Hey everyone, It’s the last blog of the semester, and I’m leaving here with an open mind, and that much more smarter. This chapter talks about being mindful and taking responsibility of yourself and your care. I’m sure we can all relate to this, and understand what it means, but it’s always better in theory […]

This chapter made me rethink, as well as reinforced a lot my my feelings about the environment and how much we put into the worlds pollution and how we participate in global warming. We have protective measures, that we are slowly breaking down- and this is the ozone layer. It forms a protective stratum in […]

Infectious conditions were the topic for this weeks reading, and the big message here, is mindfulness. I preach mindfulness in my everyday life, so I was immediately interesting in the reading. We start off with learning our body’s defenses, and factors that play into causing and preventing disease and infection. For example, for a disease […]

This week’s chapter is pretty intense, as it delves into Cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. It provides a great overview for each, and how it comes about in an individual’s life. Cardiovascular disease has been on the decline, but is still a huge epidemic not to be taken lightly. Something that the chapter has enlightened […]

For the first chapter of this course the chapter discusses improving our health behaviors, which is one of the main things in my health journey. Setting up SMART goals are imperative to this process, those in which are Specific, Measurable, Action, Realistic and Time.  I found reading up on shaping to be the best thing […]

This weeks topic on weight management and body image, really hit home for me. While the beginning of the chapter talks about obesity in America, I can’t help but think of all the unconscious decisions I’ve made in the far past about what I was consuming. Fast food, and fried foods aren’t as appetizing as […]

This week we dove into Chapter 7 which talks all about tobacco and alcohol use; both in which I am very fond of. While I do not smoke cigarettes, both my parents have been smokers forever, and both drink. My father in particular, I considered an alcoholic, for his drinking habits were poor in nature, […]

My drug of choice is caffeine and I am sure we can all relate! I’ve practically trained myself to make sure that the first thing I do, after my wake up ritual, is to get my iced coffee. It’s more to me than a drink, or so I think. It’s an experience; something I look […]