Personal Narrative: My Nutritional Journey

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A Nutritional Journey

Nutrition is a required course for all those students who wants to become a nursing. In the present course the student are challenged to prove their their knowledge as well as their motivation and travel along the different perspective of how we can improve our health status and the people who is around us. During the journey the students were able to go through the different activities that were assigned and catch the essential knowledge of each assignment for later use in our daily alimentation.
I learned how to take care of myself. On every chapter of our nutrition class something stayed with me, while we were passing through every chapter. One of the most important thing that I learned from my nutrition class
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Having a healthier lifestyle involve help others, and from what I learned I can give advice while I am going straight to my nursing degree. I learned that pregnant woman or women that are trying to get pregnant, what is the best for the upcoming baby, based on the mother nutrition and what kind of food the mother must avoid. Furthermore I learned what type of cholesterol works better for our body, keeping in mind that having a over 60 mg/dL HDL in the blood is always good, and helps to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Also I learned what is supposed to be my body weight based on the BMI measurements. I do have to exercise for more than twenty minutes, in order to start using less muscle glycogen and more fat tissue as fuel was one of my biggest learning from this class. I learned what kind of exercises I have to do in order to improve my flexibility, which is stretching and I love it. This was just an amazing experience than I will never forget, since it will keep myself healthier.
Finally, I just learned and had so much fun in this class, this was more than a friday night class. Our professor turned every class session into a funny talk show in a very professional way. I feel glad that I had this experience and I learned what is the best for me. This is not the end, it’s just the beginning. I would dare to compare my Nutrition class with the instructions section of my new toy, and I am so excited to start using all that I

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