Knowing that these issues affect my close family members helps me to want to learn about it, and know how to help, and that is what this project does for me. This project has helped me learn how natural sugars affect blood sugar and how the body reacts to it. It has shown me just how serious these problems are, when I would use to brush it off, and how to stop myself from getting these same issues. Knowing more about these problems and the long-term effects they have as well as seeing the people who raised me with them and being able to connect the dots has been quite the experience.

     This project has helped me document what I've learned and maybe teach others a little something they may not have known. Knowing now that this simple bodily function has been tampered with so badly in my loved ones gives me a new incentive to take care of myself, and thanks to this project I know how to. How badly this can affect you if not taken seriously has been very surprising to me. I am grateful that the project I chose has had a greater positive impact on me and has not just served to be just another science fair project, with all the research and digging it has struck closer to home than I expected. This has helped me complete the project and care about it. Passion is one of the most important aspects, for me at least, to get work done. 

     Applying this project to one of the more sensitive topics in my life has made me care about it all the more, which has really affected me. Taking a science project and attaching it to something so personal and kind of sad was not something I expected to do, but I can't say I regret it. Adding such a personal and meaningful weight to, what was, such a mundane school assignment has really made this project all the much better for me.

     I've never been very school excited; school projects have never been something I've found myself stoked about, but having to think about this project so deeply and personally has made it something I genuinely care about, which is pretty exciting to me. It's made it easier to do, and it's made me want to do it complete this project with the best outcome possible. Relating to a project has helped me do the project itself and helped me with the more personal aspects.

     Relating to a project can help even the most uninterested student. Knowing how to relate is something that was kind of difficult, I hadn't been very interested with bringing something personal into a project from school, but it really did have a good effect on my productivity and the project had an effect on my morale with how scary the situation with my family is. Knowing about my loved one's bad health and trying to live with it has generally not been fun, it can be kind of depressing actually, but all of the research I've done about this project has given me many ideas about how I can help them be healthier, even just a little bit.

     Like I've been mentioning this project almost every day since I've started it and I think they've been 'taking note', knowing things that can help them has made me happier and have made them maybe take not that this is affecting their kids as well. It's a nice change of pace, after so many years of feeling powerless I finally know something that could help. Having a reason, to know these things has helped me come to appetite science in ways I hadn't been before, of course I knew science can help people but having it so obviously help me in a personal way has really opened my eyes.

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