Eating/Exercise/Heart Disease and Diabetes

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Eating/Exercise/Heart Disease and Diabetes

• Weir Attendance Center
• Frances Coleman, John Hamby,
• David Jones, and Carol Wright

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Objective -- Students will study

• The environmental rather than the hereditary
  factors of body weight
• Food intake and exercise on body weight
• Effect of body weight on heart disease and
  diabetes

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Rationale

• Obesity is a national problem
• Mississippi has the highest percentage of people
  with heart disease in the nation
• Choctaw County has one of the highest percentages
  of heart disease in the state
• Students need to learn the effects of obesity and
  ways to avoid it

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Procedure -- Students will

• View/discuss/experiment with a Stella model
• Research the problem of obesity/heart
  disease/diabetes in local communities
• Explore nutritional value of foods
• Investigate energy requirements of exercise
• Write a personal health plan
• Use Excel to compare results of local community
  members and calculate statistical differences
• Make visual representations of research results

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Things to include

• Teacher background material
• Student handouts
• Internet resources catalogued by subject
• Lesson plans for different courses that might use
  the unit
• Simple Excel models that would serve as model
  learning tools for students
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Assessment

• Rubric evaluation of Stella model
• Evaluation of personal health plan
• Public presentations by students of statistical
  work using their visual representations

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Resources

• Jackson Heart Study
• University of Mississippi Medical Center
  Physiology Department