Overall, health is attempting to find a balance with mental, social, and physical health, where one must receive enough sleep, incorporate varied types of exercise, have limited amounts of stress, communicate with others, and have a proper diet. These aspects greatly affect our body's efficiency and overall well-being. While our school attempts to incorporate a healthy atmosphere for the students, many are not getting the recommended 9-10 hours of sleep due to the increased amount of stress from homework and tests/quizzes. However, this can easily be changed by altering our schedules and procrastinating less on assignments.
Some essential themes in this unit include getting adequate nutrition and getting proper sleep. Filling our lives with processed foods and limiting our sleep causes issues, including increase in stress and weight. While the majority of the chapter seemed related and easy to comprehend, I was slightly confused on identifying whether a person is in non-Rem/Rem/awake phases through the varied graphs. To improve this, I would look more closely at the examples in the classwork.
This unit relates to my intended college major, psychology, where one studies the way people think/behave. Many of the issues covered in the unit, including sleep (Rem/non-Rem sleep, Sleep Stages, Cortisol, Melatonin), social health (communicating with others instead of chatting through social networking websites), and nutrition (limiting processed foods and getting a balanced diet) related to some of the psychology classes I took in the summer, including Social and Abnormal Psychology.
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