Sentences with phrase «body functions as»

Some of what is shown at the Queens Museum can be likened to such other explorations of intimate body functions as the Icelandic performance piece by Ragnar Kjartansson in which he asked his mother to spit on him; Mika Rottenberg's video epics of ingestion, excretion, sweat and sneezing; and Janine Antoni's gargoyle - shaped copper urinary device, with which she posed for a rooftop photograph.

A complete blood count (CBC), a serum chemistry profile and urinalysis are always performed and provide important information regarding the effects of the cancer on body functions as well as the ability of the patient to handle chemotherapy.

Chiropractic adjustments help ensure that the body functions as efficiently as possible, which can maximize not only performance but healing and recovery from all types of injuries.

If the body functions as one, then why should we train it part by part as the old fashioned way suggest?

The human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems.

This can ensure that your body functions as it should.

Since the body functions as a whole, it is logical that when one hormone or part of the endocrine system is suffering, the other would be affected as well.

Since the body functions as a whole, a problem in one area will usually correlate to problems in others.

So if you are a serious bodybuilder, you do not want to get involved in alcohol consumption as it has many adverse effects on not just muscle gain, but other body functions as well.

For this exercise it's extremely important that your whole body functions as a single unit.

As a result, the body functions as if the fruit fly were dieting, even though its eating habits are unchanged.

Alongside chloride and sodium, potassium is an essential mineral for normal body function as well as an electrolyte.

Having additional water in your belly will make your body function as good as it possibly can.

Therefore, I don't believe the end goal of healing is just about the width of separation, but how all of the muscles in the body function as a whole.

It is an excellent source of high quality protein, calcium, phosphorous and long chain Omega 3 fatty acids, which are critical for healthy skin, coat and proper body function as well as promotes brain development of kittens and puppies.

We talked about his 2008 solo show Frequency and Volume — in which the visitor's body functioned as an antenna capturing signals — held at the Curve at the Barbican Centre, a place he really appreciates because: «It's a mixture of performing and digital art, dance and orchestra.»

I consider the body functioning as an intermediary storage solution, instead of materials being deposited in a landfill, with the head serving as a focal point.

Not exact matches

Nootropics have been around since the 1970s, but apparently the Silicon Valley «biohacking» movement — in which workaholic techies attempt to optimize their bodies and basic functions, such as eating, for maximum productivity — has given these so - called brain enhancers a new life.

A study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that individuals who consume a calorie - restricted diet had lower levels of T3 thyroid hormone, which Healthline lists as a «hormone that helps maintain body temperature, among other functions.»

[In our approach] a major portion of the electronics is simply consumed by the body, as their function in monitoring or healing is no longer needed.»

They are intended to provide many of the same functions as long - established currencies such as the U.S. dollar, euro or Japanese yen but do not have the backing of a government or other body.

Qualified medical expenses include payments for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of disease — as well as payments for treatments that affect any structure or function of the body.

However, analysts were disappointed that the watch is missing a key element seen as vital in emerging smartwatch technology: It lacks biometric sensors that could be used to monitor heart rate, respiration and other body functions deployed in other wearable fitness devices.

An Atheist who points at a dead body and says, look as far as we know this person has ceased to function, as souls don't exist.

He created our bodies as they are, to function as they do and he gave us the free will to decide how and when we use our bodies in the act of se.x which he also created.

Even those who demand their own sartorial freedom from symbolism would not hire a defense lawyer who wore pajamas (which would serve the practical function of covering the body as well as a suit) to court, or submit to an operation by a brain surgeon who wore a Dracula sweatshirt in his consulting room.

If human life is only a part of the cosmos, then it exists for the sake of the cosmos — as surely as an arm functions for the sake of the whole body.

If we as the body functioned like the body then we would be healthy.

Wrongly, current thinkers see the human body as just an instrument or a mere tool for some function.

He knew his knife could never cut through his bones, but realized that if he twisted his body enough, the boulder and the canyon wall would function as a vise grip until his forearm bones snapped.

Some of these pioneers in changing the church find that the best way to function as the Body of Christ is to leave the institutional church behind, and live and love like Jesus with other people in their community and their neighborhood.

Indeed, the identification of what we call spirit with the material body is clearly seen in the Old Testament, as among all early peoples, in the functions ascribed to the bodily organs.

But, in fact, the actual occasions that constitute our bodies are constantly aiming at satisfactions directed to the healthy functioning of our bodies as a whole.

He has been setting out his basic position that the soul is the actuality of a body and that, therefore, certain functions («parts») of the soul are inseparable from its body, such as, its nutritive function.

Group counseling can become one means by which the pastor fulfills his essential function «to equip God's people for work in his service» (Ephesians 4:11 - 12, NEB), and through which laymen perform their priesthood as members of the Body of Christ.

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

But if this seems unsuitable in the case of the Church (though it might be given some thought), the election of lay representatives beyond the small groups of the parish is a difficult question, especially as the Catholic associations no longer have a function similar to that of the political parties in appointing such represent - ative bodies.

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

The purpose of the elders is to oversee, that is to keep heresy out of the church, and to allow the church to function as a body, not a dictatorship.

Agree with premise — the one time I truly saw the church functioning as unified body was right after 9/11 — never before have I seen people of faith come together like this to do whatever was needed to help a city recover.

Most mainline Protestant churches in Puerto Rico, with the exception of the recently autonomous Puerto Rican Episcopal Church, are institutionally attached to their parent bodies, functioning as if Puerto Rico were already a state.

Only when both of these are happening, can you know that you are functioning as part of the body of Christ.

Respect is shown to the corpse, not necessarily because this body will be enlivened again one day to function more or less as it did during the sister's lifetime, but because the sister's bodiliness, concretized in and through this body, remains an inseparable dimension of her very existence.

13); and the diversity of gifts, by the same Spirit, were divinely intended as the equipment of members of the body for function in its life.

In these circumstances it made sense to many to say that a human being actually dies when brain activity ends, because only that activity makes possible the body's ability to function as an integrated whole.

The body has died, because it can no longer function as an integrated whole; yet, with mechanical assistance some organs and tissues, taken by themselves, retain vitality.

The self - integration damaged in this way is the unity of the acting person as conscious subject and sexually functioning body.

In a body, a «senate,» the aged may function as a «presbytery,» as «elders»; but as individuals the old seer, prophet, teacher, and master will play an important role in the group, whether it be a natural group or specifically religious.

But you may also find that in following these suggestions (which initially seem «anti-church»), you and your church is liberated to function as the body of Christ is truly supposed to function.

For the spiritual soul, of course, as spirit, and as form of the body, does not possess two completely different functions but in both its partial functions it has only one, namely, to fulfill its unitary nature as spirit.