1. What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?
2. How do you effectively read a nutrition label?
3. How does the food industry effect people's diets?
4. What does the food industry label as unhealthy?
5. What should really be classified as healthy or unhealthy? For example artificial flavors.
6. What is the hardest obsticle when trying to keep a healthy diet?
7. Do you know any tips on how to keep the drive to stick to a healthy diet?
8. What are some examples of diets people tend to follow because they believe it helps them, but are actually not healthy at all.
9. When changing to a healthy diet, is it okay to have one cheat day to eat anything you want?
10. What are some common mistakes people make when going on a healthy diet?
11. What should a healthy diet include? Fruits? Vegetabes? Protien?
12. Are organic foods the healthiest to eat?
13. Do you know any other sources where I could learn about what is healthy and what isn't?
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Blog #10: Self Reflection
1. I think so far I am at a P level because I have everything I need completed, the only thing I don't have is my service learning and that is because the woman quit her job. I am still in the process of looking for other places. I have also gone above and beyond with most of my research checks.
2. One thing I have done well on is being better at looking up reliable information. It is hard to find countable research on nutrition because everything is mostly about propaganda, but I have slowly learned how to pinpoint what is propaganda and what isn't.
3. One thing I would like to improve on would be finding a service learning place. Hopefully, I will have a set place by next week.
2. One thing I have done well on is being better at looking up reliable information. It is hard to find countable research on nutrition because everything is mostly about propaganda, but I have slowly learned how to pinpoint what is propaganda and what isn't.
3. One thing I would like to improve on would be finding a service learning place. Hopefully, I will have a set place by next week.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Blog #9: Science Fair Proposal
1. If a person is a certain race, then they may be more susceptible to obesity.
2. Dependent Component: How much weight is being lost.
Independent Component: The race of the people on a diet.
Controlled Variables: How much food is being eaten.
3. This relates to my senior project EQ because the whole point to my EQ is living healthy and I am trying to find out if it is harder for certain races to get healthy by seeing if obesity runs more in a certain race.
4. I plan to Find data on the NIH and CDC websites and check to see the statistics on how many people are obese. I will also try to work with programs that help people go on a healthy diet such as Weight Watchers or Curves and get data from them as far as the type of people who sign up and how much weight they loose. I will also check for statistics on whether certain races have certain metabolism pace.
5. I think the closest category to this would be Behavioral/Social Science. This is because I am checking to see if certain races correlate with obesity.
2. Dependent Component: How much weight is being lost.
Independent Component: The race of the people on a diet.
Controlled Variables: How much food is being eaten.
3. This relates to my senior project EQ because the whole point to my EQ is living healthy and I am trying to find out if it is harder for certain races to get healthy by seeing if obesity runs more in a certain race.
4. I plan to Find data on the NIH and CDC websites and check to see the statistics on how many people are obese. I will also try to work with programs that help people go on a healthy diet such as Weight Watchers or Curves and get data from them as far as the type of people who sign up and how much weight they loose. I will also check for statistics on whether certain races have certain metabolism pace.
5. I think the closest category to this would be Behavioral/Social Science. This is because I am checking to see if certain races correlate with obesity.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Blog #8: What I've learned so far
Q: What have you learned how to do since you started working on your senior project?
A: I know dealing it is hard to find the legitimate research when dealing with research, but i have slowly learned how to identify which can be trusted and which can't be. Although, I am still learning, I can somewhat tell research that are formed by the food industries as propaganda and information coming from a real source.
Photo: This is an example of the research I am looking at where I know the food industry does not use to give out false information. I know this because it talks about how the food industry creates false propaganda for their own benefit within the introduction.
Q: What research helped you to do this and how?*
A: This research helped me out with what I learned because of the facts it stated in the introduction. This book is called Eating for Life by Bill Phillips. Someone else that also helped me was Mr.Ogden because he was the first one to point out that food industries don't always state the truth on their labels and got me digging deep into finding actual research.
A: I know dealing it is hard to find the legitimate research when dealing with research, but i have slowly learned how to identify which can be trusted and which can't be. Although, I am still learning, I can somewhat tell research that are formed by the food industries as propaganda and information coming from a real source.
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| This is the cover of the book. |
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| This is around the beginning of the book. |
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| This is the towards the end of the book. |
Q: What research helped you to do this and how?*
A: This research helped me out with what I learned because of the facts it stated in the introduction. This book is called Eating for Life by Bill Phillips. Someone else that also helped me was Mr.Ogden because he was the first one to point out that food industries don't always state the truth on their labels and got me digging deep into finding actual research.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Blog #7: Independent Component 1 Plan Approval
Q: Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
A: So far the only thing I've gotten planned for what I am going to do for my independent component is to go on a diet myself. Well, not a diet, but an attempt on changing what I eat to live a healthy lifestyle. I'm thinking about doing this because this will tell me first hand what it takes to go on this change and how hard it actually is. I would learn how much motivation it takes and what I need to achieve this healthy lifestyle.
Q: Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
A: I plan on meeting the 30 hours required by keeping a food diary and recording everything I eat so that I would be on this diet 24 hours a day,
Q: How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?
A: This relates to my EQ because my goal is to find out how I can change my diet so that I would be able to live a healthy lifestyle, and in order to live a healthy lifestyle I must actually pursue my diet plans and from that I have to find out what it takes to follow through with those plans.
A: So far the only thing I've gotten planned for what I am going to do for my independent component is to go on a diet myself. Well, not a diet, but an attempt on changing what I eat to live a healthy lifestyle. I'm thinking about doing this because this will tell me first hand what it takes to go on this change and how hard it actually is. I would learn how much motivation it takes and what I need to achieve this healthy lifestyle.
Q: Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
A: I plan on meeting the 30 hours required by keeping a food diary and recording everything I eat so that I would be on this diet 24 hours a day,
Q: How does your independent study component relate to your EQ?
A: This relates to my EQ because my goal is to find out how I can change my diet so that I would be able to live a healthy lifestyle, and in order to live a healthy lifestyle I must actually pursue my diet plans and from that I have to find out what it takes to follow through with those plans.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Blog #6: Defining the Essential Question
Essential Question:
What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?
Definitions:
My most important source so far was my interview with someone who worked at the gym. She taught me a lot about how to stay healthy and what people should eat. She told me that different people have different diets which made me realize, I need to focus on understanding what is healthy and unhealthy to find what kind of diet is good for me. She also taught me a little about the lies nutrition labels hold that are unknown to the general public.
What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?
Definitions:
- nutritionally: only regarding the diet, not exercising
- healthy: being free from obesity, anorexia, heart problems (from eating unhealthy foods), etc.
- lifestyle: a diet that I can stick to instead of being temporary
- Education (about how to read nutrition labels)
- Understanding the food industry and how they advertise what they call "healthy foods"
- Being able to have the drive to stick to your plan of a healthy lifestyle
My most important source so far was my interview with someone who worked at the gym. She taught me a lot about how to stay healthy and what people should eat. She told me that different people have different diets which made me realize, I need to focus on understanding what is healthy and unhealthy to find what kind of diet is good for me. She also taught me a little about the lies nutrition labels hold that are unknown to the general public.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Blog #5: Second Interview Questions
- What made you want to become a nutritionist?
- What kind of schooling is required for you to become a nutritionist?
- What school did you go to?
- Is this an ideal career?
- How much information do you need, from each patient, to find out what kind of diet to have?
- When you went to college, did you know you wanted to become a nutritionist?
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