Unit 2 Reflection

Themes and Essential Understandings

FAIL. Digital image. Flickr. Yahoo, 17 Oct. 2009. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.

Health is the culmination of a person's nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, and social habits, which all collaborate to determine that person's overall level of wellness. In terms of my own health, I feel that I am definitely not reaching my highest potential, and a number of things can be done to improve my general health. The people at SHS, students especially, are also not the healthiest, due to the massive amount of stress that I know that people feel concerning grades and the subsequent lack of sleep that students are resorted to adopting in order to do all the things they want to. Things that could be done to promote healthier lifestyles of the people on campus would be reducing stress given to students by giving out less "busywork" to do at home and providing time before tests or at the beginning of class for students to meditate and relax before doing whatever they need to do. The essential takeaways from this unit were that good health is entirely dependent on the care that a person has in ensuring that their nutrition, sleep, stress levels, exercise, and social interactions are sufficient/in balance, and that a deficiency in any of these categories could lead to a worse quality of life. Overall, things that I gleaned from this unit were the importance of maintaining the 5 Pillars of Health, and the consequences that one can face when some of the needs for each category aren't met. For example, a key to regulating nutrition is incorporating enough varied nutrients in one's diet, whilst still keeping in check the excess consumption of nutrients such as carbohydrates, which could eventually lead to insulin resistance and even diabetes.

Falcon Market

Nutritional Analysis

 Some things that I think I still do not fully understand after this unit are the final calculations of the Nutrition Analysis; somehow the numbers that I calculated for how many calories that I should be eating per day did not match up with the numbers I calculated for the Falcon Market.

In the next unit, I hope to not only try and be more active and regular in my studying, so that studying for the unit test isn't put off until the last moment, but also to to apply things that I have learned in this unit to any topics that we may learn about in the future.

Being a chiropractor was one occupation that I could find relating to this unit. The job description entails     using specific techniques to stimulate spinal movement and improve certain bodily functions without the use of drugs; however, the reason why I chose to relate this career to our unit is that it not only focuses on the physiology of the body, but also apparently the dietary/nutritional aspects of health. 

After the conclusion of this unit, the entire class filled out a Goals Sheet for health as a basis for what we want to accomplish in terms of bettering our health individually.