Healthy Eating: Fed Up By Stephen Soechtig

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Healthy eating is a term that means eating a variety of food that contain multiple nutrients that make you feel good and and look good. Healthy eating has a huge impact towards your physical health. As we saw from the recent documentary FED UP by Stephen Soechtig eating poorly has a huge part in how you look. On average I am supposed to eat roughly 2500 calories. I am a low active person so scientifically i shouldn 't be eating more than 3000 calories per day, but if I am, i’m supposed to be exercising more which is tough knowing my busy schedule. Many think that eating healthy or losing weight means eating little, or little to nothing but that is not good true to make you look physically attractive. For my age group if I do not eat the recommended …show more content…
To begin with with, I believe I am very healthy during my present teen years. I eat my average of 2500 calories per day to a maximum of 3000. I exercise daily as I go to the gym with my sisters and/or friends. Another source of exercise is my 21 week training sessions once or twice a weeks for 1.5 hours in order to train for Guelph Rep Soccer season which launches in mid-March. Using my healthy eating and daily exercise it prepares a positive impact on the people in my life. To begin with, the impact it makes in the present is mainly my friends. I am able to stay active and play either basketball or soccer without breaking down every 10 minutes due to cramps. We can play for hours, take water breaks of course but manage to keep up with some of my friends that are fitter than I am. I have a huge impact on the people in the future. These people include my future children. Since I will grow up with daily intake of various nutrients and daily exercise I will continue running when I am an old man. When I am an old man in my mid-50’s I will be able to play with my children without breaking down which an old man will usually do. I will be fit enough to plan and play activities with my children. Also, I will want to pursue one of my minor dreams in the near future of 10 years to coach a rep soccer team. I will need to be physically fit if I plan to pursue this dream in 10 years. The reason that I have to be physically fit is because I will have to train with the students. I will be performing many drills and activities and will show multiple demonstrations. I will have to learn how to do the task myself, master it and teach it to the other students. Some drills are very long and require lots of energy. I will have to complete that without failing multiple times to show it to the students who did not understand the first couple times. In conclusion, I believe I am very healthy

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