Internet Research

QUESTION: What Else Causes Obesity (besides the general eating to much)



According to the website http://www.obesityinamerica.org/, Obesity, while unhealthy diets and not excersicing are major contributers, hormones not working properly can also be a reason. Hormone disorders are those like - thyroid disorders, adrenal glands not working properly, pituatary glands and ovaries are all contributers.



According to the website

http://www.stvincent.org/ourservices/bariatrics/about/causes/default.htm

Obesity can be caused by a persons genetics, culture, emotional and psychological aspects of a person. The genetic aspects of it can basically be if a childs parents are overweight then the child will also tend to be overwieght. Also if your family has a history of obesity then you will have a 25-30% chance of being overwieght.

Food Journal

Dinner (Night Before): For dinner the night before me and my family had shrimp, rice, chicken (for those who didn't want the shrimp), mixed vegitables, and salmon. We ate at the kitchen table and we all talked. After dinner I did the dishes. I enjoyed what I was eating.

Breakfast (Today): For breakfast I had cookie crisp cereal. While eating the cereal I was watching TV because I was eating by myself while others were getting themselves together. I enjoyed what I was eating but I am not so much a fan of milk and that threw off the satisfaction a bit.

Lunch: For lunch today I had some chinease-mexican food. I ate 2 chicken soft tacos and had some pepsi to go along with it. I started getting hungry (prior to lunch) around 12 and I thought that was mainly because of the fact that I ate breakfast in the morning, if I had not eaten breakfast I most likely would have started getting hungrier earlier; maybe around 10 or 11.

Dinner: Tonight for dinner we are having ground turkey, mixed vegitables and V8 Juice, and Rice. We most likely will be eating together as a family and I will be doing the dishes as I do every night.

Grocery Store and Habitual food

My family and I go grocery shopping about once every two weeks. When we go shopping we usually buy the same stuff, which is usually a variety of things. As for fruits and vegetables we buy a lot of strawberries, bananas, grapes and oranges. We buy plums and other things not as often; my father loves peanuts so we always buy at least a jar of peanuts. My family does not eat red meat so when we go shopping we buy a lot of fish, turkey and chicken. When I go to grocery stores I notice that the first thing I see are cans of sodas and bags of chips, always. Then what I see next are the fruits and vegetable section and that confuses me because its like do they want us to eat a lot of junk food or be healthy?

My favorite meals are anything breakfast because I feel as though whenever I have a good breakfast I feel much better during the day. My family and I don't eat red meat as stated before and that I think allows us to eat a variety of foods more often then other people because we try and see what we can eat to substitute for the red meat (beef and pork). My usual diet pattern is usually what my family eats, like I don't drink a lot of soda because I grew up not being allowed to drink a lot of soda.

Food Cultures - Home & Corporation Assignment

They way food is done in my family is it is very organized most of the time. When we have dinner we usually all eat together and make sure the table is set and the food is on the table and no one can start eating until everyone is at the table. When everyone is at the table we then say our prayers and then start eating. We also don't watch TV during dinner because it is a time where we need to speak to each other and share how are days went. I enjoy this very much because it allows me to feel connected to family, that we have at least a time of the day where we all connect. In the mornings breakfast is not like that, usually everyone is getting ready for school/work and people leave at different times so its hard to really be coordinated like dinner. For breakfast its more individual while dinner is more family orientated. On the weekends however breakfast is like the dinners, and people make different things and we all just enjoy being in each others company sharing a meal. When it comes to lunch that is when my food habits are more present, and from that I believe I am a mixture of the mainstream corporate way of eating and my families way. During lunch I prefer the fast and convenient food rather then the food that actually needs preparation, but like my family I like to be set up before actually eating the food.

I mentioned before about the mainstream corporate way of eating food and just the way food is done and that is basically fast food, convenient, easy to cook food rather then food that takes time to prepare. On TV and in movies the kind of food that is always shown are burgers, cakes, candy, fast food chains, pizza and other "junk food". It seems as if the food that is the fastest and more convenient to make is the cheapest while the healthier foods are more expensive; and that is kind of messed up because it is basically saying that it is going to cost you to be healthy in America, while they end up making money of the fast food still because when you are unhealthy you have to go to the doctor which is going to cost money and if your insurance does not cover what ever your sickness is then its going to cost even more money. It is all just a big cycle of paying sustain good health.

Whats In My Fridge?

In my fridge there is:

Cool whip
Chicken
Turkey dogs
Turkey bacon
Butter
Eggs
Lactaid milk
Soy milk
Soy butter
Ice tea
Water
Green tea
Cheesecake (from a sunday party)
Shrimp with pasta

and we try to eat together as much as possible. Also dinner is the last thing we can eat for the night so if you don't have dinner then you don't eat anything for the rest of the night. My family tries to eat as healthy as possible so that we don't get sick and just to be healthy. And that's about the jist of it. I believe what my families rituals when it comes to eating meals is we pray together

Break Homework

My families experience with health care in the US has been a particularly good one. My parents have said that they have not had any problems with health care and have in fact been able to get the insurance companies to pay for every medical problem we have had. We also got them to pay for the births of me, and my sisters. No one was ever denied treatment, but we really also haven't been sick enough to really be hospitalized except for a few instances. Every doctor we've had did not worry about payment.

My experience with health care has really contrasted with the movie SiCKO and that is because in the movie everyone had bad experiences and were getting denied treatment while my family has not had to pay medical bills and even got the insurance to pay for a surgery that was not necessarily medical and that has been good for us.

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