Monday, November 15, 2010

"Public health concern..."

      A public health concern is obesity. Obesity is a horrible thing to be. Obesity has become the popular term for a set of problems that result in premature death and injury from diabetes, heart disease and cancer. It is a convenient term, but we should stop using it. The word obesity triggers in people more than a technical idea about energy balance or people burning fewer calories than they consume. This is because people understand words only as a part of larger systems of ideas called frames. Ideas about what obesity means, or why it happens are the unspoken parts of the frame that appear automatically in people's heads when they hear the word.

     Obesity is a bodily condition, not a social condition. People are obese, communities or neighborhoods are not obese. Using the term makes it harder to illustrate the conditions that inhibit healthy eating and activity.  Obesity is only one of many risk factors for diabetes and heart disease and in some cases may not be the most important one. Skinny people can also be malnourished and at risk for diabetes. A focus on obesity obscures the other risk factors and equates thinness with health. A focus on weight instead of nutrition may lead people to adopt popular weight-lose diets rather than eating nutritious foods.

"Teenage smoking..."

     Most cigarette smokers understand that smoking is hazardous to your health. Despite this, millions attempt to quit each year unsuccessfully, because there is more to being hooked on cigarettes than the physical addiction to nicotine and tobacco. There are also psychological problems linked with smoking that make this habit all the more dangerous, and that in turn make quitting that much harder.
     The brain immediately feels the effects of smoking, thanks in large part to how fast nicotine reaches the brain shortly after a smoker takes the first puff. Social learning theory states that over time one learns to associate smoking with other pleasurable activities, including eating, drinking and socializing.People can become quickly conditioned to the point where the thought of a pleasurable activity triggers the need for a cigarette. These psychological associations remain when smokers try to quit and make stopping the habit once and for all difficult.
     The psychological addiction associated with smoking is caused by the nicotine inhaled. Cigarette nicotine has a direct effect on dopamine levels in the brain, which in term influence mood, appetite, and other aspects of brain chemistry controlled by this neurotransmitter. Repeated exposure to nicotine from smoking can quickly lead to the brain building up a tolerance for it, requiring the person to smoke more and more to produce the same effects on dopamine.

"Why is math important..."

     Math is important because it is the most widely used subject in the world. Every career uses some sort of math. More importantly, doing math helps the mind to reason and organized complicated situations or problems into clear, simple, and logical steps. Thus, as students learn more math, the rationale is that their minds will eventually develop into logical entity that can resolve any difficult situations. The reality is that in a society 
such as ours, high paying jobs often demand someone who can take complicated situations and simplify it to the level that everyone can understand. Therefore, by knowing more math, students give themselves the competitive edge they will need to compete for these high paying jobs.
    Every fact of life on earth uses Mathematics in one manner or another. For instance, when you drive a car, you are computing your speed and how many miles you have gone. Balancing your checkbook also uses math. Yes, even musicians use math when playing their instruments. Math is used with everything in life!

"Choosing the foods you eat..."

     Many people choose the foods they eat by what they like to eat. Personally, I am a very picky eater so I do not eat such a variety of different foods.To examine the self-reported importance of taste, nutrition, cost, convenience, and weight control on personal dietary choices and whether these factors vary across demographic groups, are associated with lifestyle choices related to health (termed health lifestyle), and actually predict eating behavior. 
     Taste is the most important influence on their food choices, followed by cost. Demographic and health lifestyle differences were evident across all 5 importance measures. The importance of nutrition and the importance of weight control were predicted best by subject's membership in a particular health lifestyle cluster. When eating behaviors were examined, demographic measures and membership in a health lifestyle cluster predicted consumption of fruits and vegetables, fast foods, cheese, and breakfast cereal. The importance placed on taste, nutrition, cost, convenience, and weight control also predicted types of foods consumed.
     Many online sources offer varying definitions, but mostly everyone agrees that the Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that allows sharing or networking of files and information at remote sites from other academic institutions, research institutes, private companies, government agencies and individuals using the Transmission Control Protocol or Internet Protocol, and that communicate through phone and satellite. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks. These include commercial, university and other research networks.

     The internet allows school students as well as adults to do research for pretty much anything in the world. If you are sick, you can look up solutions of how to get rid of your cold. You can find ways to heel an injury from the internet. You can find out anything form the internet from when a show comes on to where to find a type of shoe at to reading a book online.The internet is can be for all ages, but should be monitored by an adult for children that are not yet teenagers. Those children would probably use the internet to play games and fun things of that sort. The internet was a great invention for this world.
     In my opinion, a change of plans becomes necessary when the reason is important. For example, if I plan to go to the movies with friends and I am picking them up, but I cannot go anymore because I  have to babysit my cousins. I think that is a reasonable excuse, right? My friends can still go if they want, but they will have to find another person to take them. Another excusable reason to change the plans is when it is a life and death situation. Those excuses are understandable and reasonable. People have a heart for that type of situation. 
     Usually reasons for changing plans are understandable. Personally, I understand when things get postponed or cancelled because I can relate to their situation or I just do not mind. As long as the person changing the plans informs me ahead of time, it is fine. I believe any reason for plans to get changed are perfectly excusable. Everyone should understand.

"Ideal vacation..."

     An ideal vacation for me is a trip to Barbados on a cruise. The cruise ship is a wonderful place itself. It has many floors on the ship, games, and two pools. There is a place on the cruise ship where it is a talent night every night. They have teenage parties and adult parties for you to go to on the ship. They have a basketball court, ping pong table, and many other things to play.
     From what I have been told, Barbados is one of the cleanest places in the world. The bathrooms are like those of a new home and is clean all the time. Barbados is like heaven on earth. It has beautiful beaches, hot spots and there famous crop. You can take submarine rides there. It would be an awesome experience. There are rare sea turtles and the people in Barbados are among the friendliest in the world. There are magnificent coral reefs for scuba diving and snorkeling. They have spectacular cliff views for site-seeing. There are excellent waves for surfing and world class golf courses to tee off on. It is an exhilarating experience for "Barbados nightlife" for partying.
     Barbados would be a great experience for all ages and all ethnicity's. I would recommend everyone in the world to take a trip to Barbados. I hope I have the chance to visit this place for at least a week on a cruise. It would be so fun.