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The Nutrition of our Anatomy

Amazingly recreating human organs out of fruits and vegetables to promote a healthier lifestyle.

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The Nutrition of our Anatomy

The Nutrition of our Anatomy

The Nutrition of our Anatomy

The Nutrition of our Anatomy

The Nutrition of our Anatomy

Amazingly recreating human organs out of fruits and vegetables to promote a healthier lifestyle.

Amazingly recreating human organs out of fruits and vegetables to promote a healthier lifestyle.

Amazingly recreating human organs out of fruits and vegetables to promote a healthier lifestyle.

Amazingly recreating human organs out of fruits and vegetables to promote a healthier lifestyle.

Gabriela Beszkai
Gabriela Beszkai
Gabriela Beszkai
Gabriela Beszkai
1 Campaign |
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
$515 USD 14 backers
51% of $1,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal


 

This project is meant to increase population health by reminding people how important it is to consume more fruits and vegetables every day.

 

 

   Who am I?

 

              My name is Gabriela Beszkai and I am a final year medical student. I spend all of my little free time photographing and reading.

 

                                   

 

 

 

   Why am I doing this?  

    

      Being a passionate medical student but also a passionate photographer, I’ve been searching for a project that would allow me to link these two, to create something beautiful but inspiring and life changing, too. So I thought about the great opportunity of health promotion through my photography. I want to enable people to increase control over their health and to improve it, by making them aware of all the benefits an increased consumption of fruit and vegetable can bring.

       Insufficient fruit&vegetables consumption and obesity are among the major causes of cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancers.

 

 

   What am I doing...

 

             I made a research on the beneficial effects that some foods have on different organs, that might help prevent diseases and thus improve overall health. I studied the eyes, the brain, lungs, heart, liver, pancreas, digestive tract, kidneys and bones and found that specific foods have important effects on these organs, helping us to prevent diseases and keeping them healthy. I gathered all this information and used those specific vegetables, fruits, spices, nutseeds or herbs to recreate human organs and their functional elements.

 

 

 

 

              Let's take for example, this picture of the lungs recreated out of vegetables. Studies say that including onions, chilli/ CH-19 peppers, cruciferous (especially broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower), ginger, olives, red bell pepper, garlic, duck leaves, spinach and mushrooms in our diet could improve our lung function and prevent infections, asthma and most important, cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide in men and the second-commonest cause in women.

 

 
 

        Moreover, the reconstruction respects the anatomical features, describing structural and functional elements of the organs, just like you can see in these pictures:

 

 

                                                                 The Kidneys

 

                 The Nephron: the urine-producing functional structures of the kidney

 

 

 At least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of overweight or obesity.

             Globally, 42 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013. They are likely to become obese adults and to develop diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at a younger age, which in turn are associated with a higher chance of premature death and disability. More than 1.9 billion adults are overweight and more than half a billion are obese, and the numbers are rapidly increasing. This is why preventing obesity from an early age has become a major public health priority in the developed world. 

   Low fat intake and an increased consumption of fruit and vegetables is strongly associated with wight loss and weight maintenance. 

                A well balanced diet, together with regular physical activity, is one of the most significant factors that determine your health. Fruit and vegetables are important components of a healthy diet, and their sufficient daily consumption could help prevent major diseases such as: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer. 

             
          As part of a healthy diet low in fat, sugars and sodium, WHO suggests consuming more than 400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day to improve overall health and reduce the risk of certain diseases. 

 

 

How can you help?

 
           After months of reasearch, I spent a whole week just to make a plan for recreating the human lungs. Then I started to set up studio lights, buy the materials I needed, the fruits and vegetables, washed, sliced and arranged, piece by piece, everything I've used in those photographs.
 

 
 
          But all this turned out to be pretty expensive and I rapidly ran out of budget. This is the reason why I'm here on Indiegogo. I need your financial support in order to recreate the other 7 systems,  with all their specific healthy foods and provide further information. Help me to raise awareness about all the benefits of an increased fruit and vegetable consumption through my photography! 
 

          Familiarity strongly influences young children’s food preferences, so early childhood is a crucial time for interventions. Their habits will set the foundation for their lifestyle and risk of disease as adults. Encourage your children and grandchildren to learn anatomy in an interactive way, looking at photographs that catch their eye and make them link our organism with fresh, healthy foods. 

 

          Be a promoter of a healthier lifestyle and make your friends and loved ones aware of all the benefits an increased fruit and vegetable intake can bring!

 

Up to 1.7 million lives could potentially be saved each year if fruit and vegetable consumption were sufficiently increased. (www.who.int)

 

Bibliography:

 

1.  Holly L. Nicastro et al. Garlic and Onions: Their Cancer Prevention Properties- Review. Cancer Prev Res; 8(3); 181–9. American Association for Cancer Research, 2015.

2.  Zi-Yi Jin et al. Raw Garlic Consumption as a Protective Factor for Lung Cancer, a Population-Based Case–Control Study in a Chinese Population. Cancer Prev Res; 6(7); 711–8. 2013, American Association for  CancerReasearch.

3.  Hirsch K, et al. Effect of purified allicin, the major ingredient in freshly crushed garlic, on cancer cell proliferation. Nutr Cancer 2000;38:245-54.

4.  Powolny AA, Singh SV. Multitargeted prevention and therapy of cancer by diallyltrisulfide and related Allium vegetable-derived organosulfur compounds. Cancer Lett. Oct 8 2008;269(2):305-314.

5.  Song K, Milner JA. The influence of heating on the anticancer properties of garlic. J Nutrition2001;131:1054S-7S

6.  Le Marchand L, Murphy S, Hankin J, Wilkens L, Kolonel L. Intake of flavonoids and lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2000; 92:154–60

7.  Knekt P, Kumpulainen J, Jarvinen R, Rissanen H, Heliovaara M, Reunanen A, et al. Flavonoid intake and risk of chronic diseases. Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:560– 8.

8.   "Phytotherapy Research"; Onions--a Global Benefit to Health; G. Griffiths, etal.; November 2002

9.  "Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture"; Chemical Composition and Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oil of Allium Sphaerocephalon L. Subsp. Sphaerocephalon (Liliaceae) Inflorescences; J.Lazarevic, etal.; January 2011

10.  Galeone C, Pelucchi C, Levi F, et al. Onion and garlic use and human cancer. Am J Clin Nutr2006;84: 1027-32

11.  Rose P et al. Bioactive S-alk(en)yl cysteine sulfoxide metabolites in the genus Allium: the chemistry of potential therapeutic agents.Nat Prod Rep. 2005 Jun;22(3):351-68

12.  Sif Hansdottir et al. Vitamin D effects on lung immunity and respiratory diseases. Vitam Horm. 2011; 86: 217–237.

13.  Jaime García de Tena. The Role of Vitamin D in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,Asthma and Other Respiratory Disease. Arch Bronconeumol. 2014;50(5):179–184

14.  María Elena Valverde et al. Edible Mushrooms: Improving Human Health and Promoting Quality Life. International Journal of Microbiology Volume 2015, Article ID 376387.

15.  Luo XJ, Peng J, Li YJ. Recent advances in the study on capsaicinoids and capsinoids. Eur J Pharmacol. 2011 Jan 10;650(1):1-7.

16.  Sharma SK, Vij AS, Sharma M. Mechanisms and clinical uses of capsaicin. Eur J Pharmacol. 2013 Nov 15;720(1-3):55-62

17.  Whiting S, Derbyshire E, Tiwari BK. Capsaicinoids and capsinoids. A potential role for weight management? A systematic review of the evidence. Appetite. 2012 Oct;59(2):341-8.

18.  Patrizia Riso, Cristian Del Bo’,Stefano Vendrame. Cancer - Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants. Chapter 11 – Preventive Effects of Broccoli Bioactives: Role on Oxidative Stress and Cancer Risk. 2014, Pages 115–126

19.  Q. J. Wu et al. Cruciferous vegetables consumption and the risk of female lung cancer: a prospective study and a meta-analysis. Annals of Oncology 24: 1918–1924, 2013

20.  Li Tang et al. Cruciferous vegetable intake is inversely associated with lung cancer risk among smokers: a case-control study. BMC Cancer 2010, 10:162

21.  Riedl MA, Saxon A, Diaz-Sanchez D. Oral sulforaphane increases Phase II antioxidant enzymes in the human upper airway. ClinImmunol. 2009;130(3):244-251.

22.  Xiao-Lan Cheng. Steamed ginger (Zingiber officinale): Changed chemical profile and increasedanticancer potential. Food Chemistry. Volume 129, Issue 4, 15 December 2011, Pages 1785–1792

23.  Shukla Y, Singh M. Cancer preventive properties of ginger: a brief review. Food Chem Toxicol. 2007 May;45(5):683-90

24.  Mangprayool T, Kupittayanant S, Chudapongse N. Participation of citral in the bronchodilatory effect of ginger oil and possible mechanism of action. Fitoterapia. 2013 Sep;89:68-73.

25.  Ahui ML et al. Ginger prevents Th2-mediated immune responses in a mouse model of airway inflammation. Int Immunopharmacol. 2008 Dec 10;8(12):1626-32.

26.  Chang JS et al. Fresh ginger (Zingiber officinale) has anti-viral activity against human respiratory syncytial virus in human respiratory tract cell lines. J Ethnopharmacol. 2013 Jan 9;145(1):146-51.

27.  McKeever TM, Scrivener S, Broadfield E, Jones Z, Britton J, Lewis SA. Prospective study of diet and decline in lung function in a general population. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 165:1299-1303, 2002.

28.  Francesco Forastiere et al. Consumption of fresh fruit rich in vitamin C andwheezing symptoms in children. Thorax. 2000 Apr; 55(4): 283–288.

29.  European Lung White Book. Part B, Chapter 5: Diet and Nutrition. European Respiratory Society.

30.  Theodora Psaltopoulou et al. Olive oil intake is inversely related to cancer prevalence: a systematic review and a meta-analysis of 13800 patients and 23340 controls in 19 observational studies. Lipids Health Dis. 2011; 10: 127.

31.  Wang Y et al. Fruit and vegetable consumption and risk of lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Lung Cancer. 2015 May;88(2):124-30.

Further reading:

o  Ori Scott et al. The Safety of Cruciferous Plants in Humans: A Systematic Review. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Volume 2012: 50324.

o  "Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture"; Chemical Composition and Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oil of Allium Sphaerocephalon L. Subsp. Sphaerocephalon (Liliaceae) Inflorescences; J.Lazarevic, etal.; January 2011

o  Cancer prevention&early detection – Facts and Figures 2015-2016

o  Cathy Whiteley et al. Preschool Program Improves Young Children’s Food Literacy and Attitudes to Vegetables. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 2015, May 16.

o  P. Horne, J. Greenhalgh, M. Erjavec, F. Lowe, S. Viktor, C. Whitaker Increasing pre-school children’s consumption of fruit and vegetables: a modelling and rewards intervention. Appetite, 56 (2011), pp. 375–385

 

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