Overall Diet assessment
Before starting this class I had a preconceived notion as to what nutrition was. After doing the first assignment and breaking open the text I began to realize I didn’t know nearly what I thought I did. Once we began to keep track of our food intake and a real analysis of what you ate, things started to makes so much sense. You don’t realize how important nutrition and overall health is to one’s everyday life. The choices we make today can come back to either reward or haunt you for the rest of your time here on earth. This class should be a required course for everyone not just people starting a health care profession but I mean everyone, after all what’s more important than your health. What Affects My Food Choices and Eating Behaviors?
1. Physiological: I have Asthma, slightly overweight, and don’t sleep well at times due to both conditions. My Asthma in particular can be …show more content…
Family Health history: This could be my saving grace. My overall family’s health history is outstanding. Both sets of grandparents lived well into their 90’s and my mother and father are still alive in their early 70’s. However, this does not give me a pass, we know that genetics play a factor, but you start to decrease this advantage by living a counter productive lifestyle. I don’t smoke or drink alcohol, that’s great but what about stress, poor nutrition, lack of exercise and many other factors contributing to how long we might live and the quality of life we have when aging. My father is an alcoholic and smoker just looking at his overall health compared to my mother is night and day. My mom eats well and leads a full healthy active lifestyle, on the other hand my father is doing the exact opposite, in fact the chapter we read about alcohol and the effects it has on your brain and body was both sad and depressing. I would say the only positive aspect of my father’s bad habits and behavior, would be the avoidance of ever living that destructive
Before starting this class I had a preconceived notion as to what nutrition was. After doing the first assignment and breaking open the text I began to realize I didn’t know nearly what I thought I did. Once we began to keep track of our food intake and a real analysis of what you ate, things started to makes so much sense. You don’t realize how important nutrition and overall health is to one’s everyday life. The choices we make today can come back to either reward or haunt you for the rest of your time here on earth. This class should be a required course for everyone not just people starting a health care profession but I mean everyone, after all what’s more important than your health. What Affects My Food Choices and Eating Behaviors?
1. Physiological: I have Asthma, slightly overweight, and don’t sleep well at times due to both conditions. My Asthma in particular can be …show more content…
Family Health history: This could be my saving grace. My overall family’s health history is outstanding. Both sets of grandparents lived well into their 90’s and my mother and father are still alive in their early 70’s. However, this does not give me a pass, we know that genetics play a factor, but you start to decrease this advantage by living a counter productive lifestyle. I don’t smoke or drink alcohol, that’s great but what about stress, poor nutrition, lack of exercise and many other factors contributing to how long we might live and the quality of life we have when aging. My father is an alcoholic and smoker just looking at his overall health compared to my mother is night and day. My mom eats well and leads a full healthy active lifestyle, on the other hand my father is doing the exact opposite, in fact the chapter we read about alcohol and the effects it has on your brain and body was both sad and depressing. I would say the only positive aspect of my father’s bad habits and behavior, would be the avoidance of ever living that destructive