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I’ll never use my word press again because I’m not a big blogger. I may… however… use other web logs to quickly and rudely tell people that their opinions suck… maybe.

Op-Ed Complete

For the everyday, care free individual; a diet is not for you. There are so many beneficial aspects of “dieting,” but… dieting is temporary. What most of us need is a complete dietary makeover. Proper meal regimens.

Not a temporary change but a life alteration, the changing of years of bad habits. Out with the bad and in with the good!

You’ll hear about or from all kinds of people and their wonderful new diet plans on which some guy lost 57 pounds in just 5 weeks! That’s all fine and dandy but immediately following up a successful diet by a return to the Big Mac… you’ll gain it all back in the skip of an artery-clogged heartbeat.

By breaking a few of our weekly, or even daily, rituals we can drastically change our bodies and health.

Bad habit number one. As Americans, we’re surrounded by the idea of convenience. It’s much easier to throw down a few bucks on a taco or twelve for lunch than to pack a nice healthy turkey sandwich in the morning before work.

We’ll sacrifice our well being over a few minutes preparing our own food! Mowing down a hunk of processed fat and preservative to trick ourselves into satisfaction.

Start taking 5 minutes… just 5, and make sure that you can eat a healthy and nutritious meal. Or, better yet, just make sure that what you’re eating isn’t complete crap.

I’m as busy as any person reading this article. I’m out the door for class at 7:00am and I finally crash in my bed sometime between 10:00 and 11:00pm; but somehow I manage to eat healthy and I DON’T eat fast food.

Bad habit number two. Nobody eats breakfast anymore! “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” How many hundreds of thousands of times have you heard that…? Yet somehow, the assumption is that, “eh, it doesn’t really matter…”

Breakfast is important and is essential to any good healthy lifestyle. Without morning nutrients, your body collects and stores most of your stomach’s contents through out the rest of the day (including your taco and Big Mac!).

The easiest way to ruin a good diet or regimen is by waking up in the morning and skipping the most crucial fueling opportunity that you have all day.

Bad habit number three. Water… you ever heard of it? Have you ever… ever actually had your recommended 8 glasses a day? We don’t realize the numerous benefits of drinking water.

Now, I wont go into bottled water and all of the rumors you hear about it but the simple fact is that purified water is always a more healthy choice than a bottle of soda. After all, some one making the argument that bottled water is somehow tainted by the bottling process will more than likely go ravage a 12oz cola… which is also… in a bottle.

But anyways, drink your water! Put your sugary, fattening, sickening bottle of soda down and drink something that can truly benefit you. It was a hard change for me but I absolutely love water now and I have no problem drinking 120oz or more everyday.

H2O clears out a lot of that extra crap floating around in your body. Reduces sodium levels, therefore lowering one’s blood pressure as well.

Water aids in the digestion process and helps to filter the poisons and toxins flowing through our bodies.

Now after you’ve done these things. After you suck it up and stop saying “oh, but I’m just so busy… I don’t have time to…” you can begin your next big step… EXCERSIZE! And yes, you do have time for that too. If it means 30-60 minutes where you can’t be watching TV or playing video games… then so be it.

If you say “I don’t even know where to begin…” Here’s a pretty well kept secret. There’s this thing… called in in-ter-net. You may even be using it right now… just Google something. There are literally thousands of workout plans and tips all over the web.

So yeah, stop making excuses and just do it.

Op- Ed – Dieting (rough draft)

For the everyday, care free individual; a diet is not for you. There are so many beneficial aspects of “dieting,” but… dieting is temporary. What most of us need is a complete dietary makeover.

Not a temporary change but a life alteration, the changing of years of bad habits. Out with the bad and in with the good!

You’ll hear about or from all kinds of people and their wonderful new diet plans on which some guy lost 57 pounds! That’s all fine and dandy but immediately following up a successful diet by a return to the Big Mac… you’ll gain it all back in the skip of an artery-clogged heartbeat.

A few easy trends to break and we can drastically change our bodies and health.

Bad habit number one. As Americans, we’re surrounded by the idea of convenience. It’s much easier to throw down a few bucks on a taco or twelve for lunch than to pack a nice healthy turkey sandwich in the morning before work.

We’ll sacrifice our well being over a few minutes of preparing our own food! Mowing down a hunk of processed fat and preservative to trick ourselves into satisfaction. Start taking 5 minutes… only 5, and make sure that you can eat a healthy and nutritious meal.

Bad habit number two. Nobody eats breakfast anymore! “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” How many hundreds of thousands of times have you heard that…? Yet somehow, the assumption is that, “eh, it doesn’t really matter…”

Breakfast is important and is essential to any good healthy lifestyle. Without morning nutrients, your body collects and stores most of your stomach’s contents through out the rest of the day (including your taco and Big Mac!).
Bad habit number three. Water… you ever heard of it? Have you ever… ever actually had your recommended 8 glasses a day? We don’t realize the numerous benefits of drinking water.

Now, I wont go into bottled water and all of the rumors you hear about it but the simple fact is that purified water is always a more healthy choice than a bottle of soda. After all, some one making the argument that bottled water is somehow tainted by the bottling process will more than likely go chug a 12oz cola… which is also… in a bottle.

Op-ed Requirements

Every published op-ed that I’ve read so far has had one big thing in common, the format. They’re written in 3-4 sentence paragraphs and a new paragraph never necessarily means a new thought (as our essays and research papers do). Also, since many of these op-eds have come from newspapers, the shorter and more simple article seems to be key. Which means fewer big words…

Op-Ed – Nutrition

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/oped_detail.cfm/oped/577

The author, Trice Whitefield, points out a very distinct pattern in dieting, one which anybody could recognize… the tendency to believe that “counting calories” will lose you weight. He talks about how basically, the average American doesn’t see the difference between a bowl of fruit and a basket of French fries (do to their caloric content). A person will simply look at the number of calories and think “oh, this one is lower… i better eat this crate of deep fried, greasy-fries since they have less calories…”

The Paper

We’ve spent the past several weeks writing an analytical research paper in English 110. This project was to be based around a topic of our choosing and was meant to show detailed research along with argumentative thinking and writing. We were encouraged to use as many primary/secondary sources as possible in order to better educate ourselves and to prove competent in our writing. Personally, i actually enjoyed writing this paper for the mere fact that i actually got to pick my own topic and and give my real feelings about it.