Supersize Me Paper
Your are personally responsible for your own health. How did watching this movie impact you? Is there a correlation between eating fast food and lack of exercise on obesity? Does FDR provide healthy Lunch and snack choices? Do we meet the guidelines set out in Improving the School Nutrition Environment? (Word Doc link here)
What is a lobbyist and how do they impact Health policy? What is a Calorie and how many should you be consuming and why?
Paper must be one page. Use Times New Roman 12pt. font, single spaced with 1"margins. Name, period and date must be included in "header".
Due on or before Friday May 27
Wellness Homework #1
Open this list of quotes. Read through the quotes and pick your 10 favorites. Write each of them neatly in your own handwriting on a sheet of paper in your binder/notebook.
Due Friday September 3
Life Expectancy
The average person is born with a set of genes that will allow them to live to 85 years of age or longer. People who take appropriate preventive steps may add as many as 10 quality years to that. People who fail to heed the messages of preventive medicine may subtract substantial years from their lives.
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator© - is designed to translate what we have learned from studies of centenarians and other longevity research into a practical and empowering tool for individuals to estimate their longevity potential. Life Expectancy Calculator
Use the calculator, answer all of the questions.
Using the information on the results page of your life expectancy quiz, answer the following questions. Using MS Word
What is the age expectancy of a person of your gender and age?
What is your life expectancy?
List your behaviors that are described in the "Reasoning behind Each Item" section. These behaviors may affect your life expectancy in a negative way
What are some things you could change right now to encourage a longer life expectancy for you? Save your file in \\Fdr-students\Students\~Student.ext\HS-PHE\Barry\G09 per6\drop Name your file Life_Your Name ie. Life_James Barry
Be prepared to share your views and opinions with the class about the following statement:
What you do not only affects your life now, but it may also affect it later.
Wellness Poster/Magazine Ad
You are to design a poster or full-page ad for your favorite magazine. The theme of this ad is wellness. The "Wellness" theme should be very apparent and include references to multiple types of health. Grade will be based not only on content but design.
Project due Wednesday September 15 at 8am
Projects can be emailed to me if completed on a computer.
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