Blog #22: Answer 3

EQ: What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?

Answer 3: You have to find out what kind of food you, yourself, should be eating.

Evidence:

• Everyone's body is different, (there are bodies for athletes, pregnant women, children, people with a sickness, ect.) therefore, people have to find out what is healthy for themselves
• The best way to do that is to use the a test that includes muscle mass (BMI is useless)
• People may have an "obese" BMI, but in reality it may just be muscle. This person may think to eat less, but instead they would have to eat more to maintain their health.

Sources:

• Service Learning: Jennie Lessmueller
• "Engineering a Healthy Body" by: Nick Hallale

Blog #21: 3-Column Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak8KiPjPxiWTdFZuM0g5c3FTZzJMOUpMMjN2STdFRVE

Blog #20: Room Creativity

1. I will cover the walls with pictures of unhealthy foods and overlap that with bigger pictures of bowls of salt and fat to show what they are really eating. The collage of pictures will gradually form into pictures of the bad effects on what unhealthy eating can do to you. This environment is to set the motivate the audience to want to be healthier because they can visualize the consequence right in front of them.

2. My first answer activity will be a trivia to prove how much they learned. As for my second activity, I have common foods found in households on each table and the group is supposed to take away what they think does not belong in their pile. They will write down what they could replace it with.

Blog #19: Answer 2

• · EQ: What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?

  · Answer 2: The best way to start a nutritionally healthy lifestyle is by getting rid of anything that is unhealthy.

  · Evidence:

  o People are more likely to be tempted to eat whatever is available in their refrigerator/pantry because it is easy to get. If a person clears their households of unhealthy foods then they are only able to get unhealthy foods.

  o Prepare small meals and snacks to keep in case you get hungry. This is because most people want whatever can be made quick, so instead of resorting to something like Top Ramen, they can eat something healthy that was already prepared.

  o People are more likely to eat food at home instead of eating out if there is more available food at home.

  · Sources

  o Forks over Knives (documentary)

  o The Engine 2 Rescue with Rip Esselstyn (documentary)

  o Service Learning with Jennie: at the YMCA

Blog #18: The Product

Although, eating healthier is one of my top products from my senior project, I believe the most important product I got from my senior project came from all the research I did. I learned that I cannot listen to one point of view, from one source, to shape my opinions. I have to learn about multiple points of views and do my own research to formulate an opinion. For example, I became interested in nutrition because my teacher, Mr. Ogden, always talked about how we have a common misconception on what foods are considered healthy and the best diet is a plant-based diet, but my whole life I was taught that eating in moderation is the best diet. I did multiple interviews, who all had different point of views of what healthy eating is, and researched numerous articles. One interview always seemed to contracted the last one and same with the research, but I was able to formulate my own diet by taking bits and pieces of each article and interview.This applies to everyday life with examples such as Invisible Children and whether I should support the organization or not, even though I am in H.O.P.E Club. Since freshman year I was taught only with the information that Invisible Children showed, but now instead of blindly supporting this organization I am doing my own research to see whether or not it is worth it. I never actually thought about the fact that this organization I was supporting could make the president of the United States send our troops to Africa just after the war was over. Is it worth it? What are they doing there, now that they are over there? How are the children being affected (coming from a source not associated with Invisible Children)? Is Kony actually in Africa? What is Invisible Children doing to help (coming from a source not associated with Invisible Children)? These are questions I have to find out in order to form my opinion. I feel as though this is a very important life skill to have. I know that I am responsible for my own research and I have to find the facts from every point of view before I start doing anything so I could get my facts strait. This applies to almost everything in my life.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the most important piece of knowledge a person must know to understand what is healthy to eat?
2. What kind of foods should a person with an average BMI stay away from in order to maintain healthy?
3. How do you know how many calories is okay to eat?
4. How many grams of fat is it okay to eat when reading a nutrition label?
5. How many calories is it okay to eat when reading a nutrition label?
6. How does a person become overweight?
7. Is eating right enough to completely healthy?
8. What other factors are necessary to stay healthy?
9. How long does it take for a person to get used to their new diet plan?
10. How do you motivate someone to stick to their diet?
11. What is the most important thing to pay attention to when reading a nutrition label?
12. What kind of drinks are healthy to drink, excluding water?
13. Are there any helpful tips you know to stay on a healthy diet plan?
14. How does your metabolism work?
15. How can you boost your metabolism?
16. How to calories work?
17. Why is it so hard for people to eat healthy?
18. Is it okay to eat unhealthy junk foods in moderation when wanting to lose weight? Why or why not?
19. What changes should a person make if they do decide to make their diets a lifestyle change?
20. How do dietitians organize eating plans for their patients?
21. What are the most essential nutrients for a healthy body?

Blog #16: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

(1) Instead of it being my last independent component I decided to change it to my second independent component now that I learned most of what I need to know on what I can eat and what I can't. I have decided that I am going to on a diet. Now I know that I am going to stay away from processed food, foods with plenty of oils and sugars, and even though I don't want to give up meat and dairy, I am going to cut down my meat portions.

(2) I will meet this requirement because being on a diet is a 24/7 thing. I will right on a food journal exactly what I have eaten, in fact I have already started on it.

(3) This relates to my EQ which is, "What is the best way to achieve a nutritionally healthy lifestyle?" because it is my ultimate goal for what I want to get in my senior project. I want to be able to change my diet successfully so that my lifestyle is nutritionally healthy.