The Health and Wellness Survey

By living in such a technically advanced society, I feel there are several things that account towards the decisions we make every day in regards to our health. To further describe the claim that we live in a technically advanced society, we are surrounded by images that are often directed towards health and image. Covers of magazines, famous people, and athletes are all images that most people strive to become or look like. Personally, growing up I always aspired to become a professional hockey player. Admiring my favorite hockey players in the NHL, I always perceived them to being the healthiest people on the planet. In many respects, I was not that far off. Professional athletes, pampered by the best medical care and nutritional advice, are usually in good health. The way it impacted my decisions I make with my own health was that I would often try and train like professional athletes. Trying to skate seven days a week, and off-ice workouts. As a child, I did not worry too much about diet or nutrition. Not to say I was oblivious to what was healthy and what was not. I knew what foods were healthy, yet at a younger age it was not my priority. These days, however, I am much more concerned with what I eat in relation to exercise. Without sounding old, age makes you realize that you can not eat whatever you want. Becoming less active as I get older, it is obvious that I do not burn off as many calories as I did when I was in my early teens.

When I was younger, though I found hockey fun, I did not look at it as a fun thing. So determined to achieve my goal, it was more like a job than a fun activity. I am not saying I’m an incredibly competitive person, and I do know how to lose. I am saying that if I could have changed things, I...

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...rugs like pot, or any other designer type drugs, I answered not sure to many of those questions in the survey. I have seen people use drugs with little repercussion. I have also seen people use a drug that is not extremely harmful like weed, and don’t show any obvious ramifications other than laziness. When talking about wellness or health, being lazy doesn’t exactly promote good health or well being. In short, many of the questions within the survey were answered based on my mental model of health and wellness. Some of the answers were answered based off of experience. Other questions were answered based off of facts that I learned in other health classes, or just common sense. Wellness and health are interesting concepts because much of what we consider being healthy is in our hands, yet there are many outside influences that can impact the decisions that we make.