Healthy Eating Plan-Week One

Healthy Eating Plan
                                                                                              Healthy Eating Plan             1.

                                                    Healthy Eating Plan

                                                     

                                                  Axia College Student

                                                                                            Healthy Eating Plan               2.

    I have never really been one to pay attention to my over all eating habits until I started

taking this class. I have such a busy life taking care of three children, working and going

to school full-time it just seemed hard to balance it all. I grew up with a very large family

who all lived under the same roof, mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunt and uncles not to

mention my grandmother and grandfather. My grandmother cooked three square meals a

day and many snacks in between. I'm not talking about healthy meals, these were

homemade rolls, homemade mashed potatoes, pasta and all the fattiest foods you could

ever imagine. Years after my grandfather passed away my grand mother remarried to a

Mexican man. So we had a new cook in the house, and full blooded Italian and a

Mexican who were cooking night and day. We had everybody lined up down the kids in

the neighborhood, to all animals lined up at the door. It was like a mad zoo!!! Another

wards eating healthy growing up was something no one knew about it. All we knew is

that is was wonderful food and we eat plenty. I guess through learned behavior I am

doing the same things with my own children I guess we could call that learned behavior.

As I started this class I began to take a look at all the people in my family and their many

health concerns. Almost everyone except the children and myself suffer with high-

cholesterol, obesity, heart condition and Type1 and 2 diabetes. So I believe... [continues]

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