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The Nutritional Knowledge, Food Choices, And Exercise Habits Of Students At Langston University, Preston Solomon
The Nutritional Knowledge, Food Choices, And Exercise Habits Of Students At Langston University, Preston Solomon
McCabe Thesis Collection
The nutritional knowledge, food choice, and exercise habits of an individual determine his or her overall health and life expectancy. Information on these topics enables nutrition educators to develop strategies to improve knowledge and to tailor educational efforts which affect a large number of persons. Poor health in America today is an ever present reality. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular diseases, renal diseases, and pulmonary diseases are causes of death related in part to lack of nutritional knowledge and poor eating and exercise habits. A few of these diseases are chronic in nature and are the most deadly.
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Repeatability Of Maximal Aerobic Performance In Belding’S Ground Squirrels, Spermophilus Beldingi, M. A. Chappell, Gwendolyn C. Bachman, J. P. Odell
Repeatability Of Maximal Aerobic Performance In Belding’S Ground Squirrels, Spermophilus Beldingi, M. A. Chappell, Gwendolyn C. Bachman, J. P. Odell
School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
1. The repeatability of a trait is a critical factor in determining how that trait is affected by natural selection. We examined the repeatability of a key physiological trait, maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max), in a wild population of Belding’s Ground Squirrels, Spermophilus beldingi. VO2max is an integrated measure of organismal metabolic performance. It can be intuitively related to fitness because it sets an upper limit to sustainable power output during ecologically important activites such as locomotion and thermoregulatory heat production.
2. We used respirometry to determine VO2max during exercise and thermogenesis. Exercise VO …