We are on the way to making our presentation for this Thursday. We already started it on Friday last week, so we're quite ahead of schedule. All our detailed research can be found on our blog.

The conclusion to our findings

The difficulties of changing an unhealthy lifestyle to a healthier lifestyle are influenced by the way people think. People might live minutes away from a park or a sports centre, but that doesn’t mean that they will exercise. Some people find that they need company because they don’t feel comfortable exercising on their own, or that they are just lazy.
It also comes down to time, some people might be too busy at work or have other commitments and whenever they can get the chance to take a break they wouldn’t want to exercise.
Another barrier would be the family involvement in the diet. If the whole family is involved in a healthy diet, it is more likely to be successful because you have family support and you are not tempted to eat unhealthy food that might still be around the house. The part of the body most affected when adolescents are on fad diets is mainly the mind. They continuously think about what they can’t eat and restrict their body from important nutrients that the body needs to remain healthy. As an effect their face can appear pale, and they won’t have any control over their diet resulting in binge eating and they will end up gaining more weight. The reasons that adolescents starve themselves are because of media giving them false images of what people look like, peer group pressure and low self-esteem.

Research Questions!

What are fad diets?
What fad diets are there?
Which fad diets meet the Australian Dietary Guidelines
How exactly they affect our health (details)
Why do more girls tend to follow the fad diet rather than boys?
What is a healthy body weight for individuals?
What is the most effective way for people to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight?
How safe and effective are they in achieving a long term healthy body weight?
Would a popular fad diet meet the long term nutritional needs of individuals in line with the Australian Dietary Guidelines?
What impact does frequent dieting at a young age have on your health?

Matthew Power the Acupuncturist

Matthew Power came to talk to us about acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
He talked about the different terms used in Chinese medicine such as Chi and different approaches to treatment, such as acupuncture, using cups heated by a flame on the body, massaging, and scraping.
Some people react differently to the medicine, as some people can react really quite quickly whereas other people may have to take many treatments before they are cured.
He gave us showbags with really cool pens and brochures.

Lisa, Rosemary and Emily

Thursday

We have done most of the researching work.
We are on the way to put it in a word document so we can send it to the teachers next week.
Hopefully we'll start creating our presentation next week and get cool pictures to add to it.



Lisa, Emily & Rosie

Guest speakers

You should aim to include more detail in your guest speaker reports. You say you learnt lots from the chiropractor. This does not tell me anything about the speech. What did you learn that you did not know before?

Chiropractor's Visit

This morning we had a chiropractor named Anthony Coxon.
He brought in a spine model and talked about the Nervous System, spine, the brain and all the important things to do with the body.

He was a very good speaker and we learned a lot of things about Chiropractic. I very much enjoyed the speech.

GUEST SPEAKER

Today we had the guest speaker who was an oesteopath come to speak to us.
Wer learnt that in oestepathy, you crack the bones or use other more gentle ways to help the body restore its health.
He said that oestepaths dont 'cure' people, but help their bodies to help themselves.

Oesteopathy isn't all about cracking bones, but also includes gentle massages and other ways to relax the muscles and bones.


CIAO

David the osteopath came today for a visit and he talked to us about osteopathy. I didn't know what osteopathy was before, but now I know it is a type of therapy for people with problems in their bones. Osteopathy helps people by taking out the 'restrictions' and letting the patients' body heal itself. Osteopathy uses many techniques to help people, such as; stretching, massaging and cracking.

Emily

We just chose our topic

Good morning.

Well we have just got into a group (consists of Emily, Rosemary and Lisa).
It's a wonderful group and hopefully we will get along well.
We have chosen the topic 'Fad or Fiction'.
We will be researching the whole day of today.

'Till next time

Lisa Emily & Rosemary