Obesity

General information 

   Obesity is a very well-known medical condition around the world. It occurs when there is excessive body fat in a person’s body according to his or her height. Having extra fat will make you of course gain weight, and become a less mobile person. Normal people can gain different behavior after becoming overweight, such as being lazy and unproductive. There are also the diseases that an overweight person might get.

Levels of fatness

   Being a person with extra fat on your body doesn’t mean you’re obese. There are levels of fatness, which can show the amount of fat in your body and at what level of obesity you are. The first is overweight, which is the lowest level. The next level is obese, and super obese is the third level, which is also the highest of them all.

How does it happen?

   As is known, a combination of excessive food energy intake with a lack of physical activity explains most obesity cases, but there are a limited number of cases where a person becomes overweight; it can be caused by genetics, medical reasons, or eating disorders. Even more, the increasing reliance on cars and mechanized manufacturing can be considered as a cause of being overweight.

Effects on Health

   The increase of body weight and the excessive body fat on any person will always give negative results. Excessive body weight is associated with various diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases. An overweight person becomes less energetic and less mobile over time, resulting in a lazy habit and leading to the situation of being overweight, or, even worse, obese. The road that an overweight person takes can sometimes not be restructured to make him go back, as if you are adding more water to the mud. There is also the type 2 diabetes. Obesity is thought to be the primary cause of type 2 diabetes. This illness makes the person urinate more frequently and increases thirst and hunger; it can also result in blurry vision. There is also the OSA, obstructive sleep apnea. It is commonly accompanied by snoring, but can make you have difficulty in breathing too. An individual is rarely aware of having this kind of illness, since he is asleep at that moment and it can be recognized by the others witnessing the individual. There is also asthma, which is characterized by shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and chest tightness. There are more diseases such as certain types of cancer and osteoarthritis.  

(Obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dec. 2012. )

The Solution

   There are two things that will help you reduce obesity, you and the food industry. As an individual, you can eat more fruit and veggies, switch to whole grain bread, reduce eating fast food, reduce the fat, sugar, and salt content of processed foods. If you are going to shop for food, don’t go shopping while you’re hungry, or else it would make you feel the need to buy a lot of food, thinking that buying one thing isn’t enough. Reducing obesity doesn't only include changing what kind of food you eat; you must change your behavior too and train more. You can go to a gym or walk more often in the sunshine. As for what the food industry can do, they can reduce the amount of fat, sugar, or salt in their products and make diet food, such as Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke. Also having a more nutritious choice of their products can serve all types of customers they have. They can also give even more choices by adding products that don't include anything that any of their consumers are allergic to.

Conclusion

   There are people all around the world that are overweight and these people have made a goal of becoming a better person and to change themselves. Being overweight doesn't mean you will stay like this forever; people can change the way they look and how they behave, too. Anyone can become fit and healthy. A lot of people look at other people’s success stories and how they were obese and then became fit and good looking, and if you doubt yourself, you can always ask for help from your friends, or maybe get a personal trainer that can be always by your side. Even though this road can take a lot of time, it doesn't mean you can’t reach the goal.

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Individual Assignment

The Internet

      The internet is an amazing invention. It has opened a new door for everyone. No one can ever say he can live without the internet; well you could, but your life won't be that easy. The internet provides lots of services to all of its users around the globe, and one of them is the World Wide Web. 
   
   In the early 1970s, the British scientist Donald Davies was the guy who made the first network of networks. The concept of the world wide web of fully interconnected IP (Internet Protocol) networks called the internet was first introduced in 1982.  
   
   In 1986, the network access was expanded to education organizations where they were able to use the internet with a speed of 56kbits per second; it was faster with time. Commercials began to show on the internet in the early 1990s. The internet also began expanding to Europe and Australia in the mid-1980s, but to Asia in the early 1990s. The near instant communication by email was begun in the mid-1990s; the internet made a big impact on culture at that time. Forums, blogs, and online shopping began at that time too.
   
   Our ways in using the internet have changed, and there is a difference between our internet and the 1990s internet. It gives us an even better and easier world to live in, allowing us to do our work in an efficient way. The Internet can be accessed nowadays by laptops, telephones, handheld game consoles wirelessly; checking your email or surfing the internet can be accessed easily by these small devices. The internet is still used for education purposes too, for all levels from pre-school to post-doctoral from websites. Sharing ideas and doing work with groups has become even easier; they can cheaply communicate with each other using either instant messaging or from a social networking website. Email can also be used like these two things too. This enables the group of those people to share their work together easily and exchange their projects, and even send a video or share a recorded message between each other. The internet isn’t just used by students or people doing a project only, it's enabled to the whole world; even kids can use it. It can be used for entertainment, which is the most thing that teenagers do with the internet. These entertainment websites include video streaming sites and gaming sites. They provide fun materials when you have a free time, or maybe because you're a procrastinating person. Time management is important too; wasting your time on just the internet for fun is bad, especially if you're a college student.

   There are bad uses of the internet along with leaving behind your work or project by simply procrastinating and spending most of the time facing the computer screen playing games, or talking with a friend with a telephone messenger. This kind of behavior is done by the internet; it didn’t just make some of us a procrastinator, but also a lonely person in other ways. Though the internet has enabled entirely new forms of social interaction-such as Facebook or twitter- most of their (addicted) users would talk to their friends and socialize by only sitting in the chair and using their computers to talk to each other making them close by technology, but far in the real world. 

   There is also a very common bad use of the internet, which is the websites that include sexual content. These sites should never exist in the internet, because they are bad sites. We are not just talking about what would happen if a child entered this site, we are talking about everyone. That's why this kind of websites is under the censorship in our country, the United Arab Emirates.

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Bibliography:

"Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., 29 Oct. 2012. Web. 10 Nov. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet>.

Reflection 1

   This class wasn’t hard at all at the start, but I did face some small problems.

   

From the first two classes, Mr. Hedley made us do two practice summaries. The subjects were the North African bustards and the Emirati Police night patrols. Since they were practice summaries, they were simple. They were simple and interesting at the same time.

   

The summarizing process is easy. All we had to do is read the whole passage and highlight only the important things in it, leaving all the examples and most of the facts behind. All in all, what we had to do is writing down the main idea of the subject that we're summarizing.

   

After two easy summaries, we got to do the real work. We were handed out two assessed summaries. It had to be between 100 to 150 words this time, Other than that you would get lower marks. They were about desert milk and desert survival. All of the students showed improvement in these two summaries, thanks to the two practice summaries. Everyone has followed Mr. Hedley's advice in leaving out the examples and facts.

   

Before everyone would pack their bags for Eid Al Adha, Mr. Hedley gave us a look around BibMe. He showed us the importance of accurate referencing prior to our upcoming personal 

assignment.

   We had made big progress in these weeks in learning summary skills and how to use BibMe

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Summary Task 2

   A lot of people drink milk every day. You can buy different types of milk in any supermarket. The company that produces it has 135,000 cows held in 6 superfarms. They can produce 2.5 million liters a day. The milk gets homogenized at first, and pasteurized to kill any harmful bacteria and to let it last longer. Most of the milk is used for other dairy products. The rest is bottled with a color-coded cap to indicate the type of milk. The milk is held after that in a cold storage facility, and delivered to the customer. The company operates 2,975 vehicles to deliver the products. Cow's milk can be in a can, evaporated, condensed or powdered, but the fresh milk is the king.

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Summary Task 1

   Bedouins would need lots of water in the summer. There were two ways to find water, by following the birds or going in the middle of deep dune valleys. Wells were dug between 3 and 10 meters deep with bare hands. Once they hit water the well was completed and named after the man who dug it. Bedouins can drain water out of camel's body when in need. Camel or goat milk can replace water. Bedouins can withstand greater dehydration than most, and survive longer without water too.

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Summary Practice 2

   The North African houbara bustard is an endangered bird. They were over-hunted, and their land has been destroyed. There is a plan to prevent their extinction and it's entirely financed by Abu Dhabi's Government. 15,000 birds are released per season. The ones that are kept for breeding are trained to be familiar with humans. 400 females are inseminated a day in Enjil. It takes 24 days for the eggs to hatch in an incubation facility. 10 per cent will be for breeding, and the rest will be released. 65 per cent of the released birds survive in a year. Over the past 10 years, the density has increased 10 times.

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Summary practice 1

   The horsemen roam the desert to look for troublemakers. Each emirate has a horse patrol to monitor any unreachable areas by the car. They must remain silent for any sign of trouble. The horses are trained to stay calm when hearing a sudden sound. It was not easy to train them. The horsemen form a group and cover as much ground as possible. They stop during the hottest months. It's rare to find people at that time. The horsemen never exhaust their horses and they take good care of them.

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