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10/30/2018

Week of 10/29 to 11/02:  responsible  alcohol consumption

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chapter 15: alcohol


  • When a person drinks alcohol it goes into our digestive system and then into our blood stream, it travels around your body.

  • The body breaks down the alcohol

  • Intoxication: When you drink more than your body can break down you end up with intoxication

  • Intoxication can lead to lack of judgement and self control
 
  • Blackout: a period of time the drinker cannot remember 
 
  • Blood Alcohol Concentration: the amount of alcohol in a person's blood, a percentage, 0.1 percent means that one tenth of the fluid in the blood is alcohol

What affects the BAC?

  • Rate of consumption: the liver can chemically break down, or metabolize, about one half to one once of alcohol per hour 
    • One beer, one shot, one 4 oz glass of wine, take a look at the alcohol percentage on the bottle
    • Smaller people metabolize the alcohol at a slower rate
    • Food helps slow down the absorption in to the blood stream

  • Hangover: day after drinking, side effects, upset stomach, headache, sensitivity to noise and light

fetal alcohol syndrome


  • A group of birth defects cause by the effects of alcohol consumption on an unborn child
  • Can include heart defects, malformed faces, delayed growth, poor motor movement, mental retardation/ cognitive function.

liver illness


  • Cirrhosis: can lead to liver failure and death
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  • Alcohol interferes with the liver's ability to metabolize, or break down fats.
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  • the liver fills with fat
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  • blocks the blood flow to the liver
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  • fat filled liver cells die, leaving behind scar tissue
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  • liver fails
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  • drinkers can also get alcoholic hepatitis, inflammation of the liver caused by toxic effects of alcohol
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  • alcohol can also lead to heart disease and digestive problems

alcoholism


  • when people can no longer control their consumption

  • physically, an alcoholic's body need alcohol to function
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  • psychologically, alcoholics consider drinking a regular part of coping with daily life
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  • Tolerance: in response to the alcohol the body builds up a tolerance, it is a way to keep you safe and try to protect you from blackout
 
  • but people respond to this by drinking more to get the desired effect
 
  • many times people will peer pressure others

  • the body will eventually develop a dependence

addiction


  1. Drinking more alcohol, or for longer, than intended
  2. Trying to cut down or stop drinking but being unsuccessful
  3. Spending a lot of time drinking or feeling sick from a hangover or other aftereffects
  4. Experiencing interference in daily life and relationships because of drinking or being sick from drinking too much
  5. Having cravings for alcohol
  6. Continuing to drink even though it hurt relationships with friends and family
  7. Cutting back on, or giving up, hobbies to consume more alcohol
  8. Repeatedly being in situations where alcohol put one at risk of harm
  9. Having to consume more alcohol to experience the desired effects
  10. Continuing to consume alcohol even though it worsens a health condition, including anxiety or depression
  11. Experiencing withdrawal symptoms when alcohol’s effects began to wear off

many times drinking happens to cope with social inequality and the OPPRESSORS tend to be the people who sell the alcohol


  • We can be at risk is we see people around us normalizing alcoholism
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  • Alcoholism is four to five time more common among the children of alcoholics

new mexico alcohol statistics


https://sageclinic.org/17-facts-about-alcohol-and-drug-addiction-in-new-mexico/ 

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10/22/2018

Week of 10/22 to 10/26: Lung Health

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lungs


Chapter 12
  • About the heart, we learned that the heart is constantly pumping the blood in our blood vessels to deliver materials such as oxygen.
  • The cardiovascular system transports wastes from your cells, when your cells break down glucose for energy, carbon dioxide is released as a waste product, your blood picks the carbon dioxide up and moves it to the lungs where we exhale it out.
  • Our blood contains cells to fight disease, the heart helps the cells move around the body
Atrium: upper chamber, receive blood entering the heart, blood flows from atria to ventricles, receives blood from the body that is low in oxygen and high in carbon dioxide
  • Right atrium: receives blood from the body that is low in oxygen and high in                 carbon dioxide
  • Left atrium: oxygen rich blood is carried from the lungs to the left atrium

Ventricle: Lower chamber, pump blood out of the heart
  • Left Ventricle: pumps oxygen rich blood away from the heart
  • Right ventricle: pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs 

Blood vessels:
  • Arteries: blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart, carry oxygen righ blood, except for the artery that carries oxygen poor blood from the heart to the lungs.  Aorta is the largest artery.
  • Capillaries: branch out from arteries, they release oxygen and dissolved nutrients
  • Veins: carry blood to the heart, receive less pressure from the heart pump

Blood pressure: the force with which blood pushes against the walls of your blood vessels
  • normal range: 90/60 to 119/79
  • Low Blood Pressure: lower than 90/60
  • High Blood Pressure: over 139/89
Blood contents: plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets
  • Plasma: liquid component, water with nutrients, hormones, and salts dissolved, also carries waste products such as urea to the kidneys fr removal from the body
  • Red Blood Cells: cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of our body, hemoglobin is an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen
  • White Blood Cells: help protect you against disease, larger than red blood cells, help your body resist diseases 
  • Platelets: blood clotting

what affects the respiratory system can help our heart


Some cities are so polluted that fashion shows are presenting gas masks as a normalized accessory. This is a fashion show in Beijing. 
On the way to the lungs, air passes through nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchi

cigarettes, how are they made? 



popcorn lung



heart and lungs are a team



different types of exercise


Aerobic Exercise: Activity that raises your breathing and heart rate

Anaerobic Exercise: Intense physical activity that lasts for a few seconds, weights, push ups, sprinting 

Types of muscle contractions


Isometric exercise: muscles contract but very little movement takes place, muscles become stronger

Isotonic exercise: contracting and relaxing muscles through the full range of a joint's motion, pull-ups, barbells

Isokinetic exercise: muscles contract constantly, sometimes machines help with the exercises in physical therapy 

sometimes, the greatest risk TO OUR HEALTH comes from our pipeline system


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10/14/2018

WEEK OF 10/15 TO 10/19: movement and coordination

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how bones grow


chapter 11 in book 
Joint: a place of your body where two or more of your bones come together

Cartilage: tough supportive tissue that is more flexible than bone

Ossification:
the process of replacing cartilage with bone

Marrow: fills the spaces in bones, there is red and yellow marrow, red bone marrow produces 100 billion blood cells each day, yellow marrow is in the hollow centers of long bones and stores fat

Ligaments:
hold bones together
Osteoporosis: a medical condition in which the bones become brittle and fragile from loss of tissue, typically as a result of hormonal changes, or deficiency of calcium or vitamin D.
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cartilage



Injuries


Fracture: break in bone, simple fracture: bone broken in two, compound fracture: broken ends of the bone pierce the skin

Sprain: overstretched or torn ligament, treated with ice and stabilization, you are likely to have swelling but it can heal on its own

Dislocation: ends of the bone are forced out of their original position, to treat this the bone is put back in place and stabilized with cast or bandage

Torn Cartilage: serious damage to cartilage between bones, happens in knees often

Overuse Injuries:
when an activity is performed too often and joint become stressed or inflamed 

Scoliosis



types of muscle


Smooth muscle: involuntary muscle that causes movements within your body, found in walls of esophagus to move food down and in walls of arteries

Cardiac muscle: involuntary muscle that is only in the heart

Skeletal muscles:
muscles that control your activities   

carpal tunnel



nervous system


Nervous system: receives information about what is going on inside and outside your body

Neuron: type of cell

Cell Body: the cell body controls the cell's basic functions

Myelin sheath: increases the speed of an impulse

Axon: impulses travel along axons to other cells

Dendrite: carry nerve impulses toward a neuron's cell body 

Synapse: the junction between an axon and another cell
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Autonomic Nervous System:
​Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic



Brain


Cerebrum: 85 percent of the brain's weight

Cerebellum: coordinates body movement

Brain Stem: between cerebellum and spinal cord, midbrain, pons and medulla 

Spinal Cord: a thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves in the peripheral nervous system

Reflexes: automatic response to your environment 

Peripheral Nervous System:
carries information to the central nervous system from eyes, ear and sense organs

Sensory Division: carry information about your outside environment 

Motor Division: carries responses back to your muscles and glands 

Somatic nervous system:
carry signals that control voluntary actions such as chewing food

Autonomic nervous system:
regulate actions that happen automatically, like  breathing and digestion 
Concussion: bruise like injury

Contusion: swelling in brain

Coma: severe trauma, long period of unconsciousness  

Paralysis: loss of ability to move

seizures



headaches


Stay hydrated, stress can cause head aches, you can keep a journal to see if head aches are too frequent, migraines can cause blurred vision 

meningitis



immune system


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10/14/2018

fyi family planning info

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what is ovulation?



how do pregnancy tests work?



how do contraceptives work?



Take your time, people are having kids in their 40s and 50s, click here for Article

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10/10/2018

review, stages of grief, driving safety

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five stages of grief


We can go through a period of grief resolution after losing a person, losing an opportunity, losing something that we worked hard for, losing a relationship, after surviving a tragedy, after hurting others and reflecting on the heavy weight that we have placed upon our consciousness.  All feelings are valid and nobody can tell you how long you can feel what you feel for.  Only you can decide what to do, only you have control to decide how to express your emotions and how to process your stimuli.  Think of constructive, creative ways to process and you could be a light to this world even at your worst.

relationships can have you going through the stages of grief 



beautiful people that inspire us to overcome


lauryn hill


"Being loved, and loving to learn, were the tools that would help to facilitate everything else. Drive is a key component, passion is also a major foundational component, if you want to be able to help design your own path. And with these, education and a love for learning, are essential. We live, in a changing world, were systems and structures have become more malleable and in some cases, are even uncertain. We are challenged not just to learn, but to learn how to learn, when we value knowledge, and remain open, we can with wisdom, apply to life what we know and thereby help to become the architects of what we love. We can help what we love come to life, come into existence in the world."

-- Lauryn Hill 
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alicia keys



Safe driving


4:40 min

nm ranked worst in driving



drink but don't get drunk



​New Mexico DWI Penalties by Offense

nm dwi laws


1st Offense
  • Up to 90 days in jail
  • 6 months to 1 year of license revocation
  • 1 year of ignition interlock
  • DWI school
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Community service
  • Treatment

2nd Offense
  • Between 96 hours and 364 days of jail time
  • 2 years of license revocation
  • Fine between $500 and $1,000
  • 2 years of ignition interlock
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Community service
  • Treatment
  • Up to 5 years of probation
3rd Offense
  • Between 30 days and 364 days of jail time
  • 3 years of license revocation
  • Between $750 and $1,000 fine
  • 3 years of ignition interlock
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Community service
  • Treatment
  • Up to 5 years of probation
4th Offense
  • Between 6 months and 18 months of jail time
  • Lifetime license revocation with 5-year court review
  • Up to $5,000 fine
  • Lifetime ignition interlock with 5-year court review
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Treatment
  • Up to 5 years of probation
5th Offense
  • Between 1 year and 2 years of jail time
  • Lifetime license revocation with 5-year court review
  • Up to $5,000 fine
  • Lifetime ignition interlock with 5-year court review
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Treatment
6th Offense
  • Between 18 months and 30 months of jail time
  • Lifetime license revocation with 5-year court review
  • Up to $5,000 fine
  • Lifetime ignition interlock with 5-year court review
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Treatment
7th(or Subsequent) Offense
  • Between 2 years and 3 years of jail time
  • Lifetime license revocation with 5-year court review
  • Up to $5,000 fine
  • Lifetime ignition interlock with 5-year court review
  • Alcohol evaluation
  • Treatment
You can break New Mexico DWI laws in other ways too. Additional offenses include:
Aggravated DUI (Having a 0.16 BAC or higher, refusing to take a BAC test, or causing bodily harm while DWI)
  • 1st Offense: Additional 2 days of jail time
  • 2nd Offense: Additional 4 days of jail time
  • 3rd Offense: Additional 60 days of jail time
Driving while License Revoked for DWI
  • Additional license revocation period of 1 year
  • Additional 7 days to 1 year of jail time
  • Additional fine between $300 and $1,000
  • 30 days of immobilization for vehicle driven by offender
Selling or Giving Alcohol to a Minor
  • Knowingly selling/serving/giving alcoholic beverages to a minor (an individual under the age of 21), or assisting a minor in the purchase of alcoholic beverages, or permitting a minor to consume alcoholic beverages, is a 4th degree felony.

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