Unit 2 Reflection

 

Put it all together. What is health?

Health is a balance of exercise, diet and social interaction. Exercise is very important because it reduces the risk of adverse health outcomes such as obesity (a healthy diet is needed to not be obese as well). A healthy diet consists of balance, moderation, adequacy and variety. There are 6 different classes of nutrients that also contribute to a healthy diet: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. By getting a daily moderation of all these nutrients, it helps the body to function at a high level.

How healthy are you? What about people at SHS? What could/should be done to promote greater health and wellness on campus?

I am pretty healthy because I exercise a lot, I get a good amount of social interaction with people due to school and volleyball, and I eat rather healthy. There are some days where I don't eat that healthy at all but I think that I make up for it in how much I exercise. I think the population at SHS is more healthy than unhealthy just because we have the required health (/drivers ed) that we take in freshman year. We also have a high percentage of people in some sort of sport be it basketball, volleyball, or color guard/ band. To promote even greater health and wellness on campus, we should have assemblies on the importance of health every year, where even just a teacher can present to the whole school just the basics of health.

What were the themes and essential understandings from this unit?

The themes of this unit were the pillars of health (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, and social). The essential understandings were the effects of unhealthy versus healthy decisions and habits.

What did you learn?

I learned a lot about how to maintain a really healthy diet and that you need to have a balance of a lot of different things in order to have your body function at its best. I think the best way to sum everything up is by a quote that I read from one of the reading we had to do : "Eat food. Not too much, Mostly plants".

What do you still not fully understand?

It's not that I don't understand it, its more of that I thought it was very interesting: the fact that people who retired from a very stressful or busy work environment were more likely to die at a younger age due to the stress put on them while they were working. It didn't occur to me that people could die from too much stress. But I guess that all the pillars tie into each other which means that if someone is stressed, then they might not be getting enough sleep which can lead to a sleep debt. And I know that if you don't catch up on the sleep debt that you can die from that. (as well as not proper nutrition or exercise)

How will you improve in the next unit?

For the next unit, I will improve by not just taking notes straight from the board, but rather do that as well as listen to what Mr. Orre is saying and write some extra notes on the side where he gives us a little bit of margin space.

Find a real world application that relates to something you learned in this unit.  It could be a college major, a job, a discovery, something from your life, a TED talk, etc.  Link to it, describe it, explain how it relates to this unit, and share anything you think is worth talking about.

One job that relates to all of this is a doctor because they have to know everything about health in order to prescribe the right medications needed to help someone. One example of a doctor that is very well know for his health tips is Dr. Oz. He talks about all sorts of topics such as health supplements, to diet plans to good exercise habits, Here is a link to a video where he talks about ways to reduce stress. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Dr.Oz+health+talk&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=13DDFACA8550C733E91913DDFACA8550C733E919