Mentor: Mrs. Gurrusquieta Practice Manager, Dr. Zaidi Medical Doctor, Mrs.Delnoce Nurse Practioner, and Mrs. Nevitt Physician Assistant, Medlink Gainesville; Mrs. King Healthcare Science teacher, West Hall High School
Did you know that the average high school teenager has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s? This fact inspired me to conduct my research about mental health and how it affects someone physically. Being a teenager in High School as pursuing rigorous classes I personally understand the level of difficulty it is to prioritize your mental health. Being a teenager can be very overwhelming. Many teenagers work, do homework, participate in extracurricular activities, and stress about college all within eight hours. The eight-hour window represents the average time span that a high school student has after school ends if they plan to fall asleep at 11 pm. The point is that teenagers have a lot on their mind to worry about. From my point of view, stress and anxiety can blind you from eating healthy and prioritizing your mental health. Being obese or overweight, according to the Body-Mass-Index scale, can be genetically inherited but it can also be connected to poor mental health. The purpose of investigating this research over the relationship between weight and an unhealthy mindset is to open up the eyes of my audience for we can all make a change, a change as small as eating an apple a day or walking for 10 minutes or journaling, but most importantly knowing that we have defeated the enemy that no one talks about, unhealthy mindset. I intend to change the way I think of food, thinking it more as fuel than entertainment. Especially when I enter college and start living on my own. I also intend to keep a journal in the hope of clearing my mind and being able to focus on what is really important, my health.
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