sad day

Still have yet to change/ modify my Google Alerts, so there's not much help in that department. My father, on the other hand, has been back in the hospital for high blood sugar. He's now on insaline.

Not Stopping :)

Well, it seems that many people don't like blogging apparently. And it looks like our class project is falling apart. So our teacher, Mr. Dickson, said we can either stop blogging or keep on going--our choice. So I chose to continue! :) I feel like vegetarianism is something many either know or care little about. So if you want to keep on reading my blogs (...if anyone is...), I would love for you to! And send any questions you like! :)

The End of The Road

Ok, so my blogging has come to an end; sad to say. Over the last couple of weeks I have learned a lot. The first couple of weeks of my blogs, I observed how my family reacted to eating out and eating in. I learned that when we ate out for dinner we were always tired after we ate and we would always gain a couple pounds. When we ate at home, everyone could keep their eyes open for the next 3hours after we ate. Longhorn was I favorite restaurant to dine in at. We would always order some Texas cheese fries and the wild west shrimp before we get our food. So we would be full before we get our main course, but we would still eat everything that was in front of us. We then triend to go out to eat at least once a week to cut back on eating out and saving more money. It worked for a couple of weeks and then we started to disobey the rules. Later we stop going out period and ate at home. I’m happy to say it really worked. I was proud of my family. Now that I don’t have to blog anymore I know we will be eating out more now :).

I enjoyed you guys !

Oh, ohh.

So basically, even with all the research I've done, my opinion on eating in versus eating out is still the same. I did find a lot of stuff that would help me argue my opinion on why eating in is better than eating out. Not only did i learn some statistics and some nutritional information, I learned what some people are doing to still "keep hope alive" and continue the old tradition of cooking at home. I even went a little deeper in thought and imagined what it would be like if we stopped cooking all together. I even had a nightmare about Thanksgiving (ehhh!). It was pretty cool over all.

Signing Off

Hello, to all who read and all who will read. Thanks for reading and/or following this. Because of this blog I've learned a lot about diabetes and raising awareness. My only hope is that we can take everything we know and do better with it. Basically its what everybody says: exercise and eat healthy, but it doesn't hit you until you actually try it. But, you truly feel accomplished after you do. Even if it's just eating healthy, try something. It won't hurt to try at all. And if it does...I apologize.

Signing Off...
A.Bellman

Be Happy Be Healthy!
~Buzz the Bee

gone

Finishing this project I believe I did find I learned a lot about the chain reaction of life. For the most part, no one is happy and only looks at the harmful effect that the oil spill resulted in. Now reading my last google alert, which was only somewhat helpful, this article by Fred Lucas is saying no fish were harm in te activity of filling up the ocean will oil. Yes fish have been reported to have been killed he says, but not from the spill. In my last research I am finding the arguments over why the fish have died after this catastrophe. Maybe in the future every question asked will be answered. What I know though, is that not all these problems were has deep and stressing as before this ship leaked. So are people just taking advantage to now have someone to blame, or is BP just trying to make everything less disastrous as they really are?

Final Thoughts

This post will be the final post for me. This blog has given me so much research on buying from local growers versus buying from grocery stores. I’ve learned about new developments that farmers are starting to use such as accepting food stamps. I have also learned about how much healthier farmers markets foods are for you.

 

On the other side, I’ve learned that grocery stores are more convenient for you. They may not be as healthy but you do not have buy produce seasonally as opposed to farmers markets. Grocery stores are also more convenient with their hours of business.

 

So, as I conclude this blog post I hope that people will be motivated by my posts to go outside their comfort zone and try buying from local markets, if they buy mostly from grocery stores. And if readers buy from grocery stores, they would buy from farmers markets.

Summary

Yeah, this is late. Anyways, to sum up everything, my story is going to be about a girl who finds that her family is going to be a huge help during her fight through diabetes. Through all the research I have done, I know a basic description of what her eating habits will be like, what types of pains and annoyances she will have, and also how she will grow accustomed to it. I know that she will have a lot of celebrity influences because through my research even I was surprised at how many celebrities have the disease. I found many people's personal essays that they put online about their own experiences with diabetes and I hope to use those as a guide to how my character acts in my story.

No She Does Not Have A Name Yet

Well... I can honestly say that I have no idea where to start. My blogging experience has probably come to an end here. All I have to offer is a summary of how I'm going to write this.

A girl caught up in the city life--totally forgotten of her down-home roots--travels South back to her country-life family for Christmas. This turns into a completely life-changing experience for her when she realizes how much she actually misses her old lifestyle. She is left with a big choice--go back to the Big Apple with her new life and circle of friends, or stay in her hometown with the people and sights she grew up in?

There's your summary. I'm considering writing it in a personal-journal sort of way in the eye of the city-girl-gone-back-home (no, I have not named her yet, but I will)

Teen Health: Keep Fighting





As you may have already guessed from the other posts of my fellow CW writers, this blog is coming to an end. Thanks to limited resources, information, and other factors, this will be my last blog. While writing this blog, I have found that there are a lot ways that teens can stay healthy. Exorcising, eating healthy, and even getting a new pet can keep away the pounds and health risks. There are other ways to stay in movement, like dancing, playing kickball with friends, or just taking a nice walk. Teens have decisions that they can make that will keep their health in good condition. Hopefully this blog site reached someone.

~Chan

Eh...

     Well, this is pretty much over now.  I wish I could say that it has been more of a profitable experience; I wish i could say that some good, some real good, actually came out these; I wish my teacher actually read these and noticed how smart I look when I write.  Unfortunately, some things just can't happen.
     Thinking back on this, I realize something very particular: I have never given a solution to the problem I've presented.  I've shown it to a very high degree that just looks like nagging, but I've never given a solution.  I suppose that's the ultimate fault of giving a problem; that person expects someone else to fill in the details and figure out what to do next.
     So, here is the only solution I can think of to a problem like this: think.  Think about everything you see around you and think carefully about it.  Ask questions, reason with these questions, and look for answers.  Wonder about the world around you and take it all into consideration.  If something needs to be changed, tell people; if something needs to be done, try to do it; if there is something wrong, make it right.  I know that many people out there think that something is wrong with what goes on in Alabama, particularly Montgomery.  And it's not just the problem I've stated, it's other problems (not calling any of them out...MPS) as well.
     Alabama can provide produce for itself, and sell it to the people of  Alabama too.  Enough said, enough done.  Problem solved...at lease if anyone does something to solve it.
                                 
                                                                                                                                            Godspeed

The Final Blog

This is my last blog and my last chance to warn you about bad dietary choices.

Eat healthy so you won't get sick!!!! That is the simplest way I can put it.
For all the anorexic, obese, and any other eating disorder person...YOU CAN EAT, JUST MAKE SURE ITS HEALTHY!! Obese people can loose weight and anorexic people can get to a healthy size without being fat or over weight. All you have to do is eat healthy and work out.

I now know what I'm going to write my short story about for this project.

Farewell

Well i think this will be my last post for a while. It was fun and i learned a lot as i dived into the world of fast food. I actually did go to Golden Corral with my parents today and got to see what they usually eat when they go. It really wasn't as bad as i thought.My mom had fried fish, carrots,mash potatoes and peas. My dad had grilled tilapia and some kind of spicy chicken, and some other things. Their dessert in take was kinda rocky though.There was ice cream with chocolate and peanut toppings and mini pecan pies floating between the two. But still in the long run they weren't so bad. I just don't know if doing this routine every week though is healthy.

Farewell Blogger!

The Last Blog!!

THIS MAY BE THE LAST THING THAT I WRITE FOR LONG... CAN YOU HEAR ME SMILING WHEN I WRITE THIS BLOG FOR YOU? AND ONLY YOU!!!!! AS I LEAVE WILL YOU BE SOMEONE TO SAY GOODBYE? AS I LEAVE WILL YOU BE SOMEONE TO WIPE YOUR EYE? MY FOOT IS OUT THE DOOR AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME NOW!!!!!!!!    -ALL AMERICAN REJECTS!

 TO ALL OF MY READERS AND BY READERS I MEAN MR. DICKSON. THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY LAST BLOG FOR THIS UHH THIS THING. I AM SAD TO SAY THAT I WILL NOT STRESS OVER TRYING TO GET IT DONE AT THE LAST MINUTE... BUT IN OTHER NEWS AS MY OTHER BLOGS HAVE STATED FOOD HUNGER IS NOT GOOD. GO TO LOCAL FOOD BANKS AND HELP OUT. YOU'LL BE AMAZED AT HOW GREAT YOU FEEL AFTERWARDS!!! WELL PEOPLE I JUST WANNA SAY..... GOODBYE,FAREWELL, TO YOU.. MY FRIEND!!!!!     =)

Wrap Up

It's obvious just by looking around these days that fast food is taking a huge toll on Americans. It's packed full of different artifical flavors and hidden ingredients that are extremley fattening. 45% of Americans eat fast food everyday. The childhood obsesity rate is going up as more chain restraunts are coming up with new kids meals. Why are Americans doing this to themselves? It's because we're lazy. We don't want to cook at home and places like McDonalds and Burger King provide quick inexpensive meals. Obesity is quickly becoming one of the main causes of death in the US today. What are we going to do to stop this?

Farewell

Well, this blog has taken a good run, but all good things but alas end. I have learned much from this blog. I have learned all about diabetes and food-illnesses, and causes, and even ways to get healthy. I have put the beginning of my story up (last weeks post) and I have decided that my main topic will be food germs. The story is about a girl whose mother has discovered a pesticide that keeps germs off of food completely. But the girl (while examining her mother's pesticide) notices a molecule that is deadly to humans. She tries to tell everyone, but no one will believe her. It is about her journey and how she tries to save everyone from the thing that was supposed to keep them from death. I know it's more about adventure than food illnesses, but since the adventure couldn't have happened unless the pesticide had been created, you could say it was the main point. So now, I tip my hat to you, Cast Your Bucket Down blog, as I saw farewell for the last time.

The End is Near!! And Hopefully So Are Your Bad Eating Habits!!!!

Well, i've learned a couple of things during this project: foods are not safe, that maybe my body has been telling me something all along, and that there are things people don't know, but need to know, and i've told them.

Foods just don't seem to be that safe anymore. With the government handing out money to mass produce food like machinery, and  for colleges and scientist to study and "improve" the food growth, and what-not, it's killing us.

My body has been rearing up against any intake of meat for the longest now, and I think I know why: I'ts not trustworthy, and maybe I AM designed to be a veggie head. I can't even look at meat without getting woozy.

Now, looking back at my blog posts from the past, I think that my friends and I have told you all that you ever wanted and never wanted to know about the food around you. SOOO, with this in mind: happy eating and good-bye!  :)

CS "Bonding of the family sort"

Working with dirt and spades and weeds is a great way to bond with family. My mother and I have a plot in the backyard and we spend time weeding and harvesting. My older cousins have a bigger plot and all three of us cut up and goof off when it comes time to take care of anything that needs to be done.
Growing produce, be it vegetables or fruits, or even just taking care of a flower plot can lead to, as my silly cousin Christophermichael call it, "bonding of the family sort." Growing helps the community, the local economy of a region, and even the family ties that keep us sane.

Nothing within the last week of my last blog has changed. I can say that this week I didn't go out to eat. I ate salads this whole week including some rice, green beans and other veggies. I guess i have to take back what I said about eating out because technically i didn't, my mom brought home subway but i can say i did eat healthy!!!!! Trying to decide rather to eat at home or eat out hasn't been a challenge this week because to me eating healthier and knowing how your food is prepared is waaayyy better then going out plus you save money and gas!!!!!

HUNTING ON SATURDAY

So, I am actually going hunting. FINALLY! I am going Saturday or Sunday. I am not quite sure yet. I am really excited. We will be hunting with a cross bow. I am so happy!

It was my birthday ! Is that an excuse ?

Hello my fellow people! As you all can see from my title that we have messed up our diet deal. We didnt do it intentionally, but since this week was my birthday week, we have been eatin out alot. One day we had a Church's Chicken meal , one day we had Poppa John's and one day my dad barbequed. But today, we went to Red Robin. I wanted to get treated to some good dinning food. Besides my mom didn't feel like cooking for my dad and I so she took us out to eat. We really enjoyed the meal, but it really had a huge affect on us afterwards. Everyone was tired and about to pop from all the refills.

I promise we will get back on our diet and make things work. maybe just maybe we can loose a few punds. : ) haha !

Attention All Alabamians!!

Hey! Okay, I just read this article about childhood obesity, and it really hits home! Children this generation are estimated, for the first time apparently in two centuries, to have shorter life expectancies than their parents! That is big! That means the kids in this generation will be lucky to watch their grandchildren grow up like the grandparents today! We need to raise awareness which is what this article is about. Alabama is ranked 2nd in obesity and 3rd in type 2 Diabetes. If you want more info!? Click here.

Colorada Got Game

     So I've been over obesity in Alabama and pretty much beaten the topic wit a stick...a spikey one with twizzlers hanging off it.  It seems that no matter how much I do beat it, an answer still cannot be found.  It might be that I've been looking that this the wrong way; maybe I shouldn't look at this state, but at the healthy ones.
     Now, instead of looking at the wonderful marvels (yes, that was sarcasm) of Alabama, we turn our atention to what has been reported by the Trust for America's Health, TFAH, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, RWJF, to be the two healthiest states in the country.  One has the lowest percentage of adult obesity, and the other has the lowest child percentage.  These two states are Colorada and Oregan.
     What do these two states have that Alabama does not?  I'm not sure yet, but I will look into it.  As for the link where I got my information, here it is: http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2010/
                                                           
                                                                                                                                                 Godspeed

Beautiful Nightmare

The oil rig explosion obviously has effected Alabama deeply as we are right on the gulf and love our local seafood. Now the reason why it is affecting us is because how how these incidents have impacted the fish and sea life of the Alabama coasts. From the surface death can be seen of the fish, birds, and turtles, but more lies underneath the surface. Scientists have found the bottom of the seafloor in certain areas to be caked with oil, destroying organisms that thrive down there. The main source of fish food, plankton, has been diseased from the oil and is likely to cause problems for the fish and seafood industry even in the future. Chemicals used to stop the spread of the oil may have worked, but may result in the fish and future eggs to be mutated making more difficult years to come for those trying to make a living off of the seafood industry.

Fast Food As A Whole=Bad

So i'll be wrapping up this blog next week, I hope my readers got something out of it. Fast food can try it's harder to be healthier,but as long as there is still a big Mac on the menu, people are going to buy it. With the new healthier options, a person is tempting to but the big(although nowadays not that big) hamburger instead of the healthy salad they planned on buying. Fast food has become a way of life for us, as long as they make it, people will buy it.

Thats a business not going anywhere anytime soon. I know i never got to the Golden Corral thing, who knows, i might work a miracle between now and next week. ^_^

Soul Food

So, I watched the movie "Soul Food" last night, and it made me think. For those of you that aren't familiar with the movie, it's about a family attempting to stay together after their mother dies. Their mother, Big Mama, cooked Sunday dinner every week. Regardless of what was going on, the family always set aside their issues and problems to come to Big Mama's house for dinner. At any rate, I realized that many families are like Big Mama's family. The only time people ever take the time out to sit down and eat with one another is on a Sunday. Why is that?

Well actually, why was that? The way things are these days, family dinners can be held at the restaurant down the street.

Before you know it, Thanksgiving Dinner will no longer carry the excitement of home cooked turkey and dressing along with it. What is the world coming to?

Home Cooking vs Fast Food

It's about time to collaborate all the blog information together to formulate it into a project. A play is at the top of my list of things where I want to take my research. Writing a play based off of the information accumulated over a period of time, seems like the right choice. It could incorporate the different arguments and ideas of home cooking and fast food. I'm looking forward to starting it.

Final Post

To conclude the posts that have thus far been erratic in style and content, I can honestly say that I have very little new to say. With that being said, from all the information acquired so far, it is reasonable to conclude that (1) Google Alerts, though a clever and convenient form of reasearch, is not the best means, by far, to conduct such research and should not be depended upon as the sole source for all content, (2) that the heat is absolutely terrible and farmers are having a heck of a time dealing with it, and (3) that if the end is as nigh as the common belief would suggest, then we are doomed to rot in a wasteland of mass-produced filth and little more than a reasonable facsimile of "good health." Thank you, industrialization. You've done us a world of good.
Signing Forever Off.
L.A.

Not so fun facts...

So I looked up some interesting facts on diabetes because I am running out of things to talk about. Apparently, Asians are more likely to get diabetes than the white population. Also, diabetes in India is very common because many people have apple shaped or obese body types there. The most common first symptom of diabetes is feeling thirsty. Finally, about 6 people die per minute of diabetes. These were just some of the facts I found about diabetes.

Now Let's See Here...

Research isn't panning out as well as it, I guess, should be. I'm running, quite quickly, out of new things to report and ruin your day with. But, before I completely stop reporting, I'd like to link another article I found that is about reinforcing being "different." It's a good idea:
I forget whether this week's blog is wrapping up or if it is next week's, but I think I'm going to kind of wrap up.
This research has really broadened my knowledge of what people suffer through. I realized that eating disorders weren't just Anorexia and Bulimia, but were binging and purging and abuse of exercise and all these different categories. To be truthful, I once thought I was beginning to be "fat" and gave thought to cutting back on food. This research erased that thought from my mind. It gave me more confidence. I don't want to end up in therapy, talking to some sarcastic adult about my problems, or in the hospital with, shudder, needles under my skin. And more so, I like my eyes and vision. Life is a nice thing. And where I might not have the rock-hard abs and perfectly flat stomach of some of my friends, being a little more curvy isn't a BAD thing. After all, I want people to love me for me, not for what they want me to be. But I'm getting off topic.
Eating disorders affect more people than I realized, too. These past weeks have helped me to be able to recognize eating disorders better, and be able to stand up to anyone who might be afflicted with them. If we do have another blog due next week, I'll leave it to talk about my story. I've already started on it, and it's going very well.

Reflections

There isn't much I can say that I haven't already said before. However, on this blog I would like to...reflect- I don't know. Anyways.

I want whoever reads this to look in the mirror or any thing reflective. Take a good look.
The person staring back is you. He/she will always be you no matter what you look like. The emotion in the eyes and face, is you. Don't try to change who you are to be accepted. Don't go on crazy diets so you be skinny and fit in. When you're hurt dont binge on unhealthy foods. Just Don't.

If you really want to change what you see in the mirror, then change how you see yourself in your mind. If you think you're beautiful then your beautiful. But if you think that isn't enough, then make sure you lose weight the healthy way and do it for yourself, not anyone else. You'll feel a lot better on the inside if you did it for yourself and if you didn't have to stoop to unhealthy levels to do it. Good dietary choices matter, so make good choices.

The Dark Side of the All American Meal

When you ask someone why they love fast food, they will most likely tell you that it's because it tastes good. Although that may be true, many Americans don't know the secret behind the flavor of some of their favorite fast foods. According to Eric Schlosser's book The Dark Side of the All American Meal, just about all of fast foods are processed so most of their original flavor is destroyed. To make of for the loss of flavor, the factories that process the food add in ingredients like beef extract, unknown animal products, and other artifical additives.
Statistics show that about one quarter of the US population eat fast food every day, and that roughly 12% of the working class has worked at McDonald's. Children are now about to recognize McDonald's golden arches before they can even say their own name. Those same golden arches have become more recognized than the Christian cross. Is this really the world that we're living in?

IT WILL KILL YOU SOON!

Here are some things you should know about your beloved McDonald's, below is an article written by John Robbins:

HOW BAD IS MCDONALD’S FOOD?
By John Robbins
Morgan Spurlock sought to find out in his 2004 documentary Super Size Me. In his film, I was interviewed and spoke about the role McDonald’s food is playing in our epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
For 30 days, Spurlock ate only McDonald’s food. All of us involved in the film, including Spurlock’s doctors, were shocked at the amount that his health deteriorated in such a short time. Before the 30 days started, we each predicted what changes we expected to see in his weight, cholesterol levels, liver enzymes and other biomarkers, but every one of us substantially underestimated how severely his health would be jeopardized. It turned out that in the 30 days, the then 32-year-old man gained 25 pounds, his cholesterol levels rose dangerously as did fatty accumulations in his liver, and he experienced mood swings, depression, heart palpitations and sexual dysfunction.
Some have said Spurlock was an idiot for eating that way, and it’s true that he did himself some major damage in those 30 days. But I’ve always felt the suffering he took upon himself by eating all his meals for that month at McDonald’s was admirable, because it served to warn millions of the all too real health dangers of eating too much fast food.
Super Size Me struck a chord for a lot of people, as it became one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. And more importantly, it changed the eating habits of millions.
Now a group of physicians and other health professionals have produced a short (39 second) ad that may be one of the more controversial in advertising history. The Washington, DC-based group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)’s new “Consequences” ad takes dead aim at McDonald’s high-fat menu. The provocative ad has become a story unto itself, because it has in only a few days generated nearly one million views on YouTube, and has been covered by newspapers and broadcast media around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, U.K.’s The Guardian, CNN, the New York Times and hundreds of other media outlets.

What do you think? Is the ad a contribution to public health, or does it go too far? Even if the underlying critique of the dangers of hamburgers and other fast food is valid, does the ad accomplish its purpose, or is it too emotionally manipulative?
The ad ends by telling us to “make it vegetarian,” making it obvious that PCRM has a pro-vegetarian orientation. But with good reason. The evidence is consistent and compelling that vegetarians suffer less from the diseases associated with the typical Western diet. Vegetarians have repeatedly been shown to have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, hypertension, type II diabetes, diverticular disease, constipation and gall stones. They also have lower rates of many kinds of cancer, including colon cancer and the hormone dependent cancers such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer.
Do you have to be a strict vegetarian to enjoy the considerable health benefits of a vegetarian diet? No, you do not. What’s important is to eat a plant-strong diet, with a high percentage of your calories coming from whole foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and a low percentage coming from processed foods, sugars, unhealthy fats and animal products.
The standard American diet — in which 62 percent of calories come from processed foods, 25 percent from animal products and only 5 percent from fruits and vegetables — is nothing less than a health travesty. Our fast-food culture has produced a population with widespread chronic illness and is a primary reason that health care costs are taking a devastating toll on just about everyone.
The annual health insurance premiums paid by the average American family now exceed the gross yearly income of a full-time minimum wage worker. Every 30 seconds, someone in the U.S. files for bankruptcy due to the costs of treating a health problem. Starbucks spends more on the health insurance of its workers than it does on coffee.
Medical care costs in the U.S. have not always been this excessive. This year, we will spend more than $2.5 trillion on medical care. But in 1950, five years before Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald’s restaurant, Americans only spent $8.4 billion ($70 billion in today’s dollars). Even after adjusting for inflation, we now spend as much on health care every 10 days as we did in the entire year of 1950.
Has this enormous increase in spending made us healthier? Earlier this year, when the World Health Organization assessed the overall health outcomes of different nations, it placed 36 other nations ahead of the United States.
Today, we have an epidemic of largely preventable diseases. To these illnesses, Americans are losing not only their health but also their life savings. Meanwhile, the evidence keeps growing that the path to improved health lies in eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and legumes, and eating far less processed foods, sugars and animal products.
It’s striking to me that in all the heated debates we have had about health care reform, one basic fact has rarely been discussed, and that is the one thing that could dramatically bring down the costs of health care while improving the health of our people. Studies have shown that 50 to 70 percent of the nation’s health care costs are preventable, and the single most effective step most people can take to improve their health is to eat a healthier diet. If Americans were to stop overeating, to stop eating unhealthy foods and to instead eat more foods with higher nutrient densities and cancer protective properties, we could have a more affordable, sustainable and effective health care system.
Is it McDonald’s fault that more than 63 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, making us the fattest nation in the history of the world? I don’t think so, because each of us is responsible for what we put in our mouths and in the mouths of our children. Plus many other fast food chains serve food that is just as harmful. But the company is playing a significant role in generating our national appetite for unhealthy foods. McDonald’s is by far the largest food advertiser in the country, spending more than one billion dollars a year on direct media advertising.
Much of McDonald’s advertising is aimed at children, and it’s been effective. Every month, approximately nine out of 10 American children eat at a McDonald’s restaurant. Most U.S. children can recognize McDonald’s before they can speak. Tragically, one in every three children born this year in the U.S. will develop diabetes in their lifetime.
Of course, fast food is not the only cause of the tragic rise of obesity and diabetes in our society. Our culture has become pathologically sedentary. Watching television and sitting in front of computer monitors for hour upon hour doesn’t help. But the high sugar and high fat foods sold by McDonald’s and the other fast food restaurants is certainly a major part of the problem. You would have to walk for seven hours without stopping to burn off the calories from a Big Mac, a Coke and an order of fries.
Love Wins

YEEEEAAAAHHHHH

Fat Fruit Flies?

Well, Google Alerts still isn't too helpful; although there will never be a shortage on links to...God only knows what: "We cannot tell which flies are fat simply by looking at them but that's because we're not fruit flies," he says. "I think if you were a fruit fly in the same vial you might look at them and go, 'Whoa they're fat!'" - Of Portly Flies and Slimmer Thighs - abc news... Well thank you Google Alerts and abc news for this vital bit of information that will truly save my Bucket project. Although for an update on dad's diabetes, he was recently in the hospital for an infection on his leg. His diabetes made the infection spread like wild fire and only a few days ago he was back in the E.R. So don't be fat and get diabetes because it'll do horrible things to you. Moral, man, moral. Now he has to shoot four shots of insaline a day until his medicine can be stabalized. If that doesn't want to make you eat right, maybe all the helpful articles Google supplies will.

I GOT YOUR OLD!!

I'm tired!!

I was playing the Wii with my little cousin, and he's so full of energy. He's five, so of course he's got enrgy, but it was like we were cars and her was running on F (full), while I was running on E (empty.) My little cousin took pity on me and said "sit your old self down!"

Can you believe, he called ME old. I'm not even sixteen yet, and he had the nerve to call me old. That did not make me happy.

Then I though about this project. I thought about how I've been tellin you to eat healthier to eliminate diabetes. I've even been telling you to excercise!!

I also thought about what I had yesterday for a snack. I'm not going to lie, I had a coke and a Twix. It was good too, but I shouldn't have eaten because I knew what dinner was going to be that night. Fried chicken, patato salad, and collard greens.

Before you get all judgemental, you should know that when I ate my snack and my dinner I did feel guily. I mean I could just as easily have had and apple or orange for a sanck, but instead I chose a Twix and a coke.

So when he called me old, I regreted that snack even more. So tonight for dinner I had a simple salad, and as soon as I finish posting this, and check my twitter (my addiction), that little boy is in for a rude awakening.

I got his old!!!

Steak!

Sunday. The day that many family settle down after a nice sermon at church and gather around the table for a homecooked meal. Well, at least that's what my family does. My parents, older brother, younger sister, and I enjoyed a meal Sunday afternoon and it was tasty, as always. We enjoyed Mother prepared steak and it was just right. Tender, juicy, yet fully cooked. Along with steak, she cooked green beans, corn, corn bread, and mashed potatoes. To make things a little sweeter, she made her famous home-made lemonade. Dinner was delicious and we were all full. After the second plate, we all went to our rooms and enjoyed the rest of our Sunday afternoon.

Beginnings

This is the beginning of my fictional story based from my research on food-related illnesses:

Science is the most boring thing in the world. Trust me, I'm not exaggerating. As usual, my mom has to love the one thing I actually hate with all my heart. I'm Carra Langsten, and I am the daughter of one of the most famous scientists in the world. My mother, Rachelle Langsten, is well-known for her scientific break-through in the world of germs. She had found the soul purpose of germs' lives, and she recorded it, and she was given millions of dollars for it. Honestly, I don't see why. Give me any kind of germ and i can find the base of its life source in about five seconds. It really isn't that hard. I don't see how any other scientist hadn't seen it earlier. Besides her germ break-through, she has also conducted many famous experiments with trying to kill the germs. Luckily, for me, another scientist had found the pesticide before my mom. If my mom had found it, then I would never hear the end of it. Just more hours at press conferences. More hours at college lectures. More hours in inerviews. More hours in the lab. More hours being harrassed by my science teachers about my mom and if they could meet sometime. I guess you could say I was a master at excuses because, seriously, would you want to have five different science teachers eating at your dinner table? Not me.
I got up from the couch in the corner of my mom's personal lab. Oh, yeah, did I mention that? Yeah, my mom was given her own personal Jeffersonian lab personally by the President. No, not the president of the Jeffersonian. The President of the United States. That's a pretty big deal right there. So I'm walking around the lab because my legs were cramping. I stared at my mom as she was leaning over the microscope, as still as a statue except for her hand that was scribbling furiously on the notepad. You think a doctor's hand writing is messy? Try reading a scientist's hand writing while their observing something. Now THAT'S something I would like to see an archeologist decode.
My mom remained at her little observation table. She didn't notice that I was walking around. She didn't notice that I was picking up her prized trophy. Once, I even sliced my hand open accidentaly on one of her knives, and she didn't even notice it until I was shoving her arm with my bloody hand. I swear, mom is so unobservant when it comees to reality. I could walk in one day, scream at the top of my lungs: "Goodbye Cruel World! I will miss you not!" and then hang myself right infront of her, and she wouldn't notice until three hours later when her contacts would start getting dry from staring so long at the SAME STINCKN' THING!

Dying Out

Is it just the fish in the gulf dying out? Nope. Restaurants in Alabama are dying too. Checks are being sent out to those who made claims after the oil spill disaster, but they are coming too late with too little composition. Too late for restaurant owner Robin Lamber of Fairhope, Alabama is now in the top priority for businesses claims form the oil spill. Lambert received her check, but was basically cheated and not given enough to keep her fifteen year old restaurant, Old Bay Steamer, open. Customers being cautious of the fish and shrimp served after the spill left Old Bay Steamer in a fix, and when Lamber disappointedly opened her check containing ten percent of what she asked for, she knew it was time to close. Senator Richard Shelby and Governor Bob Riley have poked and prodded Ken Feinberg to move Alabama to the top of the oil claims, and while this may have worked, if BP is not giving enough money to the local restaurants, then they stil cannot survive if not given the help needed when they money they customarily depend on is gone in the deep, black sea.