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__**NATIONAL HISTORY DAY SCRIP**__ Introductory Paragraph:  Bruce Barton, American author, advertising executive, and politician who also served in the U.S. Congress, wrote “Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change- this is the rhythm of living...”   The recent health changes in our society have caused Americans to become dependent on food, causing the U.S. to be the most obese nation in the world; and on pills, causing us to be abusive and addicted.   We’ve all heard the phrase “you get what you give” American’s health has plummeted because we are getting the results of obesity and addiction from what we are giving to our bodies (foods and substances we are consuming). We don’t know what is healthy.   But the question is, what is “healthy”? Is it exercising daily? Eating the recommended foods? Taking daily supplements? How should we address America’s health epidemic?   Memo 2: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview Question: What comes to mind when you hear the word “healthy”? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our country is facing a lot of health problems, many of which have gone unnoticed for a long time. Major epidemics such as obesity and drug abuse have swept through our country and are still present in society. However, the problem lies within the things we don’t expect, such as prescription medications and foods with HFCS. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ALEX: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Morgan Williams states “everyday science brings us news of more and more conditions that can be treated with a pill rather than lifestyle alterations”. In today’s society, pharmaceutical companies and chemists have proved this statement to be absolutely true. We have developed pills to solve virtually every problem. Katie Couric, CBS News journalist says “Americans seem to be looking for a quick fix for everything...and there is a drug or drugs, for all of them”. For pain, there is a pill. For emotions, there is a pill. For image, there is a pill. America has become too dependent on pills. This dependence is life changing for those addicted to pills. Addicts can lose jobs, relationships, family and friends, themselves, and most importantly, their lives. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ABBY: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We come in contact with food every day. The way we consume food has changed because now we buy food for the month. this is possible because of HFCS’s preserving capability. In fact, high fructose corn syrup have been used in nearly every food on the shelf including pop, baked goods, yogurt, cereal, ketchup, fast foods, and much more. HFCS does not stimulate insulin secretion or reduce the hunger hormone ghrelin so this could leave one to feel hungry. Since we can not control when we are full, we can eat more of the high caloric, large foods. Over one third of our nation’s population is now considered obese and the rates are nowhere close to slowing down. Along with the number of obese people rising, health problems have risen. Not only do the effects of obesity show up on the scale, they cause back, knee, and hip pain, kidney failure, heart attacks, diabetes, inability to walk, and possibly death. The Green Revolution was well intended but it created hungry people who shouldn't be hungry. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Health problems that result from obesity are usually fixed by medications. Yet, other psychological health problems are resulting from using pills. In order to fix these life-altering epidemics, we must know the history behind HFCS and medications. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Memo 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">COMBINATION: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wars, usually times of sorrow and depression, brought upon revolutionary innovations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alex: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prescription medications made their way into society during the American Civil War, when morphine was extracted from the opium poppy in order to cure injured soldiers. When soldiers returned home, their wives would give them morphine to ease the pain, and soon, the soldiers became addicted. Prescription pill abuse also became prominent during the two world wars. The wars “led to research and development in the pharmaceutical industry, bringing sedatives, tranquilizers, pain killers, and stimulants”. Abuse began way before our time. However, the severity of the problem has become more prominent in the modern day world. There is more than one drug to be addicted to. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ABBY: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the closing of World War 2, the world was on the brink of starvation and American farmers were producing as much food as possible. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Obesity was not a prominent issue before the Green Revolution because food was not abundant in any way. Once Norman Borlaug introduced his ideas to the world, food was no longer scarce. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Borlaug’s ideas included chemically increasing the fertility of soils, using high-yield variety seeds, enlarging the area of land under cultivation, expanding irrigation, using technology, and applying chemical fertilizers and pesticides. An abundance of crops called for new uses of it. Contracting sweeteners from seeds began during the Napoleonic wars but once the innovation hit America, HFCS was put into practically every product on the shelf. Additionally, our bodies’ required calories has not changed, therefore excess calories from overeating can result in an overweight state. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">COMBINE AGAIN: Once the new inventions were created after the wars, the outcome of pills and an abundance of food created the current day issues that are deteriorating Americans’ health. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Memo 4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview Question: How could we become healthier? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">So how do we address America’s health epidemic?*INTERVIEWS* Everyone knows that we need to control what we are putting into our bodies and we can do this by being natural. Removing the chemicals and unnecessary substances from our diet. Instead of purchasing foods with a shelf life, lean towards refrigerated items or produce. Instead of popping a pill for every problem, find a new way to release stress, such as a massage, or acupuncture. If we give our bodies the necessary care by removing HFCS and decreasing the number of medications we consume, we get better results; a healthier society. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In order to have a healthier society, we need a plan. The public and doctors need to be educated. Many Americans, especially children, are unaware of the effects unhealthy foods and medications have on their bodies. The goal is to inform everyone about how dangerous these foods and pills so they can be confident in their choices. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Benefits: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The benefit of having more education is that each individual will know what they are putting into their body, how it affects them,and most importantly how to be as healthy as possible. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If there was more education about corn syrup in food, people will be in control of what they eat and how much they eat. They can be the shape and size they want to be. In turn, this will cause less obesity, fewer health problems, and fewer pills. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If doctors were aware of the effects of certain pills on the body, they would be more tentative about each prescription they write. With fewer prescriptions in our society, people will be less susceptible of having an addiction or becoming addicted. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ARGUMENT: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some may argue that the patient has full responsibility for their reactions to medications and pills since they have little time with their doctor. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebuttal: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However, Doctors do have a part in their patients addiction because They educate family members and hospitals about drug use by a patient.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*****Interview <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Questions: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Would lowering obesity rates help lessen the amount of death and addictions? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If patients were more educated about possible harms from processed foods and not telling their doctor about their reactions to medications, would there be as many problems with deaths from obesity and addiction? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you know about your patients’ responses to these pills? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How would you develop your knowledge about your patient and their pil?/ prevent them from asking for refills without knowing their present status? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What should patients do about switching doctors? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you think it is fair if doctors are sued because of death from an addiction? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Wilmer, MD <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nephrology and Internal Medicine <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Argument: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Corn industries would be against the removal of HFCS from our diets because once people are educated about how bad it is for you, they can refuse to buy these foods. Therefore, the companies can have less business. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebuttal: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although, foods with corn syrup may become less popular with education, corn can be used in other things such as ethenal in gas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Call to action: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This change starts at home... and with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__you__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. We have to go back to the start. Eliminate chemicals from your diet. Buy organic and non processed foods more frequently. Try different approaches to solve sicknesses like more sleep and massages. If e <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__veryone__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> chooses to live a healthier life, together we are cultivating a better world for our future. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__This__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is our vision. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."(Bruce Barton). Here comes our progress. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Introductory Paragraph: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Bruce Barton, American author, advertising executive, and politician who also served in the U.S. Congress, wrote “Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change- this is the rhythm of living...”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">The recent health changes in our society have caused Americans to become dependent on food, causing the U.S. to be the most obese nation in the world; and on pills, causing us to be abusive and addicted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">We’ve all heard the phrase “you get what you give” American’s health has plummeted because we are getting (obesity and addiction) from what we are giving (foods and substances we are consuming). We don’t know what is healthy

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">But the question is, what is “healthy”? Is it exercising daily? Eating the recommended foods? Taking daily supplements? How should we address America’s health epidemic?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Memo 2:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">ALEX:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Dr. Morgan Williams states “ everyday science brings us news of more and more conditions that can be treated with a pill rather than lifestyle alterations”. In today’s society, pharmaceutical companies and chemists have proved this statement to be absolutely true. We have developed pills to solve virtually every problem. Katie Couric, CBS News journalist says “Americans seem to be looking for a quick fix for everything...and there is a drug or drugs, for all of them”. America has become too dependent on pills. These scientific developments have evolved into a revolution of pill-popping. With as many pills as there are, the problem of prescription drug abuse arises. Pills are fast and easy to get and use. The prescription drug problem in our country has become so widespread that it has been labeled an epidemic. It must stop. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">*videos of people at pharmacy and maybe picture of the amount of pills in our society*

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">ABBY: obesity and health problem

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Over one third of our nation’s population is now considered obese and with the increasing portion sizes the rates are nowhere close to slowing down. In fact, sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup have been used in nearly every food on the shelf including pop, baked goods, yogurt, cereal bars, etc.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Interview Question: What comes to mind when you hear the word “healthy”?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Memo 3: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">*Chipotle commercial playing while talking*

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">COMBINATION: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Wars, usually times of sorrow and depression, brought upon revolutionary innovations.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Alex: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Prescription medications made their way into society during the American Civil War, when morphine was extracted from the opium poppy in order to cure injured soldiers. When soldiers returned home, their wives would give them morphine to ease the pain, and soon, the soldiers became addicted. Prescription pill abuse also became prominent during the two world wars. The wars “led to research and development in the pharmaceutical industry, bringing sedatives, tranquilizers, pain killers, and stimulants”. The pill popping culture began with the wars that we fought that brought on the invention of more pills.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">ABBY: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Obesity was not a prominent issue before the Green revolution because World War II set almost every country in a position of hunger. Wayne Rasmussen, a former chief historian for the United States Department of Agriculture, wrote in his article about world hunger “World War II ended with American farmers reaching the highest levels of food production ever in 1945 and 1946” (Rasmussen 1).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">COMBINE AGAIN: Once the new inventions were created after the wars, the outcome of pills and an abundance of food created the current day issues that are deteriorating Americans’ health.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Memo 4: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Interview Question: How could we become healthier?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">So how do we address America’s health epidemic?*INTERVIEWS* Everyone knows that we need to control what we are putting into our bodies and we can do this by being natural. Removing the chemicals and unnecessary substances from our diet. If we give our bodies the necessary care by removing HFCS and decreasing the number of medications we consume, we get better results; a healthier society.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">In order to become more natural, the public and doctors need to be educated on the health concerns brought on by certain foods and medications. Many Americans are unaware of the effects unhealthy foods and medications have on their bodies. The goal is to make people KNOW how dangerous unhealthy foods and medications can be.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Benefits: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">The benefits of having more education for both the public and doctors is that each individual will know what they are putting into their body, how it affects them,and most importantly how to be as healthy as possible. Our society today has this mind-set that in order to be healthy, we must eat healthy foods and take pills. While this is important to do, many people don’t know what foods are healthy and what pills are right to take.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">If there was more education about corn syrup in food, people will be in control of what they eat and proper portion sizes. They can be the shape and size they want to be. In turn, this will cause less obesity, less health problems, and less pills.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">If doctors were more aware of the effects of certain pills on the body they would be more tentative about each prescription they write. With less prescriptions in our society, people will be less susceptible of having an addiction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">ARGUMENT: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Some would argue and many believe that corn syrup is the same as table sugar and people are responsible for their addiction to medications. In today’s world, doctors don’t have a lot of time to spend with patients. Many patients switch health care providers, thus leaving doctors out of the loop on what medications they are taking. Therefore, patients need to be responsible for their own actions, and it is not the doctor’s job to ‘babysit’ each of their patients.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">As for the food epidemic, Corn Refiner’s Association relate the sweeteners by the same number of calories, equal in sweetness, similar production methods, and fairly close fructose to glucose ratios. The similarities between the two sweeteners allow for people to conclude that taking high fructose corn syrup and replacing it with table sugar is useless and would not change the obesity issue.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Education on these topics won’t make a difference on how people choose their foods or how much medications they will take. Therefore, it’s a waste of time and energy to attempt to change what is already set in stone.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Rebuttal: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Although corn syrup is like sugar in some ways, there are major differences. Pills additionally help health problems, but can create major ones too, like addiction. Education about each of these health concerns will provide us with the information we need to lead a healthier, more natural lifestyle.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">“80-90% of physicians in the US have no training or education in the use of controlled substances” Many doctors are becoming concerned that if they don’t get the proper education on these substances, they could possibly be sued if something goes wrong. Dr. Kloth, a pain management physician and spokesman for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, argues that “doctors contribute innocently because they haven’t been trained properly on how to prescribe in a responsible way”. If doctors became educated, there would be less mistakes in prescriptions and people would be more inclined to go after a more natural lifestyle than just pop a pill.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">The conclusion about high fructose corn syrup and table sugar being alike shows that many do not have the correct information. The fructose to glucose ratio is close, but the difference changes everything. Extra fructose (in HFCS) allows for fat storage and insulin and ghrelin, both of which tell you when you’re full. If everyone knew how their body digests HFCS, they will easily sway away from foods containing it after they have the necessary knowledge.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Call to action: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">This change starts at home and with you. Once you know how to control your health and what you’re “putting in” your body, there are immediate results. Our lack of education can be seen as confidence within health, yet we fear a world of obesity and multiple health issues per person, so we’ve created diets and cuts to what we consume as our vision to solve the health epidemic.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: 1538.5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."(Bruce Barton). Here comes our progress.