blog 10

My grandfather was the first in my family to have heart disease. He was the first and so far the last. No one else in my family has heart disease. However, my family doesn’t live very active lives. Nor do we eat as healthy as we should. I am afraid that if we don’t change our ways it will lead to heart disease. Many of my family members are a little over weight. None of us are hundreds of pounds overweight but we are a little chubby. I think that our environment and lifestyles are the two most important factors in why we are not as healthy as we should be. We are really busy and don’t always have time to eat healthy. Also my mother is a single mom who works so when she gets off work she has to come home and take care of the kids homework, laundry, and house work. Also there are not any parks or fields to play on at my moms. We have to drive to the nearest park. As far as education goes I think that as a whole everyone needs to be more educated. I think that schools need to better educate children and there should be more community education. I think that we get so busy that we forget about our health and we need to work to change that.

Friends with eating disorders - blog 9.

Talking to a friend about having an eating disorder can be really hard. You have to be very understanding. If you come on to strong and judgmental they may not open up and let you in. You have to understand where this person is coming from and have a lot of patients. Eating disorders are very complex and usually are for an unknown reason that they may hide. It is not uncommon for girls to hide the fact that they have an eating disorder. So they may not admit it the first time you bring it up. As long as you make sure that she knows that you are someone she can talk to and make sure you are there for her no matter what. That’s really all you can do if she doesn’t want help at the time. You can’t help someone if they don’t want to be help, or if they are in denial.

getting older -blog 8

In other cultures people look up to older generations. They are considered wise and are respected. Here it doesn’t seem that way at all. Older woman are getting face lifts and Botox, trying to look younger. In today’s world we look at getting older as a negative thing. I am a fan of lotion and natural things that keep your skin healthy and wrinkle free but we have taken this to a totally unhealthy level. Women are having surgery on their faces to lift them up!! How crazy is that? The main reason I hear is, I want to look good. We look at models and see perfection that is beyond anyone’s reach. Not even the model is that perfect but yet we seem to want to be like them. I think that if we had everyday looking models things would change. We have this unrealistic view and expectations of how woman should look and act and it is ridiculous. I am all for wanting to look and feel good but there has to be a boundary, and I think that surgery and Botox is stepping over the boundary.

Blog 7

After reading chapter seven I learned that there are many women who get STD’s and feel ashamed. I could understand why they would feel that way but on the other hand there are a lot of people who are going through the same thing. We have unrealistic views about woman and it is extremely unfair to call a woman names and belittle her because she has made a mistake. I know a woman who got married and her husband gave her herpes. Herpes is something you can NOT get rid of and this is something that she will have to deal with her entire life. I tell this story because not everyone with a STD is promiscuous. I know that married people are not the majority of the cases but these cases do appear. There are people who think they are in a committed relationship and there partner isn’t truly committed. I think that it is unfair to judge one another. The woman that I know has great friends and a great family for support but not everyone has that. There are many groups and counselors that I think are a great way to understand and talk about your disease. I am a great person to talk to and I feel that I am a nonjudgmental, but when it comes to STD’s I honestly don’t know how they feel. I think talking to people that are in your situation is better and can help you out more than someone who doesn’t know where you are coming from!