Choose one eating disorder and analyze the treatment options available for that disorder as well as the rationale for their use based on the current understanding of the biological aspects of these conditions.

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Choose one eating disorder and analyze the treatment options available for that disorder as well as the rationale for their use based on the current understanding of the biological aspects of these conditions. analyze topics on neurotransmitters, receptors, and neurotransmitter systems, their role in feeding behaviors and satiety, and the impact of the pathology of selected eating disorders. The “Psychological Treatment of Eating Disorders”, article and the Nutrition and Eating Disorders video expand upon these topics to assist your integration of these concepts as applied to neuropsychological function and dysfunction. Include information on brain structures, nervous system pathways, neurotransmitters/receptors, and psychological, genetic, familial, lifestyle, and environmental factors when analyzing the etiologic theories. Additional emphasis should be placed on relating the proposed etiologic mechanism(s) of the disorder and the recommended treatment(s), as well as providing rationale(s) for treatment success or failure.  Include treatments that are based on psychological, medical, pharmacologic (drug), and other available interventions.

You must use a minimum of one peer-reviewed source that was published within the last five years, documented in APA style, as outlined in the .  Your post should be a minimum of 250 words. You may cite and reference your textbook, required reading and/or multimedia, but these will not fulfill the source requirement.

Guided Response:  Respond substantively to a minimum of two of your classmate’s original posts that have discussed a different eating disorder than you. Your responses should address the disorder, neurotransmitter/receptor systems and/or neuroanatomical structures involved in the disorder, and the research analysis of your classmate as it relates to psychological, genetic, familial, lifestyle and environmental factors. In addition, please observe the following guidelines for all responses:

Chronic Illnesses

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 Chronic Illnesses

Choose one of the “Chronic Illnesses” discussed in Chapter 4 and locate a peer-reviewed study/report published in 2010-2015. In your discussion post, write an annotated bibliography and cite (APA) the publication. Some of the articles you will find use many technical terms. Your post should include a summary of the article and not details that are difficult to understand. If it is necessary to use an acronym or scientific term, please define it in your post. You should be able to find an article that is written in general terms on your topic if you conduct a specific search. For example, instead of searching for “Cancer” which will result in highly technical genetic research you could search “Pancreatic Cancer Nutrition” or “Breast Cancer Exercise.”

Support your statements with evidence from the required studies and your research. Use APA style to cite your sources.

Provide list of foods and their caloric and nutritional values. The user will be able to choose a listed food to input caloric consumption, or enter their own values toward their caloric total.

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Project Plan / Software Requirements Specification

Prepared by Group 1:

  1. Introduction
    • Purpose

The purpose of this document is to present details on the specifications and development goals of the Lean Bean* Fitness app, version 1.0. It will review all aspects of the project, including the purpose and scope of the application, functions and features of the system, development notes and constraints, and system interfaces.

*Final application name TBD

  • Scope

The application will aim to help users reach their fitness goals by tracking nutrition and fitness levels, recommending appropriate dietary and exercise plans, and displaying this information to the user. More details on functionality can be found in Sections 2.2 and 4.

The application is to be developed as a mobile application, designed for the Android KitKat OS – version 4.4. This OS version will accommodate 57.4% of all current Android users, but will allow developers to incorporate some desired features, such as the Step Detector and Step Counter functionality.

  • References

IEEE. IEEE Std 830-1998 IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications. IEEE Computer Society, 1998.

Software Requirements Specification. (n.d.). Retrieved August 30, 2015, from http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iMB7qkS03hoJ:home.agh.edu.pl/~jsw/io/IEEE830.doc &cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Get Fit TN. Recommended Daily Caloric Intake. Get Fit TN, 20013

Your Fitness App is Making You Fat, Here’s Why – Nir and Far. (2015, March 16). Retrieved August 30, 2015, from http://www.nirandfar.com/2015/03/fitness-apps-is-making-you-fat.html

  1. Overall Description
    • Product Perspective

The Lean Bean Fitness app will be a new, self-contained product, designed to provide users with an efficient and convenient system to track fitness goals and progress. It will enforce the notion of achieving fitness goals through the user’s dedication and effort, with less focus on a user’s own manual calculation of net calories and progress reports.

  • Product Functions

The functions of the application will include the following:

  • Allow the user to enter weight, height, age, and fitness goal (weight loss, gain, or maintenance)
  • Calculate and display the user’s current BMI and fitness status.
  • Recommend daily allowable caloric limits.
  • Suggest exercises and foods.
  • Allow user to input or select meals, exercise, and other daily activities in order to record calorie consumption and expenditure.
  • Track and display the user’s net calories of the day.
  • Display motivational pictures and/or messages.
  • User Classes and Characteristics

There will be two types of users of this application.

  • Mobile application users: These users are the target consumers of the application, who will use it for their fitness needs.
  • Development team: These users will consist of the administrator and developers of the application. They will have access to all source code and developer files, in order to fix issues and/or add improvements to the application.
  • Operating Environment

Software Requirements:

  • Consumer Operating Systems: Windows 7 or higher, Android KitKat 4.4
  • Development Languages: Java JDK 1.8.0_60, Android SDK 3.4, XML 1.1
  • Development Environments: Netbeans and/or Eclipse (Java), Android Studio (Android)
  • Design and Implementation Constraints

One major constraint for developers will be the developers’ skill levels in Android and Java development. If the planned goals cannot be met, there may be adjustments to certain functionalities of the application.

Another constraint will be the timing requirement of the project. There are currently 6 weeks left for planning and development, which may or may not be enough to fulfill all initial plans contained in this document.

Consumer use will be constrained by mobile operating systems and their versions. This application will be developed for the Android KitKat OS – version 4.4. The fitness application will not be available to users of other operating systems, as well as to 42.6% of all Android users, who use versions of Android prior to KitKat 4.4.

  • User Documentation

Documentation to be provided will include, but will not be limited to:

  • User Guide
  • Developer Testing Plan
  • Developer Design Layout
  1. Interface Requirements
    • User Interface

The user will be greeted with the Main Menu interface (shown in Figure 1). The Main Menu will be the central navigation tool for the application.

Clicking the Profile link will bring the user to the Profile interface where personal information, such as age, height, and weight, can be edited. The user will also be able to return to the main menu.

Once the user has set up profile information, the Weight Plan link and interface will be available. This function will ask the user for his or her fitness goal (weight loss, gain, or maintenance) and the desired date of completion. Based on this information and their personal data, the application will recommend a daily caloric limit.

The Food Menu interface will provide list of foods and their caloric and nutritional values. The user will be able to choose a listed food to input caloric consumption, or enter their own values toward their caloric total.

The Exercise Menu interface will provide list of exercises and their caloric expenditure values. Similar to the Food Menu, it will allow the user to choose a listed exercise to input calories burned, or enter their own values toward their caloric total.

The Progress Report interface will display the user’s caloric status for the day, as well as the overall progress within their fitness plan.

The Settings interface will all the user to change application setting

Finally, selecting the Exit link will close the application.

  • Software Interfaces

The application is expected to use programming libraries and APIs of Java JDK (as of version 1.8.0_60), Android SDK (as of version 24.3.4), and XML (as of version 1.1) in order to build the user interfaces and functions.

Inputs into the system include a user’s personal information (age, height, and weight), select foods and exercises, and manual caloric inputs. Data outputs from the system are all displays to the user from the interfaces mentioned in Section 3.1.

  1. Functional Requirements
    • User Profile Creation

Description: The application heavily relies on user information to provide most of its features. Therefore, new users must fill their profile. (High Priority)

Sequences:

  • User opens the application for the first time
  • Application opens an interface to complete a profile
  • User fills in data (age, height, and weight)
  • Application saves inputs for use in later functionality
  • Weight Plan Creation

Description: Using user inputs, the application will create the user’s weight plan. (Medium Priority, Tentative Function)

  • User completes the profile
  • User chooses a fitness goal (weight loss, gain, or maintenance)
  • Application creates the weight plan and saves the plan goals
  • Daily Caloric Limit Recommendation

Description: Using user profile inputs and weight plan, the application will recommend a daily caloric limit value for the user (High Priority)

  • Application creates weight plan
  • Application calculates the appropriate caloric limit value, and displays the recommendation to the user
  • Healthy Food Item Recommendations

Description: Using user profile inputs and weight plan, the application will inform users of healthy food options and their calorie      values (Low Priority – Not Essential)

  • User clicks Food Menu option in the main menu
  • Application informs the user about several healthy food options that they can eat for their diet.
  • Food, Exercise, and Manual Caloric Input

Description: The application will list food items and exercises in the appropriate interfaces, and allow the user to quickly select their activities. The user can also manually enter in values for consumption or expenditure activity. (High Priority)

  • User clicks Food Menu or Exercise Menu from the Main Menu
  • User selects a listed food item or exercise, or manually inputs activity
  • Application saves the input for calculation of net calories
  • Calorie Tracking

Description: Using caloric inputs from Function 4.5, the application will calculate net calories. The resulting calculation will be saved to be displayed in the Progress Report interface.

  • Application saves inputs for calculation of net calories
  • Application tracks all inputs and calculates the net result for the progress report
  • Progress Report Display

Description: With the calculations from Function 4.6, the application will create a progress report for the user, which will display calorie totals for daily, weekly, and monthly intervals, and also successes and failures.

  • User clicks Progress Report link in the Main Menu
  • Application displays the calculated results from Function 4.6
  • Motivational Message Display

Description: The application will display motivational messages and/or pictures for the user.

  • Application displays messages on the Main Menu
  1. Developer Team Tasks and Milestones

Milestones will be based on the development of functions found in Section 4, including programming and research. Each programmer will be assigned one function and/or research goal to focus on (Assignments TBD), however, all team members will provide aid as needed.

Write 200-300 word (about one page double spaced typed) reflections on course material five times throughout the course.

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Personal Observation

Assignment:

Write 200-300 word (about one page double spaced typed) reflections on course material five times throughout the course. These should be your interpretations on themes in the class, not just summaries from the lectures or readings. You could explore topics that you don’t fully understand as a way to clarify your understanding. I want to know what you think or how the material is changing what you think. For example you could explore the impact of what you are learning on your food intake or you could reflect on a common theme in the course connecting material from two different classes. A few examples are supplied below. Each assignment is worth 2% of your class grade. Credit will depend on appropriate length and quality.

See below for examples.

Example 1:

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Is organic really better for you than store bought groceries? I am not completely sure how I feel about this topic  when  discussing the concerns for health.  There are not sufficient tests or information regarding this question to give a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer; unless I attend a farmers market, I do not concern myself about whether the Lucky’s I shop at contains organic produce.  I am currently more concerned for the environment.  Until recently reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Pollan, I assumed that all organic growers were the same, and all were just as good for the environment.  I was caught off guard when I read that even organic growers can use the industrial method, or that ‘free-range’ does not necessarily mean constant access to grassy fields to roam for a chicken’s entire life.  I believed that organic meant using the earth for what it’s best for; I pictured cows roaming fields that were not over-crowded and switching fields when growing crops to allow the soil to gather more nutrients for the next time it would be used.  My grandfather was a dairy farmer in Half Moon Bay when my mother was a young girl and I remember hearing stories of the farm, and this is how I pictured organic farmers to be, not the CAFO’s without antibiotics or corn feed.  If there were local farmers that were like the ‘grass-farmers’ in Pollan’s book, then I would be more inclined to religiously purchase produce from then.  As it is now, I do not feel obligated to drive twenty minuets just to buy something that is not necessarily better for me, or the animals;  Whole Foods markets are a step in the right direction in regards to being better for the environment, but is still not perfect.

Example 2:

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I have always considered myself to be reasonably well informed about ethnic diversity and sensitive to issues of discrimination in our society.  My undergraduate college considered one of its primary goals to encourage and cultivate multiculturalism.  However, while I had heard of white privilege, I had never really thought about in detail or examined my own experiences.  I think this is a great way to alter the focus of the discussion, to put the responsibility on the group in power to evaluate their relationship to society and other ethnic groups.  Traditionally the discussion has been centered on the experience of racism, which requires the groups being discriminated against to speak of their experiences and raise the issues, which must contribute to the sense of marginalization.  By having those in power speak of and think about how the social structure benefits them, consciousness will increase and the issue becomes one for the whole society to discuss.  This helped me think about the mentality of privilege, I have always thought that I could pursue what ever work field that I wanted and the only thing that would hold me back is my own ability.  This is not always the case for the less privileged.  What can I do with this knowledge?  My nutrition presentations with the Mexican-American immigrant community involve a group of people who have much fewer opportunities than I or my family did.  Knowing the pervasiveness of this inequity helps me to be understanding of the difficulty of following health advice and not blaming people for a lack of knowledge or ability to follow healthy diets.  This does not excuse people from personal responsibility to improve and take care of themselves and their families, but it is a factor in the disparity of health care.