Unacknowledged Health Benefits Of Genetically Modified Food - Salmon And Heart Disease Deaths

Randall Lutter and Katherine Tuckerargue that the marketing of GM salmon will lower salmon prices and increase consumption of salmon, an exceptionally good source of omega-3 fatty acids linked to lower risk of heart disease.The authors estimateestimate that the resulting increase in omega-3 intake will prevent between 600 and 2600 deaths per year in the U.S.Environment, Health and Safety

Waters of Labor, Waters of Leisure: An Environmental History of Lake Memphremagog

This thesis seeks to examine the transition from traditional resource extractive industry to seasonal tourism industry around Lake Memphremagog, a mid-sized freshwater lake that is situated across the USA/ Canada border in northern Vermont and southern Quebec. Reading sources primarily from the decades 1860-1890, this research examines changing conceptualizations of nature that link to specific land use trends. Northern Vermont was left with a decimated landscape following the decline of the logging and agricultural industries by the mid-nineteenth century. Meanwhile, nature centered tourism began to emerge in the same area. The new tourism economy catered to the wealthy urban elite, and who were seemingly blind to the ecological turnover that had previously occurred, and accepted the landscape as ‘wilderness.’ This is largely due to the fact that in visiting Memphremagog, privileged Gilded Age tourists were searching for a prescribed, generic nature experience. This generality explains why a number of resort areas on the East Coast were developed during the same era, parallel to Memphremagog. The literature and art regarding Memphremagog that came out of these decades reflects both the components of a desired experience, and the generic attitude of those involved. However, the Lake Memphremagog region had a unique feature that set it apart from competitors: the international border. As I conclude this thesis, I highlight how the impact of the border has increased overtime. Initially, the border meant little to communities around Lake Memphremagog, but following the conclusion of the Civil War, a period of tensions, both local and national, caused the border to become more of a political and lived reality. This would permanently change the relationships of communities around the lake

Online Team-Teaching: Sharing Best Practices to Improve Student Learning Outcomes and Increase Student Satisfaction

NSG 493 \u27Transition to Practice’ is a final semester course within the LSON BSN Curriculum in the traditional, on campus accelerated, and online accelerated programs. The team of 4 online faculty, in partnership with school leadership and various online site locations, analyzed previous student and faculty feedback and subsequently identified opportunities for improvement which were implemented in the fall 2019 semester. The aim was higher quality content, information, synchronous communication and assignments for students to enhance learning potential and increase student and faculty satisfaction. To achieve this, faculty incorporated feedback to plan, develop, and implement the following: new processes, revised content, re-aligned assignments, updated rubrics, synchronous activities, and innovative team communication strategies. This also helped to ensure consistency with the on-campus course. To help students ascribe value to their NCLEX prep activities, faculty worked with our third party to ensure NCLEX practice test scheduling and delivery was an improved process. In terms of evaluation, faculty plan to evaluate ongoing changes based on student and faculty feedback both qualitatively and quantitatively. To increase overall program alignment, faculty worked with the Progression Outcomes committee to bring in the end of program student satisfaction survey to ensure aggregate program data is collected in the course in addition to individual course analysis. Through this whole experience, a faculty aid was created as a process for handing off the course semester to semester which will be shared

Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Among Latinos in the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study.

Low blood dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) levels have strong positive associations with stroke and coronary heart disease. However, it is unclear whether DHEAS is independently associated with cardiovascular risk factors. Therefore, we examined the association between cardiovascular risk factors and DHEAS concentration among a high-risk population of Latinos (Puerto Ricans aged 45 to 75 years at baseline) in a cross-sectional analysis of the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study. Of eligible participants, 72% completed baseline interviews and provided blood samples. Complete data were available for 1355 participants. Associations between cardiovascular risk factors (age, sex, total cholesterol, high-density lipid cholesterol, triglycerides, and glucose) and log-transformed DHEAS (μg/dL) were assessed. In robust multivariable regression analyses, DHEAS was significantly inversely associated with age (β = -12.4; 95% CI: -15.2, -9.7; per 5 years), being female (vs. male) (β = -46; 95% CI: -55.3, -36.6), and plasma triglyceride concentration (β = -0.2; 95% CI: -0.3, -0.1; per 10 mg/dL) and was positively associated with total cholesterol and plasma glucose levels (β = 1.8; 95% CI: 0.6, 3 and β = 0.2; 95% CI: 0.04, 0.3, respectively, per 10 mg/dL) after adjustment for smoking, alcohol, and physical activity and for postmenopausal hormone use in women. Estimates were unchanged after adjustment for measures of chronic disease and inflammation. Women exhibited a stronger age-related decline in DHEAS and a positive association with glucose in contrast to findings among men (P interaction < 0.05). In conclusion, in this large study of Latinos with a heavy cardiovascular risk factor burden, we observed significant associations between cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and DHEAS, with variations by sex. These findings improve our understanding of the role DHEAS may play in CVD etiology

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Stress and nutrition in relation to excess development of chronic disease in Puerto Rican adults living in the Northeastern USA

Although health disparities are well documented among minority populations, they have not been fully explained by socio-economic status. We have demonstrated that Puerto Rican elders in Massachusetts are significantly more likely to have physical disability, depression, cognitive impairment, diabetes and other chronic health conditions than do non-Hispanic white elders living in the same neighborhoods. This suggests that the disparity is not due only to physical or neighborhood location, and that other factors must be influencing these differences. In that study, we also showed that the Puerto Rican elders had diets that were limited in diversity and were relatively low in micronutrient content. In our ongoing cohort study within our Boston Puerto Rican Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, we are investigating the relationships between psychosocial stress, its effect on physiologic burden or “allostatic load” and, in turn, how this is associated with the functional outcomes previously identified as areas of health disparity:depression, cognitive impairment and functional limitation. We further propose that the association between life stress, physiologic response and chronic conditions is modified by nutritional status, with a focus on B vitamins and antioxidant vitamins

“Abominations of the Female Sex”. Five cases of Late Nineteenth Century Criminal Women.

This thesis focuses upon media and legal representations of five case studies of women who kill taken from the decade 1870-1880. All of the five women, Mary Ann Cotton, Mary Ann Barry, Frances Stewart, Selina Wadge and Kate Webster through their murderous acts, challenged the ideal of Victorian femininity. The women were ‘othered’ due to their failed gendered performance and cast as double failures, or ‘doubly deviant’, failures to the laws of gender and failure to abide by the laws of the land. This research is a work of passion. Upon reading media and legal texts it became apparent that criminal women (both within my chosen decade and also, today) were both tried and represented as essentially different to ‘normal’ women. The woman who kills is either ‘mad’ or ‘bad’ with the main purpose of this categorisation to deny her agency. If she does not have the tools to communicate through the dominant mode of expression, then her experience will also remain muted. Within this thesis, I highlight the discursive undercurrent of the media and the law and emphasise the need for women who kill to be given their own agency; I also question the application of Victorian ‘justice’. Legal and media discourse are dominant knowledge’s, dominant discourses, which are readily available to the masses and due to their power can be regarded as ‘truth’ over lower ranking, subjugated knowledges such as personal experience. However, there are competing discourses: The petitions within this thesis are alternative truths and important examples of subjugated knowledge’s, which serve to challenge the dominant discourses surrounding the five cases. I undertook this research utilising both relevant literature (contemporary and historical) and original historical documentation analysed using critical discourse analysis. The documents were sourced from both The National Media Library (newspapers), which then led me to The National Archives (petitions, transcripts and depositions) in London. These documents provided an essential view of the five women and allowed for their discursive construction or ‘abnormality’ to be highlighted. The aim is to draw upon the theoretical position of standpoint feminism and by applying Foucault to prioritise experience over patriarchal (or dominant) knowledge (such as the law and media). Utilising the above documentation this thesis aims to allow criminal women their agency; not to relate to these women or condone their actions, but to give these women the same legal standards, which are afforded to men