Shasta College

Center for Human Development

Assignment 10                                                            Name __________________

Due: May 9 (MWF), May 10 (TTH), May 12 (TH)

Q1.  Alzheimer’s disease affects 10 percent of U.S. adults by age 65 and 30 percent of those over 85.

Q1-1. Describe how Alzheimer’s disease is theorized to develop.

Q1-2. Choose one nutrient and research how it may be related to the development or prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.  Please attach your reference (besides the textbook) to this assignment. 

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Q2.  Please read “Controversy: agribusiness and food production: how to go forward?” (pp573-578), and answer the following questions.

Q2-1.  The authors propose several strategies for solutions to the problems of environmental and social costs of agriculture.  Name three challenges you can think of in terms of putting those strategies into practice.

Q2-2.  Name three things that you think you can do (or you have already been doing) in order to support sustainable agriculture and development.