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No Pulse Heart analysis

This article was rather interesting in my opinion. It did some talking in the beginning of the article about how they had created a series of pumps that could work as a persons heart. But the problem with this is that it is a lot of external work that is necessary to live. The owner of the heart would have to sit by a big tank all day that makes a lot of noise, which isn't the most effective method of creating another type of heart. Scientists were trying to figure out a way to make the heart no pulsed but still keep the human alive. A patient with a valve issue came into the hospital because there was a potentially deadly heart murmur. The doctors hooked her up to the external heart which was working for a bit but wasn't anything definite. Eventually they put the no pulse heart in because the external pumps started to cause problems inside of her. The Heartmate II worked well for her and she was out with her children again in no time. I personally thought that this kind of technology is revolutionary. In the span of only 30 years, we have gone from looking at stem cells and figuring out how they work, to completely replacing a human heart and having them live. It was very interesting how quickly the scientists were able to come up with the internal no pulse heart after the external no pulse heart was created.

Changing the eating habits of the nation Do you think the strategies in the articles/film will work to change the eating habits of American children? What shocked you about the articles, what did you agree with, disagree with? What would/could you do locally or nationally to help solve this problem?

The article that I read to complete this assignment was interesting. I thought that i was good that the parents were taking the initiative in their town to try and stop kids from buying those sweet snacks. However, legally the store has to sell their customer whatever they would like to buy, as long as they are of the legal age. One of the points mentioned in the article was that there should a calorie limit that is allowed at school. This is a good concept but it probably wouldn't be executed very well. There isn't a solid foundation where the school can monitor how many calories a student intakes during lunch or any other meal. There would be too many variables that could contribute to the problem. The variables would consist of people buying a snack of some sort for another person, because that other person exceeded their calorie limit for the day. Or the system messes up the calorie count and students can buy more calories than they should be allowed to. I disagreed with the strategies that this article took because it could have the potential to not work at all. If one would really like to reduce the amount of calories that kids intake on a daily basis, teach them what happens when one intakes too many calories. Show thm graphic pictures and teach them consequences of their actions. Most kids will be scared and influenced by strategies like these. While it may not be the most ideal subject to teach to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders, it could get the point through better than just counting the calories that they can intake.