...2013 Why Should One Be Healthy? Imagine trying to walk up stairs and not being able to because you cannot breathe and your heart feels like it is going to jump out of your chest. If this happens then these are some signs that you are not healthy. It is important to be healthy and change one’s lifestyle to be healthy if they are not doing so. This paper will discuss the importance of being healthy, fit, doing exercise, and the importance of dedication. First it is very important to watch what one eats and be conscientious about what one puts in their body. It is important to manage what one eats, how much one eats, and portion sizes. Portion size is what seems to get more people in trouble. One can even eat too much of the right foods without realizing it. According to the Food Standards Agency, a healthy diet for most people consist of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and low fat. One should try limiting foods that are high in fat, sugar, sodium, and cholesterol. Have you ever heard the phrase "use it or lose it?” Another important step to keeping fit and healthy is to exercise. If one does not use their body and keep muscles fit they lose muscle mass and gain mass from fat. Muscles can become toneless and fragile when they are not used and conditioned. Muscles are used to breathe and the heart is a muscle. When we stay fit and healthy our lungs, heart, and other organs also stay fit and healthy. When one is not fit and healthy lungs...
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...Healthy Eating Chris Williams Com/172 10/27/2014 University of Phoenix Healthy Eating A person who eats a healthier diet or improves their diet will have less risk of getting type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancers. A person who is obese has an increased chance to becoming type 2 diabetic. When a person eats healthier, their chances of becoming obese are slim. Reducing their weight by 5-7 percent can greatly reduce the chances of developing diabetes ("The Facts about Diabetes: A Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.", N.D.). To reduce your risk of heart disease, a person needs to have control over their cholesterol, blood pressure, and weight. Eating a healthy balanced diet can help a person achieve this. It also reduces a person’s chance at having a stroke ("Nutrition’s Role in Disease Prevention", N.D.). It is shocking to know even a healthy diet can prevent cancer. With obesity being at an all-time high in America, and causing a lot of health problems, people are not eating healthy as they should. The result of this is people catching diseases like diabetes, having strokes and heart failure from clog arteries. Let’s not forget Cancer. The reason for this is that the body is lacking all of the vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that comes from healthy eating, and not to mention key ingredients that can ward off cancer. By consuming a healthier diet you can reduce the risk of developing many different types of cancer to include; uteral,...
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...Diabetic Diet: A Healthy Diet Conditions related to obesity and unhealthy eating like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer are some of the causes of death that can be prevented ("Overweight and Obesity", 2014). According to Centers for Disease Control and prevention “More than one-third of U.S. adults (34.9%) are obese”. How can a healthy eating plan help? A Healthy eating plan can help stop the rise in people becoming overweight or obese by following a diabetic diet even if the individual is not diabetic. Knowing what the diet consists of and following it can help promote a healthier weight. Improving a diet can help a person ward off certain types of diseases and knowing why it is hard to stick to a specific diet can help a person’s chances at succeeding. Although obesity and its related diseases are on a rise, healthy eating plans like a diabetic diet can contribute to a healthier lifestyle. What is a diabetic diet and why is it recommended even if people do not have diabetes? A diabetic diet is about eating food that is naturally nutrient packed and low in fats and calories ("Diabetes Diet: Create Your Healthy-Eating Plan", 2013). This diet consists of healthy carbohydrates, High fiber foods, low sugar, moderate protein, and “good” fats. Healthy carbohydrates consist of eating fruit, vegetables, whole grain, and legumes (which are also high in fiber). Eating sugar and “bad” carbohydrates like white bread and pasta raise sugar levels in a...
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...America What is causing America’s obesity epidemic? Why is it so difficult for the majority of people in the U.S.A to eat healthy diets? Compare America to almost any other country and it is painfully clear that we have an overabundance of food: Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day and throw out 200,000 tons of it daily (“Consumption”). However, it is commonly thought that people should have the self-control and knowledge necessary to winnow through the plenty and make good choices. Nutritional facts are readily available and no one could possibly think fast-food is good for them, could they? And yet, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that 34.9% of all Americans are clinically obese and that...
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...they are happy, and kids get lunch so they are happy to! It’s the kind of lunch that they are serving is the issue. Should we change school lunches or keep serving students preserved, artificial food? The lunch schools serve now is frozen and warmed up, or just plain unhealthy. More than half of the kids that go to school go home and eat nothing but junk food, so if they come to school and eat an unhealthy lunch then it's junk food all day and they don't get any nutrition. Schools don’t have a lot of extra money to change their whole lunch menus but neither do all family’s. Some families don't have money to buy healthy food because junk food is cheaper. If schools provide healthy lunches and took away most junk food there would be so many improvements in so many ways....
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...Editing Final Project Some think sports are bad for kids but others think they are awesome. An issue that is hotly debated is should kids play competitive sports. It’s clear that overall kids should play competitive sports.Research shows, however, that my reasons are.Health Benefits ,Mental Benefits and Behavior change. The first reason why kids should play competitive sports is Health Benefits. For example the The New York Times, Stated “Lower the likelihood of being overweight or obese.” Healthy weight helps you run up and down the court . You don’t wanna be super slow. You can be one of the fastest ones and get your points and help your team win. Another reason why kids should play competitive sports, Sarah Davis stated in “What Are...
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...of each of the following in your daily diet. Research foods that you like to eat that are rich in each, list at least two and use evidence from your research to determine if your food choice is healthy. Use the websites provided with each item to explain in as much detail as possible about the benefits and risks of too much or too little of the following items on a Nutrition Label. You should have a minimum of 5 (five) complete sentences for each of the items. Many people are unaware of the amounts of nutrients required by their bodies and therefore fail to regulate them, causing problems down the road....
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...Daniela Magana Professor deCastro English 101 December 16, 2013 The Solutions to Childhood Obesity “Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese. Children with childhood obesity face many health problems like type two diabetes, high blood, pressure and are at risk for many types of cancers. The lack of children’s physical activity today is one of the major factors that lead to obesity as well as eating unhealthy diets, the increased food portions and the lack of information about healthy choices. Dr. Anand, the Executive Director for the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, describes the prevalence of obesity as being “at epidemic proportions” (Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion, 2008, pg. 2). This statement was made in 1998. Since then, the rates of obesity have continued to rise dramatically and if we don’t do anything to stop it these numbers will keep rising. Many people think that dealing with obesity is only the parent’s responsibility, but what we need to realize is that it is not only the parents responsibility, fighting this epidemic has also become the responsibility of our schools and communities. Obesity education needs to be in our homes, schools and our communities to raise awareness of the causes, as well as the risks. We need to take action in helping reduce this health problem which is affecting more and more children each day. Parents...
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...the right to food and what we put into our bodies should be our choice. As of right now the government is trying to decide what we eat because out of every ten people three are obese. Therefore the government is proposing laws to ban certain junk foods, in places such as New York. When it comes down to it the central question is: Should the government be allowed to do so? We have freedom of speech, why not freedom of foods? The government’s attempt to regulate our diets does not get the responsiveness it should. While it may be a very ‘hot topic’, how many citizens actually know of what is going on? Americans as a whole should not be confined to what the government wants us...
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...named the restaurants. Wilber Hardee was the one who names Hardee’s. Most people in the United States don’t think much about what their eating. However, does anyone in America think about what restaurants are feeding you? Sometimes people believe that the healthier option is the bad option. When someone is at the restaurant Hardee’s, do they think about what they're getting and how much calories or grams of fat there are in their food? People should start looking at what they're getting at fast food restaurants. Therefore, people should not eat at Hardee’s because their foods are full of unnecessary things such as calories and fats....
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...Have you ever thought about bringing animals back from the dead that you thought were cool? Would you want to bring back extinct animals? I think scientist should not bring back extinct animals/species. I think that scientist should not bring back extinct animals because they would have to bring back more than one animal, it will cost a lot of money,, and the environment might not be the same. Scientist should not bring back extinct animals from the past. Scientist don’t need to bring back extinct animals because they would need to bring back more than one of the extinct animals. In the article Back from the Dead states, “An ecosystem needs a bigger number to have a better chance of surviving” (n.d.). That means that they need to bring back more than one animal to be a healthy population. Also, Sara Zielinski states, “The scientist would have to bring back a whole healthy sized group if they brought back one” (2017). She is saying that they need more than one of them to be a healthy population. You would need more than one of the animals from the past so the population is healthy....
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...get the main point across by grabbing the reader’s attention. By following certain rules and steps will help the writer to compose a successful persuasive message. Following theses certain steps; deciding what topic will be discussed which may be even something the reader may disagree on. Making sure that whatever the topic is that it is thoroughly examined and with these findings on this topic the reader is able to prove his point. Furthermore, with the findings to prove this point the writer can used this as his strongest argument made in an outline. In this outline the writer should only limit three strong arguments that support his findings because any persuasive message lacking any solid facts will have an inescapable outcome. Once an introduction is made with a thesis statement revealing why this topic is very important the writer should argue his point. A conclusion should be drawn stating why the topic has his personal support and then the message will need a thorough proofread. Best practices...
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...http://www.businessinsider.com USA actually has some of the highest obesity rates in the world, and in this text I am going to look at some of the reasons why. The obesity does not just harm a specific part of the people, it harms everyone. Over a third of the American adults and almost 20% of the teenagers is obese. (http://edition.cnn.com) All this obesity has to come at a cost, not only personally but also economically. In this text I am going to look at some reasons to obesity, look at statistics and also talk about the future of obesity. For major parts of the American people, obesity is not a choice. Many are raised up in a poor family who do not have the resources to buy their kids or themselves healthy meals. 14,8 % of the American population live in poverty, that equals to around 47 million people. (http://talkpoverty.org/basics/) This is one of the biggest causes to obesity. Poor people have a lot less access to healthy and nutritious food. (http://frac.org/) Therefor I would say that obesity and poverty is strongly connected. According to USDA, a vehicle is one of the most important things for a family to access healthy food. Also, if you live in an urban low-income neighborhood the chances of there being a good grocery store with high quality food and low-fat products are slim. But even if a family live nearby a healthy store or have access to a vehicle, they still could remain obese. Because...
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...will not only help the students, but the parents as well. It helps focus on nutrition, safety and how to eat healthy. It will help parents encourage children to be physically active and eat healthy to decrease bad eating habits as children along with decreasing childhood obesity. The backpack will be sent home every Monday and should be returned by the following Monday in order for another child to have it and share at home. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to contact me before school, after school, or during my break time (during your child’s lunch period and recess; 11:30-12:30). Thanks again, health In this activity, the students will be presented with thirty different food cards. Ten cards will be unhealthy food choices such as chips, candy, and cookies; another ten cards will be healthy food choices such as fruits and vegetables. Five cards will be unhealthy drinks such as soda and high sugar content juice; and the last five cards will be healthy drinks such as water and milk. The students will have to sort the healthy food and drinks form the unhealthy. wellness For this activity, the students will assist their parents with grocery shopping for healthy food items. They will, with an adult, pick out seven healthy foods and drink items. While doing this scavenger hunt it will educate them on healthy good choices. If the...
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...eating the right foods are the best medicines. However, research shows that Americans do not follow the right recommendations. This was the main reason why I chose to teach this topic. Providing them with the right information and guidelines to face this issue is my goal. Besides being well aware and informed about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, I am a person who is really passionate for food, cooking, and exercising. I am constantly reading and researching about nutritional news, facts and healthy ideas to include into my daily basis. Moreover, I am currently interning at WBHI, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help women with breast cancer and heart disease. I am confident that prevention and education is key to a healthier and happier life. These are other secondary reasons why I felt motivated to teach students and professors in my community about “Healthy Lifestyle.” I will take advantage of this lesson as a way to educate my peers and professors using the right teaching techniques about what I already know and feel passionate about. First, I most understand their attitudes towards health and food. From past experiences and research, I have acknowledged that students and professors at college and universities like UM are relatively conscious about health issues. Most of them know and affirm that healthy patterns go in hand with a “mix” of food advantages like nutrition, quality, taste, and affordability and convenience (in most cases) together with physical...
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