A New Lifestyle Of Eating Healthier

Eating healthy is important for many reasons, it will promote intellectual development in children and adolescents prevent major health problems from developing and ensure a long and healthy life style. This research paper will introduce the importance of forming a healthy eating habit from a young age onto the senior years and will also point out some of the negative effects not eating healthy can cause such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, iron deficiency anemia, dental caries, under-nutrition, and eating disorders.

“I have been the best son you could ever ask for”. By this time mom knew that I wanted something. I continued, “Chipotle would be a great reward for a great son”. Being the great mom that she is, she responded, “I was just thinking about how good Chipotle sounded myself”. It was like music to me ear or might I say mouth. My mouth began to water just thinking about how I was going to destroy the burrito that awaited me. Much like a lion would devour his prey. Of course, no blood would be involved, only enough cheese to make any human possibly sick afterwards. Mom would not let me go with her to get the food. I stayed home, pacing back and forth through the house thinking that the floor was going to have permanent indentions from each foot step I took. I could not wait any longer my mouth was watering. I heard the faint squeak of the front door, “squeakkkk”. I ran down stairs, ripped open the bag and began to devouring my prey. No moment could compare to this very instance. I didn’t want it to end, but I knew that the final bite was only a few morsels away. I didn’t want to slow down but I also wanted the burrito to last forever. My Chipotle addiction can often be my biggest weakness. My mom has now learned to use it as a bribery tool in order for me to complete household chores that I would never want my friends to find out

The health behaviour change that I will focus on will be to decrease the consumption of unhealthy foods.

Both of my parents are overweight and with that does come unhealthy eating. A couple of months ago my mother and I decided we wanted to get into better shape. We signed up for a gym membership with a personal trainer who took our Body Mass Index(BMI). I was not worried, I had been on a swim team for 14 years, including Las Positas, but when I got the results back it recommends I lose seventeen pounds. After we read through it, the trainer and I went through my daily diet and he told me the foods I should cut out. He, along with the first article, suggested to avoid rappers. So, the past couple of weeks I have been paying more attention to what I put in my body. It is difficult though because for example say I am at my friends house and I am starving but everyone is eating chips or candy, I have to just sit there. Like I said in my introductory letter, I am going away to college next year so the second article, “Taking Local on the Road” was also very interesting. I agree that Americans as a whole are unhealthy but in the past couple of years I think that we have become more conscious of it because of programs such as Michelle Obama’s MyPlate, or even this book, Food Matters, spread awareness. Maybe it is just because we are growing up but I believe a lot of my friends, including myself, have started taking pride in our body

As a little girl I have always struggled with my weight, and I continuously stayed active because of the factors faced against me (i.e., genetics, socioeconomic status). Obesity has been called an epidemic and one of America’s “most challenging public health problems” (Mason 300). The percentage of obese Americans has more than doubled since 1980, with more dramatic increases found among men (CDC, 2007b). “According to data from 1999 to 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 30% of adults age 20 years and older were obese, and when the number of overweight and obese were combined the percentage swelled to 64%. These figures were so alarming that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has made the goal of reducing obesity among adults one of its highest priorities (HHS, 2000). To examine the facts of how alarming obesity among adults truly is an under-statement. This topic really hit home for me due to the fact that I have pretty decent eating

Our society has grown over the years. I am not just talking about population, I am referring to pant size. The United States is known as one of the fattest countries in the world. Sixty-eight percent of the United States’ adult population is obese or overweight. We as people, have let ourselves go. Everywhere we look, there are people overweight. It could be a personal choice to let their health slip away, or it could be due to a medical condition. Either way, we must throw away the mindset that our health does not matter.

The following day, I pack a bag with shorts and an extra shirt to school. After classes, in the locker room, I put my backpack in a locker and lace up my shoes. Changing my shirt was a struggle for me, so I go to a stall in the bathroom to do it. I walk past the mirror, and take a picture of myself. I save it in my phone as "Day 1. 235lbs." I think to myself, I will never look like this ever again. I have to change myself, my unhealthy lifestyle, but this time is different. Today is the day I stop trying, and start

I woke up one Friday morning hearing the early birds chirp and the sounds of my mother rummaging around the kitchen for breakfast items. I rubbed my tiresome eyes and got out of bed feeling as if I just left the Bahamas. I glanced at the time and I noticed it was 10 minutes before I was supposed to leave the house; 6:20. I began to frantically run around my room trying to get ready as fast as I possibly could. I managed to finish at 6:30 and as I was about to collect the warm, toasted poptart from my mother’s hand, I quickly realized that today was the first day of our deprivation week. I glanced at the delightful looking cookie and as if I was struck by lightning, a sudden wave of determination came by and I was motivated to push through. I decided that I would replace every unhealthy food with something actually nutritional. I mostly ate salads, home cooked meals, and organic snacks. Since school kept me busy, the thought of eating junk food barely crossed my mind and I got through the rest of the day with ease. When I went to my swim practice, I was hoping that my initial hypothesis would be correct. As I was swimming, I noticed that I didn’t have the same amount

There are many benefits to living a healthy lifestyle, and there are many aspects that lead into it. Three important aspects that are most beneficial to a healthy life include sleep, diet and nutrition, and exercise. To live a healthy life starts at a young age. Living a healthy lifestyle when young is beneficial for adult life.

Rebecca is happy now with her results and has an interest in educating her family and other people of how to not make excuses regarding their weight, but instead alter their lifestyle for a healthier life. She explains, “food equals fuel and my hard relationships and self-esteem are so much better for having done the hard work” (Stevenage). With all the pain and suffering growing up with obesity it is essential for parents to learn the importance of

Raise awareness about the importance of having a healthy diet to control the levels of blood sugar. Diabetes is the # 7 cause of death in 2013 in the United States. Patients find it difficult to follow the diet recommended by their doctor. Everyone likes to eat everything without limits and watching their portions, but adjustments are necessary because more than 300 million people are diagnosed with diabetes and one of the ways to prevent and control diabetes is to maintain a balanced diet. Diabetes leads to other conditions such as blindness, DKA, kidney

Prior to reading the article “Creating a Culture of Healthy Living”, I had expected to learn about the different aspects of how communities maintained healthy living environments, and how cultures come together within a community. Instead the article enlightened me about the fact that so many Americans die from heart diseases and strokes. However, what shocked me the most was the fact that so many people still continue to engage in life threatening activities such as smoking, which causes 443,000 U.S. citizens to die prematurely each year.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is indeed a meaningful duty we owe ourselves. ‘If you do not have good health, you do not have wealth’. Healthy lifestyle means upholding a balanced and nutritious diet as well as involves in fitness activities. A healthy diet alone however isn’t sufficient to produce a healthy body as physical activity helps to keep one in shape and free of sickness and disease.

I gained a significant amount of weight. As a girl who stands at five feet exactly, I weighed nearly 140 pounds toward the end of my sophomore year, making me, according to my BMI, overweight. My doctor recommended that I watch my weight and warned me that, if I gained more weight by my next annual check-up, I would have to lose weight. At the time, I honestly had no idea I was overweight. My parents always made me feel as if I was beautiful. My friends, many of whom were Varsity athletes, never made comments about what I was eating. Looking back at this time now, I realize that I had some immensely unhealthy habits, from rarely exercising to eating massive quantities of ice cream and candy nearly every day. The summer before my junior year of high school, I made it a goal to lose weight and ended up losing 20 pounds within the next six months, effectively putting me at a healthy weight for my height and age. I found a love for making healthy meals and a passion for exercise. I was able to bond with my mom as we made desserts from a healthy recipe cookbook and with my brother who goes on six-mile

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in 2011 that 35 percent of the American women suffer from obesity. That’s more than one-third! Already our society is adapting. Instead of helping the victims into a healthier lifestyle, we have started to accept that women are getting fatter. A friend of mine has gained some serious weight in the past two years, and for eighteen months I saw her struggle with it. She no longer resembled the Western beauty standard, and she knew it. She tried reducing her weight gain, but one day she just gave up. Although she attained some peace of mind, it had one major side effect: her weight has now reached a point in which it has become unhealthy. She herself has let go of the subject completely, men prefer curved women over twigs anyway. Or so she