Fading Away
"Maddie, are you sure you don't want anything more? You didn't eat much," Mrs. Whitman turned from her dishes to ask her daughter.
"I'm fine. I'll eat a big lunch," Stacie said, gulping down her last bit of water.
"Maybe you do. But I never see you eat much. For breakfast it's a pancake with jam. Even if you did eat all your lunch like you say you do, when it comes to dinner time, you eat like a bird. Stacie, I think you need to eat more," Mrs. Whitman told her daughter, relieved that she had finally confronted her about her meals.
"I eat enough. You don't see me all day long. I eat at other times during the day, too. Just because I don't eat chips when I come home from school or snack on cookies. Just because I'm trying to be healthy, you criticize me for making an effort," Stacie defended, raising her voice.
"It's not about choosing healthy foods to eat. I admire your self control. I really do. You know I have difficulty saying no to deserts and different things. But Stacie, I can see you're not eating enough. Those jeans you're wearing, they fit you perfectly when you picked them out this summer but now you need a smaller size. I understood that you wanted to lose a few pounds; all of us can stand to shed a few pounds. But you've kept losing. You look good, I admit. You look very good but I'm worried. You need to eat more. You're so active, running every morning, school, volleyball. You need food to keep you going," Mrs. Whitman explained.
Her heart was beating quickly now and her body became warm. Tears welled up in her eyes but she continued gazing at her daughter, hoping she had made a connection, a break through.
"I said I eat enough!" Stacie shot back angrily. "I am fine. I've lost weight and thank you for noticing. Something you've never been able to do. You and your stupid Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers and diet pills and every other dumb T.V. trash diet you send away for. You're really going to lose weight when you eat out and catch fast food all the time! I heard Big Macs do wonders! 'Just eat these pills and they'll give you all the nutrients you need and reduce your appetite too, '" Stacie mocked.
“I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe the thinnest 11 year old on the entire planet.” (Lori Gottlieb) Lori is a fun, loving, and intelligent straight A student. In fact, she is so intelligent that even adults consider her to be an outcast. She grows up in Beverly Hills, California with her self-centered mother, distant father, careless brother, and best friend, Chrissy, whom is a parakeet. Through her self-conscious mother, maturing friends, and her friend’s mother’s obsession with dieting, she becomes more aware of her body and physical appearance. Something that once meant nothing to Lori now is her entire world. She started off by just skipping breakfast on her family vacation to Washington, D.C., soon to escalate to one meal a day, and eventually hardly anything other than a few glasses of water. Lori’s friends at school begin to compliment her weight loss and beg for her advice on how she did so. But as Lori once read in one of her many dieting books, her dieting skills are her “little secret”, and she intends on keeping it that way. It is said, “Women continue to follow the standards of the ideal thi...
Eating the pizza instead of the salad seemed like a good idea at the time, but now one is stuck in this sloth like state hours later. It seems letting cravings control what and how to eat is not the best strategy to healthy living. Mary Maxfield, in her article “Food For Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Food” discusses her views on how people should eat. She believes people crave what their bodies need, therefore, people should eat what they crave. Maxfield claims that diet, health, and weight are not correlated with each other, and because of this, people view obesity as unhealthy, thus forcing them to distinguish “right, healthy” foods from the “wrong, unhealthy” choices.
Obesity is a big problem in America and she lets us know that by stating
Obesity has become a growing epidemic in the United States of America. Federal agencies, authors of diet books, and others have offered advice on how to lose weight but none seem to work since the epidemic is still on the rise. In the article “The Feds’ Fib about Low-Fat,” Michael Fumento argues that the low-fat myth government agencies have inadvertently promoted can be deceiving and not healthy for the individual. This article is a syndicated column that has appeared in newspapers around the country, therefore allowing for a diversified audience. The audience of this article includes adults from all over the country who are concerned about the low-fat controversy and adults who are up-to-date on the latest political issues. Fumento claims
“All my food is going away,I have less then I should and can only eat meals now, no snacks. Also nobody knows where all the food is going! What if I run out of all my food?” C-witty said with a frown coming to her face.
Although accountability has always been an issue, the injustices that are currently occurring make it priority. Police officers are getting “special treatment” and are not facing charges for crimes they have committed. Police officers are not held accountable for their a...
“Obesity isn't as cool as it used to be, back in the earlier centuries. Before it was a reflection on your gross income, and now it's just plain gross.”
“Doc, The fast food is so convenient. Every time I lose in a game, I get mad and start eating a lot. I do not care to do many activities at all. My lives now consist of fast food and technology,” Sanders replies with heavy breathing throughout every other word.
Obesity in children is a growing crisis in our society. It has become an alarming concern for both communities and health care organizations. There are a number of ways to improve eating habits and encourage healthier choices. Making healthier foods accessible in groceries stores is one example. Our First Lady, Michelle Obama used the following quote during her speech in Chicago to call attention to the lack of healthy food stores in some communities in Chicago. She proclaims that it is a community matter and every one must be involve to make changes. Without change in the community individuals will not have opportunities to make healthier food choice .
She also buys healthy snacks such as fruit, low fat cheese, skim milk, and yogurt. However, she also buys cookies and chips. These items are not good snack foods. She realizes that she needs to change some of the items that she buys so that she is not contributing to unhealthy eating habits.... ...
In “Bad Food? Tax it, and Subsidize Vegetables”, Mark Bittman suggests that the people of America should stop eating unhealthy foods so often. In the article, Bittman tells his audience that people have “heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the standard American Diet” (page 35). He also states that eating healthy can result to a better health care system saving millions of lives. The big issue is Americans eating unhealthy every day, but proposing a plan to help stop it from happening.
Police brutality and the use of excessive force are unavoidable in police effort. In many circumstances, the lives of officers or civilians can be taken by not using force when necessary or use it improperly, which officers duties consist of protecting and serving the community. Many influences are involved when an officer resolves to use force toward a suspect in the line of duty. The situational consciousness is important, and officers are noted by the agencies to be proficient to evaluate when a calamity entails the use of force to reclaim control of a situation. In most cases, time converts the significant variable in shaping when an officer selects to use force. Law enforcement agencies falsify and cover-up the use of police brutality all too often in the
The lack of training police officers is causing unnecessary incidents, is it true? Does the lack of Critical thinking, values, Ethics and Understanding the role as a police officer contribute to hire number of incidents? There is a chance that answer to this questions might always be divided, why? Well because officers will tend to defend their side and how the view the problem and the public will also defend their side and how they view the problem, for example most officers would probably say that people do not comply with their orders or the public might outcry because of the use of excessive force, it is most certain that there will never be an agreement on who is wright or wrong. Regardless of the outcome of who is wright
Police academy is pretty much the nerve center for every cop, that’s when each individual is molded to fit the slogan “To Serve and To Protect”. Each cop is suppose to learn to use force as the last option, to approach each situation with a mature mentality, to de escalate any out of control circumstances. “Are you familiar with the work of William J. Lewinski? Unless you are a cop, that name probably doesn’t ring a bell… he is the father, architect and chief defender of the modern police brutality epidemic… he has trained tens of thousands of police officers to shoot first and ask questions later” (Shaun King). Records show that Lewinski has been called to testify on behalf of police officers who have used lethal force. His answers were robotic and predictable. Maybe police reform in America starts with stage 1, training, it needs to be done the right way. We need to be able to give these “soon to be” officers the proper changing them while molding them to protect and serve. That should start with Lewinski, he needs to be removed from any form of training officers. Officers need to be trained to use force as the last means of engagement. American police officers must move in this direction. The training they receive is violent and unethical. One step in the right direction would be to guarantee that every officer in America has at least three other
While I was tracking my eating for these three days, I began to learn about the benefits of the food that I am eating and the nourishment that they provide for my body. I had never realized how big of a role that the food that I eat plays in my everyday life. Eating has never been something that I really think about it is just something that I do. After I looking at the data of what I eat on Choose My Plate, I realized that my eating habits are far from balanced and that I needed to work on bringing my eating habits to a better balance. While there are a lot of things that I have been doing right, there are also many things that I can work on.