College Admissions Essay: My Passion For Health

Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature.Real beauty comes from learning ,growing ,and loving in the ways of life . That is the art of life. These programs leave a passion in me for the pure knowable world and these programs inflame me with a curiosity .Most people complain of fortune ,few of nature ; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them,the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former .The truth is ,that nature ,seldom profuse,has distributed her gifts more equally than she is generally supposed to have done.Education and situation make the great difference .Culture improves,and occasions elicit .I believe that enthusiasm will take me further than any amount of experience .Enthusiastic people can

Growing up my mother would say “You are what you eat and it will catch up to you someday.” Well that day has arrived; no longer am I able to consume any type of food plus dessert without consequences. The results from the sugar intake is making itself known in how I feel and look.

My ambition in seeking acceptance to your program is to do my part to improve the quality of the health care system through increasing my own abilities in health care management. While there are many medically qualified individuals working in medical management, there is unfortunately often a serious deficit in quality management experience. In order to achieve my ambition, I plan to utilize my strong medical qualifications and improve upon my strong management experience.

As a fellow high-school student, I have a rich experience with its hustled lifestyle. We attend hours of classes every day, are involved in multiple extracurricular activities after-school, and return home late at night not to replenish, but instead to finish homework from half a dozen courses. Because of this packed schedule and the fatigue after a daily battle, instead of seeking healthy options during their break time, students usually grab some “chips and Coke” (Bittman, par 11), or tasty, inexpensive, and almost-instantaneous food.

If you are American, you ate too much sugar today, twice the daily limit, about 60 to 90 grams of added sugars. Americans consume two to three times the daily limit of added sugars, a silent, yet serious issue. Many people are confused about what added sugars are, which are unnatural sweeteners with extra calories that are added into foods and beverages, through cooking, processing, or on the table (Today’s Dietitian Magazine). From October 2011 to December 2012, ChooseHealthLA ran a marketing campaign to combat excess consumption of sugar sweetened beverages in America with more effectiveness compared to other similar campaigns, “resulting in more than 515 million impressions” throughout “mass media, billboards, buses, and railways” (Barragan).

In the beginning of this course I gained an understanding of what health coaching is and the importance to have health coaching skills in any given profession. Health coaching is a partnership to add support and guidance to create a vision/goal and turn it into a reality. I understand a coaching session takes practice to master, it’s not that simple to help clients. Learning the practice of health coaching has showed me to stay away from the expert mode to allow the client to become an autonomous expert. As described in our textbook, coaching is similar to delivering a baby, the coach isn’t going to have the baby, but the client is the one giving birth. This similarity describes the coach to add support and help the client with the end goal. As a coach we address their desires, feelings, reflections, energy, and needs to generate moments that build into greater things. In order to address all of these different areas the foundation needs to be set, that is the coaching presence. I learned a coach needs to be flexible, present, confident, open, and seek new ways of change. The coach “being” is used to create and establish a partnership were the client reflects the coach’s presence in his or her process. Jordan and Livingstone (2013) explain the importance of the client and coach relationship, they described it as a tool of therapy needed for goal attainment. During my health coaching experience, I used this tool of therapy by applying motivational interviewing,

One recommendation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, is to encourage people to drink more water. This a recommendation that would include children, adolescents, and adults. Increasing water consumption has shown to help limit excess weight gain1, while drinking water can also improve student’s readiness to learn by increasing the level of cognitive functioning 2. As previously described by Heidi, sugar sweetened beverages is now consumed instead of water in a large sector of the population. Consuming water instead of sodas, sports drinks, flavored milks, fruit-flavored drinks, and other beverages with added sugar can prevent dental caries3. For example, substituting water for one 20-ounce sugar sweetened soda will save people about

That being said, I have started taking active steps to improve my overall health/fitness. (I don’t care about thinness, except as an incidental byproduct of a reduction in overall body fat.) For one, I’ve started limiting my sugar intake. To be fair, I wasn’t eating a lot of sugary foods. I eat very little candy. There aren’t many pastries in my life. I maybe knock back a bowl of ice cream once a month. Where I really fall down on the sugar is in my coffee. My father loved coffee and loved it SWEET. I learned to drink coffee from him, so I always took my coffee sweet. Lots of sugar, yeah baby! Then I discovered flavored creamers…

The problem that will be the focus of this single system design (SSD) is how sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) intake, contributes to various health issues of persons (adults and youths) who are obese and moderately overweight. SSBs are a great source of added sugar in the diets of many American adults and youth. Even though the consumption among U.S. citizens is prevalent it differs between various geographical regions, and that consumption has increased five-fold in this and many other western countries since the 1950s. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture (2015) dietary guidelines for Americans daily intake of added sugar was not to exceed 10% of total daily calorie, but mine at one time reached 3x’s the norm. According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (2016), even when a person consumes at least one SSB daily, it can be associated with adverse health issues over time. Among these health issues are obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. Reiterating the statement about consumption vary among geographical areas, according to the 2009–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 50.6% of U.S. adults and youths consumed at least one SSB on a given day. The prevalence of daily SSB intake was higher among U.S. citizens living in the Northeast (68.4%) and South (66.7%) than among persons living in the Midwest (58.8%). Believe it or no, of these percentages younger and middle aged adults consumed

They have found an alarming connection between the consumption of sugar in soft drinks and cardiovascular diseases, as one soft drink a day increases the chance of death by one-third. Also, individuals who consume a quarter of the daily calorie intake from sugar increase the death risk by half. The World Health Organisation recommends that a maximum of ten percent of calorie intake comes from added sugar. ”Not only is added sugar an unnecessary cause of calories, but also predisposes to strokes and heart attacks. We need to take action now.” (Hope,

What am I passionate about? I am passionate about being true to myself and not letting external forces influence who I am, what I like, and my potential. My choices in extra-curricular activities and sports are not typical compared to most students at my high school, especially the girls. I have learned to not allow others’ expectations discourage me from the passions I want to pursue.

Obesity rates are on the rise, with about 33% of Americans being overweight. Many Americans use artificial sweeteners instead of sugar in an effort to control their weight. Yet, the safety of artificial sweeteners has stirred up a controversy. There seems to be evidence that the consumption of artificial sweeteners in large quantities is harmful and may even cause cancer. However, most people, including medical professionals, have deemed the moderate consumption of artificial sweeteners as safe and a good method of weight control. Still, there have been observations made that artificial sweetener consumption results in users being left feeling hungrier and eating more. Now psychologists at Purdue University 's Ingestive Behavior Research Center under the lead of Susan Swithers, PhD, and Terry Davidson, PhD, have compiled evidence of this occurrence in a study they conducted. Artificial sweeteners turn out to be real diet saboteurs. A healthy diet and exercise are common methods to fight weight gain. As part of a healthy diet many Americans substitute sugar with artificial sweeteners. Consequently, in an effort to cater to these people, many manufacturers have developed products containing artificial sweeteners instead of sugar. Products such as diet sodas and sugar-free cookies, among others, have been touted as healthy and are advertised as supporting a healthy diet helping consumers to effectively cut their sugar intake. Sounds easy, doesn 't it? Enjoy what you love to

There is increasing evidence to show that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with increased risk of obesity or elevated body mass index (BMI) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Conversely, several empirical studies have also shown that reduced consumption of SSBs reduces the risk of obesity and developing T2DM.1-10Obesity is a global public health problem of pandemic proportions .2 An estimated 1.6 billion adults worldwide were overweight with BMI of 25kg/m2 and over and approximately 400 million of these adult were obese with BMI of 30kg/m2 and greater in 2005. It was estimated that these numbers will reach 2.3 billion for overweight and 700 million for obese adults in 2015.2 In the United States, there was an

Today typical 20-ounce soda contains 15 to 18 teaspoons of sugar and as much as 240 calories. A 64-ounce fountain cola drink could hold up to 700 calories. Furthermore, people who drink this “liquid candy” do not feel as full as if they had eaten the same calories from solid food, and they do not compensate by eating less (Chan, 2015.) According to the same, one out of three children in the United States are overweight or obese, and the nation spends an estimated $190 billion a year treating overweight or obesity-related health conditions (Chan, 2015). Several studies, show the devastating effect of sugary drinks on people’s health including the risk of not only developing chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke but also a contributor to the obesity epidemic.

This seems to have given students two messages. First that I notice and care about their feelings/well being. Secondly, that I want them to take care of themselves and be healthy. In fact, I have noticed that when I have repeatedly given certain students the suggestion to take a work break they seem to become aware of themselves and start coming to me when they sense that they need a quick snack or stretch break. I think implementing this has also helped me too because I also have tried to practice what I preach and have my water bottle and snack around too! I hope that students see that I really believe good nutrition and ultimately I hope that these healthy habits have an effect on the way that they take care of themselves at home too.