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As we are at the end of this semester looking back to where I started with my health aspect goals to where I am now, I am beyond happy. I am so happy with the amount of knowledge I have learned in all aspects of health and especially the ones closer to my own healthContinue reading “Chapter 15 – Consumerism and Complementary & Integrative Healthcare Choices”

As for as things have been going with my health topic, I have been maintaining on eating clean and working out almost every day. I do believe an important part in reaching my goals and staying healthy is also learning that everything is ok in moderation. I am aware that I have been focused onContinue reading “Chapter 14 – Environmental Health”

As for this week and my health goals, I can say I have been really happy with my progress and even the motivation I continue to have. During this time it can be easy to get off track or not hold yourself accountable, but the more I stick to my routine the more successful IContinue reading “Chapter 13 – Violence & Unintentional Injuries”

Chapter 12 was nothing but eye-opening. For the most part, these were all topics I was either somewhat familiar with or just have heard of before. These are of course all things that are important to know about and to be aware of, but also to know why it is so important to be mindfulContinue reading “Chapter 12 – Infectious Conditions”

Hi, I’m Samantha Lundrigan and in the last semester of my senior year at Bridgewater State University. I will graduate in May 2020 with my major in psychology. I have transferred from Dean College, which I loved and met great friends but things came up and I decided to transfer and commute to school fromContinue reading “Introduction”

This week’s chapter on CV, Cancer, and diabetes was a lot of information on these topics that I never knew much of. Lung cancer was the only topic that I was more aware of because my grandfather had lung cancer when I was just a baby and it was the only relative when I wasContinue reading “Chapter 11 – CV, Cancer, and Diabetes”

This week’s chapter on fitness was great, as I have been recently doing my zoom class workouts that my gym has to offer. I can honestly say I never really learned much about fitness, workouts, and the different type of physical activities that the body can do that are beneficial for the long run. IContinue reading “Chapter 10 – Fitness”

For this week’s chapter, I was interested in the material that the textbook covered and learned a lot about how many factors go into body image, whether positive or negative and for weight management. I have never really been one to always look to step on the scale, other than when going to a doctor’sContinue reading “Chapter 9 – Weight Management & Body Image”

This week’s chapter on Nutrition was pretty fitting since I have been trying to focus a lot more on my nutrition, given that we are all now, for the most part, staying in our homes. I have been learning different healthy alternatives for foods and also just learning more about what I should be puttingContinue reading “Chapter 8 – Nutrition”

For today’s society alcohol and tobacco are both a hot topic and considered for most a part of everyday life. I do not smoke and never found the appeal of it, but I do drink alcohol now and then. I was never one to get too carried away with consuming unhealthy amounts of anything unlessContinue reading “Chapter 7 -Alcohol and Tobacco”