my american dinner

my two households are totally diffrent.

moms: at my moms i eat alot of colors. we usually have a small plate of meat surrounded by diffrent plates of fruits and vegetables. she get organic milk and veggies and usually spends 30 minutes cooking. we sit across from each other at the table and eat for about 30 minutes.

dads: at my dads there are 3 step siblings so everything is bought it bulk. you can tell by looking at them that healthy food is on the top of their priorities list. there is usually a big blate of meat, some kind of vegetable that usually i only eat and some sort of pasta. the kids usually drink caprisuns or the juice you make by adding water to that frozen....stuff. i eat there as fast as i can.

The moms meals are alot more meaningful because the food is more intentional and has more thought put into it.

food log

last night dinner was quick. i came home at 930 so my mom had already eaten. i threw some pasta and shrimp into a bowl and ate that. i mainly did it because i felt i needed to eat something after two hours of muay thai. after the meal i moved on to homework feeling no more satsified as i did before.

this morning for breakfast i had a mango with salt. i found this to be a tasty treat and i enjoyed eatting it. on the way to school i was craving a chocolate chip muffin so i bought one from the stand. i didnt really want to think about the calories or what went into that muffin. i washed it down with a can of arizona green tea which has more high fructose corn syrup then tea should have.

for lunch i was poor so all i could get was a guacamole torilla. all it was was torrilla bread wrapped stuffed with guacamole. at least i am getting plent of green colors. i also had a arizona with that since arizona is only $1

for dinner tonight i had salmon with red peppers. i was sitting with my mom and her boyfriend so i sat as they talked. when it is just me and my mom dinners are usually silent.

over all i never really eat when i want what i want
instead i eat what i can afford in the time i am told to eat. not very meaningful

mental health

In this unit we talked about many things dealling with mental health. The thing that stuck with me the most was the idea that mabye we dont have to be happy 24/7 to be healthy. In todays society we dont talk about emotions that much, becuase of this we assume that the only good emotion is happyness and that we need to do what ever we can to reach happyness. Even after a tramatic expirence we are told that we need to move on asap. But mabye moving on is not the best option. muarry cried everytime he thought about his mom who died when he was very younge. I now think it is much more healthy to have other emotions besides happyness. In fact it is now my idea that to have a meaningfull life you cant always be happy. when your always happy there is never anything wronge. So to be always happy in this world is to lie to your self. a man wins the lottery and gains 1,000,000,000.86 dollars. he buys a nice house, afew cars, and a puppy and then continues to live his life in bliss. The buddhist beleive that no matter how many materail possesions you have suffering will always come. so to live your life in total happyness means that there are parts of the world you must be blocking out, that might be the death of a loved one or the opressive racist government we have. the blocking out of reality so you can live in bliss is not a meaningful life. to have a meaningful life you must accept everything and let the emotions healthyfull come and go. if your friend dies you should feel grief and let the feeling leave naturally. feeling justified emotions at the right time is part of having a meaningful life.

a fridge full of condiments but no food

bread
grapes
lettuce
brussle sprouts
cheese
peroponie
cucumbers
ginsing
polly cheese sticks
beer
ketchup
mayo
barbeque suace
spegetti sauce
maple syrup
ranch
soy sauce
jelly mustard
pesto

In my fridge the majority of the stuff was ont the main shelfs. and on the main shelfs were condiments only. there was no actual food. its only when you opened the drawer did you see the vegetables. its interesting how the vegetables are put out of site while the ranch dressing is in a place anyone can reach. This shows that food to the rest of my family doesnt really have that much meaning.

emotional break...not really

During spring break i felt the most emotionaly healthy after muay thai. Over break started doing intermediete classes which left me drained. one class in peticular left me the most emotionally healthy. we had done a total of 500 kicks that day. i felt the most emotionally healthy waitting in the station to go home. the work out had left me physically tired but at the same time it was a good feeling knowing how hard i was trainning. other healthy moments where after parkour work out sessions and a 6 mile skate. there is a clear connection between hard physical task completion and emotional health.

The least healthy was when i was doing anything that had to do with school. even talking about school made me emotionally unhealthy. the thought of school killed my spirts like some one watching a tsunami head toward their ocean side town. to be emotionally healthy, you must be interacting with something you like.

Emotional health is diffrent from constantly happy. you dont have to be constantly happy to be emotionally healthy. if im bored and pissed in school all day then i get out and im happy and joyful. just because i wasnt constantly happy doesnt mean im not healthy. i think to be healthy you have to be able to take joy in afew things everyday.

Its interesting to me how much the subconcouse effects us, when cairo was being analyzed you saw into how she thinks just by asking about the words she used. it was really simple but really informitive. it shows the importance in the small details of things. this shows that mental health is also about the subcoususe mind and that we are affected by things we dont even know we are thinking about.

1. What are the best things to eat/drink to help increase concentration and focus in school?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtAID76gcKsw.XcBu.7r173sxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20090401081502AAccgQb
-blueberries
-salmon
-green tea
-almonds
-dark chocolate

2. what is the big deal about vitaman C
Vitamin C vitamin helps to heal wounds, keeps the immune system strong, keeps your teeth and gums healthy, it also helps the body absorb iron and folic acid. Studies have shown that it plays an important role in the antioxidant defence system, destroying free radicals thereby reducing the risks of degenerative diseases like cancer and slowing down cell damage and the ageing process.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AszlYe8ioUKbuV.J4VlvabgjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20070626123134AANBYAG

3.wats the most common vitiman defiency
Vitiman D
http://odyb.net/nutrients/vitamin-d-is-the-most-common-vitamin-deficiency-in-the-world/

4.whats kinds of fats are there. are any of them good?
there are 6 types of fat some of them are good.
http://odyb.net/nutrients/are-you-aware-of-these-6-types-of-fat/

5.what are the effects of obiesty
http://odyb.net/physical-health/9-types-of-diseases-caused-by-obesity/

"you and me baby aint nothin but mamals"

"you and me baby aint nothin but mammals so lets do it like they do it on the discovery channle". While the song by The Blood Hound Gang is a song about sex, the chorus speaks a biological truth, we aint nothin but mammals. Human seem to seperate them selfs from other animals such as dogs and monkeys. This unjust serperation creates a void in our lives that effects how we live negetivitly. There are six main reasons why we think we seperate our selves from animals.

The first reason is Genisis. In the book of Gensis the first chapter tells the creation myth. God created the earth, light, plants, animals, and humans. Then god dacreed that man would dominate over all other living things. Genisis tells us that all the animals of the world are here to serve us. this idea puts us above the animals, we are here and everyone else is here for us. this is used as a justification to mis treat other animals because they are so we may be happy.

The second reason is science. Scientists have created a tree which shows what family every animal is in. when the tree is drawn you see that humans branch out from the rest of the animals. This tells us that while techinally we are animals, we are a specail kind of animal diffrent from the rest. according to this chart we are diffrent from other animals, like a super animal.

A third way we seperate ourselfs from animals is the myth of creation. We are told that there we're the end result of evolution. Evolution started at amebais who got bigger then came onto land and after millions of years we were born. We are told that we were the end result everything. that all that evolving and such were all so we could be here. This is the equivlent of a jellyfish saying that after years finally the jellyfish was created. the average person will find that stupid. they will says things like "thats stupid after the jellyfish things kept evolving." The same can be said about us. who said the world was done changing. This idea of we are the final product tells us that all the animals of the world were just part of the equation to make us. we put ourselves on a pedistil sayin elvolution has created the ultimit species, us.

In dailey life we are constantly surrounded by people. At the same time we are rarely near any other animals. sure we see the squirl or pigeon, mabye even a hawk. but 95% of the time we are with other humans only. By seperatting our selves from animals we easly forget our animal instincts. We get so cuaght up in the human socail pressures of everything. we lose sight of the fact that we are animals and enjoy doing animal things.

Descartes came up with an idea that would further seperate ourselves from animals. He believed in dualism. the idea that we are just a soul trapped in a body. but he took it to another level by saying animals dont have it. he would then tutore dogs and explain that the cries of the dog were really stimulus responces and that there was no real pain and no real soul. This idea has been taken in by our society. by adapting this idea we can now easly kill hundreds of animals for food and uses hundreds more for test expirements, because they dont dont have souls so they arent really there. while we on the other hand have soals and must be defended from everylittle thing that might harm us.

Along with this idea of dualism is the idea of religion. Since we humans have souls we get to go to heaven. the human is just a ghost trapped inside of a machine. when we die that ghost is released and sent to heaven or hell. other animals dont have this. When a dog dies, he just dies. there is no soul to go up to heaven for eternal bliss. This idea that we have an eternal soul and others dont puts us a grade above everyone else. while everyone else will die, we will last for ever.

That last way we seperate ourselves is the most clear. When we think of animals we think of wild animals running through the woods or playing with each other in the plains. we see these images on the tele as we sit in our desks in a unnaturally lighted room. We spend the majority of our lives in chairs. your bed, to the kitchen, to the bathroom, to the train, to school and back. we dont run around and be active like the other animals. This creates a void in us. by sitting down all day we cant act on our animal instincts.

There are four major benefits to relizing we are infact animals.

the first is childbirth. By seperatting ourselves from our animal ways, we lost confidence in how we give birth. we bagan to go to hospitals and get the drugs and metal objects. by understanding we are infact animals and seeing that no other animal lets other animals cut them open to take out the baby, we understand that we can give birth with out the hospitals and surgeries.

The second is our physical health. By accepting we are animals we throw out the idea of dualism. Once we accept the idea that our body is part of ourself we start taking better care of it. we will start accepting the fact that we do need excersice to be healthy, and not just to fit into those jeans. As humans we look for the greater things in life. we try and develope our mind, because we think thats what makes us better then the other animals. We focouse so much on the mind we forget about our body. by understanding we are infact animals we will look at our bodies as important too and try to improve that.

The final reason i remember is the idea that no one will save us. By assuming that we are the end point of evolution, and that we have souls we assume that we will be saved in the end. What we have to understand is that we are not specail. we are the same decaying matter as everything else. 99% of the animals who lived on this planet are gone. Once we understand that we are just another animal we will understand that no one will save us and that we are on our own.

This subject has effected me.I like many people have said "we are animals" but never really beleived it. The idea that we will not be saved has caused me to lose hope. up until now i always thought things would get better one way or another. in part because i seperated my self from other animals. but now i see that i am jsut an animal and i have just the same chance of becoming extint as every other specieces.I now believe that we wont last for ever. All hope for humans have been lost. its only after you lose everying are you free to do anything.

This unit has also effected my ideas of a perfect world. my dream world has alot more animals roaming free and alot less hard sidewalk. one day dream i had after a class was new york city, except the sidewalks and streets were gone. in their place was dirt and trails, kinda like when you take a hike through the forest. i saw vines climbing the walls of buildings and animals in trees. While this was only a day dream its interesting to think of a world where we are more connected to nature with out doing back to the wild.
its also important to understand we are animals so we may shed the socail pressure that seperate ourselfs from animals. i have never seen a fox with skinny jeans and a tight polo shirt. by understanding we are animals we can do thing that benefit us and not the opposite. instead of eatting burgerking we get a salad. instead of wear bright red skinnt jeans which are hard to move in we wear looser clothings that we can move. The more we let go of unnatural behaivor the more we become free.