Sentences with phrase «body processes such»

The disease alters the body's autonomic nervous system, which controls spontaneous body processes such as heart rate, digestion, salivation, and bowel function.
A lack of thyroid hormone leads to low temperatures that not only make us uncomfortable in breezy situations but can also have an impact on hormone synthesis and other important body processes such as digestion, hair growth, skin turnover and regeneration, wound healing, etc..
There is always some histamine in the bottom of the bucket because it is necessary for basic body processes such as brain function, digestive function, and protection.
Even normal body processes such as staring at the computer, produces free radicals.
We may not hear about it as much as certain nutrients that get more airtime, but magnesium is a major mineral that's key to many body processes such as muscle and nerve function and the regulation of our heart rate.
One possibility was innate variations in basal metabolism — calories burned by normal body processes such as digestion.

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Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»
The stories of the appearances of Christ combine traditions about a «spiritual body» such as Paul speaks about (the Lord appears suddenly within a room) with others which tell of a tangible body, capable of being touched or grasped and of the physical process of eating.
This «cooking» process was of utmost importance because it produced the chemicals necessary for the evolution of planetary bodies such as our earth, and thus it made possible also the eventual appearance of life and human beings.
But whether I use the term «psychicalism,» favored by the process philosophers, or such terms as Russell's «neutral stuff» or Feigl's distinction between the physical as the «reference» and the psychical as the «sense,» I am merely positing a name, not arguing philosophically for a conceptual scheme designed to overcome the body / mind dualism.
For process philosophy», no quantum, no particle no material body no instance of actual concrete existence whatsoever is a permanently enduring body in absolute spacetime, simply located such that it is describable without reference to anything else, any time or place else.
Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.
We need to comprehend the first link if we are to understand something of the process by which sacrifice was displaced from an actual bloody ritual practice to a metaphor for moral action, such that we can now say «he was very self - sacrificial» and not mean «he offered his body to Aztec priests.»
We live in our bodies for decades and yet can neither understand nor control our inner processes; we can not heal our own lung cancer — in fact, we are often not even aware that we have such a condition.
Death is explained by other scientific processes, such as protein decay, telomere shortening, lack of nutrients to keep the body going, and many other things.
Some involve substances introduced into the body, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, caffeine, salt and sugar — substances that can be mood - altering — but others involve a process: extreme preoccupation with relationships, money, sex, religion, gambling, romance, violence, the arms race, television and so on.
That's why we can countenance medical dissections and even cremations without thinking that such processes invariably compromise the dignity of the individual whose body is being either dissected or cremated.
A by - product of such attempts at security, moreover, has served in astonishing ways to evoke acrimony in the body politic that makes our democratic decision - making processes nearly unworkable.
All of this helps explain why our exclusive sprouting process not only significantly increases vitamins such as vitamin A, vitamin C and B - vitamins, but also causes a natural change allowing the protein and carbohydrates to be assimilated by the body more efficiently.
Although these are saturated fats, your body processes them differently from other saturated fats, such as animal fats.
While the advanced production processes incorporate the highest hygiene levels, it is vital that Kri Kri remains vigilant against potential foreign bodies such as metal, glass or other foreign materials that could contaminate the yogurt if there was a problem with any of the equipment on the line.
We have also worked with these communities to diversify into non-timber forest products that fetch higher prices, such as mangoes that are made into pastes and nuts that are processed into oil and body soaps.
Protein plays many important roles, such as repairing the body's cells, building and repairing muscles, helping build and maintain bones, and helping control many metabolic processes.
Free from processed ingredients such as refined flours and sugars, My New Roots embraces all - natural ingredients - so you can have as much as you want and know that it's good for your body.
A product certified with a body such as Australian Certified Organic (ACO) is subject to a stringent auditing process and is guaranteed to be grown and processed free from GMOs, toxic herbicides and pesticides, synthetic hormones, antibiotics, artificial colours, flavours and preservatives — all of which may compromise pet health and life expectancy.
However, the most critical food safety objective is to identify and reject any foreign bodies such as stones, glass, metal and plastic which are often accidentally introduced into the supply chain during the harvesting and sun - drying, or during the logistics process that brings product to Anatolia's pack house from a large number of orchards and vineyards.
The promotion of renewable energy is adding significantly to processing costs, according to an industry body that represents major energy consumers such as food packagers and chemical processors.
According to WebMD, «Inflammation is a process by which the body's white blood cells and substances they produce protect us from infection with foreign organisms, such as bacteria and viruses.»
This in turn means your body doesn't have to put as much energy into digestion and can turn its attention to other important processes such as detoxification and healing.
Now that I see all these women dancing in their labors (and while extremely pregnant) on Facebook, I can see the huge benefit to moving the body while going through such a huge process.
The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain» exercises (those which tend to isolate a single muscle group and a single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain» exercises (those which work multiple joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).
This rhythm affects things such as temperature, hormonal changes sleep / wake patterns and other physiological and biological processes (our internal body clock).
Include your child in the decision - making process, such as the time of day or the site on the body where the procedure is performed (this depends on the type of procedure being performed).
Some mothers find that their baby becomes unhappy, jittery, colicky and / or sleeps poorly if she consumes too much caffeine.5 Too much caffeine is different for every mother and depends on various things such as how well a mother's body processes caffeine.
While the product may be made from natural ingredients such as fruit, making it appear healthy, once the product is processed, in other words blended into a smoothie, the naturally occurring sugars are broken down and released into the blood stream quicker having a negative effect on the body.
... We have to reduce the ingredients we are putting into these things because I don't think we know exactly what all of these things are doing to children's bodies when we give them such processed foods.»
It's the science that explains how medicines work and are processed by the body — crucial for discovering new medicines to help fight diseases such as cancer, depression and heart disease.
By what process the governing bodies of such state would form?
The City Council would vote on the projects at the end of the ULURP process, and the government body usually defers to the local council member (in this case Chin) on such matters.
Using high - tech computerized technology such as mass spectrometry and older standard biochemical processes, the researchers determined that the tiny winged macho - men transfer 13 percent of their total body weight through their spermatophore complex during the mating process.
They help our body by performing important tasks such as breaking down food components to make them digestible or processing nutrients so we can make use of them.
By contrast, «orthosteric» drugs — including cannabinoids such as delta -9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and opioids such as morphine — influence primary binding sites, which means their effects may «spill over» to other processes in the body, causing dangerous or unwanted side effects.
The data gathered can now be used to investigate particular biological processes, such as ageing or, as Gary Ruvkun at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues have now done, body fat storage.
How do you visualise the extremely small forces connected to processes in our body, such as embryonic growth and development?
«But mounting evidence confirming angiotropism and EVMM has revolutionized the knowledge of how cancer spreads through the body to the point that other scientists have confirmed the process in other solid tumor cell types such as pancreatic cancer.»
Every cell in the body uses phosphorylation, the process of adding a chemical tag to control a protein's function and fate, such as when it moves from one part of a cell to another or binds to other proteins.
TIMEKEEPERS Three Americans have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the gears of circadian clocks and how they govern daily rhythms, such as sleep, metabolism and other body processes.
Some animals, such as the axolotl salamander, can regrow new body parts in a process that involves the generation of new cells.
The research coming under fire reported the discovery of a potentially revolutionary process called stimulus - triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP), in which exposing adult cells to a stress such as acid or pressure prompts them to behave like cells in early embryos, which can become any cell type in the body.
This type of mutual relationship, where two substances inhibit each other is called feedback control and is a common mechanism found in various processes, such as shaping of the body and the circadian clock.
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