In my previous blog you know that I got my motivation from my siblings and since it is something that I am comfortable talking about, I would like to expand my knowledge and see how I can better help to  prevent it from happening to others. So, I started with the University of Southern Mississippi’s library database. Once I got started, the information came fairly easily. I found a lot of good sources and learned some new things along the way. I would enjoy further study on this.

The topic I choose is the importance of exercise and being physically active. I mainly want to focus on children and adolescents, but I will be including adults also. Living in the south, we are prone to eating fatty foods and just not eating healthy. I choose this topic because of my little brothers. They are only 12 years old, going on 13 and they are both diabetics. One of them are type 1 and the other type 2. If they would have had more healthy foods and less bad eating habits growing up, I don’t think they would be in the predicament they are in now. With that being said, I want to motivate children and adolescents to live good now to better their future.

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