4Singer

Derek Singer

Presentation; Personal Physiological Fitness Program



Fetal Pig Project

** ‍4. The Future of Medicine - The No Pulse Heart **

The reason they call the Heartmate2, LVAD's, and Continuous turbines the no pulse heart is because when functioning properly, the body has no pulse. These artificial hearts have been worked upon for hundred of years. The concept seems easy, just add a pump in to replace the heart. Sounds easy considering we have pumps for keeping the ocean coastline sea level. But a 24 hr 2 pound pump for the body still is underway. Paul Winchel and the Jarvik-7 were the first steps towards an artificial heart. However these involve loud compressors people need to sit by all day. It wasn't intill Dr.Billy Cohn from Texas institute to develop a continuosflow heart. A person once lived off of this for 8 hrs until their liver faoled. This inspired many and they believe that if they had the same amount of money that NASA gets, they could make this "pump". Saucier was also a big component to help developing this heart. A big problem for this is the FDA and insurance problems. These continuous flow hearts could be used in 3-4 years. However It will probably take longer because of federal issues.

**13. You Are What You Eat.**

After reading just the opening paragraphs of the NY times article the word that came to my mouth was “WOW” Even after learning about cardiovascular disease the statistics saying nearly half of the United States population is over weight is jaw dropping, and also that nearly one fourth is obese. No wonder it is so difficult to find a healthy heart for transplants. With that aside, foods are so addicting now and days do to manufacturers finding things like “mouth feel, bliss point, shape, and the affect of color” mainly with soda. With so much work being done in laboratories, scientists are able to find exactly what is needed to produce a tremendous amount of craving that consumers can’t resist. Producers seem to be much more focused on sales than the well being of American’s health. The people who care about health, like Mr. Dunn, can’t make it in the Coke business. It is nice to see someone trying however with his new product, bagged fresh baby carrots. His Slogan “Eat em like Junk Food” is classic and the food industry needs more people like done. Otherwise obesity will continue to spiral out of control.


 * Pros and Cons of my daily Diet**

- Instead of eating healthy whole grains my diet consists of too many refined granes like bagels, pizza, cookies. I should stop eating white bread and eat more whole grained. -Not enough Vegetables. -Over 400 avg. empty calories (cookies, cake, ice cream) -Unhealthy Snacks (Tostitos chips, Tastycakes, S&V chips, salted pretzels) -Too many Added Sugars -Too many high solid Fats -Unconsistant Proportion of Calorie intake -Under intake in vitamin D, E, K -Too Much Sodium
 * Cons**

-High amount of Protien thoughout the day. (Ensure, Chicken breast, eggs, almonds, Cheeseburger, buffalo wings, Ham) -Healthy snacks. Salsa (Red Peppers, Green Peppers,) (snack) -Salads (dinner) -White Potatoes (snack) -Good amount of daily fruits(banana, V8 Splash) -Consistant daily Dairy intake. (Whole Milk, Cheese) - Average Total Calories per Day<2500
 * Pros**

In Conclusion my diet is half healthy and half unhealthy. I do lack in some vitamins and consume too much sodium however i do ingest a good amount of calories and most of them being nutricious. This is with the exception of a few like potatoe chips, wings, ice cream, and cookies. I should focus eating more whole grain and add more vegetables into my daily meals. By doing this and cutting out unhealthy snacks, my diet should be healthy for me.