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Mothering Malnutrition

In southern Asia where 75 million children are malnourished, a lack of actually having food could only be part of the problem.  A study in Pakistan found that mothers who because depressed after or before giving birth had babies with stunted growth and diarrhea the babies born with psychologically healthy mothers.
Depression in mothers contributes [...]

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Counting Carbs
 
            Jody Gorran tired the Atkins diet, which is a low carb and avoiding food with sugars and starches.  For 2 and half years he lost weight and felt great until he experienced chest pains and his heart had 99% blockage in his coronary artery.  He filed suit against Atkins Company.  He was convinced [...]

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1. The earth is a layered sphere starting with the core which is the interior of the earth, soild in the center but more flyuid, srourrowund it is the mantel and there the outer most layer is the crust.
2.mineral- naturally occuring inorganic soild element or compound with a definate chemical composition and a regular internal [...]

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- earth is a layered constanly moving
- tectonic plates (see voacb)
-tectonic plates drift=rifts
-midocean ridges–> up welling magma through crust
-subducction dense tin oncean paltes collide
-rock classifaction–>mineral content, grain size, orgin
-three types of rock (IGNEOUS, METAMORPHIC, SEDMENTAIRY)
-Ores offten occur as hote water acvity below ground
-major mining methods–> placer, underground, open pit, & [...]

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1. core-interior of the earth.
2. mantle- surrounding the molten outer core is a hot pliable layer of rock.
3. cruts- outter layer of the earth is a cool, light weight, brittle rock that floats on the mantle.
4. tectonic plates- upper layer mantle as a huge convection currents that break the over laying cruts into mosaic huge [...]

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1. Yosmite was set aside to protect wild nature. Yellow stone was set aside to protect spetacular curiosities and natural wonders.
2.Forests are clear cut to the edges of national parks, mine draage contaminates streams and ground water, pollution and noise from receration vehicals.
3. Because they took advantage of the abundent food supply and over hunted [...]

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1.Forest, grasslands, and agriculture cover 2/3 of the lands area.
2.Closed canopy because they cover about 4/5 of the land.The regions are those of the tropical forests in south and south western parts of the globe.
3.Erosion of unprotected soil because there are no roots to keep it in place, certain nurtients are taken from the soil [...]

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Federal Meat Inspection Act
poultry Products Inspection Act
pure food and drug act
The federal meat inspection act was enacted in June of 1906, mandated the United States Department of Agriculture inspection of meat processing plants that conducted business across state lines. The law was partly a response to the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, an [...]

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Chapter 13
  
-         Parks wildlife refuges wilderness areas and nature preserves pop small part of area.
-Parks evolve from small pleasure grounds of pop rec areas
  
Many new conservation areas are controversial and are challenged by industry
 
-Often serves contradictory demands
            include rec, wildlife habitat extraction of timber
 
-Global protected land nearly 10% of world
            must meet diverse needs; [...]

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Land Use
World land use

forests, grass lands and agr. cover 2/3 of areas

1/3 land = barren lacks plant cover altogether

11% of land mass now used for crops

Land conversions expanded mainly in past 20 to 30 yrs resulting in biodiversity
 
World Forests

role in reg climate
control run off and shelter and food for w.l
scenic cultural and historic values

 
How [...]

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