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Chapter 15 is all about how we can get and pay of health care. It had a focus on what we can do to figure out what the best health care plan is for us. We learned a lot in this chapter, and it was helpful with moving forward in our lives. While most ofContinue reading “Chapter 15 Consumerism and complementary health care choices”

I found chapter 14 interesting because of how much I learned about pollution. “Pollutant is a substance that contaminates some aspect of the environment and causes potential harm to living organisms”. A lot of the pollutants we have are human created from smoking, cars, planes, etc. The air quality chart was interesting and we canContinue reading “Chapter 14 Environmental health”

Chapter 13 is about violence and unintentional injuries. Unintentional injuries are listed as the first, second, and third leading causes of death. Violence at schools has become unfortunately more prevalent. Between school shootings and bullying violence at schools has increased. “Most recently, violence related to political demonstrations and counter-protests has erupted on college campuses”. IContinue reading “Chapter 13: Violence and Unintentional Injuries”

Well, lets start with me not knowing that I was 2 weeks behind… Its truly hard to stick to a schedule when there isn’t one to stick to!!! Chapter 12 talks about infectious conditions and how they can be avoided, treated, and spotted. I think this chapter relates a lot to the pandemic going onContinue reading “Chapter 12: Infection conditions”

In chapter 11 we learn about different types of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes. I feel that each of these can be related to in some way. Whether we know someone who has experienced one of them, or if we personally have gone through one of these disease. I think that the best way toContinue reading “Chapter 11: CVD, Cancer, Diabetes”

The chapter starts off by describing what exactly physical activity is. “Physical activity refers to all body movements produced by skeletal muscles resulting in substantial increase in energy expenditure, but generally refers to movement of large muscle groups” (226). It goes on to describe that there are different categories of physical activity, for your health,Continue reading “Chapter 10. Fitness”

During this pandemic I am sure that many people can relate to the struggles surrounding body image and weight gain. Chapter 9 covers many categories including obesity, disordered eating, and body image issues. Obesity has become more prominent in our culture because of the food options surrounding us. Portion sizes are larger, fast food isContinue reading “Chapter 9 Weight Management and Body Image”

I was excited to learn about this chapter. Nutrition relates directly to my health aspect of eating 80/20 while combining it with exercise. “Nutrition is the science that investigates the relationship between physiological function and the essential elements of the foods we eat” (177). We can all agree that it is increasingly difficult to eatContinue reading “Chapter 8. Nutrition”

The relation to alcohol with my health aspect is something I have been eager to learn about. I specifically talked about the relation to these two things in a different class. Learning that there is a direct link between drinking and gaining weight. As college students we can find it challenging to cut out drinkingContinue reading “Chapter 7: Alcohol and Tobacco”

“Addiction is a persistent, compulsive, dependence on a behavior or substance, despite on going negative consequence.” (131) I think that the books definition of addiction is a great way to start this blog off. Addiction is definitely something that everyone can relate too. Reading about the 5 steps really awoke something in me where IContinue reading “Chapter 6: Addiction”