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Case Study
Case #101
A Sick Hero
A typical day in the summer, a well known hero came back from a tiring day of work fighting the bad guys. He was more fatigued than usual from the long day and sauntered into his lab. He saw his pale face in a mirror hanging on the wall and fell back in shock!
Where had the once handsome young man gone? He decided it must be from the lack of food, he had indeed turned into a vegetarian for his love of animals, but he didn’t think it would have this big of an effect. He went into his kitchen and looked around as to what he could fulfill his hunger. Thats when he spot it, a plant. It was sitting by the window, a normal pot of dirt with a few flowers. Weirdly enough he was craving the dirt. Yes, the dirt of all things. To him it looked like crumbled up chocolate cake, and considering he wanted something sweet, he decided to try it out. He took out a big spoon and scooped some onto it and ate it all. His automatic reaction was to spit it out, and grab a glass of water, however he strangely wanted more. It didn’t taste good, but he ate more. Once he finished devouring the poor soil, the flowers were left on the counter as if forgotten in a war. He decided he should relax on the couch and watch some TV. When he got there he was strangely out of breath. He couldn’t be out of shape! He is a superhero! He fights bad guys all the time and doesn't have time to be unhealthy. But then why does it feel like he just defeated 50 enemies? He plopped on to the couch and turned on the TV. His head spinned as an annoying commercial came on for some product that would in no way make his life better.
His legs started to tingle then. It started from his toes and went up his leg. What is this madness!!! Its not as if he was standing on them all day. Just then he felt his tongue swell up. He panicked thinking it might of been from the soil he decided to eat earlier. He panicked and rushed to call his trusty doctor. He called him up and told him about everything that happened. What did the doctor tell him?

Case #102
Megan was your average 32 year old women, a new mom with one child. Her daily schedule was normal, went to work had a baby sitter, came home and worked out, made dinner for her family and relaxed. It was her daily routine. After having the baby, she started to work out daily to get back in shape. She started drinking protein shakes to replace certain foods. While working out one day she collapsed with a muscle spasm in her leg, her leg was numb and she couldn’t get herself back up. She started to notice herself slouching and that her bones started to become weaker. She began to not remember where she would put her most important things like her keys. Returning back home she took a hot shower and rested on her bed but she couldn’t get comfortable because her back was so much pain. She woke up the next morning with tingling in her feet and hands. With all thats going on she became depressed, and she couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her.

Case #103
Jake and Cross-Country
My friend Jake and I were cross-country runners for our High School.
Jake was a great runner and always put in all his effort when it came to running. During practice I came to notice that Jake has been changing and acting weird lately. Jake hasn’t been running the same as he used to, he looks depressed, his effort and running times have gone down.
Also he has been complaining about a bad pain in his back and bone aches. Another thing I noticed with Jake is he has been asking a lot of the same questions lately like he doesn’t remember too much and is always forgetting something. During practice that day right before track ended Jake fell to the ground in pain and screaming. He was in severe pain from his back. He was yelling “its broken” . Coaches ran over and immediately called an ambulance and he was rushed to the hospital.
Soon to find out that Jake had fractured his spine because of muscles being fragile.

Case #104
Drew’s very very bad day at school
One day at school little Drew was very sad. Drew, in an effort to impress his soda baby with his commitment, wanted to avoid dairy products because it made him feel heavy and slowed him down. He has been noticing that during physical activity in the gym at school, he has felt tingly and numb. Fast food has always been a lifesaver to Drew but he made sure to avoid the milk, ice cream, and all other dairy products but he still eats french fries everyday and still finds himself losing weight everyday. At school, all they offered that day was fish and Drew doesn’t like fish so he decided to leave and get french fries from
McDonalds instead. After he got back from Mcdonalds, Drew felt really confused and had a very bad headache. Drew decided to go on with the school day even though he felt confused and had a bad headache and went to his History class. In History, Drew had to give a research presentation on the black plague in Europe. When he went up to present, his legs felt very weak, him feeling bad mixed with the presentation also made him feel nauseous. When he started speaking he felt very dizzy and almost fell over but kept going on with his presentation. About one minute into his presentation Drew stopped quickly, looked his teacher straight in the eye and threw up on her computer. Instead of running out of the room, Drew decided to go on with the presentation. Drew, with vom still coming out of him, explained the black plague to the class thoroughly and in as much detail as possible and it took him thirty minutes to finish. Drew then sat down in his seat after he presented and the class sat in silence for the remainder of the hour class period.

Case #105
Will was going to the store and he wanted to get some copper because he needed it for an activity he was going to do. Which had to do with striping the copper to make money. So will was going to try to trick his friends into hurting themselves by using the copper inside his friends favorite foods. Then Will noticed that there was wayyyy too much Copper in the foods. If food ends up having an excessive amount of copper, Some of the symptoms that would be shown include vomiting of blood and hypotension( low blood pressure) in Will’s friends blood. In addition to this it can lead to gastrointestinal distress that made the friends have to let kids off at the lake for a very long time. So days afterward Will lost just about all of those friends due to them having a traumatic experience with Will’s test.

Case #106
Question:
John has been trying to lose a lot of weight so he can participate on the wrestling team for this winter. He has one month to lose between 15 and 20 pounds.
He thinks to himself that if he eats no meat, salad without dressing and only drinks protein shakes, it will help him lose weight faster while keeping in all necessary nutrients.
For 2 weeks now, John has been only eating plain salad, bread and unsalted eggs, along with his protein shake. Yet, since he started his “diet” he has been complaining about headaches and confusion. He also had a minor seizure. His mom was really concerned for him so she took him to the doctors to see if he had a deficiency in anything.
Based on this information, what mineral is John missing from his diet?

Case #107
Lauren is a high school junior. She is very healthy and likes to swim. She goes to Scotch
Plains Fanwood High School and is on the swimming team. But she also swims with the team at the YMCA called FSPY. She is a champion swimmer and has over 100 trophies. Lauren dreams to be an olympic swimmer and wishes to go to the 2020 summer olympics in Thailand. Lauren is very picky when it comes to eating. She like to eat only organic foods with no added salts and stays away from sweets such as chocolate and other types of candy. She only likes to eat plain spinach with no dressing and thats it. She eats nothing with preservatives, which can sound healthy.
Lauren likes to do Insanity workouts on her off days of swimming instead of sitting at home on her bed like most of her friends. Lauren likes to be active, to maintain her perfect abs and large muscles. She does her insanity workouts with Shaun T. and the workouts are very intense. Which include burpees, sit ups, push up, and other agility workouts. But if she works out for too long she starts to feel nauseous and throws up intensely. When she eats her spinach for dinner she always feel bad after and might have diarrhea. Shes not getting all of the minerals and nutrients but which one is she lacking the most?

Case #108
Karl cutting
Karl the 220 pound wrestler is trying to cut down in weight. Hes trying to cut his weight with a low carb diet mixed with drinking only water. he used to drink white grape juice water from deep wells avocados and radishes but all of that has been cut out of his diet. At practice Karl started complaining about abdominal pain he wasn't sure if it was from the practice or if it was from the diet. At home he began experiencing nausea and diarrhea. Karls abdominal pain was so bad that he couldn't go to wrestling practice.
When Karl got home his stomach starting turning and he sprinted to the bathroom he had explosive diarrhea. He then got nausea and threw up everywhere. After that he was salivating heavily. Karls scared of the doctor diagnose Karls problem.

Case #109
A male named Charlie in his late 20s is an athletic male and one day he noticed that he felt like he was missing something. He was very tired and began to get a headache. He was also experiencing heart palpitations. When he went to the doctor he ask if he was eating health and eating fruits as much as possible. Charlie said yea but not really then the doctor asked are you eating fruits such as bananas and citrus fruits. He said no I hate bananas and fruits with citrus. The doctor then stated you have to eat those fruits because without them you may mbe at a high risk of heart disease and high blood pressure which explains the heart palpitations and headaches.