Sleep and Obesity – Intimately Connected
Obesity is diagnosed when your body mass index (BMI) is 30 or higher. BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in meters squared. T...
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Obesity: the deadliest disease
In the US, obesity is seen everywhere you look. In this map, shown below, you can see a high prevalence of obesity for adults in the South and the Midwest. In s...
Obesity, will it be the world’s deadliest killer?
Disease of Obesity “Weight that is higher than what is considered as a healthy weight for a given height is described as overweight or obese.” ̵...
Neurochemistry: More Than a Capstone, More Than a Class
It’s crazy to believe that I only have one semester left of my undergraduate career. Although it has been a few years since my first day at Concordia, I s...
New Learning in Neurochemistry
I did not know what to expect when I signed up for this course. I honestly thought it would parallel the neurobiology course some of my classmates had taken las...
Your Brain on a High Fat Diet: Is fast food really worth it?
You’re hungry, you drive to McDonald’s for lunch. You get back to your office and you decide to skip the stairs, and take the elevator. These little...
Neurochem Semester Story
The Neurochemistry capstone course brought together all of Concordia’s goals for liberal learning and provided me with a unique and meaningful capstone experien...
NeuroChem at Concordia
As a capstone to my Neuroscience major at Concordia College, Neurochemistry has addressed all five of the college goals for liberal learning. As a course, I bel...
Our Neurochemistry Family
The Neurochemistry course has allowed me to become more aware of the many impacts of the brain on the rest of the body. Neurochemistry at Concordia gave me an o...
This is Your Brain on Food
Discussing obesity becomes difficult when considering every side of the “argument.” Between social advocacy to the neurochemistry of weight, many perspectives h...