The End of Overeating
After the 1980s, people began to gain a lot of weight.
1994: Journal of American Medical Association: all races and sexes have dramatic weight increases.
More availability of cheap food, families began to eat more food outside home.
This population contributed to the crisis…
Pg. 6: “drive for food.” “over-powering push to eat”
Over-eating causes obesity.
Palatability: food that increases the need for food.
Bliss point: greatest pleasure from sugar, fat, and salt…eating until the brain can’t take the taste anymore…
If the mixture (sugar, fat, salt) brings pleasure, it can reinforce the need for more of the food.
EATING ISN’T ABOUT GETTING ENERGY TO THE BODY, OR ABOUT HUNGER.
Taste – stimulation – goes to brain, not stomach. REWARD SYSTEM. This system creates pleasure in the body.
Homeostatis system: digestion
P10: reward system is winning –
food has gotten people addicted
unhealthy ingredients :
palatable ingredients creates pleasure in the reward system of the brain…
reinforcing: drives eaters to eat more
location can be reinforcing…ASSOCIATION…of place with food. Association: relating something??? Combining them…combine food with places…its about memory…it connects one with pleasure…memory connects one with pleasure…the memory works by reminding the body where pleasures…CUE: a thing that motivates our behavior (ex: ad)…
animal research – 33 – “high sugar, high fat foods are reinforcing” the power of cues: cues are STIMULI
ingredients can be stimuli
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
From Notes To Thesis: Assignment Two
104 – monopoly on violence ends because states end :
Regional values / regional enforcement of crimes
Keyword: community protection
122 – potential for demographic competition : group competition rivalry (US & THEM)…
Gift economy – equality
128 – reptilian brain – fight or flight…
Help determine future actions
Life will be different after fossil fuels become expensive. I believe that some of the most important aspects of the future will revolve around community protection, a gift economy, and a new reliance on the reptilian brain for everyday survival.
The chapter “Overshoot” from the text Limits to Growth sheds some light on how we’re going to transition from a cheap to expensive fossil fuel economy.
[claim: a sentence that also makes an argument AND acts as a topic sentence for the paragraph]. Community protection will be an important part of the future.
In the future, a gift economy will replace the current market economy. Part of this replacement will involve changes in government. …
Even though the reptilian brain perhaps got us into the mess we’re in, in the future it will help us survive.
Regional values / regional enforcement of crimes
Keyword: community protection
122 – potential for demographic competition : group competition rivalry (US & THEM)…
Gift economy – equality
128 – reptilian brain – fight or flight…
Help determine future actions
Life will be different after fossil fuels become expensive. I believe that some of the most important aspects of the future will revolve around community protection, a gift economy, and a new reliance on the reptilian brain for everyday survival.
The chapter “Overshoot” from the text Limits to Growth sheds some light on how we’re going to transition from a cheap to expensive fossil fuel economy.
[claim: a sentence that also makes an argument AND acts as a topic sentence for the paragraph]. Community protection will be an important part of the future.
In the future, a gift economy will replace the current market economy. Part of this replacement will involve changes in government. …
Even though the reptilian brain perhaps got us into the mess we’re in, in the future it will help us survive.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Class Notes on Peak Everything
Class Notes on Peak Everything
The main fact in the book: peak oil. This peak refers to the moment in time when oil has its highest point of extraction, and then it will decline.
Many other things besides oil will also peak, too, soon, because we use oil for everything and it’s correlated with those things. Coal, natural gas and oil: non-renewable…energy source…FOSSIL FUELS
“World is overwhelmingly dependent on oil” (1)
Other countries depend on wind power? The US? [find evidence]
Author – Heinberg – blames humans? “we humans have polluted our environment…” “localized devastation” (21) [meaning: chaos/destruction to specific area] – “if we don’t solve these problems, our species be in no position whatever on other fronts” (20-1)…climate change and resource depletion …climate change affects ecologies…animals and plants (north pole, Caribbean) get hurt, get depleted, they are resources (food, etc)…
(21): “as oil grows scarcer, further wars..almost assured.” war
Post-oil society might be happier? [chart: satisfaction with resources]
Water, food, etc
Global warming / climate change
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Our ideas
Blackouts, everyday electricity use
Examine developing countries
Is life without electricity a regression? Can one be happy without it?
Check OUT:
The CEOs of oil companies talking about peak oil, cheap energy, and expensive energy:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/575837/as_oil_majors_chime_in_the_reality.html
The main fact in the book: peak oil. This peak refers to the moment in time when oil has its highest point of extraction, and then it will decline.
Many other things besides oil will also peak, too, soon, because we use oil for everything and it’s correlated with those things. Coal, natural gas and oil: non-renewable…energy source…FOSSIL FUELS
“World is overwhelmingly dependent on oil” (1)
Other countries depend on wind power? The US? [find evidence]
Author – Heinberg – blames humans? “we humans have polluted our environment…” “localized devastation” (21) [meaning: chaos/destruction to specific area] – “if we don’t solve these problems, our species be in no position whatever on other fronts” (20-1)…climate change and resource depletion …climate change affects ecologies…animals and plants (north pole, Caribbean) get hurt, get depleted, they are resources (food, etc)…
(21): “as oil grows scarcer, further wars..almost assured.” war
Post-oil society might be happier? [chart: satisfaction with resources]
Water, food, etc
Global warming / climate change
--------------
Our ideas
Blackouts, everyday electricity use
Examine developing countries
Is life without electricity a regression? Can one be happy without it?
Check OUT:
The CEOs of oil companies talking about peak oil, cheap energy, and expensive energy:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/575837/as_oil_majors_chime_in_the_reality.html
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Writing Rules
Get ideas down and THEN revise. This is a brainstorm.
Choose the right word: be specific. Test to see if the sentence is “true”. Ask yourself (and each other)questions about word choice.
Be ready to discover relationships.
When introducing a key word, define other keywords after you define it. Try to define as many key words as you think a reader might need to know (think about writing to a specific person).
Make your writing more “concrete’ by giving examples.
When we give a fact, we refer to a source. We don’t always need to “cite” the source (meaning, we don’t always need to create direct quote).
If you do cite a source, you must give an “in-text citation.” This means referring to the source correctly in quotes.
When you quote, you must paraphrase the quote immediately afterward. Then, you can analyze the quote by explaining its importance.
Choose the right word: be specific. Test to see if the sentence is “true”. Ask yourself (and each other)questions about word choice.
Be ready to discover relationships.
When introducing a key word, define other keywords after you define it. Try to define as many key words as you think a reader might need to know (think about writing to a specific person).
Make your writing more “concrete’ by giving examples.
When we give a fact, we refer to a source. We don’t always need to “cite” the source (meaning, we don’t always need to create direct quote).
If you do cite a source, you must give an “in-text citation.” This means referring to the source correctly in quotes.
When you quote, you must paraphrase the quote immediately afterward. Then, you can analyze the quote by explaining its importance.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Biodiversity and Peak Fish
Biodiversity means different types of organisms living in an ecosystem. Ecosystems include habitats, animals, plants, bacteria, and non-living things like the sun. Climate change affects the biodiversity of ecosystems because it affects the organisms. When the ecosystem is harshly damaged it can sometimes make organisms extinct. It does so by changing the environment, and how the organisms interact together. For example, when the ice melts the Polar bear doesn’t have a habitat. It becomes too hot and the polar bear dies.
Peak fish is the decline of all types of fish. Peak refers to the stage or year when there were the most fish. According to Dave Cohen’s article “Peak Fish and the Biodiversity Crisis” on the Post Carbon Institute’s Energy Bulletin webpage, the fish population was at its peak in the 1980s. This will eventually lead to the extinction of fish. The fish companies, consumers, and recreational fishers aren’t conserving. Conservation means saving. They’re using up all the fish. Fish companies need fish to make money; without fish, they will go out of business. Consumers are eating fish they like it. Recreational fishers catch fish for fun and to save money. Cohen refers to a Yahoo! press report that says “the world faces the nightmare prospect of fishless oceans by 2050” (“Peak Fish and the Biodiversity Crisis”). This prediction means the daily depopulation of fish will lead to fish extinction from human predators. This collapse of biodiversity not only means less fish, but it means the human population could collapse too, since many people eat fish, too. The fish companies will go out of business, and workers will lose their job. Other animals that eat fish will not have fish either. The ecosystem will be destroyed.
Peak fish is the decline of all types of fish. Peak refers to the stage or year when there were the most fish. According to Dave Cohen’s article “Peak Fish and the Biodiversity Crisis” on the Post Carbon Institute’s Energy Bulletin webpage, the fish population was at its peak in the 1980s. This will eventually lead to the extinction of fish. The fish companies, consumers, and recreational fishers aren’t conserving. Conservation means saving. They’re using up all the fish. Fish companies need fish to make money; without fish, they will go out of business. Consumers are eating fish they like it. Recreational fishers catch fish for fun and to save money. Cohen refers to a Yahoo! press report that says “the world faces the nightmare prospect of fishless oceans by 2050” (“Peak Fish and the Biodiversity Crisis”). This prediction means the daily depopulation of fish will lead to fish extinction from human predators. This collapse of biodiversity not only means less fish, but it means the human population could collapse too, since many people eat fish, too. The fish companies will go out of business, and workers will lose their job. Other animals that eat fish will not have fish either. The ecosystem will be destroyed.
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