Monday Wellness Reflection

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AWfvqZXcCQ4BJcPFZ089AUb5cEwVUycWvtihVHqKJVc/edit?usp=sharing
I chose this topic because when I was in PE, I loved the fact that we mostly did Cross Fit, and it made me have more confidence in myself after I completed whatever we happened to be doing that day. So I thought that it was a good idea to do Cross Fit as my topic, since I enjoyed actually doing the workouts. I would say that the interesting thing that I learned was that Coach Greg Glassman is the one that created Cross Fit and is the first person to ever define fitness in a meaningful and measurable way, "increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains." The topic of Cross Fit is important for health and wellness because it is meant to promote health and wellness of the body by promoting fitness through a fun way of exercise that you can do with your friends. Also the fact that it does work all the muscles of your body also adds to why it's important for health and wellness. Cross Fit also helps build social bonds with the people you workout together with. If I was to grade myself on a scale of 1 to 10, I sure wouldn't give myself a 10. I would honestly have to give myself a 4, since I didn't take charge of the project like I should of when I said that we should follow the advice that was suggested to us when we asked for a suggestion, I should have not let my voice be ignored by my partner, I should have made sure that we started the power point earlier, I should have made sure that we asked for a suggestion earlier and asked if our power point was on track for the assignment, and I should have made sure that we had met all of the requirements for this project. I know now of all the mistakes that I made for this assignment, but only wish now that I had known sooner, so I wouldn't be in the mess I am in now. I know full well that this probably made me look bad and to be honest, I didn't feel good about this at all, from the very beginning I felt like that I was only set up for failure with this assignment, nothing more, nothing less. Finding out my grade for the assignment didn't help the feeling I felt, it only made it worse and sent me spiraling down a dark path. Even thinking about what happened and why it did happened doesn't help with the situation at all, even after just accepting that all of this happened. All I know is that after all of my efforts to make the assignment happen and be a great presentation, the damage has already been done and I can't do anything to fix that damage.

Sheep Heart Disection Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSn9fymN1SQ

Sheep Heart Dissection

1. What is the purpose of the pericardium?

It's purpose is to keep the heart in place and to keep the pressure inside the heart from making it explode.

2. Observe the blood vessels connecting to the heart. How do arteries differ from veins in their structure?

Arteries have thicker walls, and a higher pressure inside of them than veins do, and unlike arteries, veins carry blood to the heart while arteries carry blood away from it.

3. Place your finger inside the auricle. What function do you think the auricle serves?

It takes in deoxygenated blood from the body and oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps them through the tricuspid/bicuspid valve to their respected ventricles.

4. Observe the external structures of the atria and ventricles. What differences do you observe?

Ventricles have thicker walls than the atria and blood flows into the atria and out of the ventricles.

5. Find the following structures. Use pictures or words to describe each.

a. Exit from the coronary sinus

b. Exit from the inferior vena cava

c. Right Atrioventricular Valve (Tricuspid Valve)

a. It empties blood into the right atrium.

b. It empties blood into the heart.

c. It prevents the backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium.

6. Draw a picture of the tricuspid valve, including chordate tendinae and the papillary muscle.

7. Why is the "anchoring" of the heart valves by the chordate tendinae and the papillary muscle important to the heart to function?

It's important because it prevents the bicuspid and tricuspid valves from collapsing into the atria while contracting.

8. Using pictures and/or words describe what you see.

It prevents backflow and allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle.

9. What is the function of the semi-lunar valves?

The semi-lunar valves are the valves that prevent blood from going back into the heart after they have left it.

10. Valvular heart disease is when one or more heart valves does not work properly. Improperly functioning heart valves can lead to regurgitation, which is the backflow of blood through a leaky valve. Ultimately this can lead to congestive heart failure, a condition that can be life threatening.

a. If the valve disease occurs on the right side of the heart, it results in swelling in the feet and ankles. Why might this happen?

b. If the valve disease occurs on the left side of the heart, what complications would you expect to see?

a. The blood isn't moving through the heart so it backflows back down and gathers in the feet and ankles, causing swelling.

b. I would expect to see swelling in the lungs because of the backflow.

11. Using pictures and/or words describe what you see.

The cordae tendinae connects the papillary muscle to the bicuspid valve.

12. Describe how the left and right sides of the heart differ from each other.

The right side of the heart deals with deoxynated blood while the left side of the heart deals with oxynated blood, the walls of the left side of the heart are thicker than the right because it needs to pump blood to the body.

13. Draw and label all structures visible in the interior of the cross-section.

Unit 3 Reflection

This unit was about blood, the circulatory system, the cardiovascular system, cardiovascular diseases, and a intro to the respiratory system. The cardiovascular system works by the heart pumping blood throughout the body by blood vessels called veins and arteries, they also go to the lungs to get oxygen in the body and take waste out of the body. Cardiovascular health is the health of your heart, blood, and blood vessels. Heart disease is either passed genetically or is gotten by unhealthy choices in food and lifestyle that then proceeds to cause problems within the cardiovascular system. A stroke is what happens when something is either completely blocking a artery or when there is a leak in the wall that can rupture. I can promote my own cardiovascular health by eating healthier and exercising more, lowering blood pressure and body fat, also to remove stressors from daily life. What I wonder about is how clogged up my arteries are, and I really don't want to find out. I'd say that my strengths in this unit were that I understood how the blood flows through the body and through the heart. My weaknesses though I would say were knowing all the different parts of the heart, knowing only the ones used in the flow of blood and not the others. I need to work on my health goals from unit 2, since of all my school work I've basically not been able to work on them.

Snacking

What was healthy about the snack you just made?
The snack we made was made out of a quarter of apple, peanut butter, and almonds. These are low-fat and low-sugary foods, so combined they will make a healthy snack.
How often to snack?
You should snack before your meals, about 2-3 times per day, so that you aren't as hungry and won't eat as much or as quickly as you normally do.
What's in a healthy snack?
They won't be sticky, will have low calories, low-fat, and low-sugar.
Snacks to stay away from?
Ritz bits, Cheetos, Beef Jerky, Pringles, basically anything with a lot of artificials and preservatives.

Blood Pressure Lab

The systole and diastole blood pressure readings are usually at a constant gap of around 30. To measure heart rate the only equipment you would need is a clock and a stethoscope, but even then, you don't need to use a stethoscope and you could use your fingers instead, but not your thumb. To measure blood pressure you need a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer. Using your thumb to check your pulse isn't ideal, because the skin on your thumb is thicker than that on your other fingers, which makes it harder to feel your pulse. To use a pressure cuff, or a sphygmomanometer, you need to first loosen the cuff and put it on your upper arm. Next you need to tighten the cuff, but not too tight so you don't cut off circulation, just make it snug. Then you squeeze the bulb so the cuff inflates and do it until it gets up to around 160 and stop, before slowly letting out the air and releasing the pressure.

Unit 2 Reflection

Health is the overall well-being of the social, mental, and physical aspects of yourself. Looking at myself, I'm pretty healthy but I could use some more exercise, eat better, and better quality sleep. Looking at the people at school, they aren't the healthiest, they need to eat better, and get more sleep and better quality sleep. What should be done to promote better health is to give less homework so people don't stay up so late doing it so that they can get good sleep and have enough time to wake up and eat a good breakfast. The themes and essential understanding of this unit was how to keep your body in a healthy balance of all the pillars of health.

Health collage

Of all five of the pillars of health, I believe that I am the strongest at stress and social, and that I need to work on sleep the most. In regards to health, I want to learn how to get better sleep to be able to be more energized during the day.

Unit 1 Reflection

This unit was about cells, tissues, and their structures and functions. The theme was of Histology. I learned that tendons are connective tissue as well as bones, the more complicated the sugar the worse they taste, and how the inflammation system works with the mast cells. I still am a little confused in telling the differences of some of the tissues that look similar, but that's something that I can easily figure out and understand. In the next unit I feel like if I keep looking over what we learn, I will get a better understanding on the material.

 

Tissue Lab

What I learned from this lab is that even tissue cells of the same type can look different from each other depending on where they are located in the body. While looking at the structure of the cells and then looking at the lecture notes, you can make sense of why the cells are structured like that for their function in the body. The differences in the tissue types were their functions, where they are located in the body, how their cells look, and how their cells are structured together.

 

Parietal cell

Compared to other cells, the Parietal cell is relatively larger than other cells and have secretory canaliculi, more mitochondria, and cytoplasmic tubulovesicles. These cells are located in the inside lining of the stomach, the category the cell falls under is epithelial. The function of the Parietal cell is to produce large quantities of acid at high concentrations, for it is used to break down food in the stomach, it also releases enzymes that regulate receptors on the cell to control the amount of acid secreted and when the acid should be secreted.

References: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3048449

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11246041

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2906467

Lab of Sweets

During the lab, my partners and I, put different types of sugar (Sucrose, Glucose, Fructose, Glactose, Maltose, Lactose, Starch, and Cellulose) in separate boxed off sections of a paper towel, one by one tasting each of them and rating how sweet they tasted to us. There was a relation between structure and the taste of the sugar, the more complex the structure, the worse it tasted. I can relate some of these sugars to some fruit that I have eaten and more or less, a few sweets, candy.