Fall Blog #1

With all the work we have done up to this point, there are many things that have stuck out to me with our assignments.

Pertaining to our Research Papers… with our brainstorming in class I have brainstormed with myself also.  The topics of food health, intellectual and educational health, and skin health have all stuck out to me as interesting topics to write about.  All of my immediate family (my mother and 4 of my sisters) all have eczema, and I would like to research natural remedies that may help with eczema.  Although my mama and sisters go to the dermatologist, some of the creams and oils they give them are too strong for my young sisters to use or they make their eczema worse.   Another topic that stuck out to me is the food system of America such as PDA and things of that nature because I watched this documentary once on how cows and chickens are treated on the so called “farms”.

  They neglected and abused the animals and on top of that the food is not healthy for us.  What’s the point of that??!!  I want to learn the difference between natural and organic foods. Are they the same thing??  Finally, on the subject of intellectual and educational health, I would love to see the effects of breastfed babies and babies who aren’t breastfed to see the difference.  Does it depend on the amount of knowledge new mothers have? I really don’t feel like mothers who know all of the benefits of breastfeeding would be so quick not to breastfeed after just a little enlightenment.

Also, Ms. Ingram stated in class how she read somewhere so many kids have asthma as compared to kids during her adolescent years; I believe this also ties into breastfeeding and intellectual and educational health.

I’m not exactly sure of what problems I will run into when writing this research project.  I think I will have trouble thoroughly finding the information needed to answer my question.