IM DONE !

YES! I am now officially done with my health final. I cant believe that its finally over.

Eating Responsibly

 

Eating responsibly is very important for your health . If you dont eat right you can end up with diseases such as anorexia:

Here is my work i looked up on anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating:

       Anorexia
Anorexia is a very life-threatening condition. It can do a lot of bad things to your body and organs. You would never want to become an anorexic. There are a lot of bad things that happen to you. I will be telling you about what people look like and why they do it, some of the symptoms of anorexia, and what it does to your body.

The people that are anorexic are usually very skinny. You can see there bones. They are pretty much the saying skin and bones. I personally think it is disgusting. They are always thinking they are to fat and try and go on diets. It makes them get skinnier and skinnier until they cant lose anymore, yet they still try to. People usually do it because they think they are to fat and are never satisfied. Some people with anorexia are because they have a fear of just becoming fat. Most people with anorexia are teenage girls, but it does happen to teenage boys, men, and women.

Some of the signs of anorexia are that they have a disoriented body and have obsessive thoughts about food and weight. They have low self-esteem and allot of mood swings. They start to deteriorate from their family members and they don’t do very well in school. Some of the physical changes that you can see are: extreme weight loss, constipation, they have hair, or lanugo, growing all over their body, dry skin, and their hair starts to thin out. There are a lot more signs, but I cant name them all.

The last thing I will tell you about is what it can do to you. It can seriously put strain on many of the body’s organs. If you develop anorexia before adulthood you may suffer a stunt growth. People with anorexia become less fun and lose contact with a lot of people. They try to control everyone’s eating habits by trying to get them to overeat and make precise times at which every meal is served.

This is a very serious illness. It should never happen, yet it does. This is a very disgusting thing that people do. If you don’t watch out you can really hurt yourself. Anorexia is not a very good thing because you lose all your energy and never want to do anything. I would never do this to my body and I hope no one I know ever does it.

or bulimia:

 

 

                                                           Bulimia
Bulimia is another very horrible disease. It is often less about food, and has more to do with deep emotional issues and difficult feelings of lack of control. People with bulimia usually binge, or throw-up. There are 3 things I will be telling you about this illness. They are how it happens, why they do it, and some of the signs.

Bulimia usually starts when someone has issues that they have no other place to go. They usually are aware that they have the eating disorder, but don’t do anything to stop it. Some times the rapid eating can be stopped by someone interrupting them or their stomach hurts from over-extending. They all have different cycles when it comes to throwing-up. It may be repeated several times a week, and in horrible cases several times a day. They usually use this to feel like they are in control. Most cases are in Caucasians, but it is becoming a problem in the Hispanic and African American communities. 90% of the patients with this disorder are women. There are higher rates of people getting this disease when they are in sports where it is appealing to be skinny ( gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, etc.). After a while people with this problem will just automatically start throwing-up after every meal.

Some of the signs of bulimia are very easily spotted, while others not so much. A couple of them are: secrecy surrounding eating and the time period after eating ( trips to the bathroom after every meal). Another one is when they have odd eating behavior ( such as avoiding eating with others, skipping meals, and so forth). A really big one is eating an unusually large amount of food, with no change in their weight. These are some signs you should try to watch out for if you, have friends that you think may have this problem.

There are a lot of dangers with bulimia. Some of them are very disgusting and painful. You could tear your stomach wall ( due to overstuffing yourself). Constipation, flatulence, and stomachaches may occur. They will get a slower metabolism, weight gaining will happen overtime. Suffering from heart problems, teeth decay, puffy, swollen face, bleeding in the throat. These are all the dangers of bulimia, but the most important of them all is it may cause death.

Bulimia is a serious disease. It is not to be funny or laughed about. Real people have this problem and its sad. They usually will get into it and is very difficult to get out of it. Its even worse when they know they have the illness and don’t do anything about it.

or compulsive overeating:

 

 

                                             Compulsive overeating
Compulsive Overeating is a condition where people are addicted to food. They have frequent episodes of uncontrollable eating, even throwing-up, making them feel out of control. I will be telling you about 3 things they do. Those things are what they do, the signs of overeating, and when it starts.

When they do when they have this disorder is very serious. They eat at a very quick rate. They keep eating, even past the point of being uncomfortably full. They often take on in a grazing behavior by returning to pick at food over and over throughout the day. The outcome of this is a large number of calories being eaten even if they are small portions when they are eaten.

The signs of compulsive overeating may be difficult to see, but they are there. A couple of them are fear of not being able to control eating, while eating not being able to stop, isolation. They have a fear of eating around and with others. They usually go on continual dieting with a lot of popular dieting plans. Hiding food in irregular places is a big sign. These are a couple out of a lot of signs for compulsive overeating.

This eating disorder usually starts in childhood, when eating habits start to form. Most of the people with this disorder particularly never learned a effective way to deal with stressful situations, and instead leaned towards food as a way of blocking painful emotions away. Even though most people try to lose weight through dieting this usually causes more depression making them go back to the only way they know how to handle it, by eating. They start to throw-up again and unless the problem is resolved they will probably keep doing it.

Eating disorders are very bad and this is one of them. It starts out when you’re a kid and keeps on staying with you. You try to control it, but cant. It is a very sad ting that people go through. This disorder is somewhat like bulimia because they binge, but it has a completely different cause.

I hope these essays have helped you out and i have added a couple websites in them as you can see.

Watch Out (safety)

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Safety is a very important aspect in life. Everything can change if you arent safe. What would life be like if you didnt have safety. Probably a lot more deaths because of the fact that there is nothing to keep you from getting hurt. The biggest death rating is from car crashs. Most people just sit there and talk away on their phones or put on make-up while driving, and some people are just insane and drink and drive, yet people wonder why there is so many accidents.

   These sings arent for fun they are signs that you need to pay attention to. They show what is dangerous and what is upcoming ahead of you that you should watch out for.

   I have never really been in an accident but, my friend was with her dad and got hit by a drunk driver and they went over the edge down into a ditch. Luckily she and her dad werent injured. Safety is a big aspect of your health because, with out it you may not be here. What you really have to remember is to be safe, but not over safe because if you are to safe you will become afraid to do stuff that you would like to do to live your life having fun.

Nasty (medicine & illegal drugs)

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Illegal drugs and medicine are very dangerous. Especially marijuana. In the year 2000, 46.5 % of the 1,579,566 total arrests for drug abuse violations were for marijuana—a totalof 734,497.  The most used illegal drug is marijuana, next is non-medical uses of any prescription drug, then comes cocaine, to hallucinogen, inhalants, and last heroin. The amazing part about this is it is Americans at the age of 12. That is horrible, those kids are younger than me and already addicted to something far worse than they realize. These drugs affect your brain and causes mind and mood changes. They affect your body also such as giving you bursts of energy and then going suddenly away and you start to feel down and take it again just to feel like it again. Illegal drugs and medicine take over your self control, and make you feel like your in-control when your really not. Last and the most important these drugs can KILL you.

CNN Info talks about illegal drug thats killed 21 teens. read to find out more.

preventing abuse and violence

Abuse and violence is a horrible thing that happens all over the world. Every 1 out of 20 kids a re brutally abused every year. that is major problem. Would you tell someone if this was happening to you or someone you know? You will probably say “yes” but, when you really think about it would you, I mean what if the person found out you told and did something bad to you. If you are not sure  click here to try and get help. It will help you realize if you are being abused and what you can do. Today America has reached epidemic problems with this problem. Everyone is touched either directly or indirectly by violent acts. The bad thing about abuse and violence is that there is no age limit, everyone can be hurt by it, especially women which have a 5 to 8 percent more chance.

       Most of the time this abuse happens when one person in the relationship is trying to be in control of the other. some of the key elements of domestic abuse are:

• humiliation
• physical injury
• intimidation

These are very serious things that are usually brought on by threats and verbal abuse, which may even lead to murder.

If you are not sure if you are being abused or abusing someone which you probably know but, here they are anyway:

• physical abuse
• verbal or nonverbal abuse
• sexual abuse
• stalking or cyberstalking
• economic or financial abuse
• spiritual abuse

The types of ways they are shown(especially by spouses) are the following:

• pushing,throwing,tripping
• slapping,hitting,punching,kicking
• pinching or biting
• holding or restraining the person
• assault using a weapon
• burning or freezing someone
• throwing things

All these things happen to people everyday and it is very serious. Don’t be abused tell someone it may even save your life.

 

body systems

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Your body systems are very important. Always keep them healthy because you can really get sick if they are not. Every single part of your body systems are special in their own way. You need your digestive system because without it you wouldn’t get the nutrition you need. This is because the foods we eat aren’t small enough to be able to go through are blood stream.

The cardiovascular system is a very important part of you. If you didnt have it you really wouldnt be here. The blood is pumped throughout the body by the cardiovascular system.

tobacco

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Our world is affected by this drug. The most common way is the cigarette. It has become so normal to see people smoking you dont even really know anymore. Second-hand smoke contains more than 40 cancer-causing chemicals that are inhaled and absorbed by non-smokers. Two-thirds of the smoke from a burning cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker but remains in the surrounding air. This is why tobacco is a serious health problem. You are not the only person you are putting in danger. Most people say “oh I will never try it”. You people have no clue how many people have said that. Most teens who start early will smoke throughout their adulthood or worse their whole life. Almost all the time the people get cancer or some kind of disease, eitheer bronchitis or early death. The effects of this horrible drug are just so disgusting it makes me say never will i try this stuff.

healthy decision making

Taking care of yourself is important in being your best. What if people didn’t make healthy decisions? We probably would be getting into a lot more trouble. We’d be eating all the wrong things and living in a pigsty. More people would be taken in by peer pressure.

Peer pressure is a big thing that happens to mostly teens in America. This means that people pressure you into doing things you don’t want to do. I have felt peer pressure before and it is so hard not to let in to it because the may be your best friends and its either do it or not be their friends. Which would you choose?

 This statement is so true. After all if your friends are making you do something you dont want to do they arent really your friends. In the end the choice is really all up to you.

Run (sports and conditioning)

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Sports and conditioning is so important to your health. If you don’t exercise it affects you in so many ways.  Your health is at risk if you don’t do these 2 important things. If you ever want to break a world record in a sport you need the proper training or it will never happen. Right know a lot of athletes are breaking major records because they are getting the proper training. I know its hard when everywhere you go there is different things they tell you to do. The real thing is that everyone is different and needs to find their own method that works for them.

If you get hurt here are some facts about your healing time:

• larger muscles heal slower than smaller muscles
• fast or explosive movements req more recovery time than slow movements
• fast twitch muscle fibers recover quicker than slow twitch muscle fibers
• women generally need more recovery time than men
• older athletes need more recovery time than younger athletes
• the heavier the load lift, the longer it will take the recovery time

There is all you need to know about recovery so dont worry if you are hurt and it feels like forever to get better it will soon. Dont try to over do the whole training thing, this is what you call overtraining syndrom.

Veritas 7th and 8th graders just finished a 5k race on June 4th. Everyone made it.  Great job Veritas.

alcohol

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Alcohol? What is alcohol, it is a drink that some people enjoy every once in a while. Yet, there are those people that go to drinking alcohol as a way out of their problems and reality. Alcohol has a lot of effects on your body, especially to your brain, and organs. Im not saying alcohol is bad for everyone im just saying dont over do it with the drinking. Like the facts say college students spend more time on alcohol than textbooks. Doesnt that tell you something. People  really need to learn how to drink responsibly, avoid harm, and how much alcohol is contained in beer, etc. This should be known so that they dont overdo it with the drinking.

    I really dont have anyone in my family at th time who is addicted to alchol. If I had anything to tell someone who has this problem it would be to get help and go to an AA meeting, they say they really work. Alcohol has a really big affect on America this is because it is not labeled as a drug here, yet it is the #1 misused drug. Death happens because of this drug, 1/3 of all homicides have something to do with alcohol misuse, along with car accidents. A really BIG fact tha tis not on the fact sheet is that 1/3 of twelfth graders have been drunk in the last 30 days. For the people reading this alcohol is a serious issue and you shouldnt get involved in it.