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Blog Entry #6 October Fun

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It’s October! Have you done any activities that fall brings? The State Fair, pumpkin patch, Haunted houses? If not, here you can find all sorts of fun activities and places to go with your family, spouse, and friends.   The Arizona State Fair is a great place to bring your loved ones! The state Fair has all kinds of activities for all age groups including an animal barn, Rides, games, and much more. When going to the fair the food is always something I look forward too. Delicious turkey legs, mouth watering Funnel cake with sugar powdered on top, the food just makes the trip so much better! Although this is a more expensive activity to do, it’ll be worth all the fun you’ll have at the end of the day!  Click here for more info  Do you like being scared? Then you definitely need to hit a haunted house before the holiday ends! Adrenalin, terror, and horror are what visitors seek! If this sounds like you then here are two haunted houses you can look into: Thirtee...

Blog entry #5 what are you eating?

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 Do you ever think about where your food comes from? How your meat gets from the farm to your kitchen tabel? The difference between how organic and big time farm companies treat their animals is  astounding! Overcrowding, diseases, and mutations are all results of big time farm companies trying to make fast money the incorrect way.  Over crowding animals is the first problem with raising animals to slaughter. Farmers should have enough space for the animals to roam around freely. The problem with big time farm companies is they’re animals never see life outside of a cage. As for organic companies, they have acres of land that animals can roam on or be hearded around. Organic companies tend to be smaller in numbers because they care for the animals and have respect for nature.  When big time farmers over crowd animals they become more prone to diseases.  Zoonosis  is a disease that is transeferrable from animals to humans. Some of these diseases can sho...

Entry #4 Mental Health

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     Have you ever been stressed out to the point you want to cry? Seems like everything’s going wrong and you don’t know what to do? Believe it or not a lot of people feel like this, and your not alone.        What a lot of people are unaware about is how much stress can actually wear down your body. Stress can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. More common side effects of stress are headaches, insomnia, low self-esteem, and irritability.     Now that you know the symptoms, what can you do to prevent or relive stress? COPING SKILLS! Coping skills are one of the most important tools in relieving stress. Coping skills are tasks or exercises to calm the mind.      Self soothing is a great example of a coping skill. Self soothing is calming  yourself using your senses. For example, taking a Hot bath and feeling the steamy water against your skin Another example is lighting a candle and sme...