Obesity Problems

For a my final paper and group project we chose the topic of obesity in the media. My grandmother has diabetes because of it and my father is looking at diabetes if he does not loose weight soon. This disease seems to be a huge problem and effects everyone in some way.

1. Introduction. Im going to choose a topic like cancer to introduce this problem. Something like lung cancer. Saying that it was your choice to smoke, so in the long run you chose the outcome. And then lead it into how by what you eat and your lifestyle, you are choosing obesity.

2. The beginning of the paper will outline the history of obesity and statisitics to show it is on the rise. Show that with the increase of technology, so does the increase of obesity....so is it friend or foe.

3. Bring in the point that humans are animals, and part of the problem is that animals are not meant to live a sedentary lifestyle. Im going to include things like television, fast food, the "easy" way of life, not wanting to exercise because there is no "time". All of the reasons why people are obese and the excuses they may give for the reason why.

4. Im going to break down the excuses one by one. Show how they are not as valid as they may appear. and then propose the opposite and essentially a solution for each one. After that I will demonstrate how each tiny solution will have a big effect on either helping to loose weight, or in prevention

5. Im going to conclude this paper with what happens to your body when you are obese. In a way, attempt to scare them into submission. Seeing how easy some of the solutions are compared to how grave the outcomes of obesity can be. So in the end...which is really the "easy" outcome.

Together Again

It has been ten years since I have lived with my mother and sisters. When I left I was twelve and my sisters were seven and eight. Now they are seventeen and almost sixteen. I cannot believe how big they have gotten. There was a period of time where I did not get to see them for five whole years. It was like boom teenager. Its sort of different to be able to talk to them like an adult when i still see them as young children.

I am so glad my mother has left my step father. He really has ruined her life. She wasted 17 years of her life on him all because she was scared my sisters would resent her for leaving him. In the long run, they wanted to leave just as much as she did.

I do not have to worry about that anymore. They are down here and only thirty minutes from me! It is amazing. Heather is a little bit prissy and that is usually the case with the youngest. She is definitely boy crazy and is going to be a handful once she realizes how much more freedom she has. I have already begun to corrupt her. For Christmas she got her belly button pierced and wants to get a tattoo already. She is only fifteen. Courtney on the other is more mellow. She loves to read books and can read about one a day, she follows in my footsteps with that. She is very intelligent and even though she is in high school, extremely focused on her school work. I admire her for that. She will have a great future.

I am just so glad that I can re-develop my relationship with all three. It is nice to be back together again, its as if I never left.