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Author, No. "Women dies from drinking 10 liters of coke a day, coroner says." Fox News 13th October 2012. n.pag. Web A women, Natasha Harris, died in February from drinking too much Coca-Cola. According to the woman's family, she was addicted to the soda, and went into withdrawals when she did not get her "fix" of the soda. At the time she died, Natasha was thirty years old, and had lost all of her natural teeth to decay from soda. Drinking the soda did not only affect her own health, but the health of her children as well. For one, she set a bad example for her growing children, and two, at least one of her children was born without enamel on their teeth due to the excessive consumption of Coca-Cola. Natasha Harris died from the soda, and the amount she drank each day was equivalent to having 2 pounds of sugar and 970 milligrams of caffeine. Having too much of anything is harmful, however, many people are addicted to sodas, and the many health complications that may come from having too much can be extreme.

Raynolds, Gretchen. "Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six." New York Times, 13 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. Daily exercise is known to give you health and fitness benefits. However, new study shows that leisurely approach to workouts may be more effective than working out every day. University of Alabama at Birmingham assigned each of three groups of older women different exercises. One group lifted weights once a week and performed cardiovascular exercises another. Another performed these two workouts twice each a week. The last group exercised every day of the week. While all the participants managed to gain muscle and tone up by the end of the research, results show that the group that performed exercise four times a day expended far more energy throughout the experiment than the others. Daily exercise prevents the body to produce excess levels of cytokines, sending messages to the body to slow down. I decided to share this article because I think a lot of people assume that daily exercise will lead to good health. I'm sure there are people who exercise often because they like to, but it is also very important to give yourself rest days for muscle recovery.

"Want to Get Healthier in a Fast Way? Try Standing up." Venice Gondolier Sun 30 Jan. 2013: 11. Newsbank. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. For most Americans, new years resolutions mean losing weight, quitting smoking, or living a healthier lifestyle, but only 8% of new years resolutions actually succeed. What is one simple adjustment that we can all make to make ourselves significantly healthier? We can stand up more. Recent studies have proven that sitting is hazardous to our health. It is linked to heart attacks, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer, high cholesterol. and it shortens our lives. Sitting for more than six hours a day increases your chance of dying by 37% compared to sitting for less than three hours a day.  So what can we do to stop this problem? Unfortunately exercise does not reverse the negative effects that sitting has on our bodies. We need to become more mindful of how much we sit, and make small adjustments, whether it be standing while talking on the phone and while drinking your morning coffee. If you must sit, like at school or in the office, keep your eye on the clock and stand up to walk at regular intervals.

Bakalar, Nicholas. "Pollution's Link to Birth Weight." Pollutions Link to Birth Weight Comments. NewYork Times, 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. Summary: As we continue to live in a world that contains 7 billion people, there is no doubt that we have damaged this planet with pollution. But studies have found that exposure to pollution during pregnancy can affect the baby with low-birth-weight. Researchers combined data from 3 million births from 9 different countries and 14 different health centers and came to the conclusion that the risk of low birth weight was 10 to 15% higher in polluted areas. Low-birth weight can lead to consequences later on in life, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other illnesses, and has a higher chance of dying early. Reaction: I was really intrigued with this article because we live in a world where pretty much everyone pollutes the planet everyday in one way or another. And its common knowledge that pollution is harmful to the environment and also for you, but I never knew that it could cause harm to babies. These babies will grow up to become the next generation that will have to face pollution unless we can find an efficient eco-friendly energy source, and it turns out that we are harming them from pollution before they are even born. This encourages me to now be furthermore active in protecting the environment and trying to make the world a better place for the next generation.

Gallagher, James. "Vegetarians 'cut heart risk by 32%'" BBC Health, BBC News. 30 Jan. 2012. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. This is an article about how a study showed that vegetarians may have a higher advantage in staying immune to heart diseases. A study was conducted which showed that vegetarians were 32% less likely to die or be affected by a heart disease. The difference in cholesterol levels, BP levels, and body weight seems to have an effect in this. I personally found this article very interesting as I can personally relate to it since I am a no-fish, no-meat(Ovo-Lact0) vegetarian myself. I think that this is a good article which many should read and take wise decisions based on it. Although being a vegetarian, I do agree that meat may have a lot of benefits in consuming, however I also want people to know that there are also detriments to it.

This article about the change from poorer kids being skinny to poorer kids being obese. The statistics from kids elementary schools kids shows that 12.3% of the poorest reception kids were obese, compared to 6.8% from the wealthiest backgrounds. The solution there trying to create is to making a healthier living society. Tam Fry said that The government has to be tougher and set limits to the salt, sugar and fat in foods. We are living in an obesogenic environment where it is harder to make healthier choices. Parents have to feed their children." She believes doing this would cut down the obesity level in both rich and poorer children.

Seager, Jeanne. "The 'Healthy' Birthday Party Is One Parenting Trend That Needs  to Disappear ... Now." The Stir. Ed. Tracy Odell. CMI Marketing Inc., 12  Feb. 2013. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. .

Description: Remember the rainbow cake or the crazy neon icing you used to decorate cookies at your 6 year old birthday party? Apparently those "unhealthy" foods are out of fashion, even at children's birthday parties. Lately, going healthy and organic has been very popular among the youth. This is a fantastic thing; especially with all the chemicals that are put in our foods now-a-days. But is it really necessary to only serve raw snacks and stuff the piñata with kale chips? Why can't we just let kids be kids? No pre-schooler would pick celery over a cupcake with cookie monster's face on it. According to Jeanne Seager, the latest health craze of eating healthy and going organic has finally trickled its way down to children's birthday parties. Cupcakes and cookies have been swapped with whole wheat crackers and raw vegetables. The moms who still throw the "traditional" birthday party are sometimes frowned upon and are put down b other mothers telling them, "how could they feed their children such things?"

Reaction: Also, it is important to feed kids "bad foods in moderation". They're going to eventually going to go to school, be teenagers, make and buy their own food when they're in college. Do they really think they'll be picking up the 100% organic no-glucose chips instead of the cheaper more attractively packaged Cheetos? The point is, some parents have taken "being healthy" too far. Let them have the pretty candies; just in moderation.(((