RJA #11c: Thesis Statement Check

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RJA #11b: Visual Aids

Brainstorming visual aids:

1. graphs
2. pictures
3. maps
4. charts
5. time line

RJA #11a: Introduction

Got Milk?

"Milk it does the body good." Great advertising scam or true nutritional health claim? From the media to doctors to our parents, everyone has attested to the health benefits of drinking milk or the adverse affects of failing to drink milk on a daily basis. Three generations ago the agriculture business was a very different industry and family farms were a way of life. Cattle fed on grass like nature intended unlike today where corn is the main staple because it is cheaper to produce. Hormones and antibiotics where not needed because supply, overcrowding and diseases were not issues. According to recent studies and a growing number of health professionals dairy causes more harm then the benefits allege. To live a conscious, nutritionally wholesome, and health giving life style one needs to be aware of the consequences dairy consumption may carry. Dairy is not necessary for a healthy diet and may be harmful to one's health in that dairy contributes to cancer, heart disease, obesity, allergies, and other detrimental health concerns.

New Thesis Statement

RJA #10b: Argument

Dairy is not necessary for a healthy diet and may be harmful to one's health in that dairy contributes to cancer, heart disease, obesity, allergies, and other detrimental health concerns.

Claim 1: Dairy contributes to cancer.

Reason: Dairy feeds cancerous cells encouraging growth and reproduction.

Warrant: People who have cancer should avoid dairy.

Claim 2: Dairy contributes to heart disease.

Reason: Dairy products contain high levels of cholesterol and saturated fats to one's diet.

Warrant: People who want to live a heart healthy life style should avoid cholesterol rich and saturated fatty products.

Claim 3: Dairy products encourage the development of obesity.

Reason: Dairy is loaded with saturated fat and contributes to obesity.

Warrant: Consuming saturated fat enhances obesity.

Claim 4: Dairy can lead to allergies.

Reason: Research links dairy to allergies.

Warrant: Any product that leads to contaiminating the physiological makekup of one's body should be avoided.

Claim 5: Dairy is not digestable by lactose intolerant people.

Reason: People deficient in the enzyme lactase, can not break down the sugar in milk and experience nausea, cramps, diarrhea, bloating, and gas.

Warrant: People who are lactose intolerant should not consume milk.

Claim 6: Most commercial dairy farms use artificial hormones to enhance milk production which then passes on to people who consume the by products, there by making it unhealthy.

Reason: Artificially enhanced hormone products are unhealthy.

Warrant: People who consume products that contain artificially enhanced hormones recieve those same hormones.

Claim 7: Most commercial dairy farms need to feed their cattle antibiotics to ward off diseases that plague unhealthy living conditions which in turn are passed on to the consumer.

Reason: Conditions that cattle are raised in principiate an unhealthy environment that leads to disease.

Warrant: People should avoid products that have antibiotics passed on which leads to antibiotic resilience.

RJA #10a: Thesis Statement

Question: Is consuming dairy products nutritional and benifical for the human body?
Claim: Dairy is not necessary for a healthy diet and may be harmful to one's health.
Reasons:

1. lactose intolerance
2. growth hormones
3. antibiotics
4. contributes to

• cancer
• obesity
• allergies
• heart disease
• calcium deficiency

Thesis statement: Dairy is not necessary for a healthy diet and may be harmful to one's health in that dairy contributes to cancer, heart disease, obesity, allergies, and other detrimental health concerns.

pasteurization and organics

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/delivery?vid=9&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=awh&AN=9477812

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=9&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=awh&AN=27376360

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=12&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=awh&AN=15568482

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=20&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=awh&AN=24375281

http://0-web.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/ehost/detail?vid=26&hid=102&sid=65cea164-292e-4229-9328-c67c04c405ca%40sessionmgr112&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=awh&AN=13307992#db=awh&AN=13307992

RJA #9: Evaluation of Sources

1. periodical
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.skyline.cudenver.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=15329232&site=ehost-live
dairy consumption and body mass index
Copyright of International Journal of Obesity is the property of Nature Publishing Group and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
Author affiliation: Endocrine Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
Time: timely Jan 2005

2. periodical
EBSCOhost: Dairy Free Nutrition: Why and How

Kathryn Morrow MS DD is an Author, Speaker, Spiritual and Nutritional Counselor, as well as an Intuitive and EFT Practitioner. www.kathrynmorrow.net
March 2008
audience: people interested in healthy living
For the last 10 years, she has worked as a Nutraceutical Consultant, a Holistic and Spiritual Counselor in restoring the natural state of health, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a teacher of a Life Style Awareness class for the mind, body, and spirit placing education in food choices as a very important role in our health and well being. She is now working as an integrated health care professional, counseling and consulting in alternative therapies for diseases such as cancer, colitis, asthma, obesity, elevated cholesterol and blood pressure, stress, and the list goes on. In the clinic she is helping people through food choices, color therapy, and affirmations.

3. book
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Walter C. Willett, M.D.
with Patrick J. Skerrett
co-developed with The Harvard School of Public Health
Publisher: Free Press
copyright 2001
this edition: 2005
bibliography
The author is the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Heath and a professor of medicine at Harvar Medical School.

4. book
Handbook of Dairy Foods and Nutrition
Publisher: CRC Press 1995
References after every chapter
Gregory D. Miller - MS in Nutrition from Penn St. 1982
president of technical services for National Dairy Council (bias)

Judith K. Jarvis, M.S., R.D. - M.S. degree in Human Nutrition and Nutritional Biology from Univ of Chicago 1989
coordinator of technical services for National Dairy Council (bias)

Lois D. McBean, M.S., R.D. -M.S. degree in nutrition from Cornell University 1968
Nutrition consultant for National Dairy Council (bias)

5. web site
http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=278
Oct 2007
Dairy Council publication
The Dairy Council is a non-profit making organisation which provides science-based information on the role of dairy foods as part of a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle.
they have an address and phone number
Bias for dairy

6. web site
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/calcium-and-milk/index.html
25 references
credible
unbias

EBSCOhost: Dairy consumption and body mass index: an inverse relationship

EBSCOhost: Dairy consumption and body mass index: an inverse relationship

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EBSCOhost: Dairy Free Nutrition: Why and How

EBSCOhost: Dairy Free Nutrition: Why and How

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RJA #8c: Multimedia

resource: videosurf
keyword: dairy
date: 10-12-09
hits: 4112
relevance: 2
http://www.videosurf.com/videos/dairy
keyword: lactose intolerance
hits: 198
relevance: 4
date: 10-12-09
http://www.videosurf.com/video/living-with-lactose-intolerance-30070068
http://www.videosurf.com/video/dairy-confusion-62795225

RJA #8b: Social Media

resource: google blogs
keywords: dairy, nutritrion, health, lactose intolerance
date: 10-12-09
hits: 2000
relevance: 2
stratagies: AND

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/is-your-digestive-system_b_313247.html
http://blogrobinallendirect.typepad.com/necessarynutrition/2009/10/is-dairy-good-for-us-or-what.html
http://spring-nus.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-dairy-bad.html

RJA #8a: Websites

• search engine: Redz

key words "dairy affects"

date of search Oct 8th

number of hits: 30

relevance: 1
http://www.redz.com/revolution.php?query=dairy+affects&where=Web&tsrc=aws&x=51&y=13

• meta search engine: mamma.com

key words: dairy intolerance

date of search: oct. 12, 2009

relevance: 4

hits: 75

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/lactoseintolerance/index.htm

• directory: digital librarian

key words: lactose intolerance

date: oct. 12, 2009

hits:113

relevance: 5

http://jds.fass.org/cgi/gca?sendit=Get+All+Checked+Abstract%28s%29&SEARCHID=1&FULLTEXT=lactose+intolerance&FIRSTINDEX=0&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&gca=dairysci%3B80%2F10%2F2318&gca=dairysci%3B70%2F2%2F397

http://freemedicaljournals.com/fmj/IP_GENER.HTM

• invisible web search: INCY WINCY

keywords: lactose intolerance

date: 10-12-09

hits: 2557

relevance: 4

http://afa-online.org/docs/faq_dairy.pdf

http://www.endo-world.com/Information/patient-education/nutrition/Lactose-Intolerance.html

Internet Research Project

The internet tool I was assigned is inSuggest. This tool is very helpful in finding different web sites pertaining to a certain subject or topic. After finding just one site I liked it linked me to many other relevant sites that I found very useful. It can also add images and organize bookmarks on various sites. One great strength is the available sites that instantly come up without me having to search for them blindly. The weakness I found is the difficulty in using the bookmarking tool. It would not let me log on. The other weakness I found was that I can not save all the pages together. Each time I want to use inSuggest I will have to go through all the steps.

RJA #7c: Field Research Plan

I plan on interviewing my Dynamics of Health Instructor, Connie Sanchez. She is a naturopathy doctor who has been studying nutrition for about thirty years. She has agreed to meet me as soon as I am ready. A few questions that I am considering are:
1. Do you have any personal experience from your practice or clients with dairy consumption and the affects it has on a persons health?
2. What are your creditentials?
3. What are your personal views on the nutritional aspects of dairy?
4. Who in your opinion is the biggest advocate of dairy?
5. What detriments if any do you see with consuming dairy?
6. In your schooling or research areas have you ever encountered this subject?
7. Do you know of any diseases that are linked to the consumption of dairy?
8. What is your personal opinion of dairy consumption?

RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test

My assigned internet research tool is inSuggest.
I used dogpile.com, intute, metacrawler, and clusty search engines.
a few resources I found include:


http://www.nutritionmagazine.nl/ a periodical magazine
http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=278 world dairy summit

http://www.intute.ac.uk/supportdocs/focuson/organicfarming.pdf organic farming
http://www.vitalhealthzone.com/nutrition/food-groups/dairy.html

I used the keywords: dairy, nutrition, health
operator: AND
date: Oct 1, 2009
hits: hundreds
relevance: 4 or 5 ( alot of different views )

RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools

Before Oct. 1st the only search engine I ever used was google. After spending the better part of the afternoon reading through and exploring all the different search engines, speciality engines, meta engines, invisible web searches and directories available I will probably now use mamma, dogpile, search.com and metacrawler much more.
I never really needed or knew about the resources that were available on line before this class. I like how the meta searches combine a couple engines together to cut down on the steps I have to do to look information up.
The one thing I found that fouls me up is I keep digging deeper into links and when I want to go back to my original point I have no idea how to get there or where I even was. Windows close before I realize that I have clicked out of it and moved on.

http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl
http://mamma.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.metacrawler.com/