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Please find below a short summary on the subject you have been assigned. This will help you in completing your project and also give you an overview on the current research on this subject.
Food additives are chemical substances added to food in order to either maintain or improve its physical characteristics such as taste, texture, appearance and even freshness.
The long term effects that these substances have on the human body are still largely unstudied. According to the hypothesis called "chemical obesogen", these synthetic compounds are contributing factors to the global obesity epidemic.
Although evidence-based scientific research is still lacking, the support for this hypothesis is growing as many of these additives have been found to disturb the body's endocrine functions.
Furthermore, artificial preservatives used today may increase the risk of inflammatory bowel disease. This has been shown by a study on mice in which the food additives known as emulsifiers (carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate-80) have been shown to affect the animal's health.
Due to these chemicals, the mice not only became obese but also developed metabolic problems such as glucose intolerance. It seems that these chemicals affect the gut bacteria population in a negative way, as mice lacking gut bacteria did not become ill.
The mice study was followed by another study in which the human simulated through a series of flasks. Under the influence of the emulsifiers arboxymethylcellulose (E566 on EU labels) and polysorbate-80 (E433), the levels of bacterial protein called flagellin increased. This protein is known to cause inflammation at high concentrations. The next step in the study will be the first human trials.
Due to the long road our food takes from the farm to our table more extensive research is required. There are thousands of compounds that change the biochemical properties of the plants and animals that constitute our diet. The effects of the degradation and accumulation of these compounds are still unknown and thus many more studies and approaches are required in order to insure healthy food and stop the current obesity epidemic. Everything that is added to our food should be carefully analyzed.
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The following are the sections which can be seen in a food label:
1) Product dates:
Under this section look for the production date and the expiry date ( best before). The production date tells when the food was made. The expiry date tells the date before which the food has to be used.
2) Ingredient list:
The list of all the ingredients used for the preparation of the food is mentioned.
3) Nutrition Facts Label
At the top of this label, we will see the total number of servings and size of the container. Thus table shows some key nutrients and the percent of them present in the container of food. It also shows the calories of each. Percent Daily Value (DV) shows the percentage of each nutrient present.
The nutrient label are important to an athlete because he/she needs to take a diet which is capable of filling us nutrient requirements. Athletes tend to perform well when they have a balanced diet. To get a balanced diet, they need to look at the nutritional values.
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relief rainfall occurs when warm moist air from the atlantic ocean rises up over mountains when the warm air rises it cools and condenses to form clouds which bring rain.
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Power equals work (J) divided by time (s). The SI unit for power is the watt (W), which equals 1 joule of work per second (J/s)
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Reactants: Oxygen and glucose are both reactants in the process of cellular respiration. The main product of cellular respiration is ATP; waste products include carbon dioxide and water.
Products: Cellular respiration converts oxygen and glucose into water and carbon dioxide. Water and carbon dioxide are by- products and ATP is energy that is transformed from the process.
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