The Water in Your State
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water has water information for every state in the union plus Puerto Rico. Visit this Web site to find out about the water in your state. Look for the report that describes contaminant levels and allowable standards. How do the levels of minerals such as chloride in your drinking water stack up?
Visit the Office of Water web site
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Highlighting Heme
We briefly discussed iron metabolism, heme, and hemoglobin. What proteins other than hemoglobin contain heme? When hemoglobin degrades, iron is conserved, but what happens to the heme? How do the stomach and intestine change iron ions? The answers to these questions and more are explained at this site.
Visit the Heme and Iron -- Main Menu web site
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Cultural Roles
Read about the primary sources and functions of water.
Visit the Ingenium web site
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Facts about Food
What does 5 to 9 a day for better health mean? By choosing the food and nutrition information on the toolbar, select nutrition fact sheets A-Z from available online toold. Read the fact sheet and try to follow these guidelines while maintaining a food diary for a week. Was it easy/difficult? Is this something you could adopt as a part of your lifestyle? It is something to think about!
Visit the American Dietetic Association web site
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Glowing Thyroids!
Hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, Grave's disease—these are just a few of the topics covered on the American Thyroid Association Internet site. Find out how physicians use radioactive iodine to treat certain thyroid disorders.
Visit the American Thyroid Association web site
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Osteoporosis
What is osteoporosis? How is it treated? How can you prevent it? How can you find out if you have osteoporosis? Does it affect men? Enter search word "calcium" and educate yourself. Using the food sources of calcium, design a personal plan to prevent osteoporosis.
Visit the Women's Health web site
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