OBESITY IN CHILDREN FROM PUERTO RICO
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Mayo 16, 2009
Jose N. Caride
Ingl. 3231- 080
Prof: Ellen Pratt
May 15, 2009.
Obesity in Children from Puerto Rico
What is obesity? It is an epidemic that is making its presence in some children in P.R. Obesity is a chronic sickness that does not discriminate because of age, sex or gender. Everybody from young people and kids to elder people are affected by this disease. In 1992, according to Freddy Rodriguez, obesity affects 25% of all kids and young adults between the ages of 6 to 16 years of age. But in 2005, according to Cobian, obesity was present in 32% of the infant and juvenile community. Taking into consideration these statistics, we can see that the increase in obesity is an eminent threat to the future of the juvenile population. We must understand that they need a better nutrition so that this community of infants and juvenile community won’t suffer the health consequences.
On the other side, obesity is the result of the body’s natural way of conserving energy, in the form of fat molecules. Although it is something naturally performed by the body, it can be controlled to reduce the chance of suffering overweight and other health problems. Overweight is sometimes confused because people confused being overweight with having a few pounds overweight. Most kids and juveniles do not realize that they are overweight and do not pay attention to the dangers that they may face. They at first may not notice, but along the way, these kids and juveniles may suffer from emotional stress. Besides these psychological perturbations that they may suffer, their health also deteriorates. They suffer hypertension, diabetes, renal failure, heart deceases, and pulmonary failure as well.
But all of this can be avoided with very simple steps. One that is often overlooked is example. A child will often follow in his or her parents footsteps. If the parents are healthy, most of the time, or it is expected for the kids to do the same. Having good health is not necessarily being slender. With only having good eating habits and good exercising, people can avoid obesity. Irma Sierra, a local sport columnist, mentions that muscle development, coordination development, and good judgment are the only things people need to make the right choice. Also a good mental balance and a good emotional health help develop good habits as well. If example is not the case, then good judgment is the only way to achieve a healthy life style. For example, if it was backwards, the parents are obese; they can encourage their kids to follow a healthy life, and to avoid going through the problems their parents might be facing. A healthy life style will avoid and reduce the risk of heart and adrenal deceases, as well as breathing problems and emotional impacts in the future.
The same way there are ways to avoid obesity; there are ways to actually make it easier to suffer from it. One reason is the lack of support by family members, teachers, or community helpers. Sometimes knowledge is the only thing needed to make someone else understands the reason for things, but most of the time there is no one to take the time to explain. Other ways are because of bad examples by friends or even family members. They may tell the wrong message to the juveniles, making them believe that being obese is good, when it really isn’t. Sometimes the lack of self-esteem of other people may influence in the life of others as well. The image of parents also influences in a children’s life as well. The same way a parent can help children follow into a good lifestyle, can also be used to make them follow a bad lifestyle. Age can also be a factor in the taking of decisions. Sometimes kids are too small to know any better or to understand why it is important to carry out a good life style. They often ignore this fact, but it is not intentionally. Sometimes it is ignorance. This is mostly the case in teenagers, were their parents will only want what is good for them, but peer pressure will weigh more on the mind of a teenager, than what a parent will mention to them. They are often alone and are mad at life itself. They seem content with being the way they are, and often like being obese so that other pity for them or to make it the reason for others to bother them. Finally, lifestyles themselves will influence in a child, some may not practice sports or even exercise at all, it is for that reason that they are often ignored. Since they will not find attention from sports or sometimes not even school, they will confine themselves, often they turn to videogames or computers to enjoy themselves and not suffer from solitude. Although technology is actually a good thing, because it enables advanced in technology, is the corner stone of entertainment, and is part of our everyday lives; too much time using our computers, PDAs, video games, satellite television, or any other form of electronic entertainment is bad. Sometimes parents give everything their kids want and sometimes ignore that being in front of the T.V. all day is not what is best for them.
So in conclusion, obesity is a sickness that is increasing because of bad nutrition habits and bad exercise routines. Obesity is not a game, if not the sad lives of our children and juvenile community. We have to accept that many diseases that affect adults are slowly affecting our young generation. The difference is that our young generation is not a strong as our adult community and is affected more by these diseases. Our children need our 100% support. Our support can help our kids have healthy lives and live to be as we are today.
Proposal:
In this work I want to investigate and inform about the obesity en the kid from P.R. We have to created conscience of our actions, in this case that whatever we eat. The food is very important for the people, but also we have to know how much we going to eat and how have a balanced life.
In this work I want to talk about the sickness, problems and something that affect the obese persons, also I want to informant that we have to understand the importance what it is love ourselves like person and the important or the interesting that we had to have for our health and take care for the people in our around.
That have a good alimentation is important for all and I hope that with this work the people can understand that how important is the health. This work going to help in the sense that how have a better nutrition, the prevention of a many type of sickness, bad treats and that have a more organized and fortunate life. For have a mayor development, in this work a use a differences genres like: a character sketch, collage, grocery list, recipe and a monologue.
Prolog:
To: Rafael
Hey man I wrote you this letter, because I want warning you, is more a petition. I ask that you take care of your health and the people that surround you like: friends, family, others include that little child that are with you. Eat healthy, practice some sport only for a few minutes, just do something for you. This is going to help you emotional and physically.
Look the obesity is not a condition, is a sickness that attack without of discrimination of age or sex. Like a father you have to understand the damage that you can cause in your children for that junk food. It is really truth that you came late to your house, because the work and others things and for that you can’t cook, but please try to eat healthy and your family to and stop to eat in fast food that only give you more problems in your health.
J.CARIDE
TAKE CARE
BYE BYE.
Epilog:
Every day we learn new things, but many of them we ignorant. In this work we can understand how to treat our health and the others people. The importance to do exercise and have a good nutrition. To know the different sickness, what it is the real significant about obesity and who does it affect, in this case this sickness can affect everyone. Is very important be prepare for a type of problems or sicknesses like this magnitude, be strong mental, emotional and them you can accept and over pass this situation. This can be a very terrible crisis for anyone that can have this sicknesses.
In conclusion this work is going to help to created conciseness, make to the people understand, the damage that we can cause to the kid. A personal opinion I found this information very interesting, because many persons in this day don’t worry and don’t do anything for having a better healthy life. Ii is something important and we can found information in the internet, books, newspaper; here are too much information about nutrition, good health and physical condition, this investigation is based in these three recourses and for others people this can be very useful. Also in this investigation we can see to many help, controls, and the damage what the ignorance of the other people can cause to other with this sickness. It is good know about this type of sicknesses, situation and how fight with them.
Character sketch:
He is known by many names, which often makes him feel bad and that make him very angry. He is very shy, but in the pass of the time he created character, courage and for that he has many problems with the people. He has 7 years old and the people looking him like if he was a freak, something out of this planet. He uses black pants, which has lost its luster and shine, product of continues use. Also he uses black shoes, which are tight and even have holes on them, because of how old they are. But something that it is really identifying him is his shirt, because always he has dirty with sauce like ketchup and others.
Always he is eating, even if is only a candy. He live in some place that the food is in abundance and that is impressive, because in his age he weighs 200 pounds almost, finally he live in the town of P.R. and in front of the house you can see a commercial center, and there are too many fast food. If you want to know him go there and you can see him. He is Latin, he have a skin with a brown color also his eyes are brown to. He is so obese that you can barely see is eyes. His major problem is not to face the others persons, it is to face himself. He always is eating, anxious and bored, his entertainment himself watching sport, but he doesn’t like practice. He always is lonely and for that he doesn’t have friends, because they reject him or because he doesn’t trust in any body. But that many people don’t know is that in the night he sits in the garden to see the night, the moon and cry, alone, in solitude.
Grocery list:
7 Bar of chocolate
3 Gallons of soda
4 Malts
10 Pieces of pizza
3 Cups of sugar
15 Pastries of guayaba
30 Caramels
7 Meat taco’s
Recipe:
Then you have to mix all in a very big recipient, seasoned in your own taste and just put in the oven for 45 minutes. And finally you get “The happy and fat stuffed” “El gordito relleno y feliz”.
Collage:
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What a night
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 2, 2009.
What a night
Today my friend Damian and me, we invite a girl to my apartment, for impress hers or something likes that. We start to prepare the apartment, to fix, to clean and others. Then we… Well more Damian he start to organized something for the girls, to ambient the moment. I was in the kitchen, cooking, and I was really nervous because well that was the first time that I going to cook to another persons, in this case to three different persons. I was really nervous not for Damian if was for the girls.
Finally I stop to cooking, it was like 9 p.m. and the girls not were there. We have to wait and in a one hour later someone knock in the door and there are the girls, we are too angry, but we controlled that. I’m not a perfect person, but I’m a person responsible and I hat to have to wait. And start to eat, them we see a movie in the apartment and talking, then in few minutes we go out too dance “salsa” and finally we go to “El Faro de Rincon”. It was a beautiful night and I join, special the food, it was super good.
Well finally I can wrote something cool, is not about swimming, family, friends, university, problems or preoccupation is something about me, well all is about me, but I like more this. This night was different, is a remember a really good remember.
Too short
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 31, 2009.
Too short
Life is too short to complete all what we want. Many times you never really know what you want with exactly. We have too much things that are material, are insignificant and in the next day we forget those things, but those different thing form or are part of our life. Equal happened with persons, feelings and others we forget all the beautiful thing that we have and only we remember the bad news.
May be the life is not too short, may be is short because all that bad news or thing that we have to pass. And we never forget. We have to choose, we have the decision for what pad we want walk or die. We have to make the right decision, but how we know if the right decision is?
I never think that when I going to go out of the high school, I found friends that they left the university, others are in jail and really sad others are dead or in drugs. Is really hard seeing something like that and we can’t do anything. I don’t know I visit friends in jail, tall with others, but I can’t pass time with all or help all, is impossible for me. Is really hard see something like that, but only we have to continued our life.
Life is only one, and it is your life, never permit that a person takes decision for you.
Is really sad…. I love my friends, not matter what they do; they form part of my life.
My Crazy Dream
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 24, 2009.
My Crazy Dream
Few weeks ago, I was joking with some friends. One of them said that he was not going to marry and we said: “It’s ok, we can believe that”. After that day, I had a crazy dream. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the dream at all; I just remember the last part. I was at my grandmother’s house and there were a lot of people; some known and others not. I was sitting talking with the sister of a friend and it’s curious because she has speaking disabilities. Well, I remember I looked around, and then I understood that I was in the wedding reception of the friend who said that was not going to marry. I was surprised, so I went to talk with him. After that, I went outside and I began to contemplate the beautiful sunset over the mountains. Then my friend came to me and continued talking. In those moments, I woke up and quickly started writing this part of the dream. This was all I remembered of my crazy dream. I said crazy because I don’t think that my friend will marry soon. Other than that, the condition of the sister of my other friend makes it impossible for her, to establish a relationship. This is a dream that I will never forget.
The dreams are moments, that in a moment can be real or maybe we life in that dream. The life is a dream, I don’t know is something special.
Again, Again the same thing
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 19, 2009.
Again, Again the same thing
“La vida es un instinto de desarrollo, de supervivencia, de acumulación de fuerzas, de poder”.
I just want a day that I can sit and wrote something beautiful, something different, that is not be angry for a bad competition or moment, can I have that day, please. This week I have like ten test and I just have six class, it really funny. For me this is not a university this is like jail. I don’t like it. Well, my last chance for the “Justas” is this weekend, but I just practice one day was this morning and well I think that I can’t do it, again; why I so negative is the reality, but I going to do, I going to give my maximum. I m so nervous for that and my trainer say that if I can do it good is not matter if get in he do not going to travel me and maybe I’m going to be out of the team. I can’t permit that because if I sacrificed the university I can’t swim and if sacrificed the team maybe I can’t study anymore.
Is the same thing every day I have to work, to swim, to study and I can’t have a normal life, a personal life. Simple I don’t have life. Ohhhh, I forget I think that this week I finally have the break to go and visit my family, but I have the competition I have to go compete and back to MAYAGUEZ. I hope that in this competition I can do it better than the last. It is my last opportunity.
Deception
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 12, 2009.
Deception
How is going to me in the competition? Is something that I don’t want to talk, but it is was a real catastrophe, I think that was a too much emotion that I’m going to competitor for first time in Ponce that I’m get tired for when I going to swim. I don’t do anything in this competition, but I have a last chance for going to the Justas. In this competition I swim only three events and in the three events I don’t look very well, I have errors, I don’t do the correct time and in one I have a disqualification it was horrible, never, I say never in my life I get one; I can’t believe it.
My trainer, ohm God, it was very angry , he screaming to me and say in front of everyone that I have potential, that I’m great athlete but I don’t use correctly. Then he say you have to practice a little more, I think before this I don’t want to swim any more, I hate Ponce; this is the most horribly competition in my life and moment. How I said I have only one more opportunity to go the Justas.
For other hand today is the birthday of my little brother and this about be separate from the family in special my brother and sister I don’t like much. I can’t be with my brother, I have to wait to the next week, because this weekend I can’t go to my home; but I don’t like be my home to much, but I miss family so much. Is so hard be in this situation, lost every moment with the family or friends, is so difficulty. Hey maybe maybe you can’t understand why I wrote this, but I have here in Mayaguez 2 months that I can’t go to my home and see the family, is so desesperante.
Finally
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 5, 2009.
Finally
This weekend I have a competition in Ponce, and I’m really exciting. I want be there. The events what I going to swim are hard, and long; maybe I can’t do a great job. But I’m going to do it, because for this I have my scholarship.
For first time I going to compete in Ponce, I have this oportunitity 3 times ago and I can’t go. My first, time was, because I do not have the sufficient training to go and competitor. The second I was in a fight with my one of my best friends and I broke my “nudicho”. I was very angry and my trainer, my trainer ujum…That was my opportunity to be one of the great swimmers right now and just for a stupid fight all dreams is gone. My third opportunity was the last week, for this competition my new trainer, he forget to put me.
Finally this weekend, I go to Ponce and is not a insignificant competition or no important; for it is going to be a great competition; because is the second classificatory for the LAI. I have to give the maximum, but also enjoy the moments.
A competition is more than win a medal, is more than a trophy. Is knew, enjoin about all you like. See what the maximum is for a person; see the pressure have an athlete. Knew our limit. In the poor experience I have, I have the permit to said: not matter what type of athlete you are, we have limit.
Memories
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Abril 12, 2009
March 2, 2009.
Memories
A long time ago, like for everyone we have someone special for us or in a moment or stage in our life. Simple that person arrives in my life leave a little of love and go, she never goes back. I remember what in a day I wrote something for her. I can remember all, but we were talking about fairy tales. She said: “I never knew my charmed”
I don’t know why too many girls or women believe in those fantasies. Also we do it to, but we don’t demonstrate too much. Like me, something personal is a like it to much the “beauty and beast” is like no matter what is your appearance you have feeling, and you someone special for you, just wait and fight for that.
This history about the beauty and beast I like and for me is a story we can believe, not it is like other story when a stupid Principe come with his dum horse and Charmin, and in one day found his princesses and kisses her. That is not fair. In this day the people call that type of princes a pervert.
Ok, fairy tales are really beautiful, but the majority people who believe in this also life in a fantasy, in a illusion, and not in a real world. But what happened with many thinks if this fantasy doesn’t exist.
When she said that, I said: “yet and finally said:
“No importa de que color sea tu principe, sino que sea un caballero. Que tenga una gran riqueza, pero en grandes sentimientos. De armas, que solo sean palabras. Y de un corazón que será tu castillo”.
Life is so hard
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Marzo 2, 2009
February 26, 2009.
Life is so hard
I can’t say that all the things that we going to do are perfect or going to be perfect. Also, I can’t say we are going to have a perfect day or a nice life, because that is a lie, is to live in a fantasy, an absurd idea. This is the third week that I feel like an idiot, since the majority of the things I do are wrong. For example: in work, university, with my family and in my sport. Really I am very disappointing in myself.
Lately I have different discussions with my family, like my mom. I have not communicated much with them since I started in the university, plus also I always been a independent person (since 9no grade). I am now 19 years old and she me treats like a little boy and that is bad (I don’t put attention to her) because that limit me to grow and be a better person, a better adult. She doesn’t want to understand that I am no longer more that little boy, I am a adult but also I am her son, and I’m going to love her every time of my life. But what can we do when a mother’s love is too much, or when they want to be proud for their child? This is good but in some part for me that is an obstacle, a distraction, I have more work to do.
This different pressure or distraction has cost me, my work and my sport. In those two things I am almost out (fired or expel) I have to do different arrangements to be Ok in a class, but I have to be absents in my work to be able to do that; because of that I can’t demonstrate that I am a organized person and responsible. By the way a couple of days ago I had a discussion with my assistant coach which could have me expel from the team, we disrespected each other. Generale I am not that type of person, I am consider myself a passive person, but with all these problems and pressures I feel so desperate, I am too involved with be anger and frustration. I feel like if I have a straight jacket.
Life is hard nothing is easy and we have to work with all we have in front no matter what it is. I can fix my problems only one way: eliminate one of them. But that is like tearing away a part of me; and I don’t want to do that. This is another stage of my life, it is a new chapter that….. will continue.
Political Cartoon
Posteado por: aqua4 en: Febrero 26, 2009
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February 24, 2009.
Political Cartoon
This political cartoon was painted by Jim Borgman, in 2003. The picture or paint has two guys, maybe two young guys. One of them has graduated and the other is a military, both have a diploma in one of the hands. And the theme of the picture is: “I figure it’s easier to find a war than a job these days”. This phrase is said by the military guy.
We can have two interpretations with this drawing and the phrase. First we can see or understand how a student who was in the university four to five years studying, went out looking for a job and couldn’t find one, because he didn’t searched correctly or because now a day you can find war in the street, people fighting like animals, discussion… Guns; causing every of type problems and that is enough to know that the war is in any place. When you go out of the university to find a job, you have to be aggressive, determinate, have courage, but be a real person who has patience, because people fight for everything, this world is a disaster. You have to fight to be someone, or to have money in this days,
Another interpretation is that: you study for many years, and I enroll in the army and win more money, and faster and easy money; I just have to be in service. Many people prefer the war than have a normal job, I can’t understand that, is so stupid. With this painting we can understand how life is so difficulty to progress, to be someone. Finally just the life is a war and I think that you have to fight to survive.
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