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.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Adam Smith
Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations, and in turned the global economics into a new direction. Prior to the development of the Market system nations practiced Mercantilism. The idea that a nations wealth depended on how much the king had. The more in the royal bank the wealthier the nation was. Consequently wealthily nations had set policies, planned economic durability, and regulated trade to ensure that their exports did not exceed the nations imports. When Adam Smith introduced the Market system in his theory book Wealth of Nations it was like questioning that people need food to live.
Mercantilism had Kings sitting in gold palaces and eating off of gold plates with engraved silverware, and the common people living in dung huts. Yes, the nation had wealth, but the lifestyle of the people was poor. Adam believed that common people had the right to wealth, and that could come from the lifestyle they lived. His concept of per capita income, were the per capita welfare of the people was measured a nations wealth was a shock to the expanding world.
“The invisible” hand controls the market system, and people are driven by what they want when they make a purchase. In a market system both people feel that they win in the trade. If I want to buy a laptop because I need to type my homework I buy one from Mackintosh. Although I am giving up my money or “wealth” I am happy because my way of living has improved and I feel that the trade of $2,000 was worth the easy of writing my college papers in my apartment. It was based on the ideal that people have the freedom to chose what they want. Although Adam recognized both parties will win in a fair trade he understood that some would “win” more than others by terms of wealth. My laptop for example, I am out $2,000 and Mackintosh earned $2,000. Some would consider him the winner in this trade, but my laptop improved my way of living and so I maintain my wealth.
It is important to note that debt was not in Adam Smith’s vision of Market system. Debt is a bondage, and decreases freedom. Now there are some debts aka student loans, mortgages, ex. That have a specific investment, and improve ones way of living. These are what are needed to improve our way of life. Not all debt is an investment and will decrease our wealth and eventually decay our freedom. Making the distinction between “good” debt and “bad” debt is a personal choice and should be taken with delicate concern. I am not a financial assistant, just a college student.
Adam Smith opened the door for the market system I am accustom to: exchanges made on mutual interest, both parties are happy, consumer seventy, voluntary exchange, market determining what will sale, and the base of what sales being the consumer’s interest. His idea was introduced and flourished in the new world. A place were freedom was delicately blossoming. Although the United States had established freedoms in the constitution and Declaration of Independence there was no mention of economic freedom in either document. I can not even think of America without a free market economy. All because Adam Smith wrote down his thoughts and published them.
Mercantilism had Kings sitting in gold palaces and eating off of gold plates with engraved silverware, and the common people living in dung huts. Yes, the nation had wealth, but the lifestyle of the people was poor. Adam believed that common people had the right to wealth, and that could come from the lifestyle they lived. His concept of per capita income, were the per capita welfare of the people was measured a nations wealth was a shock to the expanding world.
“The invisible” hand controls the market system, and people are driven by what they want when they make a purchase. In a market system both people feel that they win in the trade. If I want to buy a laptop because I need to type my homework I buy one from Mackintosh. Although I am giving up my money or “wealth” I am happy because my way of living has improved and I feel that the trade of $2,000 was worth the easy of writing my college papers in my apartment. It was based on the ideal that people have the freedom to chose what they want. Although Adam recognized both parties will win in a fair trade he understood that some would “win” more than others by terms of wealth. My laptop for example, I am out $2,000 and Mackintosh earned $2,000. Some would consider him the winner in this trade, but my laptop improved my way of living and so I maintain my wealth.
It is important to note that debt was not in Adam Smith’s vision of Market system. Debt is a bondage, and decreases freedom. Now there are some debts aka student loans, mortgages, ex. That have a specific investment, and improve ones way of living. These are what are needed to improve our way of life. Not all debt is an investment and will decrease our wealth and eventually decay our freedom. Making the distinction between “good” debt and “bad” debt is a personal choice and should be taken with delicate concern. I am not a financial assistant, just a college student.
Adam Smith opened the door for the market system I am accustom to: exchanges made on mutual interest, both parties are happy, consumer seventy, voluntary exchange, market determining what will sale, and the base of what sales being the consumer’s interest. His idea was introduced and flourished in the new world. A place were freedom was delicately blossoming. Although the United States had established freedoms in the constitution and Declaration of Independence there was no mention of economic freedom in either document. I can not even think of America without a free market economy. All because Adam Smith wrote down his thoughts and published them.
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