LJ4: healthful Living chapeters 5 and 6

Chapter 5 really hit me hard and made me think of watching what I eat.  I by far have a terrible diet filled with junk food and fast food.  Between taking the realAge assessment for my project and reading Chapter 5 , that i should look into setting up a good nutrition planned based on my calorie intake need and guided by the food pyramid. pages 97-99 explaining and illustrating the food pyramid, and what should be consumed daily was nothing new to me,I just had always chose to say "who needs it".  After reading about fast food on pg. 121 in the text I have decided to cut that down as well, and hopefully cut down my risk of heart disease among other diseases from fat content.  Chapter 6 took it to a whole other step , and went into how to maintain a healthy wait.  I learned that Healthy weight is person specific, The BMI charts are more of a guideline that a concrete classification of people.  Everybody went nuts at work when they implemented a health program and had everybody find their BMI in the chart., It was borderline panic haha.  The media nowadays seems to put a high value on appearance and I think it directly leads to diseases associated with not being able to maintain a healthy weight such as anorexia.  I could never imagine what it's like getting caught up in what people thought of my outside appearance.  This site  http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy.html  has links to things that can help you maintain healthy lifestyle. Found it to be very informational.

New terms :
 body dysmorphic disorder: a preoccupation with an imagined defect in one's body parts.
gamma irradiation: nonchemical method of food prevention
lacto-ovo vegetarian: one who excludes meats,poultry and fish , but includes eggs and dairy products.
phytochemicals: chemicals produced by plants.

Overall my participation in this module was okay, because of losing internet for a couple days, and not getting the chance to go elsewhere I kind of unfortuantely missed out on a better discussion. I continue to enjoy learning this new information about living healthy even though some of it is scary haha.