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Kelly McGonigal “How To Make Stress Your Friend” Oxytocin is a stress hormone that your pituitary gland pumps out when you are feeling stress. It a neurohormone that make you seek support and tell someone how you feel instead of holding it. Oxytocin protects your cardiovascular it helps your blood vessels stay relax during stress. It help your heart regenerate and heal it from any stress damage. Us human are a living organism we want to know everything that going in on our body. In the talk…

Top 5 Big Fitness Mistakes Becoming a fitness god or goddess isn’t very easy. Not only is it difficult to maintain motivation when the couch feels so tempting, but it can also be easy to slip into some bad habits and routines. Getting fit and healthy requires planning and patience. If you want to make sure you are doing it right, you need to avoid these top-5 big fitness mistakes. If you manage to avoid these, you can stay on the path to success. Mistake #1: Not having a fitness plan You will…

do not consider the health issues that come with this sport. I believe that we should ban competitive eating because of these three reasons, which are the health risks, death, wasting food, and overall deaths that can come with participating in the competition. Read on to see why we need to ban this horrible sport. As I mentioned in the paragraph above, there are a series of many health risks and problems that come along with being a competitive eater. One of the Health risks includes…

My feelings toward food have been a rollercoaster throughout this part of life. Ranging from amazing and wonderful memories to awful, dark, and traumatic memories. Some of my best and worst memories are surrounded by food and either my lack of interest in eating it or my interest and workings with it. While food may have caused me a lot of pain in life the things that my eating habits have given me such as friends, family, and people I know I can rely on have made it worth it. I wasn’t…

at home and instead, eating out for every meal just because it is cheaper and quicker. Americans eat out around 40% of the meals that they consume. Throughout this documentary, the audience can see the changes in Spurlock’s physical health, and his psychological health by consuming fast food every day. Spurlock shows us what eating unhealthy foods can do to your body. He conducts an experiment with his body by eating only food from McDonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner for…

In the article, “Dietary Sugar and Body Weight….Health be Damned! Pour on the Sugar,” dietary experts George Bray and Barry Popkin explore the detrimental effects of sugar on society’s health. The article delineates how rapid increases in the consumption of sugar (particularly fructose) and sugar sweetened beverages over the past 25 years are contributing to the growth of chronic conditions such as fatty liver disease and metabolic syndromes. Both authors suggest that the presence and…

Look around. Breakfast is advertised everywhere – from billboards, to commercials, to promotional “All day breakfast” campaigns, to even in middle school health classes. Eating a healthy breakfast – let alone eating breakfast at all – has become a social norm and is arguably the cornerstone of a healthy diet. To most individuals, the thought of eating a healthy and delicious breakfast sounds extremely appetizing. However, it does not appeal to the author of “The Truth About Breakfast.” To him,…

aware of the quality of health and fitness. People want to know that what the health benefits are from Vegetarian supplements and what are the benefits to start the Vegetarian supplements manufacturing business. Moreover, how can we market our Vegetarian supplements manufacturing business? The Vegetarian supplements manufacturers are providing the best quality products to their customers and they are getting benefits out of this. Vegetarian supplements are important for the health and fitness…

Fast food can actually be healthier than lunch food. Fast food may have quality meat, depending on which fast food restaurant, but it is very high in calories, carbohydrate, oil, and fat. Lunch food may use different meat, depending on which school it is, but there are standards for what meat and food is being sold in schools, which for that, students can be eating healthily. Admittedly, fast food can be healthy, but one reason fast food should not be served at schools is that it is clearly not…

Is it all a big fat lie? Is it a lie that cutting out all carbohydrates and fats help you lose weight? Well, in the article What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? By Gary Taubes discusses the obesity epidemic through out America. Arguing that the root of the so-called obesity epidemic is our consumption of carbohydrates. Taubes uses many researchers studies and claims to provide evidence to his argument. Through giving percentages and researchers findings, Taubes is able to put together a very…