Dieting

            Summary:

Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. Diets to promote weight loss are generally divided into  categories:

a.       Low-fat: involving the reduction of the percentage of fat in one's diet.

b.       Low-carbohydrating: restrict carbohydrate consumption for weight control or for the treatment of obesity.

c.       Low-calorie: restricts calorie intake.

d.      Very low calorie: maintaining protein intake but limiting calories from both fat and carbohydrates.

e.      Datox diets: detox diets claim to eliminate undesirable "toxins" from the human body rather than claiming to cause weight loss.

      Reflection:

Overall it is a good article, the article tells us about what  diet is and how to diet.  But the article doesn’t use the table comparison between the types of diet and does not discuss which one is better for the diet. I think with the comparison table  this article will be much easier to be understood by readers.

Diet is the action to the make a body slimmer. Mostly people who do diet is teenage girls. The common reason is to look good.
But not everyone has diet on  the right way. Most of them are using slimming drugs that have bad effects on the health of the body or they reduce their food portions. Sometimes with what they've done that they have health problems. and although they managed to make their body slimmer, but with a slim body thay  would look unhealthy / sick.

I personally have ever been on a diet in high school. What I did is to reduce food portions and consume slimming drug. That was a mistake because I did not diet with the correct procedure. By reducing the size of the meal, I feel very weak while I do my activities, it is because the energy comes from food. So if i reduce the portion, it makes my body become weak and without power.

Slimming diet by consumsy  drugs is more efficient. That was proved to myself. After a few weeks I take the drug, I felt my weight down, it is shown by the clothes I wore became loose. From my experience after taking slimming drug that our body will feel weak. It was because of drug reactions in our body.

So, the conclusion is don’t diet with anyting which can cause problems in our body that can make our body unhealthy.

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Broken Home (The Effect for Children)

   Summary:

Children from divorced families are on "average" somewhat worse  than children who have lived in intact families. These children have more difficulty in school, more behavior problems, more negative self-concepts, more problems with peers, and more trouble getting along with their parents. Several types of risks that may contribute to children's difficulties. These are:

a.       Parental loss

b.      Economic loss

c.       More life stress

d.      Poor parental adjustment

e.       Lack of parental competence

f.       Exposure to conflict between parents.

      Reflection:

I like this article. The author presents the topic clearly accompanied by reasons. Not only  includes a proof of the results of several researchers, but writers also include a percentage figure. Topics discussed through several issues of:

1.      Are children of divorce worse of than children in married two-parent families?

2.      What causes the differences between children in divorced versus intact families?

3.      What evidence do we have about how each of these factors affects children in divorced families?

4.      And Why do children and young adults from divorced families still seem to be more distressed than children from intact families?

Discussion of the subject matter covered by each. So the reader more easily understand what is actually discussed in the article.

How does the growth of the children were very influential in determining the nature of each child. Some problems in the child's life can have an impact on the child's soul. Separation of both parents because of divorce for example. Children desperately need both parents in a period of growth and development. What happens if both parents are not there beside him when he really needs them? the growth and development of children will be slightly disturbed.

Most of them do things that may harm themself. For example silence that could cause it to be a closed, silent, and morose. Some of them are also not common to do negative things like promiscuity to forget their troubles. It was really not good for children's development. I really feel sorry for those who live without parents intact. They suffer distress that are harmful to the child's development. and of course the situation of children living with only one of their family is worse than those who lived with both parents.

For parents should before making a farewell, first consider how the fate of their baby. Thinking about what happens to them if you have to live with only one parent, how he's feeling, and how her development.

Parents should learn more about how to solve their problems, and how to avoid separation. If a divorce is necessary, before deciding try to relive their youth who love each other. They can recalling fond memories of time together, when the baby was born, etc.

There are any ways to resolve the problem before it leads to a separation. Separation might bring the child away from the person she loved. Children living in single parent families tend to have the economic resources of children living in intact families. Loss of contact with one parent and the children were lost skills and resources of the old man. Resulted in many changes in life situations such as changing children's school, day care, home, etc. And much more impact than a divorce.

I ever met with a children, he is 9 old year. His parent has break home. The effect he have been quietly and his school is not good. Because of it he didn’t have friends and his scors in the school was fall. I felt so sad and disappointed with his parent. So, I hope all parent in this world don’t break home because many effect from it.

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Adolescent Sex

            Summary:
 

For teenagers, sex is considered as an emotionally powerful experience, combined with risks and psychological changes. The average age of first sexual intercourse in the United States is 17.0 for males and 17.3 for females.  By the time they are high school seniors, 66% of girls and nearly 63% of boys report they have had intercourse. Among younger teens, the majority claim to be virgins, and this percentage has risen over time. Factors that correlate with teen sexual activity include:

1.      Individual

2.      Family

3.      Community

4.      Unwanted initial sexual intercourse

Besides vaginal sex also teen oral sex. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco believe that some teens, and particularly girls, engage in oral sex as a way to avoid vaginal intercourse. New York Times columnist David Brooks has written, "Reports of an epidemic of teenage oral sex are .. greatly exaggerated" Researchers believe that oral sex may have become more popular than intercourse for adolescents because teens believe it carries fewer physical and emotional risks, a claim one study supports. 

Reflection:

Overall it is a good article because the article tells us about the sex life among adolescents who has become a tradition. The data and the percentage make the contents of the article is valid. Article is clear and easily understood.

            Teenage life is a crucial period of the next life. When this teenage years run well then certainly the next life will be good too. And the possibility it could happen also on the attitude of one’s own maturity. Adolescents in this world must be having a strong curiosity. They want to know what they do not know and after they know about it they want to know more. That is teenager. As they want to know what sex is, promiscuity, drugs, etc. Most of them for the first time just try. Then if he/she can not control it will inevitably feel always do. As a teenager the facts exist in developing countries. Most of them do things that are negative, such as doing free sex with a girlfriend, friend, even with people they do not know.

Sense of their desires they can not control, they do what they want without thinking it through again. That was proven with the data they sexual behavior is very high. They have sex because of individuals themselves, families, communities, the environment they live. But i think it also depends on how we respond it. We can not have sex with a positive thinking about what the benefits of sex and think of what the benefits and consequences of sex connected it self. Teenagers should not feel ashamed for not following the trend that all people have sex like vaginal sex or oral sex. I do not agree with the words teenagers are mostly about “the pregnancy was easy to be prevented by using this and that”.

All these are tools and equipment that could not work at anytime. Although the doer of sexual activity use condom, she was not necessarily protected from pregnancy. Facts show that condoms can leak and it could result in pregnancy. After finding out they were pregnant. Are  they happy? Certainly not, if they were not ready and having sex before marriage, they whould get streesed. The conclusion is all that can be avoided by never enganging in sex with the opposite sex. It should be done if it was about time.

My close friend have been there. as a teenager, grade 3 Jenior High School, she was having sex with her girlfriend. So, she could not continue her education. Then she got married and have families with a state that are not ready because she was so young.

So, for all teenage if you not ready to get marry don’t try and for those who just want to try, think before doing it.

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