Chapter Four:
Three important parts in chapter fours that are important to me and ways I want to better my health by the characteristics and types, social media, and skills for better communication. The characteristics and types that is part of what I want to work on is the self-esteem and self-acceptance. There are times where I said to myself that I’m not capable of doing things or I can’t do that. For example, I have had a hard time with coordination when it comes to exercise with certain materials like a weight ball. I tell myself all the time I can’t do it and when I don’t do it right, I will give up on it. I have found over the last couple weeks from the new gym I go to that it still like that. My plan is to keep on practice and getting better with the coordination skills when it comes to my exercising. My other goal for this is if I catch myself not having self-esteem to stop myself and think to myself how this will help with my health. Social media I use too much during the day and at times when I’m spending time with family or friends. I’m the type of person who uses my phone just scrolling thought social media right before I got to bed which isn’t good for your brain to help when going to sleep. One goal I want to work on is slowly limit the amount of times I scroll through social media before bed and when I’m with family and friends spending time talking/enjoying their company instead of using social media. The last one that was important in this chapter was the better communication skills. I interrupt people when I talk with them I do it mostly with my family. There are times when I do interrupt a conversation, I catch myself doing it stopping when I’m saying to tell the person to finish what they were saying. I want to improve my communications skills by waiting for the person to finish them put their input to the conversation.
Chapter Five:
During chapter 5 I have learned information for the emergency contraception. The percentile of women who use this pill reduce the chance of pregnant by 95% when taken 24 hours within. I never knew it would be that high of percent from just having one of the pills. The second is the planning a pregnancy it important to living a health life. I’m not planning on having child myself anytime soon cause I’m still young and have time before having children. Once I do start planning a family there are many factors involved with the health of the women. My goal is to start living the healthy life so when I do decision to start a family and stuff, I will have a healthy pregnancy. The last one is childbirth and the postpartum period. One thing I learned was that there is another name for a miscarriage which it’s called spontaneous abortion. I have had family members who had problems with the pregnancy or even had miscarriage. This topic really gets too close to me and my family. It makes me think of goals for myself when I want to have children and ways to live my life to have good health lifestyle. When it comes to good health if I start now I will more likely had decrease in rate of any health problem like a miscarriage or other issues associated with pregnancy when I do start to have a family of my own. If I start now with the healthy lifestyle it will carry on with myself and my family with good habitats when it comes to your health.
Chapter Six:
This chapter talks about information about drugs by ways to get them, effects to your body, how you use them etc. One of the ones I learned from this chapter was that caffeine/coffee is a legal stimulant for many men and women used on a daily basis in their life’s. Now a days you never see someone without a coffee it’s so bad that people can’t do things in the morning when they first get up until they have their coffee. Another thing is that people can’t go on with their day if they don’t get another coffee sometime during the day. There are many health effects to a person body when they start getting addicted to coffee one of them being how much sugar or the calories that is involved in them. I grow up my own live with many people around me drinking coffee. As I got old I told myself that I didn’t want to start drinking it because I would see my family with one and how it turned into an addiction for them. I tried coffee a couple times in my life and never liked it, so I didn’t keep on trying because I didn’t want to have to get used to having it every morning or on a daily basic. Another reason is because I want to watch what I eat and drink for my health. Coffee has so much sugar in it for me that it not part of the health eating habits I want in my life. The second one is the prescription drugs. I got my wisdom teeth out in high school painkillers drugs were what was used to help with the recovery of this was not good during that time but over time it has gotten worst with many people getting addition to them. When you get you wisdom teeth out, they give you painkillers I never once did I have them or want any of them. I didn’t want that because I want a health life and not get addicted to them knowing what happens to your body when you do get addicted to them. I have heard many stories of people using painkillers drugs for a short period of them and then they get addiction to them and the life is turn upside down. The last one is the addictive behaviors. The one that made my thing about was the compulsive buying disorder. When I’m stressed I will go out shopping. There are many people who shop at target and I’m type of person who do that. When I go to target, I go in for a couple things on a list and always end up with getting more than planned. When this happens, I realize how much money I spend on my items. My goals for my health is not spending more money than what I should when I go into target cause when I spend that much more I stress too much about how I have no money now. If I don’t do that my health won’t be stressful on the money I spend.
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