Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Schools add healthy eating as key to student success



Referencce:


Rudder, T (2010, Sebt. 20). School add healthy eating as key to student success.From Herald-mail, Retrieved September 22 2010, http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=253195&format=html




Summary:


In this article, "Schools add healthy eating as key to student success " by Trish Rudder, he explains the effort done in the Morgan Country School to make students change their nutrition behavior to eat healthy food along with their academic progress. According to Rudder,the school's superintendent David Banks and Gary McDaniel were the brains behind designing a strategic plan to address these challenges.After three years of herd work of Morgan Country School's staff,the plan has success ed.The students accepted the new menu of the healthy food in the school's cafeteria and the affected their learning performance.




Reaction:
This article is inspiring and gives hope that change to a better life is always possible if we work for it. However, this change will take a lot of effort to make it happen especially if this is a change to something different from our daily habits. Changing food habits to food that has better taste is easy but healthy food usually  not easy and this is the challenge of change. I believe that people behavior and activity are directly affected by their food habits. I can see this in my children after each meal we take. If the food is healthy, they would be active but without damaging things in the house. Also, if they eat unhealthy food with for example more sugar they would break everything. The third case if they eat unhealthy food like McDonalds, and they would be inactive all the day.   

Friday, September 17, 2010

Animal-based protein diets increase mortality rate

Reference:
Hagan, C.(2010, Sep, 06). Animal-based protein diets increase mortality rate.Retrieved September 07 2010, from CNN Health Web Site:
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/06/animal-based-protein-diets-increase-mortality-rate/


Summery:
According to this article, Animal-based proteins and fats increase mortality rates while plant-based proteins do not, as indicated by some health studies.Studies have found a direct link between eating animal-based food and red meat and cancer death. In addition a malor clinical study research found that iow-carb, high protein diets have lots of benefits for health such as weight loss. as well as will as improvements in lipid brofiles, reduced inflammation and better blood sugar control,


Reaction:
I like this article because it gave me new information about risks of animal-based
food and how I can keep my health better and away from harms and still getting the sameamount of proteins without eating animal-based food. I thought that disadvantaes of animal-based food are onely concerned with fat, butthrout this article i was shocked to know that is directly connected to cancer.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

What Is A Calorie?



Reference:
Asp, K. (2009, Dec 3). What is a calorie? Retrieved August 31, 2010, from
http://www.thatsfit.com/2009/12/03/calorie-information


Summary:
This article discusses what is a calorie,what the calorie mean and what is thhe benefit of controlling how many calories go insaid your body and how to live a healthy life in an easy way by just watcing the amount of calories you use.Also,it is shows how many calories that normal body needs.


Reaction:
My major is nutrition,so i love this topic,and iam really interested to read more about calories. In nutrition, calories play a major part in deciding the right nutrition program for any living being especially humans.So,if i could learn more about calories and could spread this knowledge it would help a lot of people to live healthy lives.