In the lecture I learned so many basic elements of music. Like most people I have always enjoyed listening to music, and I am not completely tone deaf or ignorant about music. In comparison to how much there is to know about music I would have just read the cover. During the lecture I began to appreciate music in a light I had never appreciated before. For starts it helped that someone was guiding me through the analysis, because I am not educated enough on the matter to extensively explore the dynamics and elements of a song. Secondly I appreciated the composers braver to use their knowledge to make music.
I had never realized that musicians could write music simply because they like to combine the notes. Music has always seemed like “an expression of the soul” and not a work. It helped to have the professor explaining to me the various dynamics of a song, playing the music so I felt I could identify the dynamics, and comparing the different composers and which dynamics they preferred. Learning how the pieces were composed helped me to understand why the composer did what they did.
I thought that all of the composers we discussed in the lecture were courageous. When their symphonies came out they really were putting themselves out for ridicule. It is difficult for me to imagine, but the closet thing I can come up with is when you have to read a poem you wrote in front of the class. The audience is smaller, much, much smaller, but the courage it takes to share your own work always takes a little courage. I was very impressed with all of the composures courage to try new ideas, accept ridicule, and express themselves in their work.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
free desire freedom
Freedom Craves Freedom
Prepared for Dr. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Honors 240 Section 1
Winter 2009
Joy Marie Prior
A pile of human carcasses supported the pole that held the tattered red, white, and blue flag. As the pale morning sun crept across the pools of blood, a prisoner of war, Francis Scott Key, saw the United States flag through the settling cannon smoke and penned “The Star Spangled Banner.” I cannot remember the teacher who told me that story, but I can still see the soldier’s glazed eyes staring out of the mound of contorted limbs, just as I imagined them from my desk years ago. A part of me wanted to step back in time to that battlefield, where I could walk up to each solider, push back their matted hair, look into their eyes, and ask, “Are you free?” During this internal debate I came to the conclusion that free men and women desire freedom for others. The establishment of freedom in the United States of America demonstrates the divine calling free men and women have to expand liberty.
“The desire for liberty” did not start in the American Colonies in 1776; freedom is an “age-old” belief (P. 85). Pages of my history book are littered with martyrs for freedom from all generations and cultures. What defined the American revolution was the “belief in the ability in the people for self-government” (P. 67). The idea that the governed have the right to determine government’s laws created a harbor for freedom. Before America declared its independence, there had never been a government that had given so much freedom to its citizens. Putting their livelihoods at stake, the founding fathers honored the belief that “America had been chosen by Providence for this grand experiment in testing the human capacity for self-government” (P. 186).
God inspired the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence to progress freedom to all nations, and not for the nation’s selfish gain. “[He] declared that the United States Constitution was divinely inspired for the specific purpose of eliminating bondage and the violation of the rights and protection which belong to ‘all flesh’” (P. 115). God ordained the Constitution as a step in the progression of freedom. His purpose of elevating the colonies to a nation was not to raise the country above others, but instead He intended America to be “the cradle of the Church” (P. 134). A matured baby can not live in a cradle forever, and God never expected to confine the knowledge and truth found in the Gospel within the boundaries of the United States. The blessings that rushed forward after the establishment of the American government were intended for “our world” (P. 188).
Understanding that God inspired the founding of the United States for the “specific purpose” of bringing freedom to all nations is vital to understanding that free men and women desire freedom for others (P. 115) . The Constitution is a “glorious standard” (P. 4) of rights and God intended that “those rights must be protected…and he designed that all men should protect one another” (P. 48). If America does not keep God’s purposes it will no longer be kept “free from bondage, and from captivity” (Ether 2:12). Those who stop freedom’s progression contradict freedom’s purpose of establishing “full civil equality for all of God‘s children. Anything less than this defeats our high ideal of the brotherhood of man” (P. 130). By not following God’s intentions our nation will be lead into bondage-- the opposite state of freedom.
The gem of freedom’s intent is to “warm every object beneath its rays” with liberty (P. 7). Before the foundation of the world, the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence were designed to be an example of how to spread freedom to the common people of the nation (P. 102). God intended for the freedoms nurtured in America to spread across the whole earth, and not striving to expand freedom is going against God’s will.
I don’t know the names of the soldiers smeared in blood holding up the American flag, but I believe that they were free. As I imagine them in my mind--fathers, brothers, and husbands--I realize they did not sacrifice their lives for their own freedom, but for those that they loved. The solders buried in the mud on that battlefield understood freedom is only created when it is shared, and because of their example I know those men with the glazed eyes and blood-chapped lips were free.
Prepared for Dr. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
Honors 240 Section 1
Winter 2009
Joy Marie Prior
A pile of human carcasses supported the pole that held the tattered red, white, and blue flag. As the pale morning sun crept across the pools of blood, a prisoner of war, Francis Scott Key, saw the United States flag through the settling cannon smoke and penned “The Star Spangled Banner.” I cannot remember the teacher who told me that story, but I can still see the soldier’s glazed eyes staring out of the mound of contorted limbs, just as I imagined them from my desk years ago. A part of me wanted to step back in time to that battlefield, where I could walk up to each solider, push back their matted hair, look into their eyes, and ask, “Are you free?” During this internal debate I came to the conclusion that free men and women desire freedom for others. The establishment of freedom in the United States of America demonstrates the divine calling free men and women have to expand liberty.
“The desire for liberty” did not start in the American Colonies in 1776; freedom is an “age-old” belief (P. 85). Pages of my history book are littered with martyrs for freedom from all generations and cultures. What defined the American revolution was the “belief in the ability in the people for self-government” (P. 67). The idea that the governed have the right to determine government’s laws created a harbor for freedom. Before America declared its independence, there had never been a government that had given so much freedom to its citizens. Putting their livelihoods at stake, the founding fathers honored the belief that “America had been chosen by Providence for this grand experiment in testing the human capacity for self-government” (P. 186).
God inspired the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence to progress freedom to all nations, and not for the nation’s selfish gain. “[He] declared that the United States Constitution was divinely inspired for the specific purpose of eliminating bondage and the violation of the rights and protection which belong to ‘all flesh’” (P. 115). God ordained the Constitution as a step in the progression of freedom. His purpose of elevating the colonies to a nation was not to raise the country above others, but instead He intended America to be “the cradle of the Church” (P. 134). A matured baby can not live in a cradle forever, and God never expected to confine the knowledge and truth found in the Gospel within the boundaries of the United States. The blessings that rushed forward after the establishment of the American government were intended for “our world” (P. 188).
Understanding that God inspired the founding of the United States for the “specific purpose” of bringing freedom to all nations is vital to understanding that free men and women desire freedom for others (P. 115) . The Constitution is a “glorious standard” (P. 4) of rights and God intended that “those rights must be protected…and he designed that all men should protect one another” (P. 48). If America does not keep God’s purposes it will no longer be kept “free from bondage, and from captivity” (Ether 2:12). Those who stop freedom’s progression contradict freedom’s purpose of establishing “full civil equality for all of God‘s children. Anything less than this defeats our high ideal of the brotherhood of man” (P. 130). By not following God’s intentions our nation will be lead into bondage-- the opposite state of freedom.
The gem of freedom’s intent is to “warm every object beneath its rays” with liberty (P. 7). Before the foundation of the world, the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence were designed to be an example of how to spread freedom to the common people of the nation (P. 102). God intended for the freedoms nurtured in America to spread across the whole earth, and not striving to expand freedom is going against God’s will.
I don’t know the names of the soldiers smeared in blood holding up the American flag, but I believe that they were free. As I imagine them in my mind--fathers, brothers, and husbands--I realize they did not sacrifice their lives for their own freedom, but for those that they loved. The solders buried in the mud on that battlefield understood freedom is only created when it is shared, and because of their example I know those men with the glazed eyes and blood-chapped lips were free.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
MOA Visit 2nd time
Art work has it's own language. I think that most people would agree with that. When my History class went to visit the MOA this past week I was somewhat unimpressed. I was impressed with the art work, but the class period was odd to me. We listened to someone explain and try to help us dig out the messages of God in the paintings. The only problem was that the art was speaking to me in an entirly different voice than it was speaking to the women giving the presentation. This caused me more to wonder why we were 'disagreeing' with the painting and simply not reading it.
There are many socological reasons I am sure that we did not see the same thing in the paints: social influances, ages, gender, personal experiances, and so on. In one idea I think that why we really saw different things in the painting is because we are humans with Godly insights.
For starts the nature of God is to see all things, and to know all things. I think that it is possible for a painting to represent more than just one thing, or idea. Why the women lecturing our class saw what she saw was because she took a logical aproach to anaylze the items in the painting. Someone elese would see something different in the painting because they aproached the painting differently. God sees every painting I am sure, and he probably aproaches each painting with a specificly and from all angles. When I imagine God anaylzing my life I believe that he sees all of the factors that affect me, and he understands how to aproach me (as the painting) in every possible perspective.
I think that this is important to understand, because towards the end of the visit I was so sick of being told what 'every one' saw in the painting that I forgot why I was looking at the paintings. With all of the different perspectives being poured onto the painting at once the art work took on this hog pog atitued. I wanted to sit down with one person and take a journy through the painting, and talk about their point of view and what they saw. Instead I felt like we through things at the painting and told it what it should become. Next time I visit the MOA I will strive to find myself on a journey through the art work.
There are many socological reasons I am sure that we did not see the same thing in the paints: social influances, ages, gender, personal experiances, and so on. In one idea I think that why we really saw different things in the painting is because we are humans with Godly insights.
For starts the nature of God is to see all things, and to know all things. I think that it is possible for a painting to represent more than just one thing, or idea. Why the women lecturing our class saw what she saw was because she took a logical aproach to anaylze the items in the painting. Someone elese would see something different in the painting because they aproached the painting differently. God sees every painting I am sure, and he probably aproaches each painting with a specificly and from all angles. When I imagine God anaylzing my life I believe that he sees all of the factors that affect me, and he understands how to aproach me (as the painting) in every possible perspective.
I think that this is important to understand, because towards the end of the visit I was so sick of being told what 'every one' saw in the painting that I forgot why I was looking at the paintings. With all of the different perspectives being poured onto the painting at once the art work took on this hog pog atitued. I wanted to sit down with one person and take a journy through the painting, and talk about their point of view and what they saw. Instead I felt like we through things at the painting and told it what it should become. Next time I visit the MOA I will strive to find myself on a journey through the art work.
MOA visit
Divine Resurrection
I remember when I still young enough to wear Strawberry Shortcake shirts looking over my shoulder as a half nude painting of Christ disappeared behind the labyrinth of statues and canvases. Years later when I returned to Brigham Young University as a student, I found myself fixated on the same painting. I scribbled the title Jesus and Mary: The Moment After and the artist, Trevor Southey, in my daily planner, and wondered why the painting had smoldered in my memory for so many years. Unlike the exposed depictions of Christ on the cross, Trevor Southey’s contemporary approach expresses the divinity of the Savior’s body through lighting, color, and physical strength. As I trace and retrace all three figures in the painting in my mind my appreciation of Jesus’ resurrected body grows.
The painting of Jesus and Mary: The Moment After has a unique history. It is an oil on canvas painting done in 1975. The artist, Trevor Southey, was born in South Africa of European descent in 1940. The South African cultural greatly affected his technique and personal views of painting. He worked as a professor at Brigham Young University, and after being excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints he moved to the San Francisco area. Although he had an unconventional association with the church it is undeniable that Southey’s infamous nude paintings influenced the contemporary Mormon-related art era. He depicted Christ and people in an unconventional way. During the 1970s the Utah public considered nude art pornographic, and Southey was encouraged to “drape” much of his work before publishing it. It is believed that Jesus and Mary: The Moment After was one of these works.
In Jesus and Mary: The Moment After lighting is possibly my favorite aspect of art work, because the shades and shadows develop the focus that the artist wants. Because an artist cannot use actual lighting on an oil and canvas painting the artist uses lighter shades to identify were the light is coming from. The Savior is the source of light in painting. There is a faint hallow of gold surrounding his head, but the illuminating effect surrounds his entire figure. Unlike most paintings where the light comes from the sun, a light bulb, or an unseen force, Southey makes a point to establish that the light in painting is coming from Jesus, and he literally depicts Christ as “the light of the world,” (John 8:12). A traditional artist paints a halo only around the divinities head, representing celestial thoughts. There is a faint halo around Christ’s head in the painting, but the light illuminates from his entire body, establishing Jesus’ entire body as a divine light source, and not simply his intellect, thoughts, or ideas.
Christ’s royal heritage is depicted in Jesus and Mary: The Moment After by a distinct half-inch blue line along Christ’s side. The color blue symbolizes the common English phrase “Blue blooded” which originated from the Spanish expression “sangre azul” that describes noble birth. While conquering, the Iberian Peninsula Spanish nobility would show the blue veins under their thin and pale skin in their hands to distinguish themselves from the Moorish people they had conquered. The blue out lines Jesus’ entire body depicting Christ’s entire body as royal, and not simply his hands.
Southey painted Jesus’ with a bare torso to focus on Christ’s divine and resurrected body. Naturally your eye follows Christ’s bare torso by tracing a discolored line across his left shoulder and down his side. He is uncovered, but does not seem exposed. The soft lines in Christ’s turned face invite you to examine his outstretched arms and toned frame. Not only does he look beautiful, but strong. The veins in his arms are enormous, and his hands seem disproportionately large. Southey paints Christ with defined muscles and broad shoulders to establish God’s strength not only in his hands, but in his entire physic.
When I saw the depiction of Christ in Jesus and Mary: The Moment After my head dropped to one side and I felt questions blossom in my mind. Why no wool red scratchy robe? Why a pale silk framing his bare torso? It took specific details such as the halo, the blue outline, and the veins in his extended hands to understand the message of Christ’s divine body dipected in the art work.
I almost missed the form wrapped in shire cloth on the right side of the Christ in the painting, because I was focusing the painted Savior. I don’t know who the huddled form is. My initial response was the figure must be the Savior prior to his resurrection. As I began to ponder “the moment after” I realized that the Savior was not bound the moment after his resurrection, but Mary was because she needed the atonement to free her from her sin. I was fairly determined the covered figure was Mary until I reflected on the binding power of sin. Could the figure be me? In my mind the figure is all three of us. The person under the cloth changes every time I look, causing me to appreciate the painting differently each time. When the wrapped figure is Jesus I am overwhelmed by his strength to break the power of death. If I see Mary’s figure covered by the cloth I feel the personal love intertwined in the atonement. I don’t like imagining that I am the figure wrapped in the painting, because I feel blind to the divinity of the resurrection when I do.
There I am, after one of the most important moments in all eternity, wrapped in my own sins; blinded by my pride and ignorance; and unable to see the light beaming from my God.
It makes me wish the covered person was someone else; some other unfortunate soul. Someone who made too much money, never gave to the poor, and got too fat to feel the spirit any more. How could you miss something like that? Recognizing Christ as a good man who lived an exceptional life is not enough. When I look at “Jesus and Mary: The Moment After” I am reminded that Christ lives. He died for me, and now his body illuminates light, divinity, and strength.
Work Cited
Blue Blood. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 25 September 2009 at 13:32. Web. 14 October 2009.
Lacey, Robert. Aristocrats. Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 67.
Puri, Janak. Community Centre. Compare Infobase Limited. New Delhi, 2000. Web. 14 October 2009.
Southey, Trevor. Jesus and Mary: The Moment After. 1975. Oil on canvas. Brigham Young University Museum of Art.
I remember when I still young enough to wear Strawberry Shortcake shirts looking over my shoulder as a half nude painting of Christ disappeared behind the labyrinth of statues and canvases. Years later when I returned to Brigham Young University as a student, I found myself fixated on the same painting. I scribbled the title Jesus and Mary: The Moment After and the artist, Trevor Southey, in my daily planner, and wondered why the painting had smoldered in my memory for so many years. Unlike the exposed depictions of Christ on the cross, Trevor Southey’s contemporary approach expresses the divinity of the Savior’s body through lighting, color, and physical strength. As I trace and retrace all three figures in the painting in my mind my appreciation of Jesus’ resurrected body grows.
The painting of Jesus and Mary: The Moment After has a unique history. It is an oil on canvas painting done in 1975. The artist, Trevor Southey, was born in South Africa of European descent in 1940. The South African cultural greatly affected his technique and personal views of painting. He worked as a professor at Brigham Young University, and after being excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints he moved to the San Francisco area. Although he had an unconventional association with the church it is undeniable that Southey’s infamous nude paintings influenced the contemporary Mormon-related art era. He depicted Christ and people in an unconventional way. During the 1970s the Utah public considered nude art pornographic, and Southey was encouraged to “drape” much of his work before publishing it. It is believed that Jesus and Mary: The Moment After was one of these works.
In Jesus and Mary: The Moment After lighting is possibly my favorite aspect of art work, because the shades and shadows develop the focus that the artist wants. Because an artist cannot use actual lighting on an oil and canvas painting the artist uses lighter shades to identify were the light is coming from. The Savior is the source of light in painting. There is a faint hallow of gold surrounding his head, but the illuminating effect surrounds his entire figure. Unlike most paintings where the light comes from the sun, a light bulb, or an unseen force, Southey makes a point to establish that the light in painting is coming from Jesus, and he literally depicts Christ as “the light of the world,” (John 8:12). A traditional artist paints a halo only around the divinities head, representing celestial thoughts. There is a faint halo around Christ’s head in the painting, but the light illuminates from his entire body, establishing Jesus’ entire body as a divine light source, and not simply his intellect, thoughts, or ideas.
Christ’s royal heritage is depicted in Jesus and Mary: The Moment After by a distinct half-inch blue line along Christ’s side. The color blue symbolizes the common English phrase “Blue blooded” which originated from the Spanish expression “sangre azul” that describes noble birth. While conquering, the Iberian Peninsula Spanish nobility would show the blue veins under their thin and pale skin in their hands to distinguish themselves from the Moorish people they had conquered. The blue out lines Jesus’ entire body depicting Christ’s entire body as royal, and not simply his hands.
Southey painted Jesus’ with a bare torso to focus on Christ’s divine and resurrected body. Naturally your eye follows Christ’s bare torso by tracing a discolored line across his left shoulder and down his side. He is uncovered, but does not seem exposed. The soft lines in Christ’s turned face invite you to examine his outstretched arms and toned frame. Not only does he look beautiful, but strong. The veins in his arms are enormous, and his hands seem disproportionately large. Southey paints Christ with defined muscles and broad shoulders to establish God’s strength not only in his hands, but in his entire physic.
When I saw the depiction of Christ in Jesus and Mary: The Moment After my head dropped to one side and I felt questions blossom in my mind. Why no wool red scratchy robe? Why a pale silk framing his bare torso? It took specific details such as the halo, the blue outline, and the veins in his extended hands to understand the message of Christ’s divine body dipected in the art work.
I almost missed the form wrapped in shire cloth on the right side of the Christ in the painting, because I was focusing the painted Savior. I don’t know who the huddled form is. My initial response was the figure must be the Savior prior to his resurrection. As I began to ponder “the moment after” I realized that the Savior was not bound the moment after his resurrection, but Mary was because she needed the atonement to free her from her sin. I was fairly determined the covered figure was Mary until I reflected on the binding power of sin. Could the figure be me? In my mind the figure is all three of us. The person under the cloth changes every time I look, causing me to appreciate the painting differently each time. When the wrapped figure is Jesus I am overwhelmed by his strength to break the power of death. If I see Mary’s figure covered by the cloth I feel the personal love intertwined in the atonement. I don’t like imagining that I am the figure wrapped in the painting, because I feel blind to the divinity of the resurrection when I do.
There I am, after one of the most important moments in all eternity, wrapped in my own sins; blinded by my pride and ignorance; and unable to see the light beaming from my God.
It makes me wish the covered person was someone else; some other unfortunate soul. Someone who made too much money, never gave to the poor, and got too fat to feel the spirit any more. How could you miss something like that? Recognizing Christ as a good man who lived an exceptional life is not enough. When I look at “Jesus and Mary: The Moment After” I am reminded that Christ lives. He died for me, and now his body illuminates light, divinity, and strength.
Work Cited
Blue Blood. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 25 September 2009 at 13:32. Web. 14 October 2009.
Lacey, Robert. Aristocrats. Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 67.
Puri, Janak. Community Centre. Compare Infobase Limited. New Delhi, 2000. Web. 14 October 2009.
Southey, Trevor. Jesus and Mary: The Moment After. 1975. Oil on canvas. Brigham Young University Museum of Art.
re-write
I did not know that writing could feel like drilling a screwdriver through my skull until I came to Brigham Young University, and now I have the pleasure of screwdrivers drilling into my brain everyday. The lecture of finding humility, charity, clarity, and stick-to-ity in writing was what I needed to here. This week I turned in the first draft of my Freshman research paper. When I got it back I had a difficulty finding my paper through all of the red markings. While I listened to her speak about the power of writing I came to the conclusion that it is not simply ok for me to need to re-write my paper, but essential to learning how to write well.
Re-writing my paper will take time and energy. Like the quote used in the lecture hard work is the only answer. I researched and researched and put all of my facts into folders that I never will read again on my computer. All of the research that I did was hard work, but there is a difference between working to obtain information and sharing information. Writing is sharing all of the information that I learned, and it feels harder to me than retaining. Hard work researching is important, but I also need to work hard at writing all of the information I researched out.
It is going to take me a long to learn how to write well, probably longer than simply just four years at Brigham Young University. Re-writing my paper might take some hard work, but that is part of growing. The growth that comes from writing is not simply so that I can get a better grade, but so that I can help God spread truth. God wants the best, and so I must be continually striving to reach for the best. Sometimes re-drafts and even re-re-drafts are needed to make the best paper I can possibly write.
Re-writing my paper will take time and energy. Like the quote used in the lecture hard work is the only answer. I researched and researched and put all of my facts into folders that I never will read again on my computer. All of the research that I did was hard work, but there is a difference between working to obtain information and sharing information. Writing is sharing all of the information that I learned, and it feels harder to me than retaining. Hard work researching is important, but I also need to work hard at writing all of the information I researched out.
It is going to take me a long to learn how to write well, probably longer than simply just four years at Brigham Young University. Re-writing my paper might take some hard work, but that is part of growing. The growth that comes from writing is not simply so that I can get a better grade, but so that I can help God spread truth. God wants the best, and so I must be continually striving to reach for the best. Sometimes re-drafts and even re-re-drafts are needed to make the best paper I can possibly write.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
language
While listening to the lecture on the deaf community I was reminded of the section in The Amistad when the lawyer broke a promise and tried to convince the translator to tell the prisoners that he “should” have done something else. Frustrated the translator screamed “there is no word for should, either you do something or you don’t do it,” that line struck me. I realized that what a society values comes out in that societies language. While Jean Blackburn talked about the deaf community I realized one of the underlining theme of their language is sharing.
The story that Jean shared about the man talking to her at church. He told her that his wife started drinking slim fast. She lost twenty pounds, and now she is wearing a beautiful dress. Then he told Jean that she should drink slim fast. On face value this sounds like an insult, but as Jean explained he was complementing his wife, and saying how slim fast made him happy. If it made him happy why would it not make Jean happy too. In direct translation that idea got lost. It is important to not only understand the translation, but the values behind a language.
The direct translation of the word Proud is pretty harsh, but when a parent says “I am proud of you,” it is a deep complement. I wonder if the love in saying “I am proud of you,“ gets lost a translation? While all of these thoughts were turning in my head I realized that people want to convey a message, and the deaf use sign language. Simply knowing this hand signal and that hand signal is not understanding the ‘language’ a translator has to understand the message too. I was very impressed with Jean Blackburn, and her ability to understand sign language.
The story that Jean shared about the man talking to her at church. He told her that his wife started drinking slim fast. She lost twenty pounds, and now she is wearing a beautiful dress. Then he told Jean that she should drink slim fast. On face value this sounds like an insult, but as Jean explained he was complementing his wife, and saying how slim fast made him happy. If it made him happy why would it not make Jean happy too. In direct translation that idea got lost. It is important to not only understand the translation, but the values behind a language.
The direct translation of the word Proud is pretty harsh, but when a parent says “I am proud of you,” it is a deep complement. I wonder if the love in saying “I am proud of you,“ gets lost a translation? While all of these thoughts were turning in my head I realized that people want to convey a message, and the deaf use sign language. Simply knowing this hand signal and that hand signal is not understanding the ‘language’ a translator has to understand the message too. I was very impressed with Jean Blackburn, and her ability to understand sign language.
Me in history
Durring American Heratige our class watched “The Amistad”. It was edited-- I am at Brigham Young University. Although I spent most of the time in class transfixed to the screen gripping the top of my desk refraining from bursting out in all sorts of emotions I did glance over at my professor. He was wearing his ‘sunglasses’. On the first day of class he came in wearing ‘sunglasses’ and began the lecture by explaining that we all are biased. We see the world through ‘sunglasses’ our own personal set of biased opinions beliefs and views. According to my professor understanding history is not memorizing dates and names, but having the ability to take off your personal ‘sunglasses’ or cultural influences and viewing the story and events through someone else’s eyes. When I saw him leaning up against the wall wearing his ‘sunglasses’ I turned back to the movie with a new outlook. I did not want to just watch the show, but to become apart of the story. Pathetically, but truthfully for the first time in my life I realized that slavery was and is a horrific thing done to MY brothers and sisters.
Prior to this I have felt this awkward social ideal that slavery was a black and white issue. My piece in understanding slavery is to recognize that my white ancestors were in the wrong. I expected nothing more from my self, but to establish my white ancestors were wrong to put black people into bondage. When ever I thought of slaver there were two main thought streams; How could people do that to someone else? And how did they endure that?
As I looked into the eyes of the slaves in the movie (fortunately the were all good actors and actresses) the realization that understanding slavery is realizing that those millions of men, women, and children bound in chains were my heavenly brothers and sisters. I do not have to have black skin to be their sister. I might not be their literal descendent, but that does not mean that I can not feel a fire passion against slavery and what it stood for.
When I understand slavery better I am not saying I need to down size my opinion of my white ancestors. My impression of slavery has became more personal than ever before. For some reason I held this social stigma that because I am not black I can not understand the hardship of slaves. NO ONE can truly understand the hardships of slavery, but I can imagine. My heart and mind should not be restricted by the color of my skin. I was so glad to watch that movie and make this realization.
Prior to this I have felt this awkward social ideal that slavery was a black and white issue. My piece in understanding slavery is to recognize that my white ancestors were in the wrong. I expected nothing more from my self, but to establish my white ancestors were wrong to put black people into bondage. When ever I thought of slaver there were two main thought streams; How could people do that to someone else? And how did they endure that?
As I looked into the eyes of the slaves in the movie (fortunately the were all good actors and actresses) the realization that understanding slavery is realizing that those millions of men, women, and children bound in chains were my heavenly brothers and sisters. I do not have to have black skin to be their sister. I might not be their literal descendent, but that does not mean that I can not feel a fire passion against slavery and what it stood for.
When I understand slavery better I am not saying I need to down size my opinion of my white ancestors. My impression of slavery has became more personal than ever before. For some reason I held this social stigma that because I am not black I can not understand the hardship of slaves. NO ONE can truly understand the hardships of slavery, but I can imagine. My heart and mind should not be restricted by the color of my skin. I was so glad to watch that movie and make this realization.
Monday, November 2, 2009
out line
Joy Prior
Professor Harris
2 November 2009
Response #9
Thesis: Dairy is a economical and practical way to obtain essential vitamins and minerals in a balanced diet. Recent dietary guidelines that entirely substitute milk with plant based products for protein, vitamin, and calcium are illogical. In the past decade research shows a balanced diet is esential to eliminating cancer, diabeties, and lactose intolerance., eliminating milk is not the solution.
Out line
The China Study: What brought all of these concerns to my mind
Growing up on a Dairy Farm: personal experience with dairy
Economical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“By June 1940, federal funds were allocated to provide milk for children in 15 Chicago elementary schools. The price to children was 1 cent per half-pint, with subsidies from private donations available for those who could not pay. The half-pint container of milk became a lunchtime staple for millions of North American children in 1943, when the milk program was made part of the federal school lunch program.”
“Milk and other dairy products contribute > 70% of the calcium intake in the United States.”
“A policy that promotes calcium supplements as a dietary alternative for children brings other problems, as well. For many families, it would represent an additional expense they could not afford
Practical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Bioavailability refers to the amount of calcium available for use by the body and that is dependent, in part, on both the calcium load and substances in food that bind calcium. The calcium in milk is ~ 30% bioavailable.( n40) Of the 300 mg of calcium in a glass of milk, 90 mg would expected to be absorbed. By comparison, accounting for calcium load size, to absorb that amount of calcium from broccoli, a vegetable in which calcium is highly bioavailable, it would be necessary to consume two and one fourth cups”
“A cup of spinach, for example, provides > 240 mg of calcium, but to absorb an amount of calcium equal to that in milk, it would be necessary to consume over 8 cups.”
Dairy Protein
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print
Vitamins
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“From our study results, it is not possible to conclude whether the calcium content of milk or the combined effect of its components caused the beneficial effect of milk supplementation. The supplementation admittedly resulted in significantly higher than usual intakes of vitamin D, protein, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, and a range of other micronutrients. Theoretically, it is possible that a protein and carbohydrate food source will stimulate secretion of insulin-like factor, insulin, and amylin and thus contribute to increases in BMD
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Milk is an inexpensive source of high-quality protein and provides 31% of the riboflavin in the American diet. Fluid milk is also routinely fortified with vitamins A and vitamin D. In fact, milk is the only significant food source of Vitamin D, a nutrient critical to the utilization of calcium that is particularly important in winter months.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. (5)
Calcium from Dairy for infants
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
“Group 1 infants had significantly lower BMC and BMC/BW at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age (P<0.05 to P<0.0001) compared with group 2 infants, but their values were similar to those in previously studied infants receiving human milk with vitamin D supplementation.”
Alternative Calcium Sources
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
China diet lacking sufficient Calcium
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“OSTEOPOROSIS IS a major public health problem in Asia. Projections suggest that more than one-half of all hip fractures will occur in this region by the year 2050.(1) In Hong Kong, the incidence of hip fracture has increased 3-fold over the last 30 years.(2) The hip fracture rates in Hong Kong are similar to those in Britain.(2) However, the Asian diet is low in calcium content, and we have previously shown that a low calcium intake may be associated with the risk of both hip(3) and vertebral fracture.
Lack of Calcium in children’s diet
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
“milk avoiders were shorter had smaller skeletons and a lower total-body bone mineral content
In growing children, long-term avoidance of cow milk is associated with small stature and poor bone health. This is a major concern that warrants further study.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Calcium intake is already insufficient in the United States, where osteoporosis is a major and rapidly growing public health problem.
“a child would need to drink 3 cups of juice to obtain the amount in 3 cups of milk. According to the most recently available data, only 1 in 5 elementary school age children consumes any citrus juice and on average, the amount consumed is under 2 ounces.( n46) There are no data as to how much of the juice consumed by children is calcium-fortified.
Cancer
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
“Our study suggests that men with high consumption of soy milk are at reduced risk of prostate cancer. Possible associations between soy bean products, isoflavones and prostate cancer risk should be further investigated.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
Type 1 diabeties
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087.
Print.
“In 2000, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International issued a position paper concluding that there is no compelling scientific evidence to support the claim that drinking cow's milk increases the risk of type 1 diabetes in children or adults”
Study in Finland “Although the broad age range of the subjects in this study is wide and the data do not permit an examination of the relationship between time of milk exposure and age at onset of the disease, these data support the hypothesis that there may be a subset of at-risk children for whom cow's milk consumption promotes the development of type 1 diabetes.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Cows milk may cause one of the most devastating disease (diabetes 1) that can befall a child. For obvious reasons, this is one of the most contentious issues in nutrition today. (187)
Lactose intolerance
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
“Although not a serious threat to health, lactose intolerance causes discomfort, anxiety, and embarrassment for a large number of people worldwide”
“In fact, the majority of people with lactose malabsorption can consume small-to-moderate quantities of dairy products
without developing symptoms of intolerance
“Lactose intolerance, unlike milk allergy, does not involve the immune system, is treated easily and is not life-threatening
“Up to 62% who believe they are lactose intolerant actually digest lactose normally, but may have sensitivity to other types of food.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines are insensitive to the health needs of minorities, 75% of whom worldwide experience some degree of lactose intolerance,
“Lactose intolerance is the inability to completely digest lactose, the sugar in milk. In the small intestine, the enzyme lactase splits lactose into 2 simple sugars, glucose and galactose. If insufficient lactase is produced and lactose is not digested, it travels to the large intestine where it is fermented by bacteria into organic acids and gas. This gas, along with the osmotic effect of unabsorbed lactose and water, is responsible for the symptoms of lactose intolerance, which can include abdominal fullness, cramps, and diarrhea”
“25% of American adults experience some degree of lactose intolerance.
“Of note is that in double-blind studies, the relationship between the existence of lactase deficiency and symptoms reported is inconsistent.
“Simply anticipating the possibility of discomfort may cause individuals to experience abdominal pain and cramping after eating dairy foods.
“African tribesmen, such as the Masai > 20 years ago. Among these people, the prevalence of lactose intolerance has been estimated to reach over 60%, but they routinely consume considerable quantities of milk without symptoms
Balanced Diet
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
“Panama’s food guide advises sufficient root vegetables. Zimbabwe’s four-food-group square includes insects as one protein-rich food.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.” (5)
Bibliography
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
This was my best source. There was so much information in this article that helped me to get my act together. During the entire article they addressed the concerns that I had about milk, and wither or not it was healthy. This became the spring board of my research. I got most of my quotes from this article, and understood my topic fully after reading it.
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
I learned a little about children and their lactose intake. This helped me to understand how important it is that children get calcium. My ideas also began to evolve into the reality that it is not if the food is good or bad, but if the vitamins and minerals in the food supply the right needs. After reading this article I realized that milk is a convenient way to get in all of the vitamins and minerals we need in one day.
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
Lactose intolerance is different than being allergic to milk. It should be treated differently too, and avoiding milk is actually the “wrong” way to cure the problem. Most people who are lactose intolerance do not have the symptoms of being lactose intolerance. They still drink milk, and seem fine. It was refreshing to get a nurses point of view, and how to explain healthy life choices. Most of the article talked about reintroducing milk into someone’s diet. I found it helpful, but not substantial data.
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
This article made me realize that other countries have food pyramids, and that no country has the best. There are so many attacks against the food guide pyramid that I was really questioning it, but now I think that it is basically like any diet guidelines. They are all healthy suggestions, and should be treated as such.
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print.
This was basically just a passage about how milk helped to build muscle in a group of men working out. There were no real numbers in the paper, and that made it difficult for me to really want to use the information. I did find it helpful though. It opened my research to the idea that milk is good for not just bones but muscles too.
Schrezemmeir, Jurgen, Alexandra Jagla. “Milk and Diabetes.” American College of Nutrition. 9002.19 (2000): 176S-190S. Print.
In this article I read about the realationship between milk and diabetes. It was helpful for my paper because there was observed no true conection. What I realized was that all studies need to be repeated and redone before they can be proven, or become factual. While I browsed I found more studies not supporting diabetes and milk being the cause, but I this article seemed to be the most comprehensive.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
This was a great article because it talked about the problems in the china diet. That there were many things missing in the china diet, and this was causing health problems. I want to use a lot of the quotes from here to support that idea that American scientist are not as biased as they might be portrayed. Chinese scientist think that there is something in milk that will help their society to live better, and healthier. I want to use a lot of this information to give ethos to milk.
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Campbell urges readers to eliminate meat and dairy from their diets to achieve better health and longevity. His study will add a new dimension to the public debate about the role of plant-based foods in the human diet
I used this book to understand what I was up against. It was helpful to get a base of what I should say, and what the other side was thinking. The valid concerns in this book opened up my mind, and I started making the connections between why this is such an issue. There are valid concerns on both sides of the argument. Milk has a lot of things in it that we don’t understand. What I found a little frustrating was that the book addressed protein more than milk, and I did not need information on protein.
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
This study was a good one for my paper because it compared soy milk to cow milk. There were a few quotes that I could use about how soy milk is not the same as cow milk and that infants who were given soy milk actually had lower bone mass than the babies who drank a cow based milk. This was helpful information because soy milk is the substitute for cow milk in the vegan diet, and it seems that even soy milk has it’s down falls.
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
I found this article helpful because it supported soy milk in the adult diet. I realized that my paper is not to state that soy milk is bad. I want to show that milk is good. This helped me to support the idea that a well balanced diet with plant based products and milk is the best idea. Eliminating one is were the problem comes in. I thought that this information would be good to close with to illustrate that I am not attacking the idea of plant based products, but supporting a diet with milk.
Professor Harris
2 November 2009
Response #9
Thesis: Dairy is a economical and practical way to obtain essential vitamins and minerals in a balanced diet. Recent dietary guidelines that entirely substitute milk with plant based products for protein, vitamin, and calcium are illogical. In the past decade research shows a balanced diet is esential to eliminating cancer, diabeties, and lactose intolerance., eliminating milk is not the solution.
Out line
The China Study: What brought all of these concerns to my mind
Growing up on a Dairy Farm: personal experience with dairy
Economical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“By June 1940, federal funds were allocated to provide milk for children in 15 Chicago elementary schools. The price to children was 1 cent per half-pint, with subsidies from private donations available for those who could not pay. The half-pint container of milk became a lunchtime staple for millions of North American children in 1943, when the milk program was made part of the federal school lunch program.”
“Milk and other dairy products contribute > 70% of the calcium intake in the United States.”
“A policy that promotes calcium supplements as a dietary alternative for children brings other problems, as well. For many families, it would represent an additional expense they could not afford
Practical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Bioavailability refers to the amount of calcium available for use by the body and that is dependent, in part, on both the calcium load and substances in food that bind calcium. The calcium in milk is ~ 30% bioavailable.( n40) Of the 300 mg of calcium in a glass of milk, 90 mg would expected to be absorbed. By comparison, accounting for calcium load size, to absorb that amount of calcium from broccoli, a vegetable in which calcium is highly bioavailable, it would be necessary to consume two and one fourth cups”
“A cup of spinach, for example, provides > 240 mg of calcium, but to absorb an amount of calcium equal to that in milk, it would be necessary to consume over 8 cups.”
Dairy Protein
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print
Vitamins
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“From our study results, it is not possible to conclude whether the calcium content of milk or the combined effect of its components caused the beneficial effect of milk supplementation. The supplementation admittedly resulted in significantly higher than usual intakes of vitamin D, protein, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, and a range of other micronutrients. Theoretically, it is possible that a protein and carbohydrate food source will stimulate secretion of insulin-like factor, insulin, and amylin and thus contribute to increases in BMD
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Milk is an inexpensive source of high-quality protein and provides 31% of the riboflavin in the American diet. Fluid milk is also routinely fortified with vitamins A and vitamin D. In fact, milk is the only significant food source of Vitamin D, a nutrient critical to the utilization of calcium that is particularly important in winter months.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. (5)
Calcium from Dairy for infants
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
“Group 1 infants had significantly lower BMC and BMC/BW at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age (P<0.05 to P<0.0001) compared with group 2 infants, but their values were similar to those in previously studied infants receiving human milk with vitamin D supplementation.”
Alternative Calcium Sources
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
China diet lacking sufficient Calcium
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“OSTEOPOROSIS IS a major public health problem in Asia. Projections suggest that more than one-half of all hip fractures will occur in this region by the year 2050.(1) In Hong Kong, the incidence of hip fracture has increased 3-fold over the last 30 years.(2) The hip fracture rates in Hong Kong are similar to those in Britain.(2) However, the Asian diet is low in calcium content, and we have previously shown that a low calcium intake may be associated with the risk of both hip(3) and vertebral fracture.
Lack of Calcium in children’s diet
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
“milk avoiders were shorter had smaller skeletons and a lower total-body bone mineral content
In growing children, long-term avoidance of cow milk is associated with small stature and poor bone health. This is a major concern that warrants further study.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Calcium intake is already insufficient in the United States, where osteoporosis is a major and rapidly growing public health problem.
“a child would need to drink 3 cups of juice to obtain the amount in 3 cups of milk. According to the most recently available data, only 1 in 5 elementary school age children consumes any citrus juice and on average, the amount consumed is under 2 ounces.( n46) There are no data as to how much of the juice consumed by children is calcium-fortified.
Cancer
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
“Our study suggests that men with high consumption of soy milk are at reduced risk of prostate cancer. Possible associations between soy bean products, isoflavones and prostate cancer risk should be further investigated.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
Type 1 diabeties
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087.
Print.
“In 2000, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International issued a position paper concluding that there is no compelling scientific evidence to support the claim that drinking cow's milk increases the risk of type 1 diabetes in children or adults”
Study in Finland “Although the broad age range of the subjects in this study is wide and the data do not permit an examination of the relationship between time of milk exposure and age at onset of the disease, these data support the hypothesis that there may be a subset of at-risk children for whom cow's milk consumption promotes the development of type 1 diabetes.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Cows milk may cause one of the most devastating disease (diabetes 1) that can befall a child. For obvious reasons, this is one of the most contentious issues in nutrition today. (187)
Lactose intolerance
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
“Although not a serious threat to health, lactose intolerance causes discomfort, anxiety, and embarrassment for a large number of people worldwide”
“In fact, the majority of people with lactose malabsorption can consume small-to-moderate quantities of dairy products
without developing symptoms of intolerance
“Lactose intolerance, unlike milk allergy, does not involve the immune system, is treated easily and is not life-threatening
“Up to 62% who believe they are lactose intolerant actually digest lactose normally, but may have sensitivity to other types of food.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines are insensitive to the health needs of minorities, 75% of whom worldwide experience some degree of lactose intolerance,
“Lactose intolerance is the inability to completely digest lactose, the sugar in milk. In the small intestine, the enzyme lactase splits lactose into 2 simple sugars, glucose and galactose. If insufficient lactase is produced and lactose is not digested, it travels to the large intestine where it is fermented by bacteria into organic acids and gas. This gas, along with the osmotic effect of unabsorbed lactose and water, is responsible for the symptoms of lactose intolerance, which can include abdominal fullness, cramps, and diarrhea”
“25% of American adults experience some degree of lactose intolerance.
“Of note is that in double-blind studies, the relationship between the existence of lactase deficiency and symptoms reported is inconsistent.
“Simply anticipating the possibility of discomfort may cause individuals to experience abdominal pain and cramping after eating dairy foods.
“African tribesmen, such as the Masai > 20 years ago. Among these people, the prevalence of lactose intolerance has been estimated to reach over 60%, but they routinely consume considerable quantities of milk without symptoms
Balanced Diet
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
“Panama’s food guide advises sufficient root vegetables. Zimbabwe’s four-food-group square includes insects as one protein-rich food.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.” (5)
Bibliography
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
This was my best source. There was so much information in this article that helped me to get my act together. During the entire article they addressed the concerns that I had about milk, and wither or not it was healthy. This became the spring board of my research. I got most of my quotes from this article, and understood my topic fully after reading it.
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
I learned a little about children and their lactose intake. This helped me to understand how important it is that children get calcium. My ideas also began to evolve into the reality that it is not if the food is good or bad, but if the vitamins and minerals in the food supply the right needs. After reading this article I realized that milk is a convenient way to get in all of the vitamins and minerals we need in one day.
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
Lactose intolerance is different than being allergic to milk. It should be treated differently too, and avoiding milk is actually the “wrong” way to cure the problem. Most people who are lactose intolerance do not have the symptoms of being lactose intolerance. They still drink milk, and seem fine. It was refreshing to get a nurses point of view, and how to explain healthy life choices. Most of the article talked about reintroducing milk into someone’s diet. I found it helpful, but not substantial data.
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
This article made me realize that other countries have food pyramids, and that no country has the best. There are so many attacks against the food guide pyramid that I was really questioning it, but now I think that it is basically like any diet guidelines. They are all healthy suggestions, and should be treated as such.
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print.
This was basically just a passage about how milk helped to build muscle in a group of men working out. There were no real numbers in the paper, and that made it difficult for me to really want to use the information. I did find it helpful though. It opened my research to the idea that milk is good for not just bones but muscles too.
Schrezemmeir, Jurgen, Alexandra Jagla. “Milk and Diabetes.” American College of Nutrition. 9002.19 (2000): 176S-190S. Print.
In this article I read about the realationship between milk and diabetes. It was helpful for my paper because there was observed no true conection. What I realized was that all studies need to be repeated and redone before they can be proven, or become factual. While I browsed I found more studies not supporting diabetes and milk being the cause, but I this article seemed to be the most comprehensive.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
This was a great article because it talked about the problems in the china diet. That there were many things missing in the china diet, and this was causing health problems. I want to use a lot of the quotes from here to support that idea that American scientist are not as biased as they might be portrayed. Chinese scientist think that there is something in milk that will help their society to live better, and healthier. I want to use a lot of this information to give ethos to milk.
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Campbell urges readers to eliminate meat and dairy from their diets to achieve better health and longevity. His study will add a new dimension to the public debate about the role of plant-based foods in the human diet
I used this book to understand what I was up against. It was helpful to get a base of what I should say, and what the other side was thinking. The valid concerns in this book opened up my mind, and I started making the connections between why this is such an issue. There are valid concerns on both sides of the argument. Milk has a lot of things in it that we don’t understand. What I found a little frustrating was that the book addressed protein more than milk, and I did not need information on protein.
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
This study was a good one for my paper because it compared soy milk to cow milk. There were a few quotes that I could use about how soy milk is not the same as cow milk and that infants who were given soy milk actually had lower bone mass than the babies who drank a cow based milk. This was helpful information because soy milk is the substitute for cow milk in the vegan diet, and it seems that even soy milk has it’s down falls.
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
I found this article helpful because it supported soy milk in the adult diet. I realized that my paper is not to state that soy milk is bad. I want to show that milk is good. This helped me to support the idea that a well balanced diet with plant based products and milk is the best idea. Eliminating one is were the problem comes in. I thought that this information would be good to close with to illustrate that I am not attacking the idea of plant based products, but supporting a diet with milk.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
fire side
Elder Uckdorf came and talked to us... Here are my notes
The ugly duckline story
unushually large, and ugly
but it can swin, and so it simply assumes that the poor thing is disfigured
desides that it would be better for his family if he ran away
did run away, almost died, sees swans and is afraid the swans might kill him because he is so ugly
He follows them, and then sees the reflection of a beautiful swan, he is the most beautifl
HE HAS DISCOVERED WHO HE IS TRULY IS
confusion comes from not understanding who we are
to many go through life not knowing their potential beyond imagination
discovering who we are is apart of life
were? who? why? understand with heart and soul, not mind only
questions that reach into spritual things require spirtitual help
Church members know them because: power of the Holy Ghost (God gives freely to his children)
this allows you to see your own reflection in the water
"more beautiful and glories than you can imagine"
this knowledge: change present, future, contance
Questions affecting young saints around the world
I am unhappy and depressed. Some times the world looks like it would be a better place without me...
get help for yourself, and if you know someone who needs help be a true friend
"To be or not to be. That is the question," Shakespear was wrong
there are other options beyond that contridiction
i would have Hamlet turn to the audiance and say "knowing that i am child of God. What need I do and be to live up to that poential?That is the quetstion."
remember were you came from, and were you are going next time you get sad; these things are conected to serving God, and fellow man
YOU don't need to wait for permission to fill your heart with happiness
dance, study, work, serve, ex. all together. GET TO KNOW PEOPLE
I am so lonely. Will I ever find my soul mate?
"I have a number of things I want to say on this subject, but lets start... lets start"
the one person who is perfect for you
women who discovers a geni bottle; askes for world peace, geni says anything but that
askes instead for someone who is... the geni considers that for a moment and then desideds to do something about world peace
I think that I feel in love with my wife the first moment I saw her; but if she married someone else
she was not the one chance of happiness, and I was not hers
No one is perfect; the only perfect people you might know are those you don't know very well
do not lower your standards; if someone is willing to acept me imperfect as I am then I should put up with theirs
must creat perfection together; falling in love is a wonderful feeling
that magic spark needs continuned sparking; the couple makes it happen; it takes work
Once you committe to being married your spose becomes your soul mate, and you must keep it that way. The search for a soul mate is over when you have made that choice.
Years after Uckdorf first met his wife she said, "you have matured scence the last time I saw you," with this news I moved quickly
GET TO KNOW MANY OF THEM, is the secret
JUST ASK don't simply HANG OUT, nothing wrong, but you need to get to know individuals
there are those of you in the church who will never marry, there is no way to identify with this great dispear
prayers are heard, I don't know why some are answered one way and not others, the path is drawn continue
"I say Joyfully endure to the end,"
Do not wait for someone to make yourlife complete, and seek fullfillment in serving and improving yourself
Can I remain faithful?
Inter tropical transversion; billowing colums of clouds, could not look at them without being impressed with the lightening and darkness
AVOID THEM, no matter how beautiful those storms look they can kill you
Temptation would not be temptation if it did not look inticing, and fun
DO NOT FLIRT WITH PORNOGRAPHY
Doubts in questions and principles?
Is it allright to have questions about the church
Inquiry leads to truth: Joseph Smith
You will rearly find revelation with out a question procedding it
God can give us answers to questions we ask, and the answers to questions we should have asked
Some might feel embarased
it is a precurser of growth; ask with real intent; Holy Ghost will answer
DOUBT NOT, when you get an answer bulild upon it and let it become solid
"my thoughts are not your thoughts... but my thoughts are higher than you thoughts,"
Asking questions; excersise your faith everday, apply those principles you have in question
There are going to be voices telling you that you are an ugly duckline.
You are not ordinary beings, but glorious and eternal
REMBER WHO YOU ARE, WERE YOU CAME FROM, AND WERE YOU ARE GOING
God speaks to you through prophets, the Chruch is directed by Jesus
Today I may speak to you with imperfection, and in a German acent
What you feel in your heat is from a member of the God Head
What you must do and be to see your true refelction
The ugly duckline story
unushually large, and ugly
but it can swin, and so it simply assumes that the poor thing is disfigured
desides that it would be better for his family if he ran away
did run away, almost died, sees swans and is afraid the swans might kill him because he is so ugly
He follows them, and then sees the reflection of a beautiful swan, he is the most beautifl
HE HAS DISCOVERED WHO HE IS TRULY IS
confusion comes from not understanding who we are
to many go through life not knowing their potential beyond imagination
discovering who we are is apart of life
were? who? why? understand with heart and soul, not mind only
questions that reach into spritual things require spirtitual help
Church members know them because: power of the Holy Ghost (God gives freely to his children)
this allows you to see your own reflection in the water
"more beautiful and glories than you can imagine"
this knowledge: change present, future, contance
Questions affecting young saints around the world
I am unhappy and depressed. Some times the world looks like it would be a better place without me...
get help for yourself, and if you know someone who needs help be a true friend
"To be or not to be. That is the question," Shakespear was wrong
there are other options beyond that contridiction
i would have Hamlet turn to the audiance and say "knowing that i am child of God. What need I do and be to live up to that poential?That is the quetstion."
remember were you came from, and were you are going next time you get sad; these things are conected to serving God, and fellow man
YOU don't need to wait for permission to fill your heart with happiness
dance, study, work, serve, ex. all together. GET TO KNOW PEOPLE
I am so lonely. Will I ever find my soul mate?
"I have a number of things I want to say on this subject, but lets start... lets start"
the one person who is perfect for you
women who discovers a geni bottle; askes for world peace, geni says anything but that
askes instead for someone who is... the geni considers that for a moment and then desideds to do something about world peace
I think that I feel in love with my wife the first moment I saw her; but if she married someone else
she was not the one chance of happiness, and I was not hers
No one is perfect; the only perfect people you might know are those you don't know very well
do not lower your standards; if someone is willing to acept me imperfect as I am then I should put up with theirs
must creat perfection together; falling in love is a wonderful feeling
that magic spark needs continuned sparking; the couple makes it happen; it takes work
Once you committe to being married your spose becomes your soul mate, and you must keep it that way. The search for a soul mate is over when you have made that choice.
Years after Uckdorf first met his wife she said, "you have matured scence the last time I saw you," with this news I moved quickly
GET TO KNOW MANY OF THEM, is the secret
JUST ASK don't simply HANG OUT, nothing wrong, but you need to get to know individuals
there are those of you in the church who will never marry, there is no way to identify with this great dispear
prayers are heard, I don't know why some are answered one way and not others, the path is drawn continue
"I say Joyfully endure to the end,"
Do not wait for someone to make yourlife complete, and seek fullfillment in serving and improving yourself
Can I remain faithful?
Inter tropical transversion; billowing colums of clouds, could not look at them without being impressed with the lightening and darkness
AVOID THEM, no matter how beautiful those storms look they can kill you
Temptation would not be temptation if it did not look inticing, and fun
DO NOT FLIRT WITH PORNOGRAPHY
Doubts in questions and principles?
Is it allright to have questions about the church
Inquiry leads to truth: Joseph Smith
You will rearly find revelation with out a question procedding it
God can give us answers to questions we ask, and the answers to questions we should have asked
Some might feel embarased
it is a precurser of growth; ask with real intent; Holy Ghost will answer
DOUBT NOT, when you get an answer bulild upon it and let it become solid
"my thoughts are not your thoughts... but my thoughts are higher than you thoughts,"
Asking questions; excersise your faith everday, apply those principles you have in question
There are going to be voices telling you that you are an ugly duckline.
You are not ordinary beings, but glorious and eternal
REMBER WHO YOU ARE, WERE YOU CAME FROM, AND WERE YOU ARE GOING
God speaks to you through prophets, the Chruch is directed by Jesus
Today I may speak to you with imperfection, and in a German acent
What you feel in your heat is from a member of the God Head
What you must do and be to see your true refelction
Darwin and God
Putting God into Darwin was such an eye opening lecture for me. I have been turning the idea of evolution over in my mind for the past few months that I have been at BYU. Earlier this month I even asked my Book of Mormon professor if there was any doctrinal or quotes from church officials about evolution. He gave me a pamphlet that had several quotations emphasizing that God tells us why we were created, and that we were created, but he dose not explicitly say how or when. The basic idea was that these two things (how and when humans were created) did not relate to the plan of salvation. I agreed to the point that there are other doctrinal subjects more prevalent, and I should possibly spend more time studying them out. Yet, the theory of evolution remained on the edge of the thought, and today I feel like there were lots of answers.
First I appreciated the distinction between faith and science. I must clarify this point as not the superstition of science and faith, but the distinction. The last section of his slideshow he explained that we (mankind) has the rights to interpret scientific evidence how we want. In order to fully understand truth and in essence God instead of ignoring scientific evidence I need to interpret ate it.
I was so glad that he brought evidence to the table. The genetics slides that were explained on my thinking level, pictures of bones, era bones were from, fused human genetics, and the proper definition of Devine Intervention. There is no way to deny the facts, and I would not want to. Please understand that I was not anti-evolution prior to this lecture. I was completely lost.
There seemed to be no actual evidence for Devine Intervention. To top it off they lied. I understand that the lecturer’s perspective is that Devine Intervention is wrong, and so he want to portray them as wrong, but the various books changed the names and ignored evidence was embarrassing.
What struck me the most was the clarification of what a genetic mistake is. When the lecturer broke down a species would become extinct under the theory of evolution if it did not mutate, or evolve I realized that is a Godly principle. If something or more clearly someone does not evolve themselves to become better, enrich their life, and get ride of unneeded attributes they fall behind and become “extinct”. Evolution would fit into God’s plan. I still want to think it all out, because lets face it I got an entire life to think about it. I only listened to one very educated source today, and there are so many more places to learn about evolution and creation. Catch up with me in a few thousand years when I am a little more divine and I will let you know what I have figured out about the two theories.
First I appreciated the distinction between faith and science. I must clarify this point as not the superstition of science and faith, but the distinction. The last section of his slideshow he explained that we (mankind) has the rights to interpret scientific evidence how we want. In order to fully understand truth and in essence God instead of ignoring scientific evidence I need to interpret ate it.
I was so glad that he brought evidence to the table. The genetics slides that were explained on my thinking level, pictures of bones, era bones were from, fused human genetics, and the proper definition of Devine Intervention. There is no way to deny the facts, and I would not want to. Please understand that I was not anti-evolution prior to this lecture. I was completely lost.
There seemed to be no actual evidence for Devine Intervention. To top it off they lied. I understand that the lecturer’s perspective is that Devine Intervention is wrong, and so he want to portray them as wrong, but the various books changed the names and ignored evidence was embarrassing.
What struck me the most was the clarification of what a genetic mistake is. When the lecturer broke down a species would become extinct under the theory of evolution if it did not mutate, or evolve I realized that is a Godly principle. If something or more clearly someone does not evolve themselves to become better, enrich their life, and get ride of unneeded attributes they fall behind and become “extinct”. Evolution would fit into God’s plan. I still want to think it all out, because lets face it I got an entire life to think about it. I only listened to one very educated source today, and there are so many more places to learn about evolution and creation. Catch up with me in a few thousand years when I am a little more divine and I will let you know what I have figured out about the two theories.
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