Health Assessment: Unhealthy Choices

I believe the two most important guidelines are chapter 6,Helping Americans Make Healthy Choices, and increasing our consumption of vegetables, fruits, and calcium, discussed in Chapter 4. If we continue to help Americans make healthy choices, and make those choices visible to communities, we might be able to get more people physical active and therefore have a healthier country. Increasing consumptions of vegetables, fruit, and calcium will reduce your risk of many chronic diseases, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Calcium, fruits, and vegetables make your body stronger and maintain your body, without them your body becomes weak.

Every individual has a certain lifestyle; the slob, the jock, the nerd. However, when it comes to food, we all fit into two main categories. Those that choose to live a healthy lifestyle, and those who choose to live an unhealthy lifestyle. A pivotal point in every person’s life is when we can decide which one to lead. When picking between an unhealthy lifestyle and a healthy lifestyle, we should look at food quality, price, convenience, and the impact on personal health of each lifestyle.

My physical health has improved drastically throughout this course. I started eating healthier and having fruits for breakfast instead of my usual stack of waffles. On top of this I started to workout with friends. This is great, but my goal for the future is to continue like this. I fear that once school starts again I will have more available excuses as to why I am not able to keep up these healthy habits. One thing that I really took away from our physical unit was that improving your physical health may take away from your mental/emotional or social health. With this in mind I came up with a way that I can improve my physical health, but at the same time stay

Three specific benefits that exercise plays in my fight against cancer are improved mood, improved self-esteem, and decreased body fat. All of these things are very important to my health and wellness. Luckily, with enough exercise each day my body will continue to benefit from not only these three things but many others. On the diet and cancer exercise I scored an 11 for the 3 days combined but did not score the goal amount for women each day. This is not good because I should be getting the recommended amounts of cancer fighting fruits and vegetables each day. On the skin cancer risk assessment I scored a nine which means I am at a very high risk of developing skin cancer from UV radiation. I am constantly in the sun in the summer. I work

Most illnesses in the United States today are based in life style choices. Many people choose to live in unhealthy lifestyle such as smoking, using drugs, eating unhealthy foods, and not exercising regularly. These can cause anyone to have a chronic disease. If this is the case then individuals who contribute to their own poor health should pay more for health care than those who have practiced a healthy life style. We all know that medical cost is very expensive in here. Even though we pay for our health care, it does not cover all of the cost. We still have to take out money from our pocket to pay for the medical bills anytime we visit a doctor. The only way to take care of our own life is improving our lifestyle choices one by one, rather

Assessment did not reveal any significant areas of concern or need for immediate physician visit.

In this section, I will be explaining why the American health care system’s exorbitant spending does not result in the expected quality of care.

I agree that getting to the root of the patient's health issue can lead to better understanding of where the patient is coming from or why they are making wrong decisions about their health. Some of patient does not understand health because of various reasons. Lack of education, financial or support are just some of the barriers that we often seen on why patients are making wrong health decision. Yes, there are people who are narrowed-minded. But as a nurse, we always have to put aside our personal feelings towards our patient. Nurses always have to be open-minded and non-judgmental because we are taking care of someone else's lives, not our personal life. We cannot mixed our own feelings because everyone is different.

Unhealthy lifestyle or unhealthy dietary are almost common among youth nowadays. It became trends among them. The objective of understanding this problem is to understand what bring them to live in unhealthy lifestyle. Maybe they are unaware of what will happen to them if they keep on doing this unhealthy dietary. Or maybe they didn’t aware about what is the unhealthy diet. They also might be busy working until late of night where there is no place they can get healthy food supplies. They might be too tired to cook for themselves and the end, fast food is the only option the have. Plus if healthy dietary will cost them a lot of money. They might want to save their money to pay other thing. Sometimes, when they hang out with friend they usually focus on hang at the food stall or other place that serve no so healthy food. Youth will be hanging on the place that open until late of the night. So this will effect on their eating style.

Do to my scores and how healthy are you assessment I scored low in the physical health. I want to improve my eating habits. I want to eat healthier rather than always eating junk food. For example, what I would do is I would replace cookies with carrots and replace Pepsi with orange juice. An area I'm trying to focus on is losing weight. How I want to lose weight is doing daily exercises and focus on what I'm eating. A daily exercise I would do is going to the gym for about an hour a day 5 days a week. Overall what I would do to achieve my goal is basically do daily exercises and watch what I eat.

When I entered this course, I did not expect to benefit from it as much as I did. However, this course quickly became one of the most interesting classes I am taking because all of the topics that we discussed were relatable. My health has improved throughout this course, as I have become more self-aware of helpful and harmful choices that I make with my body.

Did you know that diet can be related to about 60% of all cancer cases? ("How Does My Diet Affect My Health?.") Did you know that 7,300 people die in the U.S. alone because of second hand smoke, even though they were nonsmokers? ( "Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke.") Finally, did you know that if you drink one 12-ounce can of soda everyday for a year, by the end of that year you will have consumed a total of about 35 pounds of sugar? ("Just One Soda Per Day.") Sounds scary, doesn’t it? Lifestyle choices affect your overall health.

Health is not only your physical health, but it’s also about your mind and decision of how handle things. As I get older, I could feel my body getting weak. I realized that I must change my life style and start exercising every day to maintain my health from further worsening. Through this Behavior Change Project in Health, I decided to get back in shape and regain my health by slightly changing my daily routine.

During my time in the course, I have learned more information regarding several topics that I previously knew little about. When I entered this course, I did not expect to benefit from it as much as I did. However, this course quickly became one of the most interesting courses I am taking because all the topics that we discussed were relatable in some way. My health has improved throughout this course, as I have become more self-aware of helpful and harmful choices that I make with my body.

Nowadays, Malaysians are facing trouble with their health issues. Everyone is busy with their hectic lifestyle in order to gain wealth and ranking. Not everyone is practicing a healthy lifestyle. Walking to their work station, workers chew everything in their mouth to fill their empty stomach to make sure they have the sufficient energy to perform their daily task. Malaysians are ignoring the way they consume their food. We are taking our food and health for granted. Nevertheless, some of us are taking seriously in the way they consume their food. Beauty is the new trend to keep ourselves in eye of society. People are willing to risk their health to keep themselves in a good shape. Skipping meals eat less food; we are torturing ourselves to look in the pink of health. Diet is the term we use to define that we are eating less and ignoring our body needs. We should change our society mind sets about the term diet. Diet is one of the efforts to have a healthy life. A healthy eating is not about strict diet in taking foods or stay unrealistically thin. We are influences by the way models and actors show the meaning of beauty. Looking slim and skinny is the way society portrait beauty. This is wrong because diet is the way to help us in order to fell energetic all day long and stay healthy. Sustainable diets are those diets with low environmental impacts which contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations. Sustainable diets are