In this article, the author disproves the well-known fact that kale is a healthy superfood when eaten in large quantities. She explains that while it still has great benefits, including a surplus of vitamins, fiber, and its proven ability to fight off heart disease, when eaten raw it can affect your metabolism. To be more specific, it contains a biochemical called progoitrin which can decrease a person’s thyroid gland production, as well as thiocyanate ions which can prevent iodine from getting to your thyroid. Eaten in excess quantities, both of these compounds can affect blood sugar, weight, and overall metabolic health. The author then goes on the clarify the fact that eating kale occasionally is still extremely healthy. However, she reestablishes …show more content…
In this case, I specifically focused on the effect of a shift in demand on a market in long-run equilibrium. After reading the article, I imagined the affect it would have on readers. The author is clearly making people shy away from eating kale because of its health risks. Although many people probably aren’t anywhere near that “large amount” of kale that could cause their thyroids to swell up, chances are they will turn away from buying it next time they see it in a grocery store. I’ve identified the market for kale as long-run because farmers can easily enter or exit the market, buyers and sellers are price takers, goods are standardized, there are no transaction costs, and because market participants have full information. In this case, they will surely exit the market as demand decreases. First, the demand curve will shift to the left, decreasing the equilibrium quantity and price. As this happens, firms are not creating an economic profit, a clear incentive for them to leave the market. As they leave the market, the supply curve shifts to the left pushing price back up to the equilibrium level. At the end, the result in the demand curve shifting to the left decreased the quantity traded without changing the
Any change that lowers the quantity that buyers wish to purchase at any given price shifts the demand curve to the left.
According to Donald D. Hensrud of the Mayo Clinic on Healthy Weight, “Eating well – choosing a plant-based diet, which emphasizes vegetables, fruits and whole grains – also will reduce your risks of some of our nation’s biggest killers and related conditions. Many cancers, heart disease and high blood pressure, among other conditions, are linked to diet, most notably to diets high in fat and saturated fat. Even without weight loss, adopting a healthier eating style can be beneficial. (Hensrud 49)”
When I was growing up I was taught how to hunt, fish and trap animals for food as well as being fed an omnivorous diet, but today I have found that I no longer need animals in my diet. The Vegetarian Times recently found that out of the 311 million people in the US, 7.3 million eat a vegetarian based diet and 22.8 million eat a vegetarian inclined diet. Over the past century people have begun looking into the health implications of plant based diets as a way of improving their health and increase their longevity. This research paper is intended
Positing that most of our major health issues, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes, can be prevented (and even in some cases reversed) by following a vegetables-and-whole-grains diet, this dense documentary would rather inform than entertain. Its hale heroes are the nutritional scientist T. Colin Campbell and the surgeon Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., whose combined decades of research into the harmful effects of animal proteins are summarized, along with an extensive history of our worldwide dietary decline.
The nutritional dietary consumption of carbohydrates is between 55-75% for the vast majority of the global population as their main source of food intake and energy. And the general populous continues to be misinformed by government agencies regarding what a normal, healthy diet, should be, as well as what a balanced diet looks like. Eating a low-carb high-fat, or ketogenic, diet of high fat, adequate protein and low carbohydrates can provide many health benefits as compared to the alternative of an unhealthy diet. Research suggests that a ketogenic diet builds a healthier body than
For last 50 years many researchers throughout the world have shown that the foods we eat have a profound impact on our health and longevity. A healthy diet
There are numerous factors that can impact the long-term equilibrium, such as changes in supply. Generally the supply will increase and a new equilibrium will be found. Yet if a unanticipated event occurred that prevented an increase in supply being available for the market, then we can expect a different adjustment. A great example would be, if a hard freeze eliminated Brazil’s premium coffee crop. That would cause a negative shift in the supply curve. Assuming demand remains constant, a negative shift in the supply curve will cause quantity to decrease and equilibrium price to increase. Brazil is responsible for approximately 25% of the world’s coffee supply. According to coffee research.org “ news of Brazil coffee frosts echoes around the world within a matter of minutes. Correspondingly, coffee prices usually jump due to expectations of a worldwide coffee shortage.” ("Coffee frosts," 2001)
Apple juice and orange juice are substitutes for consumers, so the fall in the price of apple juice decreases the demand for orange juice. The demand curve for orange juice shifts leftward. The increase in the wage rate paid to orange grove workers raises the cost of producing orange juice. The supply of orange juice decreases and the supply curve of orange juice shifts leftward. The net effect of these events decreases the equilibrium quantity but has an undetermined effect on equilibrium price. If supply decreases by more than the demand, the shift in the
2.) Which curve(s) change and based on the lists in the text of what causes demand and supply to shift what are the causes of theses shifts? D1 changed moving leftward indicating a decrease in demand due to a technological change: a technological setback causes a decrease. This causes price to go down as well as the demand is lower.
How do the concepts of microeconomics help you understand the factors that affect shifts in supply and demand on the equilibrium price and quantity?
For instance, if someone's income grows, then his demand for goods will increase, shifting his demand curve to the right. This will lead to a higher quantity being consumed at a higher price, ceteris paribus. Conversely, there can be a negative effect that shifts the supply curve to the left where a lower quantity is consumed at a lower price, ceteris paribus. This can occur when the price of substitutes falls or consumers begin to lose their taste for the product.
To maintain optimal health through a balanced diet it is important to keep the intake of macronutrients within the recommended ranges. The effects of eating too many macronutrients or not enough can cause under-nourishment or over-nourishment. “Over-nutrition occurs when long term human energy intake exceeds energy expended on basal metabolism, digestion, work and leisure” (Huffman, Huffman, Rickertsen, & Tegene, 2010, p. 5). Over-nutrition of any nutrient in some instances can create toxicity in the human body that may result in future morbidity. The macronutrient intake during the 3-day-diet ranges both inside and outside of the
Having a healthy dietary method can reduce the chances of receiving many health diseases. These health diseases include obesity, heart disease, and cancer. By consuming certain foods and nutrients in one’s diet the risk factors for these health diseases can be reduced. A healthy dietary method that is beneficial to reducing and/or improving these health diseases is the vegetarian diet. The vegetarian diet follows a dietary pattern that is characterized by the consumption of plant-like foods and the avoidance of flesh foods (meat, poultry, and fish). The foods in this diet provide the body with many essential nutrients. This is why many health benefits have been associated with the vegetarian
Often a market may be affected by a demand-side “shock” which takes away the pricing power of
Let 's say there 's a sudden increase in the demand and price for umbrellas in an unexpected rainy season; suppliers may simply accommodate demand by using their production equipment more intensively. If, however, there is a climate change, and the population will need umbrellas year-round, the change in demand and price will be expected to be long term; suppliers will have to change their equipment and production