Chapter 7-9

Chapter 7

Well reading chapter seven I learned more information on the statics of alcohol with college students and also on tobacco use. When you look at how many college students drink during college at parties, it was high in the percent and how most of the time it is encourage drinking or peer pressure drinking not a choose that some people wanted to do deep down for themselves. If you think about it, if there is one person in the crowd at the party who don’t want to drink but all the other ones are, they are mostly likely going to think that they are left out so they will join them which is when the peer pressure is set in. Once I turned 21 here were a couple family members of my that would try to get me to drink if we were out to dinner or even at a family party. There were times where I fell peer pressured into doing it. There were a couple times I would just try the drink and didn’t like it, so I won’t drink it. I have many family members who drink too much or have an alcohol problem and I don’t want that for my health. The second one that I found important that I never really thought about was the grams that are contained in an alcohol drink. I don’t think of this because I don’t drink. I have heard many people say before that one certain drink is better than the another drink for example of the calorie’s intake in them. These people don’t look at the whole picture of it that it should matter what you drink it still going to affect your life and your body. Once people get going on drinking, they don’t even think about how many grams of alcohol are in the drinks or anything about it. The last one that was talked about is the drinking and driving on how high it is with the numbers of accidents that happen. Some people are so quick to judge when certain accident happen that it was a drunk driver that is not always the case. If you are going to drink at a party or just hanging out with friends leave your car and get an uber. There is always the next day to get your car when your sober. My goals for my health that is related to alcohol is that I don’t drink. It not worth it to me to enjoy a good time by drinking you can have a good time without drinking. I grow up my life with my family members who have had a drinking problem or even recovered for drinking problem.  I want my life to be health with not having to intake the calories and by not putting on the extra weight from drinking. Another reasons is the bad decisions that are made if I were to drink, I don’t want to do something one time in my life that I would regret my whole life and people telling me what I did one night when I didn’t make a good decision. If I just don’t drink this won’t happen to me which will be better for me living my health lifestyle, I want for myself. I have a hard time already trying to lose weight so if I were to drink it would be even harder to get rid of the extra weight from alcohol intake.

Chapter 8

In chapter eight you find out more information about nutrition, effects to your body and food allergies/intolerance. When you think about nutrition there are many information to look at. You look for what the effects does to your body and what the calories are and so on. When it comes to me eating, I don’t look at the calories count or even look at the food labels on the foods. After reading this section. My goal to slow start reading the food label to see what I’m eating and what will be good for my healthy life I want. Another thing I want to do is watch how many calories I intake during the day. There are definitely times where I would go over calories when eating some days. The more calories I eat the more weight I will put on. My goal is to lose weight so one way that will help is by watching my calorie count. When it comes to the effect of food on your body is by short term and long term. I get acid reflex with certain food. I have had since I was a baby and it never went away. One thing I do to protect it from happening is watching what I eat that creates the effect on my body. For example, if I eat anything that is too spice like buffalo chicken is one example that will bother my stomach. From having this when eating foods will create a long-term issue/problem with your digestive system for example the esophagus will be affected when foods or reflex coming back up from your digestive system. Another goal I have been thinking about that involves nutrition intake is cutting back on the carbon calories I have at times. I take too much carbon calories on some days they are example of pasta. The food allergy or food intolerances that are very important in people live except if there are deadly allergy to certain food. There are many children now who has food allergy you can think of like peanut butter or eggs Allergy. I work with some many children and that’s the common Allergy now a days. It makes people wonder why these it was never a thing when I was younger. I heard people say it could be the way it’s made that can create the allergy. When I was young, I had my doctors tell me I could be allergy to dairy got tested for it, but I wasn’t. They told me it was intolerance to dairy meaning that I couldn’t have too much dairy during the day, or I would get any upset stomach. One thing I did to have a better healthy life was to cut back on the intake of dairy I having during the day and even not having any dairy or certain dairy. One of the dairies that I don’t even eat is yogurts and I don’t drink milk because I know if I have these it will brother my stomach which I would like to have a healthy lifestyle without eating too much dairy.

Chapter 9

When it comes to chapter Nine it brings up the point of obesity/overweight, weight management, and BMI. When you look at the obesity and overweight in the united states and worldwide it is up there now in percent for the amount of people who are. If you look at why many people are like that, I fell is that they would rather get fast food then made their own food. Part of the reason many people are like this is cause of the work schedule they have for being on the run well working or even on the run on the way to and from work. When this happens, they will be more likely to get food on the way home from fast food places for dinner. They do this for the reason of being tired after a long day of work and most people just want to go home and relax after work. It’s crazy to see the number of ratios of young children who are obsess in this life. The ratios are six to eleven children. When it comes to fast food place for my health life I don’t want to eat from certain places like McDonalds, Wendy, burger king, taco bell, dunkin’ donuts and other fast food places that are similar to these places. I do get food from subways and chipotle that is quick in and out getting food. My whole reason behind not eating at places like McDonald is because it not good for your body the number of calories and sodium that is in it. To me it a toxin that I don’t want to be in my body. I don’t like too much sodium in my food, and I don’t add extra salt to my food when I eat a meal. I don’t like the way it tastes and how it effects your body with a high-level sodium in your system. The second one is the weight management all my life I have had a hard time trying to lose weight and it a hard task to try to manage. If you look at mindful eating when it comes to family parties or even parties in generally there are many people, there who are just mindful eating. If the food is in front of you well at a party the person is most than likely going to eat the food till it moved/gone or they move it themselves. I do it so much at parties especially if the food is in front of me. My goals are to catch myself doing this with eating food in this case by walking away or move it away from me. Once this happens it will be managing my food intake for my weight when it comes to go to family parties. The book talks about statics for when it comes to computer user or people who watch tv and the mindful eating that is involved during this time. If you did its statics on going to family parties or any type of party the amount of people who are mindful eating would mostly likely be similar in the statics of watching tv that was done before. The last one is the BMI and other methods used for measurements. When you think about the BMI how many people are going to think how I figure out my BMI or even how many of them will calculate it together to see what there BMI is. The last time I was checked for the BMI it was a little over for the normal range for the age, height, and weight. One of my goals for this is to find out what it is and ways to get it down. I know that I’m about a couple pounds over what I would like to be for myself but I not overweight for normal women my age. I learned in the section the different ways to figure out a person body fat. One of them being the skinfold I would never think you could get a result from this method it also seems like it would be uncomfortable to use on your skin. If I have to choose any of these methods to use it would be the bioelectrical impedance analysis. Just for my own reason I would fell that it would be more accurate for me.