Week 16: Wrapping Things Up, Being Mindful.

Hey everyone, It’s the last blog of the semester, and I’m leaving here with an open mind, and that much more smarter. This chapter talks about being mindful and taking responsibility of yourself and your care. I’m sure we can all relate to this, and understand what it means, but it’s always better in theory […]

Week 15: Environmental Health

This chapter made me rethink, as well as reinforced a lot my my feelings about the environment and how much we put into the worlds pollution and how we participate in global warming. We have protective measures, that we are slowly breaking down- and this is the ozone layer. It forms a protective stratum in […]

Week 14: Violence and all the unintentional.

This chapter breaks down an array of cause and effect situations, including some that may not have some cause. We start the chapter with the violent aspects of things. The first delves into the interpersonal violence, and discusses homicide and hate crimes. Historically, political and religious topics were at the forefront violent encounters, but it […]

Week 13: Infectious Conditions

Infectious conditions were the topic for this weeks reading, and the big message here, is mindfulness. I preach mindfulness in my everyday life, so I was immediately interesting in the reading. We start off with learning our body’s defenses, and factors that play into causing and preventing disease and infection. For example, for a disease […]

Week 12: CVD, Cancer and Diabetes

This week’s chapter is pretty intense, as it delves into Cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. It provides a great overview for each, and how it comes about in an individual’s life. Cardiovascular disease has been on the decline, but is still a huge epidemic not to be taken lightly. Something that the chapter has enlightened […]

Week 11: Working On Our Fitness

This week’s chapter on fitness, may be one of my favorites, and I’ve taken a lot from it. The very beginning of the chapter provides some insight on what we should be doing to meet physical activity guidelines and we’re given options! Who doesn’t love being given a choice? To maintain a healthy status we […]

The Journey Begins: Improving Health Behaviors

For the first chapter of this course the chapter discusses improving our health behaviors, which is one of the main things in my health journey. Setting up SMART goals are imperative to this process, those in which are Specific, Measurable, Action, Realistic and Time. I found reading up on shaping to be the best thing […]

Week 10: Weight Management and Body Image

This weeks topic on weight management and body image, really hit home for me. While the beginning of the chapter talks about obesity in America, I can’t help but think of all the unconscious decisions I’ve made in the far past about what I was consuming. Fast food, and fried foods aren’t as appetizing as […]

Week 9: Tobacco and Alcohol

This week we dove into Chapter 7 which talks all about tobacco and alcohol use; both in which I am very fond of. While I do not smoke cigarettes, both my parents have been smokers forever, and both drink. My father in particular, I considered an alcoholic, for his drinking habits were poor in nature, […]

Week 7: Drugs and Addictions

My drug of choice is caffeine and I am sure we can all relate! I’ve practically trained myself to make sure that the first thing I do, after my wake up ritual, is to get my iced coffee. It’s more to me than a drink, or so I think. It’s an experience; something I look […]