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If you were to read this headline 6 months ago, You would call me crazy. Any Patriot fan wouldn’t even click the article calling it bogus. Tom Brady decided to take his talents to Tampa Bay to play for the Buccaneers organization, capping off a 20 year run in New England. After this news, manyContinue reading “The Patriots are better off with Cam Newton rather than Tom Brady for the 2020 NFL Season”

First off, Its pretty crazy that this is the last blog post of the semester as it has been an unforgettable one for the wrong reasons. We made the best of it, but its bitter sweet to be writing my last. For chapter 14, Environmental health was the topic and was hard hitting. It wasContinue reading “Chapter 14”

Chapter 13 was mainly focused on violence and intentional cases, however there are unintentional things that can hurt us that the book goes on about. The most relevant and common form of violence is sexual assault, especially on college campuses. By the book, Sexual assault is any sexual act with another person without consent. RapeContinue reading “Chapter 13-Violence and unintentional injuries”

This chapter is quite fitting with the Global Pandemic we are living through wit the Covid-19 virus outbreak. I ave heard of lots of the things this chapter talks about, but was one where I read lots of things that were new to me such as the in depth details and affects of these infectiousContinue reading “Chapter 12-Infectious Conditions”

Chapter 11 covered Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, which are all extremely important to be informed about although it may be sensitive to some who have had loved ones suffer from one of these conditions. We always hear how important our hearts and other muscles/organs are, but learning how in depth they are was crazyContinue reading “Chapter 11”

Chapter 10 went deeper into fitness and highlighted types, benefits, risks, testing, and more categories regarding fitness. Before I started to focus on my health, I thought of fitness as something that gets your heart rate up and burned fat. After this chapter previous research, Fitness is such a broad term that has so manyContinue reading “Chapter 10- Fitness”

Chapter 9 is a great follow up from last weeks chapter of nutrition as it digs into eating disorders and other factors that can be a result from the lack of proper nutrition/exercise. I knew obesity was a huge problem globally, but not to the point the stats read. It is an epidemic, and theContinue reading “Chapter 9- Weight Management and body image”

I was excited to see this weeks chapter was solely on nutrition. Over the past year I have steadily learned about basic nutrition to see what would help with my goals. My goals were and still are to cut fat and build lean muscle. Before I realized that i wanted to make a change, IContinue reading “Chapter 8-Nutrition”

This chapter is yet another one that pertains directly to us college students as it focuses on the abuse and affects of alcohol and tobacco. The first thing that popped out to me was the chemistry and potency of alcohol. I had no idea it was ethanol that is the chemical that makes you drunk,Continue reading “Chapter 7”

This chapter may have been the most interesting to me so far as it explored all types of drugs and the abuse of them, treatment/ recovery techniques, and addictions to things other than drugs. I know/ knew a lot of people who have struggled with addictions and it is quite a scary thing that canContinue reading “Chapter 6- Addiction and drug abuse”