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Society is under the impression that eating disorders are a result of wanting to be thin, perfectionism, or anxiety about food, but eating disorders are actually much more serious than that. Eating disorders are rather ways of coping with depression, anxiety, stress, and other very overwhelming emotions. People often claim that girls or boys with eating disorders are trying to get attention because they have no self-esteem or that they just want to be thin, therefore eating disorders are "choices" that people make, which make those people that "choose" them "weak" or "needy." What these people, that make of most of society, don't know is that eating disorders are not choices or flaws in a person. People who have been besieged by eating disorders often don't realize they have a disorder because the disorder controls every aspect of their life. I followed a blog online for several weeks about a girl recovering from an eating disorder and she explained what it was like and she described her disease as a voice in her head and she also described the kind of treatment she's gotten from people about her disorder, such as people saying she was just seeking attention, but she claims that anorexia was how she coped with her parents' divorce. Since I've read that blog, I've understood more about what eating disorders truly are, which most people don't understand. I think that people with eating disorders need more support from society, but instead they are shunned due to society's misconception of eating disorders, so this blog may be a good place to raise that awareness and help those who don't understand, to understand and help them help those in their life that may be suffering from eating disorders.
I'm not one to watch a lot of tv, but whenever I do, I always see McDonalds commercials that are aimed for children. For example, the rush zone commercial showing the kids watching football and dancing around because they have a happy meal from McDonalds. Now, I understand that childrens' eating habits and obesity is somewhat a responsibility of the parents', but aren't the fast food advertisements, as well? Well, of course they are. They're specifically aimed for children, so it must be working to "brainwash" young children to eat more fast food because it'll make them happier. I'm a person who is passionate about eating and living healthily, so seeing things like this concerns me quite a bit. One of my worst fears is that my own child will have to grow up in an unhealthy world, so this blog would be a great place to express those fears and a possible way to try and reverse the "junk food overload" in American youth. I want my children to grow up with healthy food habits and exercise habits, not with junk food, fast food, and lazy habits, so this topic, due to my strong defense against fast food advertising to small children, could be a great topic for my site for my capstone class.
A topic that I've found interest in to be a topic of my site is stress and how it relates to sickness such as colds, flu, etc. This topic is actually quite ironic because I'm sniffling and coughing while writing this blog. Not only is it just the fact that I'm sick that this topic interests me, but I'm also a very stressed person, so my question is, "Well, does stress affect how susceptible people are to sickness?" To answer my question, I did some reasearch and I found several sites that said "Indeed stress levels correlate with contracting a sickness." However, my favorite site was About Health.com because it not only explains the reasons why one may get sick due to stress, but they also list ways to prevent stress and they give several stress relievers. Stress causes peoples' immune systems to become weakened because it raises cortisol levels and if its chronic stress than diabetes and heart disease risks will raise as well. Also, being stressed out makes for unhealthy choices, such as unhealthy eating habits or no exercise habits. The ways to prevent such results from stress, given by the site, are practice stress preventative techniques such as yoga, make friends and relationships, exercise and eat healthily, and stay organized. However, this site only glazes over the topic of stress and its results, but looking into stress and its correlation with wellness more, I pay have a possible topic for my blog.
Welcome to my blog! I'm a Rutland High School senior and I've built this blog as part of a STEM Capstone class. The blog will help me, as well as other students, to learn the skills of presentation as well as how to become active members of society that are aware what is going on, in reference to current events. Thanks for taking time to check it out! Enjoy!
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