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Nutrition and Fitness Paper SCI/100 PARADIGMS OF HEALTH Start Date: July 27, 2010 Instructor: Dr. Kathy Ebener By: Brooklyn Hernandez My current fitness is what I would consider to be average. I work a forty hour work week like most average Americans. My job keeps me moving a lot, and home life keeps me on my toes even more. I have two toddlers that I have to run behind on a daily basis. Nutritious habits, isn’t my area of expertise. I love food, and even joke that I have a fat kid that lives inside of me. I eat what I want to eat, when I want to eat it. I hardly ever eat breakfast.
I usually only eat two meals a day, and some snacks too. I try to eat a well-balanced dinner with all the food groups, meats, veggies, grains, and sometimes even fruit. This doesn’t mean that what I cook is completely healthy though. Change is never easy, something as simple as switching white bread to wheat bread is very difficult for me. There are many health risk associated with obesity, a few are: High Blood Pressure; High Cholesterol; Diabetes, this risk are all life threatening to one’s health and life. Three type of fitness that I can incorporate in my life style are.
Walking with my kids around the neighbor in the evenings after work. Park my car far from the entry of any buildings. Use the stairs instead of the elevator. Walking around the neighborhood will not only help me in my cardio, but it will also help my kids with getting them doing something active instead of playing video games. Plus this will also help us to get to know our neighbors and the area a little better too. Parking the car farthest from the door, will help me with more walking in my daily routine, and give me an overall physical fitness.
Three new nutritional habits I could incorporate are healthy snacks, smaller food portions, and cutout soft drinks. Seeing as I usually don’t eat a well-balanced breakfast, I could eat some fruits and yogurt and a granola bar in place of that meal. Something light and effective to give me the energy I need to get me through the morning. Instead of eating bigger potions of food, cut my plate in half. We as an American culture tend to eat more then we should at one setting alone. This tends to bring on obesity as well, over time this expands our mind set to eat and we can overdue it.
Cutting out soft drinks will help me in many ways. One way will be my inner and outer health. No one likes to give the doctor yellow urine; cutting out the soft drinks and drinking more water will help with that issue. Cutting out soft drinks also cuts down on the amount of caffeine to my body; this will also help with less acne on my face. Fitness is always a great way to promote healthy weight. Physical activities such as walking around the neighborhood, parking the car farthest from the entry doors, and taking the stairs instead of the elevator; are just a few types of physical fitness.
If I incorporate these activities in to my daily schedule, this will help me keep and maintain a healthy weight. By doing any type of fitness will help with cardio and burning off calories; these are the items one needs to keep a healthy weight. Eating healthy snacks gives you energy with less calories on you intake. Eating smaller portions prevents you from over eating; when you’re done you’re done. This will help me stay steady on my weight gain. Cutting out soft drinks will help cut out sodium and sugar, these two items create lots weight gain.
Over the entire path I’ve created above will help me with a healthier life style. I’m not super woman and it takes baby steps at first. If I stick to the layout above I should see a difference in time. As long I keep a positive outlook on eating and working out, I should come out on top. Plus if I make my kids do it, to benefit them in the long run; I should be doing it as well and leading by example. Change is never easy but one can always do it with a win attitude. I would like to stick around to see my daughter walk down the wedding isle. If I’m over weight and high risk of obesity, this may not happen.