In 2011, my grandfather had gone into the hospital for gall stones, and came out getting a triple bypass. At that point I realized that I needed to change my way in eating habits, and exercising routinely drastically. Going to the doctor for your annual exams is another essential change I have made. Therefore, my grandfather 's experience motivated me to understand the impact of life style habits. First, of all one of the things I changed was my eating habits. Eating healthy made my body feel better. I have met my nutritional needs by knowing my limits on junk food and eating more vegetables, proteins, fruits, and better portions. I have not completely cut everything from my diet because that would be difficult. I make sure I do not over …show more content…
When I was a kid she believed that me being thin, was that I was not eating properly. So, she would feed me big portions of food so I could get bigger. She would serve me a big plate of food and then try to serve me more before I even finished my first plate. My grandmother and grandfather grew up in a culture where eating big portions and lot of tortillas was considered being healthy. She thought she was doing a good deed for me, but she really was not. I was taking in a lot of bad fats and cholesterol that was not good for my body. At that point I was getting much bigger as I was getting older. I was considered obese at one point because of all the bad foods I was consuming due to my grandmother. My grandfather grew up with not so good eating habits which affected his health in the long run. After my grandfather had his …show more content…
My grandfather 's unhealthy life style has opened my eyes on how bad habits can affect my health in the long run. Now I make sure that I am always keeping myself active with physical activities. I also make sure I make good healthy choices on what I eat. I learned that I do not need to completely block everything from my healthy diet, as long as I am know how much to consume. Healthy living can reduce any health risks and complications. My grandfather 's experience made me see how important it is to follow a good healthy life style. If I want to avoid what my grandfather went through and have a healthier me I need to continue a good diet, exercising, and getting my routine checkups. People must keep this in mind we need to teach our kids a better healthy life style, and enforce more physical activity in order to break this epidemic of
Without the proper resources, support, and access to healthier options, it becomes challenging for even the most determined person to make a change. The exercise made it evident that Jane would be more successful in her endeavour to lower her blood pressure than Joe would, because of the resources, support, and access than her higher economic status afford her. Sadly, as a result of such an unequal wealth distribution in America, many people are in Joe’s shoes; despite the desire to be healthier, they are unable to control their circumstances and surroundings or get the proper support to help them successfully improve their unhealthy habits or
I have overcome several physical challenges that have impacted my health which has led me to constantly educate myself and others of better ways to care for the body. Healthy living consists of regularly exercising to control weight, not smoking, limiting alcoholic intake, eating a balanced diet, taking medications as
What stood out to me in this video is the alarmingly growing rate of obesity and diabetes in the United States. Obesity and Diabetes Type II are both diseases that a person can easily avoid by becoming more aware of what he or she is consuming on a regular basis. In the video, one of Dr. Esselstyn’s patients, San’Dera Nation, who used a plant-based diet to reverse her diabetes and hypertension said “…do not live to eat, but eat to live”. This statement helped clarify the thought that many people eat for reasons other than health. For example, holidays are a huge time for socializing and, with that socializing, a huge emphasis is placed on food and drink. Not only are social gatherings a time that food is of importance, but, generally, as a matter of lifestyle, many people eat food as a means to feel happy. People enjoy the taste of food (particularly food that is ...
Nutrition is an important part of our daily lives because of the numerous effects it has on our health and fitness. There are many different influences that can affect a person’s nutritional habits. The type of environment and the way people are raised often affect the way they diet and whether that diet is healthy or unhealthy. Because a person cannot always choose how and where he or she is raised, education concerning nutrition and healthy diets should be taught to all ages and social classes. Lack of nutritional education and obesity rates are positively correlated in the United States. This lack of education as well as poor nutritional habits have played a major role in the increased amount of obese individuals in the United States, and throughout the world.
I was tired of being overweight, feeling tired all the time, and I wanted to get my confidence back, I knew in order to do that I would have to make a lifestyle change. I had no prior knowledge of health and nutrition, so I wanted to increase my knowledge of the basic areas of health and wellness to implement in my daily lifestyle. My hope was to create a strategy that could be implemented in my daily life that could give me a solid base for starting my weight loss
A common saying goes, “we are what we eat;” but what exactly that makes us eat in the first place? What are the factors that influence our eating behaviors? If the food that we eat defines our personality and being as a whole, it should then be vital to identify the factors that push us to eat certain kinds of food. I think that social psychology has the answer. As broad as this field may seem, yet this science of explaining human behavior takes it reference on the influence of the environment, people, the media, and almost about anything that can contribute to how people think, feel, and act. In this paper, we will explore the factors that influence our eating
Eating behaviour is a complex behaviour that involves a vast array of factors which has a great impact on the way we choose our meals. Food choice, like an other behaviour, is influenced by several interrelated factors. While hunger seems to drive our ways of food consumption, there are things outside of our own bodies that influence our food choices and the way in which we eat. The way we eat is controlled by and is a reflection of our society and cultures. I explore this idea through a food diary I created over a few weeks and the observations made by several anthropologists that I have studied.
Healthy living is a huge step in life, especially in this day and age. This whole course focuses on having healthy lifestyle, making the changes necessary to maintain one, and gives the learner step-by-step instructions of where to start. There are multiple reasons why someone should make a behavior change. Some could include health reasons, to support family members, or some decide to make the change because he or she wants to live healthy. Personally, my family affects a lot of the decisions in my life. Growing up, I was used to taking care of my older sister and I was used to changing my diet to fit what plan my mom had for the week. My behavior change was always dependent on them. During this course, I learned a lot of how the social cognitive
The first strategy that I can use in order to limit the amount of trans fats, processed sugar, and cheese that I eat is to cut back the less nutritious foods that are found around my apartment. Now, throwing out every item of unhealthy food isn’t the way to go because, lets face it, we all need to splurge sometimes. On the contrary, I can cut my options back. By doing this, it will help to limit the temptations that I have in my everyday life. Another strategy that I can use is to control my portion sizes. My version of portioning has always been the method of putting more of the things that taste better and less of the things that don’t taste as good on my plate. I need to start balancing out my plate by their nutritious values instead of their “yummy” value. Don’t get me wrong, nutritious foods are yummy too, but they aren’t the same type of yummy. Planning what I am going to eat ahead of time is another way to stick to my goal. This will make it easier to stick to a more nutritious diet. There are so many new substitutions in cooking now. Trying new things has never been one of my strong suits, in fact, it kind of scares me, but by broadening my options and trying these substitutions it will create a healthier way to enjoy some of my favorite foods. The options to eating healthier are endless, but these are just a few of the possible strategies that I may use in order to complete to my goal and
Living a healthy life style is challenging and stressful but it shouldn't be that way. Starting off slow and allowing your body to get accustomed to such changes will help you enjoy yourself more with these new changes. Changing one dish you eat to something healthy is a great start. Keeping yourself happy while putting healthy foods into your body or exercising will further your success. I’ve come to realize that your outlook on things will effect how much effort you put into it. Keeping yourself active and motivated is crucial to such a change. Making schedules or goals for yourself weekly and trying to fulfill those goals will help you accomplish more. If you manage to fulfill each of those goals, allow yourself one of you're favorite cheat foods. Keeping healthy is all about working with what you know and how willing you are to keep going and challenging yourself to new
“Children, with their fastfood diets, school runs and Playstation lives, are vulnerable as ever before. For the first time in history, they risk being outlived by their parents and developing the illnesses of middle age whilst still young”
A healthy lifestyle is extremely important for every individual, young or old. Staying healthy has both short and long term benefits and is vital for proper growth and development. If maintaining a healthy lifestyle is neglected, it can lead to complications inside and outside of the human body. However, gaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle requires time, patience, consistency, and motivation. There are several behavior changes that I feel as though would improve not only my short term health, but long term as well.
Previously to taking this class, I had never given much thought to my eating habits. I always thought of the way I chose to eat as one of those things I didn’t need to concern myself with too heavily now because I’m a young broke college student. The way I eat is pretty similar to the way most of my friends eat and when you live away from home, that seems like the norm for people in college. However, after applying what I’ve learned in this class to my life, I’ve realized that the dietary choices I make now affect not only my current health, but my future health as well. So overall, I would say that my eating habits are pretty bad, but I’m working on making them better.
Doing so encouraged me to eat healthier food, such as more fruits and vegetables, as well as asking for smaller portions.
I recorded my food intake for two seperate days during the week. I kept track of my food intake for Wednesday the 21st of March along with that Saturday, the 24th of March. There were a couple differences when comparing the two days after recording them and looking at my Meal Summary. I ate a variety of foods both days when looking through my Meal Summary. I ate plenty of protein and grains during those two days along with fruits. When looking at both Wednesday and Saturday I noticed that I ate more on a weekday rather than on a weekend day. I came to the conclusion that it is because I am much more busy during the week verse the weekend.