Assignment: Health Education

Assignment: Health Education

Assignment: Health Education

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Answer each questions with at least 150 words.

1.All sorts of dietary supplements claim to make you faster, stronger, more energized and slimmer. Athletes train hard to reach their peak performance, so products that offer an edge can be enticing. But buyer beware. Effectiveness and safety do not have to be confirmed before supplements hit store shelves.

http://www.eatright.org/resource/food/vitamins-and-supplements/dietary-supplements/supplements-and-ergogenic-aids-for-athletes

Directions: Review info on the web page for claims and evidence on the various supplements. Then under “Trusted Resources”, click on “Office of Dietary Supplements” to reach the Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets. Click on the title “Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets” to reveal an alphabetic listing of popular supplements. Choose 5 supplements and give a brief summary of what you learned about each. Once you are on the page of the specific fact sheet you will need to click on the supplement name again, or other resources listed, to get the information.

2.eMedicineHealth.com (owned by WebMD) is a consumer health information site that contains health and medicine articles and quizzes. In this activity, you will take a quiz to learn about body fat.

Go to the Fat and Fats Quiz: Test Your Diet IQ
Take the quiz. Answer the following questions:

What was your score?

Were any of the correct answers to the quiz questions surprising to you? If so, state the most surprising fact you learned from taking the quiz.

How has the quiz influenced your knowledge of body fat and fats in the diet?

www.emedicinehealth.com/fat_and_fats_quiz_iq/quiz.htm

3.Vegetarianism

Become familiar with the different categories of vegetarian dietary patterns. Go to the web site of the Vegetarian Resource Group. Take some time to explore this website. It is a great resource for information on the types of vegetarianism, strategies to implement a vegetarian diet, many recipes and more!

http://www.vrg.org/

Suggest some ways to incorporate vegetarian choices into your eating style. Would you actually implement any vegetarian strategies into your current meal plan / style of eating? List several things that you learned through exploring this website.

4.Although it seems as if each sport has its own set of nutrient recommendations, there are nutritional strategies that apply regardless of the sport or the individual pathway chosen to achieve fitness.

Go to the Runner’s World site.

Scroll down to “Nutrition” – about 1/2 way down the page. Click on the word “Nutrition”. Choose/read three different articles. Then answer the following questions: What topics and articles did you choose? Why were those topics of interest to you and how will the information in the articles help you to achieve a better level of nutrition/weight loss/personal fitness?

www.runnersworld.com/

5.Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is important for overall health and can help you prevent and control many diseases and conditions. If you are overweight or obese, you are at higher risk of developing serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, gallstones, breathing problems, and certain cancers. That is why maintaining a healthy weight is so important: It helps you lower your risk for developing these problems, helps you feel good about yourself, and gives you more energy to enjoy life. Review the NIH website on the Aim for a Healthy Weight Campaign. Navigate through all of the related topics on the left side of the homepage. Calculate your BMI from the calculator on the Assessing your Weight and Health Risks page. Also navigate through the “We Can!” program page.

How is the information on this website useful to you as an individual, as a parent, (if you are one or plan on being one someday!!) and future health care professional?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.