Healthy Living Event Proposal How can we encourage healthier exercise and nutrition habits among the DRSS

community? After researching informational texts on the government guidelines for nutrition and exercise and why those guidelines were set as well as how cells get and use energy and how this contributes to overall health and wellness, write a proposal that identifies a problem with the health of a specific target audience within the DRSS community and argues for a solution. Support your position with evidence from your research. You will present this proposal to a panel of teachers, staff and students on Monday, December 9th. The panel has three options: 1. approve your event and your budget 2. tentatively approve your event contingent on revisions made to your proposal and/or budget 3. request major revisions be made and schedule a second presentation to take place during lunch/study hall on Tuesday, December 10th. If there are groups whose proposals are not approved by the end of study hall on Tuesday, December 10th, group members will complete an alternative, individual assignment for this project. Proposal Rubric Each group member will be assigned a section of the proposal to complete. Each person will receive a 25-point grade for their individual part of the proposal using the following rubric: Criteria Presents accurate Wellness/Fitness content Presents accurate Biology content Paragraphs are organized with clear topic sentences, appropriate transition words and concluding sentences. Paragraphs use content-specific terminology, strong diction and avoid awkward phrasing. Writing includes accurate spelling and proper use of punctuation (periods, commas, semi-colons, colons and hyphens). TOTAL Points /10 /10 /5 /5 /5 /35

Healthy Living Event Proposal Group 3 Whats the problem? Our event will address the problem behavior of physical activity by doing a cardio circuit. We learned from our data analysis that students in the high school grades do not get enough exercise according to the national fitness guide lines. According to our data, eleven out of twelve high schoolers had done little to no physical activity over a span of two days. This is a problem because these exercise habit data shows that teenagers are not receiving a healthy amount of physical activity. We also learned from our data analysis that fats are a major problem as well. According to our data, high schoolers consume too many saturated fats, approximately 83% over the food guide line limit. Exercise is a key solution in the burning of fat and calories, and the data shows that fat consumption outweighs the daily amount of physical activity. This is a problem because kids are ingesting large amounts of saturated fats and not exercising at all. This could cause fat build up and increase the risk of a heart attack or type 2 diabetes. Overall, the problem behavior of little physical activity needs to be addressed because students could be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, having a heart attack, or becoming obese. The problem behavior is that high schoolers are consuming large amounts of fat and not receiving enough physical activity. This negatively impacts the human body, so is needs to be addressed in the DRSS community. First of all, moderate to vigorous physical activity intensity has a role in prevention of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and some cancers. According to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, sitting and not receiving the moderate to vigorous amounts of physical activity causes a negative cardiovascular and metabolic effect. This is unhealthy because clinicians, exercise scientists, and public health experts have agreed that a moderate to vigorous intensity of physical activity can prevent cardiovascular disease and some cancers. Too much sitting is considered to be hazardous. Epidemiologic observations from the middle of the 20th century showed men whose jobs involved sitting for a long time and jobs that required physical activity. The men who had to sit for a prolonged period of time had an increased risk of cardiovascular disease than those who had a job that required physical activity. Secondly, an increased intake of fats and a low amount physical activity can also lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes. If a person who does little to no exercise and ingests a lot of fatty foods, such as pork or steak, can have an increased risk of obesity. According to Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, ingesting a lot of carbohydrates and not working out can also be very harmful. An increased amount of refined or simple carbohydrates can also be the culprit of Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease. All foods have carbohydrates, and carbohydrates are the main source of energy for our bodies. The two main types of carbohydrates are monosaccharaides and polysaccharides. Monosaccharaides are simple sugars like glucose and sucrose. Whole grain products such as pasta or bread are polysaccharides. Polysaccharides are long chains or monosaccharaides that can have thousands of simple sugar units. They are also called complex sugars. Simple sugars are just a single molecule that gets digested very quickly, unlike the long complex sugars. Foods such as white bread, white rice etc. have gone through the milling process. This process strips the whole wheat bran and germ from the grain to give it a smoother texture. Later, processers will ether enrich the food product or replace all the vitamins and minerals that were lost with sugars. If a person were to eat a bunch of refined grains and not do any physical activities, his or her risk for type 2 diabetes has increased along with heart disease. This is unhealthy because eating a lot of bad carbohydrates (Refined carbs) and not exercising to work off the extra calories that have been ingested could possibly lead to

insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when the bodys pancreas does not produce any more insulin. Insulin resistance is caused by sudden spikes in blood sugar. When a persons blood sugar rises, the pancreas receives messages telling it to produce and release insulin. The insulin helps cells by taking the monosaccharaides and moving them into the cell so it can receive energy. The sudden spike in blood sugar is caused by a large intake of simple sugars. The simple sugars are absorbed very quickly, and soon after the insulin isnt needed anymore. If this process happens enough, the pancreas will eventually stop the process insulin production. Therefore leading to insulin resistance, or type 2 diabetes. Overall, the problem behavior of receiving little physical activity needs to be addressed because we have found within our data that students are low in whole grain consumption and high in empty calories and saturated fats. They are also doing little to no exercise, which all of this ties into a heightened risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and obesity.

Target Audience and Prolonged Health Benefits Our target audience for our healthy living event is the upperclassmen at DRSS. We believe that the lack of exercise in the upperclassmen is due to their lack of time and poor scheduling abilities. This lack of time comes from their many responsibilities, including school, any jobs they may have, and preparing for college. Upperclassmen are entering the stage in their life where they need to begin scheduling their time, but are still unaware of how to do so. The exercises that we will be introducing them to are quick and easy, making them easy to slide into their daily lives. These exercises can be done at home in a small space, which means that they can be done in between homework breaks. We will demonstrate these exercises to the upperclassmen, showing how they can be done quickly at home. This will help them to incorporate exercise into their daily lives. There are many diseases associated with lack of exercise. One of these diseases is heart disease. Exercising on a regular basis can improve heart and cardiovascular systems. Cardiovascular disease is often caused by atherosclerosis, which is a build-up of fatty plaques in the arteries. Exercising can improve HDL, or good cholesterol, which can help protect against atherosclerosis. HDL does this by removing excess LDL, or bad cholesterol, from the arteries. Since LDL causes clogging of the arteries, HDL is needed to carry it away. Another disease found with lack of exercise is obesity, which can be linked with other diseases such as heart disease/stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Obesity can be found due to consuming more calories than that which one burns off, especially when it comes to saturated fats. Saturated fats increase the bodys levels of LDL, which causes the clogging of the arteries. In order to increase HDL, which gets rid of excess LDL, one must exercise on a regular basis.

Need The 11th and 12th graders need to be doing a mix of aerobic and anaerobic exercises in a short period of time. This maximizes the burning of stored saturated fats, which we observed in our Data Analysis from DRSS Food Diaries of 8th and 10th Graders to be a common issue among high schoolers, as well as lack of exercise. To counteract these deficiencies, the students need to engage in interval training. The NCBI testifies that although the lower and upper limits of the fat burning zone were significantly lower than their counterparts in the aerobic zone, the considerable overlap of the two zones would indicate that training for fat oxidation and training for aerobic fitness are not mutually exclusive and may be accomplished with the same training program. This asserts that anaerobic and aerobic exercise contributes to burning fat. A 2008 study by the University of California confirms this as well, contending that combining cardio and resistance training into a single workout initiates faster weight loss than doing each activity separately. Therefore, students in the high school need to do more resistance and interval training, with a mix of aerobic and anaerobic exercises, in order to help burn off their elevated intake of saturated fats. Exercise in general helps lower levels of fat in the body. White fats are stored in the body in the form of fat cells in adipose tissue. Fat storage occurs when there is enough glucose present from carbohydrates that there is more than enough for cellular respiration to occur, and the surplus is stored as fat. Cellular respiration is the reason that the intense, interval, circuit training burns fat efficiently. When working a circuit, the method of glucose conversion begins as aerobic respiration, but as the body loses breath due to the activity (especially muscular strength building activities in circuits) anaerobic respiration switches into play. As we learned in the Biology PreReading, anaerobic respiration burns more glucose to produce less ATP, and so the body dips into the fat reserves to convert fat into glucose and use that to make ATP. This causes the body to burn fat. Burning fat helps with an overall physical picture as well. Excessive obesity can cause a range of health problems. Harvard Health states that exercise works to overcome insulin resistance, which is a big cause of Type 2 Diabetes. In the book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, we learned that LDL (Low Density Lipoproteins) can clog arteries and cause heart attacks and problems with health even in young age.

Solution Our groups event is going to be a competitive circuit of physical activities for interval and resistance training. We want to modify high schoolers exercise habits and counteract the effect of high saturated fats in their diets by providing them with quick, non-time consuming exercises that burn fat and help to satisfy exercise requirements. It will be held during high school advisory on Wednesday of the Healthy Living Week at DRSS in the gym and will take all of advisory, including cool-down and announcing a winner. There will be four teams of six people. Two teams will be comprised of 11th graders and two teams will be comprised of 12th graders. Each team has 3 girls and 3 guys from the same grade. There will be four stations of different exercises, each station overseen by a member of the group (one group member will look over two stations as our group contains only 3 people, but those two stations will be the easiest to oversee). The stations will be laid out as follows:

First, the group will present to all the students how to do each exercise in the circuit, what the rules are, the prizes, and most importantly, how they can do these exercises at home (perhaps between study breaks) to benefit themselves. This is scheduled to take 7 minutes. After this, the students will be divided into their teams. Each group member will start with one or two groups at their station to ensure the exercises are being done correctly and there is no cheating. These are their starting teams, and each time that team returns to their starting station, the overseer will mark it down as the team having completed a full circuit. A team can only move on from a station after every group member has completed the required number of repetitions of the activity. The team that completes the most circuits in the 15-minute time period wins the prize of a jump rope for each team member. After the 15-minute competition, there will be an 8-minute cool-down period. In those last eight minutes, the scores will be counted, the winners determined and announced, and water and prizes provided. This solution helps solve our identified problem of high schoolers being deficient in exercise and overconsuming saturated fats. The quick exercises we teach them will provide them with tools to use to meet exercise requirements and burn the excess fats. During our 7-minute introduction we will stress the importance of these activities and their usability as quick breaks between study sessions. The ideal amount of exercise for people in their age range is four hours of aerobic physical activity a week, with three being vigorous. The exercises we teach them, and even the prizes we award them, will help them reach this goal. One of the barriers high schoolers face in exercising is a lack of time, and the quick nature of these exercises helps them overcome that barrier. They take little time, planning, or equipment, making it easier for high schoolers to implement.

Budget Line Item 24 bottles of water 6 pack of blue jump ropes Vendor Kroger Gophersport.com Cost $4 $16.95 TOTAL $20.95

Jump Ropes URL: http://www.gophersport.com/item/Rainbow-SpeedRopes?FROM_CART=TRUE