Jacqueline Willard
SCI 100
January 31, 2011
Megan McClaire
Nutrition and fitness in today’s busy society is tougher now than ever before. Men and women work day and night, so squeezing fitness routine is not always the easiest thing. Not only is fitness tough but trying to eat a proper meal is even tougher when fast food is always around. This paper will show how fitness and nutrition is not easy in a busy forty hour plus work week. And some people can make the changes necessary to avoid healthy issues by making the necessary changes in life.
First step to a healthier new me would be to change my current fitness habit, which is not much other than teaching dance and walking to adding …show more content…
I know at least thirty minutes every day is a healthy goal of activity. So adding at least one hour a week of an activity is what I need to do. So adding Wii Dance Routine twice a week for one hour will help out and give me an extra amount to achieve the goal and go above and beyond the goal.
Second step is to improve the area of nutrition, I eat the three meals a day and I even snack a bit for the extra energy kick needed for the day. But nutritional habits are a lot like fitness habits, it focuses on eating right and exercising right. Habits are created to improve or even decrease who we are. So creating a healthy habit is essential to achieve the goal set in front of us. Poor nutrition can lead to obesity which can lead to medical problems in years to …show more content…
Families need that cooking time together to eat in a healthier way and create positive habits among the parents and the children. I know my eating habits still to this day are affected by my eating habits as a child. My mother worked day and night and my dad also worked long days and sometime nights. So dinner was not a home cooked meal, sometimes it was McDonald’s or pizza. So now that I work more than the average forty hour work week, I sometimes slip and eat that fast food because it is there and easy. Knowing that I know I need to make the changes to change my bad habits.
Fitting healthy habits into a hectic life is not easy but following a few steps to get more nutrition and fitness in a hectic life is necessary for any person who wants to make their fifth birthday. Here are a few things that can be put into play right now that can make healthy habits an easy part of the day to day routine. Areas that I have started to make improvements in my own health is in red and highlighted to show how little steps can make big steps later in life. Guarino Ph.D (n.d.) 1. Drink water throughout the day (doing my best