Unit 2 Reflection
Health is keeping the 5 pillars: nutrition, sleep, stress, exercise, and a social life in good condition and making sure each pillar is getting the adequate amount of whatever they need. Health is also keeping the 4 main hormones: leptin, insulin, glucagon, and cortisol in balance.
I don't think I am incredibly healthy, but I am not doing awfully bad. For nutrition, I think I get an appropriate amount of calories on a daily basis, but I eat too much unhealthy food from fast food restaurants. For sleep, I do pretty poorly, because I sleep too late from procrastinating on homework. I think I do pretty poorly in exercise; I take martial arts for about 1 hour a week, but I don't exercise much on my own. However, I think my stress levels and social life are doing okay. i think i get out enough and am with friends for a lot of time in the week. I also think I don't get very stressed about college, grades, or things I should be stressed about. I think that people at SHS do pretty well in nutrition, exercise, socializing but do poorly in sleep and stress. I feel like a lot of SHS students don't get enough sleep each night and overwork themselves. I also think SHS students are very stressed and worried about their grades, college applications, tests, finals, volunteering, and the list goes on and on. I don't think there is too much that could be done to promote health, but we can try assigning less homework or completely getting rid of the finals.
One of the major takeaways I had from this unit was that stress is good for you. Unlike the others, we have always believed that they are good for us, such as sleep, nutrition, and exercise. I went into this unit believing that stress was an extremely negative component, and we should do everything we can to eliminate it. I learned that stress is very important for people to function properly, but we just have to control it, because it's only harmful when the stress remains after the stressor is gone. I also learned that being social and not being social can surprisingly have the same health effects as smoking versus not smoking. Another takeaway that has impacted by daily activity was learning that carbohydrates are a lot unhealthier and cause more weight gain than fat does.
Over the course of the unit, I learned a lot of important aspects of each pillar. Specifically, I learned the importance of fiber and Omega-3 in a person's diet in nutrition. I learned about the amount of sleep and exercise people should be getting. I learned about the alarm stage, resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage, and the different effects of each stage. I still do not fully understand the difference between REM sleep and non-REM sleep. I know that REM sleep happens when your eyes move rapidly, your brain is at its highest level of function, and this is the state where dreaming occurs. One thing that I do not understand is when REM sleep starts and stops and when non-REM sleep comes in. For this unit, one of my major problems was that I was working too slowly on notes, labs, and classwork. Next unit, my major goal for improvement is using my class time and work time more productively to get things done faster and more efficient.
https://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep?language=en#t-559054
This TED talk explains why humans sleep. Throughout the unit, we learned a lot about sleep, what happens when we sleep, the function of sleep, and the importance of sleep. But one thing I never really understood is why humans sleep. Sleep takes up 32 years of our lives and is vital for our daily function. Sleep is important for restoration, energy conservation, and proper brain function, but I wondered why we couldn't apply these in an activity besides sleeping. This video explains the important of knowing that a person is getting enough sleep and critical brain functions that are taken care of. This video relates a lot to our unit because it talks about the detrimental health effects when we don't sleep enough. It also mentioned that 100,000 car accidents were due to tiredness and a lack of sleep that was also mentioned in the lecture.
I don't think I am incredibly healthy, but I am not doing awfully bad. For nutrition, I think I get an appropriate amount of calories on a daily basis, but I eat too much unhealthy food from fast food restaurants. For sleep, I do pretty poorly, because I sleep too late from procrastinating on homework. I think I do pretty poorly in exercise; I take martial arts for about 1 hour a week, but I don't exercise much on my own. However, I think my stress levels and social life are doing okay. i think i get out enough and am with friends for a lot of time in the week. I also think I don't get very stressed about college, grades, or things I should be stressed about. I think that people at SHS do pretty well in nutrition, exercise, socializing but do poorly in sleep and stress. I feel like a lot of SHS students don't get enough sleep each night and overwork themselves. I also think SHS students are very stressed and worried about their grades, college applications, tests, finals, volunteering, and the list goes on and on. I don't think there is too much that could be done to promote health, but we can try assigning less homework or completely getting rid of the finals.
One of the major takeaways I had from this unit was that stress is good for you. Unlike the others, we have always believed that they are good for us, such as sleep, nutrition, and exercise. I went into this unit believing that stress was an extremely negative component, and we should do everything we can to eliminate it. I learned that stress is very important for people to function properly, but we just have to control it, because it's only harmful when the stress remains after the stressor is gone. I also learned that being social and not being social can surprisingly have the same health effects as smoking versus not smoking. Another takeaway that has impacted by daily activity was learning that carbohydrates are a lot unhealthier and cause more weight gain than fat does.
Over the course of the unit, I learned a lot of important aspects of each pillar. Specifically, I learned the importance of fiber and Omega-3 in a person's diet in nutrition. I learned about the amount of sleep and exercise people should be getting. I learned about the alarm stage, resistance stage, and the exhaustion stage, and the different effects of each stage. I still do not fully understand the difference between REM sleep and non-REM sleep. I know that REM sleep happens when your eyes move rapidly, your brain is at its highest level of function, and this is the state where dreaming occurs. One thing that I do not understand is when REM sleep starts and stops and when non-REM sleep comes in. For this unit, one of my major problems was that I was working too slowly on notes, labs, and classwork. Next unit, my major goal for improvement is using my class time and work time more productively to get things done faster and more efficient.
https://www.ted.com/talks/russell_foster_why_do_we_sleep?language=en#t-559054
This TED talk explains why humans sleep. Throughout the unit, we learned a lot about sleep, what happens when we sleep, the function of sleep, and the importance of sleep. But one thing I never really understood is why humans sleep. Sleep takes up 32 years of our lives and is vital for our daily function. Sleep is important for restoration, energy conservation, and proper brain function, but I wondered why we couldn't apply these in an activity besides sleeping. This video explains the important of knowing that a person is getting enough sleep and critical brain functions that are taken care of. This video relates a lot to our unit because it talks about the detrimental health effects when we don't sleep enough. It also mentioned that 100,000 car accidents were due to tiredness and a lack of sleep that was also mentioned in the lecture.
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