Nutrition Analysis

• Write a report summarizing and interpreting the results of your diet monitoring and what you learned from the stations in Falcon Market. Identify and evaluate your nutrient deficiencies and excesses.  Cite specific evidence to explain where you are, vs where you should be.
•  At the Falcon Market, i learned about food. Now i know that seems very generic but its true. I learned whats good and bad about food. Like how many calories is good or bad, how much fat is ok, how much protein one should eat depending on their weight intake, and also what are good ingredients and what are bad. In regards to my diet monitoring i realized that i need to start hydrating more along with eating more fruits and vegetables. Right now i am a bit behind on my  fruits and veggies as you can see below. I am also over my calorie count but it is fine because i exercise for about 2 hours a day and i have a high metabolism which allows me to get rid of calories faster. Thus the more food with the more calories is better, but as long as i don't stop exercising. I should also cut down on the refried grains a little because too much is not good for me. For dairy, even though i have 3-4 cups of milk a day it allows me to strengthen my bones more and it provides me with more calcium. And finally a lot of protein is good for me because i am an athlete and after  a 2 our work out i need to replenish the amino acids in my body to strengthen my muscles. 
• Include a screen shot of your food tracker to show your 3 days of data.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Comment as specifically as you can on what you could do to improve your diet. Bear in mind eliminating an item from for your diet to reduce an excess of one factor may produce a deficiency in another. Conversely adding an item to make up for a deficiency in one factor may produce an excess in another. For the purposes of this assignment, you may not recommend the use of dietary supplements (e.g., vitamin pills). Your goal is to reach the appropriate balance using foods, not supplements.
• What I can improve on is eating more fruits and vegetables. I have a low intake on them and to be healthier and have a "longer" day mentally, i should eat more of those.  I also eat a lot of refined grains daily which i could cut back on so that i don't over do it. 

• What if you had the opportunity to coach someone on proper health and nutrition? What would you tell them to eat and what would you tell them not to eat? Justify your advice.
•  It honestly depends who i was coaching. If i was coaching a skinnier person, i would work them harder by telling them to eat more of a balanced diet while having them workout to stay in shape. But it wouldn't be a lot of cardio, just the whole body in general. If i had more of a heavier person, i would work them harder in the gym and then give them a majority of fruits and vegetables along with milk and yogurt. There goal would be to lose weight but gain muscle. 

Health

Write something on your blog to say what health means to you.  What pillars do you think you are strongest at, and what are you in most need of improvement?  What do you want to learn more about, in regards to health?

-Health to me means food, sleep, and exercise. Its about staying mentally and physically fit. I try to do all of these so that I am able to perform to my maximum each day. My strongest pillars are Exercise and Nutrition. I need work on stress, sleep and social because I am doing either homework or baseball everyday. I haven't had much of a social life in about 4 years. Each night i get at least 6-7 hours of sleep. And my stress level is through the roof. Theres nothing i really want to know more about health because i already know a lot of it. I just want to know what stretches to do for when i get sore/tight in certain spots. 

Unit 1 Reflection

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•  This unit was about the "basics" of anatomy. It was about how different cells function; what different tissues are for, and how they work;  the different macro molecules, and finally what anatomy and physiology are in terms of the body. 
•  The themes present in Unit 1 were the function and structure of the body, basically Anatomy and Physiology. This unit was to show how the body worked and what each structure in your body performed. From where the arms are related to the head, to the tissues that hod our body together, to the cells that make the tissues and our whole body. 
•  During this Unit i learned that Anatomy means structure of the body parts and that Physiology is the function of the body parts. Hence this, i learned how to determine where certain body parts are related to other body parts. For example, the nose is medial, inferior, anterior to the eyes. I then learned about the systems in the body such as the respiratory, digestive, circulatory, immune, excretory, endocrine, reproductive, nervous, integumentary, skeletal and muscular system. I then learned that all cells are either simple or stratified-meaning one, or more layers. Each cell is then either squamous or cuboidal or columnar. Next i learned about the 4 different biological molecules; lipids, nucleic acids, proteins and carbs. Finally i learned about the different tissues in the body such as connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue. 
•  I didn't fully understand the shape of the cells all that clear and i kept getting mixed up with the names too. I also didn't get all the Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells. Finally it was hard to tell the difference between the three muscle tissues (Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac). 
•  I will improve on my Temp checks and being more prepared for those. i will also improve on understanding the assignments better and knowing how and when to do them because i was late a couple times along with including to little pictures. 
• Something that relates to this unit is the major of kinesiology. I know this because i had a trainer for baseball and when i talked to him about his major, he said he had to take two years of anatomy and physiology because to be a trainer, you must know the human body like the back of your hand so you know what eeac person can and can't do.  

Tissue Lab

During today's lab, my partner, Nicole, and I went around the classroom looking at different tissues under microscopes. Now i must say that i wasn't really excited about this lab because, well whats fun about tissue? Well theres actually a whole different world to cells in tissue that I, or even some of my classmates thought. What I learned from the lab was that there are more than one types of tissue. For starters, theres Epithelial tissue (covers the body surface and/or lines a body cavity), Connective tissue (fills the spaces between organs and tissues and provides structural and metabolic support for other tissues and organs), Muscle tissue (composed of skeletal, smooth and Cardiac muscle which help supports and helps functions different parts of the body), and finally nervous tissue (transmits electrical signal from sensory receptors to effectors). Some connections I have made from this lab is that without tissues, the human body would A) not function, and B) not even live a second. Tissues, believe it or not, are vital to the human body. Every tissue is different for many reasons. Texture, function, location, etc. Some connections I've made between the anatomy of a tissue and its location/function is that muscle tissue is always in a place where the body needs it most. For example, in our notes, Histology Part II, it says the muscle tissue is "mostly in walls of hallow organs, walls of heart, and attached to bones." Muscle tissue helps the body move and function. I also connected that each tissue name is perfectly named because each tissue describes what it does.