2016s enc2135 project 2 final

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Introduction

The youth in America is highly uneducated about the type of food they

are putting into their bodies. Most kids are educated enough to read a label

and say there are X amount of calories in an item of food but very few knows

what that means. This lack of education leads to instances in teen and adult

years where certain unhealthy diets are used to try to lose weight. These

diets may seem like they work at rst, weight is lost, but your body can

become etremely malnourished and once the diet ends the weight is

immediately put back on.

There are many factors that contribute to weight loss like what gender

you are, your stress levels and also how you go about losing weight. These

factors should all be covered in health class and students should know all

about them, but health classes aren!t e"ective in getting all this information

across. This is due to the lack of time health classes have in teaching, for

instance, when I was in elementary and middle school, my health class was

once every other week and that #ust is not good enough for smaller kids to

learn and retain information. My pro#ect will focus on reforming health class

education so students will learn, and be able to retain and use the necessary

information to live healthy lifestyles.

I believe that with the proper education at a young age about the type

of food they consume and the motivation for kids to want to be on a team

and live an active lifestyle, they can develop early, healthy, habits that could


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translate to teen and adulthood. This would help to prevent obesity in

America in the future generations to come.

My target audience for this pro#ect would be those sitting in school

board positions that have the ability to reform the health classes in America.

$urther more individual county school boards that could impact their health

classes on a local level, for eample the %t &ohns county school board, in

&acksonville $', where I received my poor health education because I have a

personal eperience with their health class system is and I know it needs to

be improved. Improvements come from changing how the students learn(

teaching the course like any other math or science course, by having class

everyday, students will be able to learn and retain the information.

'iterature )eview

The sources found in the library were hard to come by because of how

specic my topic is. *ducation of nutrition and eercise at an early age is a

devolving topic and has yet to have many books written about it. I did nd

information on eercise and dieting that was general information.

I have found the Internet to be the best source to use, as all the

information is easier to locate and has more up to date information on my

topic. The sources I found all had very similar messages to lose weight

because they all said in order to lose weight eercise and a healthy diet are

crucial. The di"erences in each source come from what else to do on top of a

healthy diet and eercise. $or eample in Ann +. hitaker and &ames Annesi


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scholarly peer reviewed paper an eperiment where people who are

attempting to lose weight are put on a diet and eercise regime but the ones

who are more successful in losing weight have a high sense of body

satisfaction and reduced stress -/01. This is showing how eercise and diet

are the main components of losing weight but there are other eternal

factors that can increase or decrease the process of weight loss. &ames also

believes strongly in a proper diet consisting of fruits and vegetables because

it isn!t #ust about eating less food its about eating the right kind of food -21.

$ruits and vegetables are naturally low in calories but rich in vitamins and

nutrients, which help your body, get the nutrition it needs to survive, perform

properly, and be healthy, by preventing diseases, which is why they are

considered so healthy. The reason eating cookies is bad for you is because

they are high in calories but low in nutrients and vitamins, so your body

doesn!t get what it needs from the food causing you to be hungry even

faster, the same reason if you eat an apple you will be full for a longer time

then if you eat the same amount of chocolate.

*ercise and eating healthy are key to losing weight but &itendra

3iple took it one step further in her scholarly peer reviewed article where she

reviewed the level of education of people who worked in a hospital and the

obesity of their household -21. The hospital was chosen because it was able

to provide persons from all educational levels as sub#ects for the test with

#anitors being the low, nurses and secretary!s in the middle and doctors

having received the highest education. The eperiment wasn!t seeing who


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had received the most education in the area of what it re4uires to have and

maintain a healthy body but rather overall education. 5aturally however the

doctors had received education in this sub#ect due to their #ob as well as the

nurses on a smaller level, but the custodians had received minimal education

on this sub#ect. The results of this eperiment followed eactly what you

might epect, the healthiest families belonging to the doctors and the poorer

families having more obese members in their family. 6tefan Adrian Martin,

and Monica Tarcea collaborated on a pro#ect that highlighted the inade4uate

education among high school student athletes. It mentioned the lack of

education leading to the diets of these athletes not meeting the

re4uirements of a high stress training regimen they were on. The remaining

sources by Ming 7u, Minue %hen, 8hen4iu %un, and A. % 3eacock, were all

highlighting using di"erent periments and studies, the imprtace of eercise

and healthy eating to in order to stay healthy.

Interview

I interviewed Austin Teall, a student here at $lorida %tate 9niversity

and current player on the $%9 club ice hockey team. I decided to interview

him because he is a very knowledgeable man when it comes to eating

healthy, as well as he being a student in eercise science. I epected to gain

insightful knowledge about what happens as your body eercises and what

di"erent foods do to an eercising body. I asked him to help eplain what

food is and how it is broken down and the di"erent classications or the si


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categories, +arbohydrates, 'ipids, 3roteins, :itamins, Minerals, and ater, he

provided were especially helpful because my lack of knowledge proves there

is a huge gap in what students should know. I also asked about e;cient ways

to lose weight and his response was very helpful. hen asked if eercising or

eating healthy food was more important to losing weight Austin said, Meaning that you

cannot epect any weight loss when you feed your body #unk food. This

interview really helped me to back my problem and solution to the issue of

obesity, holding parents more responsible and getting kids to eercise is a

viable solution to help. The importance of both eercise and eating healthy

were highlighted. Mr. Teall left out education in his claim for kids to lose

weight and I believe this is because he has already had the education and

knows everything that a health class should teach because of his ma#or

therefore he would not see the importance of it.

+onclusion

As a species we are very intelligent and the feats we have

accomplished are incredible. e as individuals can do so much with our lives,

but we need the proper education, an engineer wasn!t born designing cars,

he was educated and used his knowledge to do so. e need to begin

education at an early age of why foods are bad, not #ust that foods are bad.


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9nderstanding of the topic will provide the basic grounds for developing into

healthier adults. %ince children are so undereducated about nutritional

information, and eercise information, the health class should be revamped

to include a more comprehensive program for students including this

information along with the other information already included in health

classes.

?riginally I wanted this pro#ect to be aimed at providing government

incentives to promote healthier lifestyles by Americans, however I now

believe that the proper way to achieve a healthier country is to hit the local

governments. @y implementing a school health program for students to take

that is similar to that of a math or science class, students will be able to

learn more and also retain more important information that they otherwise

wouldn!t have access too.

orks +ited

Annesi, &ames &., and isBle A. Tennant. CeneraliDation of TheoryE@ased

3redictions

for Improved 5utrition to Adults with Morbid ?besityF Implications of

Initiating *ercise.C International &ournal of +linical 7ealth G 3sychology

H. -JH1F E0. 3rint.


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%ee above, and Ann +. hitaker. C3sychological $actors Kiscriminating

between %uccessful and 9nsuccessful eight 'oss in a @ehavioral

*ercise and 5utrition *ducation Treatment.C International &ournal of

@ehavioral Medicine 2.L -JJ1F /0E2. 3rint.

Martin, 6tefan Adrian, and Monica Tarcea. C+onse4uences of 'ack of

*ducation

regarding 5utrition among Noung Athletes.C 3alestrica of the Third

Millennium +iviliDation G %port /.L -J1F HE/. 3rint.

3eacock, A. %.CA )andomised +ontrolled Trial to Kelay ?r 3revent Type

Kiabetes After estational KiabetesF alking for *ercise and 5utrition

to 3revent Kiabetes for Nou.C International &ournal of *ndocrinology

J -J1F E0. 3rint.

3iple, &itendr, C$ood +hoices and +onse4uences for the 5utritional %tatusF

Insights into 5utrition Transition in an 7ospital +ommunity.C 3los ?ne

J.J -J1F EO. 3rint.

%hen, Minue, Ming 7u, and 8hen4iu %un. CAssessment of %choolE@ased

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*perimental 5utrition and $ood %afety 7ealth *ducation for 3rimary

%chool %tudents in Two 3overtyE%tricken +ounties of est +hina.C 3los

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