Unit Three; Ethical Issue/ Exercise … "Is the concept Working?"
Reading the article about reversing obesity by addressing environmental causes had some strong points. I agree with the statements about how culturally we have become a lot less physically active due to the close proximity of places and things that we use or go to in our daily lives. We, as a society have gotten used to walking from our houses to our vehicles and then just a few short steps to the store, the mall, or the movies. We rarely have to depend on our legs for transportation these days. Work has become much more sedantary for many people as compared to 30-40 years ago. Computers ,video games, televisions, even telephones, (which are now in everyones pocket instead of their desk or their wall) have all been contributers to a society that simply doesn't move any longer! The other item I agree with is the part about advertisements and commercialism for fast, convenient, high caloric, low nutritional food choices. The article also mentioned restaurants also being a leading cause of low nutritional, high caloric food intake. I don’t agree with more government involvement and regulations being the answer to the obesity problem in the US and many other parts of the world. I would love to see people get involved and get “Green” on themselves and their families and start doing different, healthier things in their lives.
In our text book the piece on exercise was informative. The advantages listed for even moderate exercise were stacked in complete favor of people getting off their couches and doing physical activities! I agree whole-heartedly with some of the positive outcomes for exercise. I believe that physical activity not only makes a person healthier by burning calories and exercising muscles, I also believe that exercise can prevent certain diseases and also help maintain better mental health by warding off depression and fatigue.
In conclusion, I think people of all ages need much more physical activity than what they are getting. I believe that if people would attempt to make even small changes in their physical activity just long enough to see some of the benefits, then they might be more apt to keep up the new behaviors and possibly even add more activities as time went on.
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NAME: Kathy Tootle
COMPENDIUMS: Great job...showing good organization, nice chocie of images...I would encourage you to organize more within each sub-topic, rather than h aving long lists of definitinos...maybe a paragraph, or somewhere to start that shows how all is related within your lists. Sometimes you do this, but sometimes I see lots of vocabulary lists that could be organized into topics where maybe you eliminate some of the vocabulary and give more of an overview. But that is just a suggestion..if this works for you, it does show good understanding and a lot of hard work to synthesize all this information....nice job!
LABS: Thanks for the leeches in the bowl—eeeugh...great job on the lab—I know we could always use more time with these things, but seems like you got the basic idea.
LAB PROJECT LIMB MODEL: Wow, this is just a great model...shows so much understanding from what is going on within neurons to your overall limb and how the muscles make it move—way to go!!
ETHICAL ISSUE ACTIVITY: Thanks for your insights on how society is set up to almost avoid exercise and gives us all these passive activiites...I think you are right that small changes are probalby what is needed, at least initially, to then keep on adding physical activity with time...both personally and in how society is organized.
Kathy, Thanks for this basically perfect unit. You are on the road—way to go!
LF
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