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What do we do about the toxic environment that produces obesity and inactivity in our schools and communities?
According to Eric and Edlin (2009), the government and food industry has encouraged personal responsibility on issues of battling with obesity epidemic. Eric and Edlin based their facts on the movie super size me that shows a lifestyle drastic effects on Spurlock’s physical well being. The film shows how he dined three times in a day in McDonald’s restaurant eating every item that was presented in the chain menu. According to Fair (2009), super size me film clearly shows how fast food industry has influenced poor nutrition for its own profit. We live in toxic environment, school lunchrooms that overflow with junk food and sports drinks that result to obesity. By addressing and modifying the toxic environment, that produces obesity and inactivity in our schools is the only way to stem obesity epidemic.
Having watched this film, there is a need to encourage culture fitness. School and families should band together for nature adventures of physical activities. Rimm (2008) argues that, students should be encouraged to walk at least 60 miles in a month as to create culture fitness in school. In addition, parents should encourage personal fitness by creating activities that would fight inactivity environment.
Schools and communities should fight obesity by introducing cafeterias that do not encourage fast foods. In addition, students should be encouraged not to overeat that would similarly cause obesity (Rimm & Sylivia, 2004). Other ways include teaching on proper diet and introducing proper balanced food in schools. In conjunction, community should develop food industries that encourage proper diet for well-being. Fitzgerald and Davies (2007) argued that, many opt for junk food because it is relatively cheap. Therefore, food industries should set relatively fare prices to suitable diets so that many can buy. Additionally, eating every item on menu as shown in super size film should be prohibited (Hoeger & Welner, 2010).
Personal wellness plan: physical, spiritual, social, emotional, intellectual and environmental
Physical wellness plan
Physical: Currently doing these activities for my physical wellness,
Goal: Have a 40+ min daily of physical exercise and understand how nutrition and body performs (Mulvany, 2008).
Action plans: Join a team, have a family cook together, play with kids and walking with my dog.
Spiritual wellness
Goal: Would like to live a life that would provide purpose, peace, meaning and enrichment to my life and others.
Action plans: Make a list of my priorities in life, take time to meditate, have a quiet time alone in a day and being honest to myself in decision-making (Evans &Marks, 2005).
Social wellness
Goal: Develop personal relationships, important friendship and taking part in making a healthy living environment in the world.
Action: Become an active member in my community, make an effort of meeting my friends twice in a week and treat my parents once in a week.
Emotional wellness
Goal: Have relationships with other based on commitment, trust and respect, accept a wide range of feelings about others and myself in addition to being enthusiastic and optimistic about life (Kinetics, 2009).
Action: Create opportunities for helpful conservation and occasionally assessing my personal behavior, emotional responses and reactions towards situations and choose appropriate change.
Intellectual wellness
Goal: Use resources to expand my knowledge, and explore issues associated to problem solving
Action: Attend community classes to help in problem solving tasks, read one book in a week to expand knowledge (Dalton, 2005).
Environmental
Goal: Make choices that are consistent to my personal values, beliefs, interests for gratification.
Action: Serve in my community (Crister, 2003).
Barriers and solutions
- Lack of enough time: will layout a schedule that will be committed to it
- No money: will involve myself in opportunities that are not costly for example play sports with my friend
COMMITMENT: I choose to implement my personal healthy living plan to the best of my ability. My hubby will hold me accountable in implementing this plan.
References
Crister,G.(2003). Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World. New York. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dalton, S. ( 2005). Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic? California: University of California Press
Eric,G.,&Edlin,G.(2009). Health and Wellness. Washngton: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Evans,B.,&Marks,D.,(2005). Health psychology: theory, research and practice. California: Sage
Fair,E.S. (2009). Wellness and Physical Therapy. Washngton: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Fitzgerald, H.E.,&Davies, D.H. (2007). Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence, Volume 1. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group
Hoeger,S.A.,& Welner,W.K.(2010). Lifetime Physical Fitness and Wellness: A Personalized Program. New York: Cengage Learning
Kinetics. (2009). Health and Wellness for Life. California: Human Kinetics
Mulvany, S. (2008). Healthy Cooking for Primary Schools-Book 5, Book 5. London: Brilliant Publications
Rimm, E.,&Sylvia,R.B. (2004). Rescuing the emotional lives of overweight children: what our kids go through– and how we can help. New York: Rodale
Rimm, S. (2008). Rescuing the Emotional Lives of Overweight Children. Washngton: Diane Publishing Company
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