The Hillwood Herald is the news blog of Hillwood Academic Day School. Written and published by the school’s upper grades (fifth through eighth), this blog tracks student, staff, and family happenings at the school.
Does better grades and higher class rank make life healthier? Yes.
There has been a research on 10,317 students at the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. In this study, researchers found information where it shows that better grades do lead to a healthier life.
Education also counts on your family's involvement. Even if you have a high education but diabetes runs in your family, there will be a higher chance of you developing it.
Of course, there are other reasons to consider getting good grades. For instance, better education leads to a good job. A good job leads to more money and that could lead to a better living. You can get a big house in a nice neighborhood. You will also get a chance to get fresher and healthier foods for yourself. Educated people also can have healthier and longer lives. They will know what's right and what's wrong. Should you smoke? Should you drink? They will know the right answer to these questions. This will give educated people a better life with a smaller chance of getting diseases or addictions.
On Tuesday, March 23, history was made when President Obama's health care overhaul was signed into law.
A victory like this for Democrats certainly couldn't have been gained easily. It cost a year of antagonism and may cost the seats of Democratic lawmakers.
This new law, priced at almost $1 trillion, will make it so that by 2014, every American will have health insurance, or be fined if he doesn't, and will include the 32 million who now lack it. Medicaid will cover more people and insurers won't be able to deny service, but Medicare will be sacrificed.
According to the health care law, starting this year, insurers cannot cancel someone's insurance, if he gets sick or injured. Children will be insured up to age 26.
Many oppose this new law because of its great expense and are accusing it as a "government takeover."
Below is a video from the White House's website showing the President signing the health care bill. You can also read a post about how a bill become a law on The Hillwood Herald.
First Lady Michelle Obama, has started a new program called Let's Move. She is trying to get people up and active. She said everybody needs to get off the video games, and go outside and play. Also, Michelle Obama thinks we should stop eating the chips, and go get an apple.
Michelle says school should provide healthier food selections but what kids will actually eat. Children eat about half of their daily calories at school. As families improve their healthy eating at home, Michelle works on helping the schools improve their food selection.
Children need at least 60 minuets of exercise each day. Normally, children only exercise about 30 to 45 minuets each day.
The best shot at health care reform this year may not be coming from Obama's office but from the family dinning room. Michelle Obama set up a meeting with several secretaries and congressional committee members to strategize about a campaign against children's obesity. Obesity kills about 100,000 Americans each year.
Since Michelle started a vegetable garden at the white House she became interested in food and health. As a parent this is an issue to her and she has learned that there are many other parents around the world struggling with the same issue. Statements by first ladies can have powerful effects, for example before lady Bird Johnson's campaign against billboards and litter on the highway people used to throw trash out of their car window. In trying to stop child obesity, Michelle Obama is trying to stop the source of this national health crisis.
Health and Humans Services Secretery Kathleen Sebelius says that the first major federal investment will begin with a $1 billion fund. The first lady said the most focus will be on four things: improving health at school, increasing children's physical activities, improving access to healthy nutrition, and make it more affordable to poor children. She says the good news is that obesity is solvable.
I played a game called My Pyramid Blast Off. You type in your name, gender, and your age. You must pick healthy foods to fuel the pyramid rocket. The fuel must be up to 2000 so it can blast off to planet power. Well, if you fail you could start over if you want to.
The point of this game is to teach kids what are healthy foods. The pyramid or food pyramid tells which foods are healthy and not healthy. If you healthy you can do awesome things, and if you eat to much junk food you might be lazy.
You can also do sports to also stay healthy. So eat right and go outside and do sports.
Last week Julian F. interviewed me, Anya, about how a kitty got the swine flu. This kitty got swine flu from humans. Animals also can get H5N1 from humans. H5N1 has killed millions maybe billions of birds. I also wrote about tips on how to stay healthy by just washing your hands.
Team Nutrition is a project of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. Part of its education efforts include the creation of a computer game to teach young people about healthy eating.
Student Assignement: Brendon What is Team Nutrition and what is the organization trying to do? Write a news story that explains the five W's of Team Nutrition:
• Who • What • When • Where • Why
Also, review Team Nutrition's new computer game and point readers to this educational page. What do you find most interesting about it? Consider htthe following questions:
• What is the game like to play? • What ages is it most appropriate for? • What do you like best about the game? • What would you change? • Did you find any bugs (or mistakes in the game)?
New York City's RadioLab does an hour-long segment about parasites. Read this blog entry by RadioLab. Watch the different videos, and embedd several onto you page. Also, read and link to this article by Dan Zimmer, the king of parasite.
Write a news story about parasite. What are they and why aren't they all bad.
For the most part, we all know that too much sugar isn't good for us. But NPR reports on why too much sugar, especially in drinks, might be especially bad for teenager's hearts later in life.
Write a news story explaining this report. You should answer the five W's of a good news story, as well as the following questions.
Who reported this story?
Who created the report that this story references?
What is this story about?
When was this story first reported?
Where did the story take place?
Why does it matter to Herald readers?
What is the connection between sugar, teenagers, and their hearts?
What is "added sugar"?
What other names, or pseudonyms, does "added sugar" go under? Why is it good to know these names? (Hint.)
What can teens -- or anyone -- do to avoid too much sugar in their diets?
This week, your goal is to write at least 15 solid sentences and include images. Have Ms. Moorhead review your post prior to publishing.
On Tuesday, March 23, history was made when President Obama's health care overhaul was signed into law.
First Lady Michelle Obama, has started a new program called Let's Move. She is trying to get people up and active. She said everybody needs to get off the video games, and go outside and play. Also, Michelle Obama thinks we should stop eating the chips, and go get an apple.
I played a game called My Pyramid Blast Off. You type in your name, gender, and your age. You must pick healthy foods to fuel the pyramid rocket. The fuel must be up to 2000 so it can blast off to planet power. Well, if you fail you could start over if you want to.
