many different formulas for calculating the number, each with slightly different results. The most commonly used formula now is that of Mosteller, published in 1987 in The New England Journal of Medicine. Mosteller’s derived a simplified calculation in metric terms. The body surface area = the square root
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Living a Fitness Lifestyle is something I talk about in many of my articles. Living a Fitness Lifestyle is something that we should all strive to live. It does not happen overnight, but is a progression of small steps that leads to a healthier you. A small step toward living a fitness lifestyle is incorporating regular exercise into your life. Regular exercise can play a key role in living a fitness lifestyle by reducing the risk of medical problems, and aiding in any existing medical problems. Striving to live a fitness lifestyle is
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ShareProtein Metabolism: Energy Transfer and ATP
Protein Metabolism is an important role in producing ATP, along with the other macronutreints (carbohydrates and fats). Protein Metabolism accomplishes this through the energy transfer pathways just as carbohydrate metabolism and fat metabolism play their respective roles in the energy transfer pathways. Simply stated, the energy transfer pathways are where the process of breaking down the carbon-hydrogen bonds that are in the foods we eat into ATP for energy.
Protein is an important component of every cell, tissue, and organ in our body.
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ShareATP and Energy Transfer Processes
ATP and Energy Transfer Processes supplies the energy to perform every bodily action. ATP is required for every muscle contraction, and ATP is even needed to make more ATP. In my article What is ATP, I discusses what ATP is in depth.
A high-level view of what ATP is and does is that ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) is needed for practically every action in our body. Or put another way, ATP is the energy source for all human movement. Through the digestive process energy is released from the nutrients
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ShareWhat is ATP?
What is ATP is a question that I get asked a lot. Most athletic have an understanding of what ATP is and that it provides the energy they need to perform. In my article Food: Nutrition Absorption and Delivery I discussed that after we eat a meal, the nutrients are digested, absorbed and screened by the liver and then sent into the bloodstream of the body to reach target cells. Once the nutrients reach their target cells a number of things can happen such as: 1) they are oxidized for
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ShareFood and Nutrition Absorption and Delivery
Food and nutrition go hand-in-hand, and in this article we will take a look at how nutrients are absorbed and delivered throughout our body. Eating food is a daily activity that we partake in multiple times per day. Most of us are not concentrating on the nutritional value and the nutrients that are in the food, we are concentrating on the food itself and how it tastes. However, if you want to move close to living a fitness lifestyle, it is important to understand how food and nutrition interacts
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Last February I posted a video of 95 year old Ida Keeling breaking the world age sprint record. Here is an inspirational video of Ida with some great words of wisdom about getting old.
Generation Inspiration: Ida Keeling from Douglas Snyder on Vimeo
ShareProteins: A Look at the Cellular Level
Proteins are an important component of every cell, tissue, and organ in our body. Proteins are the building block of bones, muscles, and more. In my article Good Nutrition and Nutritional Science I discussed how good nutrition effects our body at the cellular level. And I also discussed that it is at this cellular level that nearly every function that takes place in our bodies is dependent on the creation and production of proteins.
Let’s take a closer look at these cellular proteins and how good
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Good nutrition means having a basic understanding of how carbohydrates, vitamins, fats, minerals, etc, all interact with your cells. When we talk about good nutrition we must also have an understanding of the way our body works at the cellular level, and to have an understanding of cell structure and function as it relates to nutrition. To have good nutrition you should have a basic understanding of how carbohydrates, vitamins, fats, minerals, etc., all interact with your cells. How this interaction at the cellular level turns into energy
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ShareGood Nutrition Defined
Good nutrition is a phrases that means different things to different people. Some people might consider good nutrition to be eating less sugary foods while another’s definition of good nutrition eating more fruits and vegetables. While other will define good nutrition as eating less meat, eating less carbohydrate, or having what they consider to be a sensible and balanced diet. What is missing from the definition of good nutrition from all of these is that they are incomplete, and if you follow some wacky fad diet it can
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