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Social and Political metabolics Flashcards

1
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wrate at which new cases occur in a population

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incidence

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2
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Population proportion with disease at point in time

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prevalence

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3
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Prevalence is only appropriate in

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stable conditions

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4
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prevalence is inappropriate for

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acute disorders

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5
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something that increases your chance of disease

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risk factor

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6
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colon cancer risk factors (2)

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smoking and age

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7
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father of infectious disease epidemiology

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Dr John Snow

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8
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Dr John snow mapped

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cholera in Soho London 1854 to water pump

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9
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What is the metabolic syndrome problem

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chronic condition triggered by weight gain

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10
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Obesity trends in America

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rust belt

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11
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some states have what % obesity (particularly in South)

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> 35%

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12
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obesity increased in which ethnicity

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hispanic

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13
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obesity seen the most in which ethnicity

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Black non hispanic

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14
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in which countries are adults more obese

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unequal rich countries

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15
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what can play a role generationally in obesity

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epigenetics

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16
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epigenetics example

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irish potato famine

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17
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a lot of the obese population still conduct

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manual labour

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18
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what threatened Nixon’s campaign in 70s (2)

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high food price and low farm incomes

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19
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what trade deal was made with Malaysia

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palm oil for corn

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20
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what was cheaper than cane sugar

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high fructose corn syrup

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21
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high fructose corn syrup

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HFCS55

22
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how much sweeter is high fructose corn syrup than sugar

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7x

23
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high fructose corn syrup benefits (4)

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freezer burn protection, browns, long life, sweeter

24
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what % supermarket products with high fructose corn syrup

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80%

25
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problem with fructose

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metabolically shunted straight to liver

26
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what can fructose do to insulin

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build up resistance faster

27
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what has a lot of fructose

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fruit juice

28
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what is as dense as beef fat and more saturated than pig lard

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palm oil

29
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palm oil benefits (3)

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good mouth taste, cheap, long life

30
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palm oil cons (4)

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doesn’t biodegrade in body, saturated fat, increases blood pressure, cholesterol, and body fat

31
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what happened to food with increased palm oil and high fructose corn syrup (4)

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cheaper, tastier, sweeter, fattier

32
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what happened to animals (3)

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fed corn, cheaper, hypergrowth

33
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food production was (2)

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automated and centralised

34
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what was food production using

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unregulated labour

35
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where was a case presented

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fair work commission

36
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who is representing migrant workers

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national union of workers

37
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what can US hamburgers contain

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homogenised flesh and fat

38
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how many animals in one US hamburger

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300

39
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increased number of animals in one burger can lead to

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increased contamination and food poisoning

40
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how many cases of food poisoning a year in US

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80 million cases

41
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how many deaths per year from contaminated food

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5000

42
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incidence rate of food contamination US

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27%

43
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how many cases of food contamination Australia per year

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42 000

44
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how do maccas make profits

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supersizing food

45
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changes in food production in US implications

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world impact

46
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largest working time for a big mac

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Nairobi (nearly 160 minutes)

47
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smallest working time for a big mac

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Chicago (12 minutes)

48
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what have the change in food production in the last 40 years been greater than

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rise of agriculture

49
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how is metabolic syndrome affected by change in food production (4)

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cheap, convenient, satisfying, affluence in genetics for scarcity

50
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