story of the seed

my plants grow alot from back then.They are big and are probaly down growing now.

story of the seed

they are starting to grow alot more they are growning some long leaves. Also when i looked i seen a bettale lavar in the dirt around it.

story of the seed

they are starting to grow leaves.They are also geting taller 

Eating With Your Mind Open: Activity and Log

 

 

 

 

EATING WITH YOUR MIND OPEN

Assignment #1: Food Label Activity

PURPOSE: This activity is intended to help students understand the information provided on food labels and use it to make decisions regarding their own diet and nutrition.

This part of the project (Assignment #1) is worth 50 points.

In 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act went into effect. The USDA and FDA designed the requirements so that consumers would have useful information about the food they eat. But how do you make sense of a food label?

According to the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, all food labels must contain the following information:

·       Common name of the product

·       Name and address of the product’s manufacturer

·       Net contents in terms of weight, measure or count

·       Ingredient List

·       Nutrition Information

This is an example, of the percentage of each nutrient in a sample product:

	Grams	Calculation	Total Calories	% of Total Calories
Calories			80	100%
Fat	4	4 x 9	36	45%
Protein	1	1 x 4	4	4%
Carbohydrate	10	10 x 4	40	50%

Make a list of food products you consume on a regular basis (daily or at least several times per week).

Oranges, Chicken, chips, candy, green vegetables, rice, crackers, clif bars, beans, bread, beef jerky, pretzels

Now, go onto the Internet and, using a search engine like Google, find the nutrition facts for two of the products you listed above. The surest way to find reliable data on a particular product is to type the exact product name and the phrase “nutrition facts.” For example, if I wanted to find information on Goldfish crackers, I would type “Pepperidge Farm Goldfish cracker nutrition facts.”

The company may have its own page for that product that includes nutritional data, or you might use another reputable site like the ones below:

• http://nutritiondata.self.com/
• http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list

	Product #1	Product #2
Name of Product	Rold Gold Pretzels	Clif Crunch bars
Manufacturer	Frito Lay Inc.	Clif Bar & Company
Serving Size	1 ounce (about 53 pretzels)	2 bars
	Nutrition Information:
Total Calories	110	190
Total Fat, gm	0 grams	8 grams
Saturated Fat, gm	0 grams	1.5 grams
Trans Fat, gm	0 grams	0 grams
Cholesterol, mg	0 milligrams	0 milligrams
Sodium, mg	490 milligrams	105 milligrams
Total Carbohydrate (CHO), gm	23 milligrams	28 grams
Dietary Fiber, gm	1 gram	3 grams
Sugars, gm	1 gram	12 grams
Protein, gm	2 grams	3 grams
Vitamins/Minerals (% of Daily Values)	Thiamine 8% Niacin 6% Iron 8% Riboflavin 6% Phosphorus 2% Magnesium 2%	Calcium 2% Iron 6%

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. How many servings per container are there?

a. The pretzels can serve about 16 people per container

b. The bars can serve about 5 per container

2. Based on the servings on the label, do you feel that the serving size is realistic? Why or why not?

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a. No I do not think this is realistic because most people do not pay attention on how much they are eating

b. Yes, I think this is realistic because  it is hard for a person to eat 4 bars in a short period of time

3. What health claims (if any) are listed on the label?

         a. The pretzels claim that there is a wheat ingredient for allergies

                                                        

         b. The bars claim that is soy, traces of peanuts, and wheat

4. Choose 2 ingredients per label (that you do not recognize) and explain the function of each one of these ingredients. These ingredients can be colorings, additives, preservatives, etc. You will probably need to do some quick research to determine the function of that chemical in the food product.

    -In the pretzels the ingredients I do not recognize are Thiamine mononitrate and Riboflavin

    -In the bars the only ingredient I do not recognize is Organic Rye flakes

5. Based on your study of these food labels, would you continue to eat these food items? Why or why not?

    After my study I would continue to eat these products because there is no unusual high numbers in sugars, carbohydrates, and calories.

	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Exercise (describe all physical activity here)	-About a half an hour walk	-Played with dog outside	-Went on a run with my sister
Time: Meal: (include quantities)	Breakfast -Milk, cereal, and coffee	Breakfast- Bacon and eggs	-Waffles
Time: Snack: (include quantities)	-No snack before lunch	-Chocolate covered raisins	-Chocolate covered raisins
Time: Meal: (include quantities)	Lunch- Clif bar, satsuma orange, and chips	Lunch- cheese and bread	Lunch- Lentil soup
Time: Snack: (include quantities)	-Cheese and crackers cookies	-No snack before dinner	-Satsuma orange
Time: Meal: (include quantities)	Dinner- Macaroni and cheese and chicken	Dinner- Cheeseburger and fries	Dinner- Orange chicken, chauman, and rice
Time: Snack: (include quantities)	-candy, latte from Starbucks, and tortilla chips	-Grapes	-Satsuma orange, popcorn

The Story of The Seed

My plant has got even bigger in inches. The leaves are very green and will hopefully soon reproduce. It looks like not much has happened, but inside they are growing bigger and bigger each day. THe plant is still receiving much light and water. Soon once the rainy months arrive the plant will get stronger.

Honey Bees Becoming Endangered

Honey Bees Becoming Endangered

There are many types of bees, but the honey bee population is the most valuable. But their population is dropping by great numbers. Many different issues will come up if there are no bees at all.  Many humans do not recognize that honey bees are a primary source for plant life such as flowers. Bees are the most effective pollinators and without them we do not have flowers, plants, and vegetables.  Humans are not realizing how much the population is decreasing and how terribly it can affect the planet and how we see it.  

                  Honey bees are sometimes feared by humans because of their fierce sting, but that is a stereotype. Honey bees do not want to hurt us, in fact they die after one sting. Without bees our world would eventually die down, many issues come up without bees. For example, we would lose all of the plants that bees pollinate so there would be no cotton to make clothes, medicines would be affected, and there would be no food for animals so no food for humans. Einstein once stated “without bees there’s no pollination ,then no plants, without plants there is no meat, without meat there’s no man”. The population of the bees are dropping in huge numbers. But why some ask? One main cause are parasitic mites  like varroa and tracheal mites. Varroa mites live on the external part of the bee and literally sucks the life out of the bee or in other words sucks the blood out Tracheal mites live inside of the bee and benefits from the blood, food, and pollen. Parasites on the bees also affect the honey. Another main cause of the population decreasing are apistan strips. These strips are used to help the bee but actually hurt. A chemical in the strips is called matricide, this is a chemical used to control mite and ticks. Statistics show if bees become an extinct species we would lose thirty percent of the food humans eat. Therefore, bees are becoming endangered and humans need to wake up because it can negatively affect the way humans live.

           In conclusion, without bees many things are affected that would eventually affect humans Bees supply most of our primary needs like vegetables, flowers for the yard, cotton for our clothes, and medicine when we are sick. Humans need to realize that bees are one of the main reasons they are living. They  need to wake up and help save the bees from becoming extinct.