Chapter 4, 5, &6

I have learned a lot about diets and healthy eating as well as the affects not eating healthy can cause. There are so many ways to change our daily eating habits to have excuses. everyone has things going on in their lives, I know I do as well, but instead of going too fast food place to get a hamburger, fry, and soda, stop at a close store and grab a wheat sub and a bottle of water. When out for dinner eat about half and take the rest home 90% of food places give you a bigger portion then needed. Shop healthier there are many ways to find out the healthy foods to buy. I have learned that going a long period of time eating poorly can cause many health issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, tiredness, weakness, and so many more.

 Physical activity is essential in everyone’s daily life. People have to have some kind of physical activity everyday to maintain good health. Now a day’s machines and technology itself has taken place of people. People used to work morning till night, doing everything for themselves in which they had plenty of exercise. The life span of people long ago was greater than it is now. People have gotten lazy and rely too much on technology to do for them. There are many ways to get the exercise that your body requires. But simply walking 30 minutes a couple times a week along with basic house work can be just enough. Physical activity is anything you do when not sitting or standing.

 The food pyramid helped me see what is important in a daily diet as well as learning all the meanings or the labels and ingredients on food and drinks. I came across a site that has a portion plate and it explains how its used for easy portioning with your dinners and all meals, I think this is great and I will be trying this out. https://classes.lt.unt.edu/Spring_2011/LTEC_3260_020/blo0016/assignment_1/page_2.html

I learned in discussion a lot about child obesity and much prevention. I also learned about the importance of physical activity in schools and how that program can be as well as being the beginning of a active life style for children.

I believe I have been doing great in discussions, I believe I have been relevant and put a lot of thought into what I write.

Words I have learned amino acids, purging, probiotics

Chapter 7 &8

 

            Chapter 7 and 8 were very informative and I believe I learned quite a few things. I learned about drugs I didn’t even know existed, like GHB and Katamine (club drugs). Drug use is very dangerous weather ingested, injected or inhaled, no matter what way you take a drug it’s dangerous. It is important to know what you’re putting in your body and know what kind of interactions it can have, especially when taken with other medications and or alcohol, there is also always side effects, so to watch for them is also important. Many people abuse prescription drugs. It’s a very common thing these days, yet very bad, people don’t understand what they’re doing to themselves. Abusing drugs can cause not only bad health problems and or death but drugs are very addicting. For someone addicted to drugs life can just get very hard, they literally cannot function without them and when trying to get off these kinds of drugs with draw alone is horrible and dangerous. People need to really think before taking medications or illegal drugs before they ruin their lives. Drugs have many effects on the body short term and long term and once you damage your organs or brain you can’t take back what you did (chapter 7).

               I learned about alcohol and tobacco and the effects, ingredients in cigarettes and the types of tobacco as well as long term and short term effects that can ultimately ruin your life. I learned about binge drinking along with how college student increasingly binge drink by drink a lot of alcohol in a short amount of time and I learned of the many treatments for alcoholics. There are 5 steps to quitting a tobacco habit and using the letters START can be the beginning of the process (chapter 8).

                In discussion I learned about the reasons alcohol and tobacco will probably never be band, due to the state and federal taxes. The amount of money made on these is more important than people’s health. I learned of the many chemicals in tobacco/cigarettes and the effects each chemical can have on a person. Below are two sites I found useful.

http://www.rjrt.com/TobaccoIngredients.aspx

http://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/2010/07/05/how-much-is-the-government-making-off-of-alcohol/

                 I have learned a few words in these chapters including psychoactive, ethanol, carcinogenic and dopamine