Reflective Writes

9/4/o7Today I created my blog. I went to blogger.com and created a new blog. I had many problems setting up my account. First my user name was all ready taken so I had to add some numbers to the end. Then my password that I wanted was too short for the site so I had to add to it also. As a result of these changes I forgot my password an my user name and password and got behind in my work.

Today, 9/6/07 , we discussed the definition of health. We found that it had five components, physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. We then went outside and looked at things and did things that had to do with the five parts of health. We ran to a spot in a certain amount of time the exercise physical and mental health. We say a cigarette pact which had to do with social, physical and mental health, and we discussed sports and how they had to do with all aspects of health.

9/6/o7What is juicing and why would you want to have juicing be part of a health lifestyle?
Juicing is the drinking of fruit and vegetable juices. Juicing adds many essential nutrients that would not otherwise be digested if not for juicing. It adds many micro nutrients as well as vitamins and minerals. Juicing also helps in a absorption of those nutrients because the juice is predigested by the juicer and is easier for your body to absorb. Juicing can also aid in weight loss. Juice is low in calories and has no fat. It can take the place of other foods that would be less healthy in a balanced diet. Vegetable juices can even help stabilize blood sugar levels because they are low in sugar.

Today 9/10/07 I started off the day by unplugging the fan to much commotion from the teacher. After that we finished watching the juicing lady video and taking notes on it. Then we talked about qualities that would be good in a juicer and watched a couple of videos on two different types of juicers.

today9/12/07 We discussed that people need to get their work done and posted on the Internet because many people are failing. We looked at some blogs that were good and had many things posted. We then looked at del.ici.ous and learned it as like a favorites page assessable from anywhere. We then learned how to create an account for that site.

Today 9/14/07 We started off with Jamie getting kicked out of class for a picture he posted on his blog. Later in the class we discussed things that could be offencive to other people and how the picture Jamie posted could be offensive to other people. In between that we looked at our food pyramid project and gave some examples of diets that some people would need to have to stay at their current weight. Tallman was too big for the website. After that we looked at the bigger group project and my group decided who was doing what part of the project.

Today 9/21/07 we went to the computer lab to catch up on unfinished work. I set posted everyone elses projects under my shared projects section of my blog.

I don't know the dates because it has been 2 weeks since I have been able to log in but for two classes we had Ricky come in to teach about STI's and and birth control. The first class he talked about seven sti's or sexually transmitted infections. The 7 were crabs, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, aids, herpes, and genital warts. In the second class he talked about birth control. He showed us 12 different birth control devices. They were the morning after pill, the patch, the nuvaring, the IUD, the pill, the male condom, female condom, spermicide, diagram, the implant, and the shot. He gave us the effectiveness of each of these devices and told us how they worked.

Oct 1
Today was Sarah's day to juice. It didn't happen. She mistooke a pomegranate for a mango so she didn't have her fruits. She then went on to explain vitamin b-1and we had to find out that beriberi is a disease from the lack of thymine. Jamie then did vitamin b-3 and Taylor did vitamin h.

Oct 3
Today was Gabe's day to juice. He didn't come prepared and didn't know how to juice bananas. You found that a food processor was needed. You got one from the foods class but couldn't get it to work so again we didn't have any juice. Then Wendell gave his presentation on vitamin p which isn't really a vitamin. It helps in the absorption of vitamin c. Then we had a big discussion on politics and everyone gave their opinions.

Oct 5
Today you were out and we watched a video called The Power of Choice. It was about a guy who uses comedy to get to teenagers and help them make good choices in their lives. He says that the kids have the power to choose their paths in life. He says that everyone must have VIP. Vision, initiative, and perspective.

Oct 9
Today was a very short class because of NECAP testing. We first learned of a new tobacco project that we had to do. My project dealt with the physical addiction of tobacco. We went to the computer lab to work on the project. I got about half of my project done in class before we left.

Oct 11
Today we talked about testicular cancer. We learned that 1-2% of men get testicular cancer, it is unknown what causes it, and males 25-45 are most likely to get it. Today I also learned that my juicing project is due on Friday.

Oct 15
Today we continued talking about testicular cancer. We learned that it causes few deaths and is very easy to cure, your diet has no effect on it, it can run in your family. Its symptoms are a painless lump on the tactical.

Oct 17
Today we looked at an article about a drug resistant super bug. The bug is a staff infection .Staff infections are a flesh eating disease that can be fatal. It only affects 2 out of 100,000 people. It has become drug resistant due to the overuse of antibiotics and it has become immune to it. It is most prevalent in places like locker rooms where there are a lot of dirty people.

Oct 23
Today we played black jack. If we lost we had to write whatever information was on the cards. I lost a lot.

Oct 25
We learned that we have a test next Wednesday. The topics are testicular cancer, tobacco, contraceptives, sti's, juicing, food pyramid, and web technology. It will be like jeopardy. Molly did her presentation in nicotine withdrawel. Nicotine is found in tobacco and is addictive. Withdrawel symptoms include dissyness, depression, and sleep loss. Gabe did a presentation on why quit. 1/2 of people who smoke die of it. 1 in 5 deaths are from smoking. It causes 90% of lung cancers.

Oct 29
We finally got juice. Molly did fruit punch with spples oranges and strawberries. Jamie presented help with phycological addiction. He talked about how you can get help with support groups. I presented help with physical addiction. Kaya did how to quit. There are five stages to quiting. pre contemplation, contemplation, preperation, action, and metanice. Wendell talked about cigars. They have the same effects as cigarettes but they have a higher rate of mouth cancers.

Oct 31
Taylor juiced. He did an orange grape juice. It was very tasty. We went over how to get on wiki ang got a project to do when you are gone. We learned that smoking is a mojor cause of strokes. 600,000 ocour each year. Smoking makes it 2-3 times more likly to get cateracs.

Nov 2
Today we went to the computer lab and answered questions. Many computer didn't work. I didn't finish.

Nov 6
Today Wendell juiced carrots and oranges. It tasted terrible. It was the worst juice I ever had. It tasted like bad carrots. After that we had an extra juice with apples, pears, ans kiwis. One of the
kiwis was rotten but Mr Cohun didn't care and juiced it anyways. It tasted all right and was better then Wendell's juice. Wendell got into another argument with Mr Cohun and we talked for a long time about Ron Paul.

Nov 12
Today we began watching the video 28 days. We had problems starting because somenone didn't think the movie was in color. So we had t o watch it in black and white. It was about a lady who was addicted to alcohol. All her and her boyfriend would do was deink. She ruined her sisters wedding because she was drunk. She crashed a car while drinking and driving and had to go to rehab. She hated it at first but is learning to like it.

Nov 14
Today we finished watching the movie 28 days. It had a wierd ending. In the end the girl gets back with her bad boy friend who tries to get her to drink again. She dosn't want to and walks out on him. It ends with the girl finding a horse in the middle of New York and her lifting up its leg.
Nov 27
Kaya Juiced today. She juiced Orange and lime juice. It didn't taste very good. It tasted very sour because the limes overpowered the orange taste. Then we watched a marijuana tape. It is the second most used drug next to alcohol in the US. In the past it was used to reduce pain. In 1970 it was made illegal. THC is the compound that causes the drugs effects. We received a project to do about marijuana.

Nov 29
Today I juiced strawberry kiwi juice. It didn't taste as i expected. It was sour. Both the strawberries and kiwis were good individually because I tried them but the juice didn't taste very good. We tried to watch a video online but it didn't work. We finished the marijuana film. We learned that there are 2 phases to the effects of marijuana. No one finished their homework today.