Worksheet: How Healthy Are You?

By looking at what different people say about health, it is clear that each one look at it differently. Therefore, there are many ways to define health. When we look at health, all physical, intellectual, emotional and social aspects should be considered because they all affect our health equally. Health can be defined in many ways, positively, negatively and holistically. It depends on how the individuals look at their health and how concerned they are about it. Our state of healthiness will depend on many things such as where do we live, what job do we do, what do we eat, who are our friends and everything else related to our lifestyle. Our choice about our lifestyle can make a difference to our health. If we are interested enough in ourselves, we can improve our own health. Some people think, that it depends only on the health care we obtain; however, it doesn't only depend on this. It is connected to our lifestyle as well.

Assignment 1.2 Health and Wellness A. In my opinion, when I feel healthy I have more energy and do not feel as lethargic as I would when I am unhealthy and am not taking care of my body. When I feel healthy my self-image is much better and I feel like I enjoy life much more. If I am able to get the right amount of sleep, eat leaner and take care of my body by exercising I feel like I am able to perform much better.

This piece is based upon The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The story tells the struggle of Edna, a women underwhelmed with her current life wearing for something more. Edna is a women in the 1800’s when many women did not have full rights and were thought of as lesser in America. She is very individualistic, preferring to stay in a small “pigeon” home instead of the large extravagant house of her husband. She struggles with meeting society’s standards set for her because her nature is pushing her the other way.

Gregor’s existence signified his ability to change and adapt throughout the novel, unlike his family, who are unable to cope with Gregor’s transformation. While in this new form, Gregor uses the transformation as an opportunity to reconnect with the family’s lives, even though the family is disgusted and harmfully abuses Gregor’s physical condition. When time is consistently mentioned in the novel, Gregor is reminded that time is fleeting and limited to intimately interact with his family. Time forces Gregor to constantly become engrossed about his job, rather than worrying about himself. Anxiety causes a disruption to Gregor’s view of his surroundings, which slowly exterminates Gregor psychologically and mentally.

1. Do you find it easy or difficult to determine the nutritional value of food? What are some methods to help you more easily determine the nutritional values of food?

The goal of this lesson is to have Gabriel connect the relationships with cardiovascular health and muscular strength/endurance by reading a passage and completing a worksheet.

I don’t like to drink water , but I’m trying to drink more water because is good for my body. I hate waiting

On average, a person needs eight ounces of water eight times a day to stay hydrated. Different people need different amounts depending on many factors like height and weight and so forth. Some will only need six glasses a day, while some will need more than eight. It is common knowledge that water is the best way to hydrate, but people can get hydrated by many other drinks and foods as well. Fruits and vegetables, sport drinks, juices, milk, and herbal teas all lend a hand in hydrating the body. On the other side, alcohol and caffeinated beverages, like soda and the beloved coffee, increase the chance of dehydration (Holm 2010).

Central Idea: Drinking the right amount of water each day has crucial health benefits. In this informative speech, my goal is to make the audience aware of the health risk associated with not drinking an efficient amount of water. Also, I will provide several tips to help the audience make sure they are drinking enough water daily.

According to the World Health Organisation Health is a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of diseases or infirmity (1946). Now health is defined as having all six dimensions of health, and they include physical health, mental health, emotional health, social health, spiritual health and environmental health. There is not a single person who can be described as being perfectly healthy, it is just about impossible to be perfectly healthy, to be completely healthy you would have to have maintain a perfect balance of all six dimensions of health. Physical health is the most talked about dimension and is the most commonly known.

This is a longitudinal and cross-sectional study using the data from the National Health Interview Survey. The trend of migraine prevalence from 2010 to 2015 was assessed. Age and sex adjusted racial/ethnic prevalence of migraine was compared with different factors. Interactions between race/ethnicity and individual variables were also analyzed to determine the impacts of these factors specifically on race or ethnicity.

Completing the wellness lifestyle assessment helped me to identify the areas of my life where I need to make some changes, and reinforced what I knew about my wellness habits already. Considering all the components of wellness, I think my assessment was fairly encouraging. I was not too surprised at my results, but found out some areas that need more change than I had anticipated.

Health is the state of having a balanced life in several categories . Some of these categories are physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental health. When I am asked to evaluate my own health, I decide that it's not very healthy. First of all, I don't get enough sleep which in result makes me stressful and effects my health. Secondly, my diet is not always balanced as it should be. In other words, I don't get all the nutrients that I need and I eat fast food sometimes. Thirdly, I don't exercise a lot but I walk for about 30-40 minutes on school days. Lastly, school work make me stressed and often effects my social life.

Dehydration is a problem that can be fixed easily through self-awareness and a conscious effort to drink. Many techniques exist to help facilitate and encourage water consumption: making drinking water a habit; keeping a liquid journal; and making water more appealing. Although the topic of water consumption and drinking eight glasses of water appears to be such a simple element of health, it is key to effective body function, and optimal health.

Throughout this complete health assessment, I will approach my patient, a 49 years old, female, married patient, and perform a head to toe examination. Starting with the gathering of information, I will start with biographic data, reason for seeking care, present illness, past health history, family history, functional assessment, perception of health, head to toe examination, and baseline measurements. The subjective data will be collected first, where the patient will provide necessary information about every organ system for further examination while the objective data will be amassed in every system based on my findings. This assignment serves as an opportunity to establish a nurse-client interpersonal relationship that