America's diet needs change...

A change in American’s diet must occur in order to prevent the onset of obesity. Learning proper nutrition is the first step to overcoming this problem. In what ways will adequate nutrition improve the health of Americans? Proper nutrition will reduce the risk for chronic diseases, such as the ones listed above. Taking in less sodium, higher calcium, and less caffeine will reduce the risk for high blood pressure. Reducing total fat intake to within 20%-35% of total calories, decreasing saturated fat intake to less than 10%, and increasing intake of omega-3 fatty acids will lower the risk for heart disease. Limiting cholesterol intake can greatly help in preventing plaque buildup in the arteries. Eating more fiber that is found in vegetables, fruits, and whole grain breads will reduce the risk for diabetes because the fiber will slow the release of sugar into the blood stream. In addition, eating more fiber will increase satiety causing the person to feel fuller. Small diet changes dramatically can dramatically help reduce the risk for obesity. Simple things such as not drinking that extra coke, eating many small meals a day, not taking that last trip to the buffet bar, not drinking more than 2-3 alcoholic drinks, and following the food pyramid can all help in maintaining a healthful weight.

Obesity in America

Schools hold responsibility to educate and promote healthful eating, and implementing program or classes. Being responsible is being answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management. Schools are accountable for having the power to control what is promoted and taught in the school. Go visit any public school and see the menu. There’s a healthy diet of greasy pizza, fried chicken, fries, tater tots, cookies, snacks, salty entrées with lousy looking canned vegetables, and coke machines. A nutrition class should be mandatory in school because most parents and most kids are educated poorly in nutrition. Nutrition is more important than people know in treating and preventing chronic diseases. If Americans would take a little time to learn about nutrition and proper exercising Are school doing anything to help with this nutrition problem? For the majority I think, nothing. They are too concerned with kids passing the useless tax test.

Obesity in America

The word responsible is having a capacity for moral decisions and therefore accountable; capable of rational thought or action. Responsibility is having the capacity to be held accountable for actions. The responsibility or accountability of actions involving healthful dieting and exercise lifestyles fall on parents, schools, and individuals. Evidence of this poor “responsibility” is imprinted everywhere in the Americanized society.

If a part of responsibility is having the capacity of being accountable, then who is accountable? Parents are responsible or “held accountable” because children look to their parents for instructions in life. They follow the example of their parent's lifestyle, diet, and exercise habits. Parents are held accountable for how they raise their children. Visualize the overweight kid at the restaurant pleading, “Mommy, please let me have that desert!” “Yeah, sure son, I know you need those extra 400 calories after a huge dinner.”Or, “Daddy, can I get a Dr. Pepper?!” “Yeah son that caffeine will stunt your growth and you need to get your 300 extra empty calories of sugar infused coke.” A lot of parents are not encouraging a healthful diet. Children develop and are shaped widely by their positive and negative feedback from social experiences and interactions. A child’s eating and exercise habits are developed mostly by how they are raised. If kids are constantly getting cooked greasy fried foods and eat lots of fast food, then they will grow accustomed to that life style not knowing the harmful long term effects of that diet. Children that aren’t encouraged to exercise but rather to play video games are more likely to be obese. Exercise is very important for overall health and weight management. Parents are accountable for how they impress healthy lifestyles on their children.

Intelligent design is not religion

Ok, why does the whole argument of whether to discuss the possibility of an intelligent designer always come down to religion? This is ridiculous. There is a lot of evidence that implies that something greater created. People just don't want to see it. When you begin to study biology, geology, and anything scientific you begin to see the amazing complexity of it all. There are numerous things that go on in our own body that boggle biologists. How DNA came about is still unknown and that's the building blocks to all life as we know it. This guy on this video is pounding this lady when all she is saying is examine all the evidence, ask legitimate questions, and respect and present all ideas. This guy says we shouldn't teach something in schools that is factually incorrect, but many theories being taught are just theories and haven't been proved because it is unknowable. Over and over again people assume that if you believe there is a possibility for an intelligent designer then you're religious and you are one of those protesters asserting that God needs to be taught in school. However, this is partly Christian's fault as well for thinking they can legislate the Bible and beat people over the head with it. Nobody is saying slam christianity down people's throat!!!!!!! All we are saying is agree that in view of much of the unknowable scientific evidence in the universe, acknowledge that there might have been a possibility of an intelligent designer.

The intelligent design theory is always looked down upon because it is viewed as "religion" or believing that God created the universe, and Darwinism is always viewed as "atheism" or that there is no God. Has there ever been a sound argument that has made this so? The answer is no. The view that there is an intelligent designer has always implied that you have to be religious. Why is it wrong to believe that some things in science can't be proven by science? You can't escape the complexity of living organisms and the earth and the evidence that shows repeatedly that there is no explanation for how certain things are. I consider myself a believer in an intelligent design of the universe, but I believe in many aspects of the evolution theory. For example, Darwinism includes adaption, which basically says that all species adapt to their environment. This is clearly proven by numerous evidences. On contrary, some Darwinist would say that the first cell of life came from simple chemicals that replicated using simple means and then natural selection took over. Natural selection, Darwinist admit, that replication requires a self replicating organism. For that to work there must be cell division, in which there must be the presence of DNA, but where did DNA and the folding of proteins come from? That's the heart of the matter, DNA, the building blocks of life. Does my observing that evidence and disagreeing wrong? Does someone's believing that an intelligent designer started life wrong in light of that evidence and many of the faults of others? I also think that a Darwinist can and should respect the idea that there could have been an intelligent designer, even though they don't believe it. I believe people that believe in creationism should respect Darwinism and respect science enough to listen to everyone's claims and not shut them out with the bible.

The idea of there being a supernatural (Intelligent Designer) of the universe should be taught along side with Darwinism and every other design theory. People are so quick to count out evidence for an intelligent designer, but are so quick to include theories on evolution that can't be proven just like the (ID) intelligent designer theory. There are many phenomenons in the world that can't be explained, not even by science. Take for example the power of enzymes in our own human bodies. We know so much about them and what they do, but scientists and biologists still can't explain how they are able to increase the rate of a reaction without increasing body temperature. Or how do you explain DNA, the building blocks of life? Yes we know so much about it, but how did it come about? They still haven't scientifically proven that. What about the cilia in the lining of our body cavities say in the lungs. Cilia lines our body cavities exposed to the outside, for example the trachea. The cilia are proteins that stay in a unified constant sweeping motion that sweep out harmful substances. How they have this ryhtm and what controls them is unknown. In view of the complexity of every living organism and the earth, I am just saying to consider that there might be an intelligent designer and the possibility should not be overlooked.