...All in all you health lies in the palm of your hands and its up to you to maintain it before its to late. I value my health and I'm currently doing everything in my to prepare myself for the long road ahead. Heres a few tips to ensure you all can live a healthy and long life also. Healthy The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Healthy as having good health. Not being sick or injured. Also as showing good health and doing things that are good for your heath.(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy)Eating healthily has never been a big issue for myself because I grew up in a house hold where eating healthy was a must after my great grandmother passed away from heart disease at a early age. Since then it has been our family’s mission to combat this disease within our family and start eating healthy. Though it was hard at first I'm very proud to say it was the best thing to do and now my family and I are really seeing the results from living and eating healthy. Maintaining Your Health The Textbook speaks about how obesity has become a big problem in the USA today. Also how the USA has become to be known as one of the Fattest nations today with unhealthy foods being thrown in our face through public media and bill...
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...Nutrition and Fitness Lee Morgan SCI/100 April, 30 2012 Laura Ross Nutrition and Fitness Being more health conscious as of late, the ability to make better decisions as it pertains to food intake is becoming more repetitious. A healthy lifestyle is now part of the subconscious mind; eating less junk and more fruit, counting calories instead of counting the minutes to the next meal. Things were not always this way. Before marriage, visits to fast food restaurants were frequent; however, there was not much change afterwards. An individual who is obese much like myself, needs to have a revelation to change their lifestyle. Fortunately, the birth of my son was enough to change previous bad habits. Unfortunately, majority of individuals suffering from obesity experience a different form of revelation that involves a doctor, hospital or worse, a trip to the emergency room. The decision to change one’s lifestyle comes at a cost. Change is inevitable whether it is voluntary or involuntary; however, it is not easy. When an individual is accustomed to eating a certain way, the thought of change can be enough to discourage one to move forward with the process. Personally, the idea of measuring cereal and milk for breakfast seemed unnecessary and tasking. Not to mention lunch, snacks and dinner. What real steak fits in the palm of the hand? In the beginning it was rough; however, when one evaluates how good they feel, they will come to the conclusion, change is good. Now that nutrition...
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...Vegan/ vegetarian diet is harmful for human beings. It is obvious and scientific that the omnivores is better than vegetarian. As a meat lover, the complete negation of animal foods makes me unacceptable. Eating meat is necessary for the health of humans. The main reason for the vegetarian supporters that they think that just eating plant is enough to stable the body healthy and functioning. But the opposite is true. The vegetarian diet may cause the micronutrient deficiencies and inadequate protein intake. Humans are omnivorous, in our lifestyle, the several of beneficial micronutrient elements are essential. No matter what kind of micronutrient elements lose; it would lead a potential danger for health. Kris Gunnars who works in Authority Nutrition claimed, “Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) is the most active form of Omega-3 fatty acids and is mainly contained in animal foods. The plant form of Omega-3s, ALA, is inefficiently converted to DHA for health”(Gunnars). It means that the plants cannot provide all the nutrition for body. The vegans would lose many important micronutrient elements and nutrition. And whatever the vegetarian agree or not, the plant must needs one part of nutrients from the animals, like body or excrements. Humans are unable to support their function by eating vegetable. If the people insisted in a vegan diet for a long time, the body will suffer the many disease, like carbohydrates, protein, and fat imbalance. It is the root of various diseases. No only the...
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...Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is the ability to take care of oneself, make good conscious decisions, and be able to accept the responsibility for negative actions. Even though situations may arise that are hard to accept personal blame for, accepting personal responsibility will lead to emotional and physical well-being, healthy relationships, and a successful career. Failure to comply with these rules will result in low self-esteem issues, depression, unhealthy habits, mood swings and ultimately cause pain for everyone in your life. By leading a healthy lifestyle, you are able to be emotionally stable, communicate effectively in all relationships, and build a good foundation for the future. Accepting personal responsibility for your own actions is one of the major keys to success. Acknowledging that you control your own destiny and are responsible for yourself is the first course of action a person should take. For example, when a person is considered an alcoholic the first step is accepting the problem. Once a person accepts the problem he/she needs to realize the choices made were theirs. People tend to blame others directly in their inner circle of family and friends for their downfalls. Doing this can cause catastrophic results. For example, if a man was abandoned by his father shortly after birth, he cannot say during his adult years, that he cannot be a good husband or effectively provide for his family is due to what happened when he was a child...
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...number of consumers who are worried about the impact that GMOs may have on their health. As a result, many companies in the late 1990s began to apply the GMO free label, indicating that their food does not contain GMOs. The labeling movement took off, especially at the beginning of the 21st century, when consumers became much more educated about GMOs, the companies that produce them, and the choice of eating GMO free. A number of nations legislate labeling, and in Europe, food must be labeled to indicate whether or not it contains GMOs. In the United States, however, GMO free labeling is purely voluntary and not regulated by any governmental body or organization. For this reason, the validity of the label was questioned, and numerous organizations began pressuring the Food and Drug Administration, as well as the United States Department of Agriculture, to enact legislation governing food labeling in regards to GMOs in the late 1990s. As of 2006, no Federal standards for GMO free labeling existed, although several counties along the coastlines of the United States had taken matters into their own hands, either banning the growth of GMOs in their region or requiring more informative labeling. It is the hope of many food activists that the GMO free label will be standardized, so that consumers can be assured about the GMO content of products they purchase. Most consumers have foods containing GMOs in their home. Corn and soy beans are both heavily modified, and it is quite difficult...
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...“Childhood Obesity” Sheena Henderson ENG 122: English Composition II Instructor: Xochitl Tirado April 23, 2012 Childhood obesity is quickly becoming a huge epidemic in the world today. Many health officials believe that obesity is one of the fastest growing diseases in America. What many people fail to realize is that obesity is a disease that can kill a person. The difference between being obese and being overweight is misunderstood, and eating habits is the number one cause of this condition and solutions are needed. One thing that causes obesity in children is their unhealthy eating habits, not exercising and not getting nutrients are all common causes of obesity. Eating high calorie foods regularly like fast foods, baked goods and vending machine snacks increases weight. Because of the abundance and availability of unhealthy foods, children are prone to becoming overweight or obese when their eating habits are not balanced with a sufficient amount of physical activity. No matter where the foods we eat come from, there is a good chance that it is unhealthy for us. Some people even feel that genetics play a role in weight issues in children obesity. Children of obese or overweight parents are much more likely to be overweight or obese. They eat the same foods and mimic the parents’ level of activity. Obesity cannot be inherited, but disorders that result in obesity can. There are many ways to solve childhood obesity. “However, no treatment will work on its own. One...
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...body image. Of that 75% of those women have or had eating disorders in their past. To help prevent a lot of these things people working in the fields associated with them are studying to try and fix the statistics. As the media portrays what is considered attractive in society, the more problems people have with their own body image, causing them to resort to Eating disorders, Plastic surgery, and or suicide. The purpose of my research was to explore how women of color think and feel about their bodies. Specifically, how Black women define beauty by means of variety of different variables such as body shape, skin complexion, and...
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...microphones located in each room so that no headset would need to be worn to take the call. Also there would have to be a way to screen the calls and the phone system would actually vocalize who is calling. Kind of like caller id but a lot better in the fact that there would be no looking at a small screen telling you who called. Also making a call will be simpler as well since the microphones would let you dial via voice command. And with the phone system interlinked with the home entertainment system and computer systems it would have the customers contact list available at just the command of the user’s voice. ii. Eating a meal with your family in the year 2050. Eating a family meal in the year 2050 will be very different than it is 2015. I truly believe that there will be advancements in the technology around how we eat and how the food is prepared. Eating the meal will be taking place on dinnerware that may be of a disposable sort and is eco-friendly. That meaning it will be able to be composted by the family or will decompose in the landfill within 6 months of being deposited. Also there will be applications involved with the food being served that will allow for one to count calories and fat content by entering in what is on the plate and weighing it....
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...manure to enrich agricultural lands, moringa leaves as livestock feed because of its rich high protein content, moringa seed powder and the fresh cake left over from oil extraction as treatment for turbid water, moringa as a good live fence tree with its bark used to make mats and rope, and the compound in the flowers and roots of the moringa tree, pterygospermin, as a powerful antibiotic and antifungal remedy. Tender malunggay leaves also reduce phlegm and are administered internally for scurvy and catarrhal conditions, while the flowers are used to heal inflammation of the tendons and abscesses. Unripe pods of malunggay are also reported to prevent intestinal worms, while the fruit also prevents eye disorders. Other studies have shown that eating malunggay fruits can lead to higher semen count. This is good news for men who are having problems in siring children. They cannot count on the malunggay to cork its magic on them. Because of its nutritional content, malunggay strengthens the immune system, restores skin condition, controls blood pressure, relieves headaches and migraines, manages the sugar level thereby preventing diabetes, reduces inflammations and arthritis pains, restricts the growth of tumors, and heals ulcers. This information comes from Dr.Kumar Pati, an Indian doctor who is an expert in natural medicine....
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...October 11, 2009 The Food Issue Against Meat By JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER THE FRUITS OF FAMILY TREES When I was young, I would often spend the weekend at my grandmother’s house. On my way in, Friday night, she would lift me from the ground in one of her fire-smothering hugs. And on the way out, Sunday afternoon, I was again taken into the air. It wasn’t until years later that I realized she was weighing me. My grandmother survived World War II barefoot, scavenging Eastern Europe for other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins and the bits that clung to bones and pits. So she never cared if I colored outside the lines, as long as I cut coupons along the dashes. I remember hotel buffets: while the rest of us erected Golden Calves of breakfast, she would make sandwich upon sandwich to swaddle in napkins and stash in her bag for lunch. It was my grandmother who taught me that one tea bag makes as many cups of tea as you’re serving, and that every part of the apple is edible. Her obsession with food wasn’t an obsession with money. (Many of those coupons I clipped were for foods she would never buy.) Her obsession wasn’t with health. (She would beg me to drink Coke.) My grandmother never set a place for herself at family dinners. Even when there was nothing more to be done — no soup bowls to be topped off, no pots to be stirred or ovens checked — she stayed in the kitchen, like a vigilant guard (or prisoner) in a tower. As far as I could tell,...
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...it. In this present generation itself, we are all linked through mayor forms social media. With sources like blogs television, radio, internet, commercials, billboards, mail, magazines, newspapers, photography, journals, etc., we can all find a way to communicate and share creativity, ideas, and thoughts or believes no matter were in the map are located. This has caused a massive movement, especially in the United States of America, where people to try and copy what they think is an “ideal body image”. Women are expected to be smart, care takers, nurturers, we are expected to be beautiful and sensitive but at the same time strong and feminine. However, even with all we can contribute to society as women we still feel the need to be like the idols we see on the media. We think that in order to be like them we must adapt to what’s considered normal. But as individuals it’s hard to obtain the “Ideal body image” we see on these models and pop starts no a days because it’s simply an unrealistic goal. Like a journal about women’s body image in which the author, Michael W. Wiederman, describes his own intimacy problem with a partner who was being too self-conscious. Most of the images we see in the media have been through Photoshop and plastic surgery making them look realistic then their just fixed to look how public wants these starts to look. The Idols who are fortunate enough to have what is considered healthy are just what they are born that way and most submit to unhealthy...
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... COM/155 Two methods of losing weight Weight loss is an issue perpetually on many people's minds most people would like to be slim and toned in reality it is much easier to gain weight than to lose it. People should devote the effort necessary to reduce their weight to the recommended levels the benefits of doing so are less risk for developing life- threatening illnesses and psychological consequences of low self-esteem and anxiety. Eating the healthy way and exercising are the two most efficient and healthy ways to lose weight. Dieting and exercising are both effective at helping an individual achieve weight loss goals. Each has its benefits over the other a combination of consistent exercise and healthy eating is the key to achieving optimal health. In the past being obese was not really a factor because people worked hard and barely had food to eat and in the process the calories that were consumed were burned off and not retained as fat. In today's times, the body has adapted to thinking that it is rewarding and natural to eat a lot of food because it is available and so easy to access. According to(.ph. D. Harry Mills and his online article titled Introduction to Weight Loss...
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...blood pressure, diabetes and cancers. Even food products that claim to be “fat free” or “diet” contain artificial ingredients that can cause health problems such as migraine headaches. Our food may very well be killing us and yet we, as a nation, are not changing our eating habits. The intention was to find out why we choose to continue on the unhealthy paths that we are on. Information found in many articles and documentaries, including doctors’ and scientists’ statements, as well as nutritional information found on nearly every food label in the grocery store, explained what was in the foods we are eating, what it does to our bodies and what were our reasons for not making healthier choices. Factors such as food addiction, convenience, commercialism, false claims and income are some examples of why we may continue to eat poorly. This paper will examine all of these topics and some others. Maybe the information that will be revealed here will be just what you need to modify your own diets and begin a road to a healthier body! Table of Contents Abstract Table of Contents Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Literature Review - “You are what you eat” - “Destroying our Bodies” - “A matter of convenience” - “Making good choices” Chapter Three: Methodology Chapter Four: Results Chapter Five: Summary and Discussion Works Cited 2 3 4 6 6 8 10 12 14 17 24 26 Is Our Food Killing Us? Chapter...
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...today’s group I will be addressing some of the facts and myths around what causes people to eat or not to eat. We will address some of the misconceptions about hunger and satiety. The first thing I want to say to everyone is that eating is a behavior. We eat because we have to but we do it because we enjoy eating and it makes us happy, however some people eat and it becomes unhealthy after a certain point. Some people do not eat because they fear it becoming unhealthy and that in turn is also unhealthy. It is important that you all understand the physiological factors and how all of the research that has been done and is currently being done is making headway for new discoveries about hunger and health. Some of the most common misconceptions about hunger and satiety is the belief that hunger is caused by an empty stomach. An empty stomach does not constitute the feeling of hunger, the feeling of hunger more than likely comes from fact that your body is trained to tell you that you are hungry at certain points. The idea that satiety is caused by feeling full is also a common misconception, reasonably the gastrointestinal tract is where these feelings come from. The hypothalamus is what controls the energy metabolism; it does not control your eating but there is a chemical that is released that are called peptides. There is a peptide that is solely responsible for increasing the appetite. Peptides are small chains of amino acids that function as neurotransmitters and hormones...
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... Obesity is increasing at alarming rates and affects over two-thirds of the American population. While media and entertainment are obsessed with thinness, we should be more concerned with the larger problem of obesity. There are great risks involved in being obese. Obesity is taking it’s toll on many people. It is about time somebody stepped up and proved to these suffering humans that there is help available, and there are people who care and are willing to help with this problem. Obesity currently affects over two – thirds of the population. (www.acsh.org ) Americans are paying less attention to what they are eating, and paying more attention to the costs of foods. Obesity rates have been steadily increasing over the past twenty five years. This is partly due to the rising costs of eating healthy. ( www.acsh.org) “Families get fatter as they buy cheaper and less healthy foods in order to try to fill up”. (Emily Openchowski, May 21, 2012) Obesity has been known to shorten life spans by six to seven years depending upon it's severity. ( www.acsh.org/publications/obesity-and-its-health-effects) Of all of the concerns that obesity brings, one of the greatest concerns is the increase in children, adolescents, and adults becoming obese. This is becoming an epidemic. Something needs to be done about it, and soon. There are interventions out there that their main goal is to reduce obesity among young people. ...
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