My Documentary

The Exercise Effect

Letter to the Editor

HCS Early College High School

2050 Hwy. 501 E. Conway, SC 29526

P.O. Box 261966 Conway, SC 29528-6066

(843) 349-3131

colierogers10@gmail.com

September 19, 2013

The Sun News,
Letter to the Editor,
P.O. Box 406,
Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

Dear Editor in Chief,

My name is Colie Rogers and I am a sophomore at Early College. I would like to inform everyone about my research topic. I think obese people should go out and exercise instead of spending money on a Gastric Bypass. I believe that they would feel much better after exercising and working the fat off of their body, than just lying on a bed and getting other people to do what they could be doing themselves. On the opposing side you have people who are just too lazy and do not care what people think about them, so they would much rather take the easy way out. After all, why would you want to take the easy way out when in the end you can look back and say “I worked my butt of to look like this and I am proud of myself!”

                                                                                                            Sincerely,

                                                                                                            Colie Rogers  

Narrative Poem

Obese?

Yeah that’s what they call it.

A 400 pound kid without the help of a soul.

No one knows what made him this way, but this is the way they all thought about it.

His brother pounds him with hate, making him feel like losing his weight will never be a goal.

He tries and tries to think of a way

Just so he could finally lose this weight.

Days go by with more and more irate,

But one day he knows he will prove them wrong

By taking this weight-off by working all summer long.

Tick-tock tick-tock, there goes the knock.

At the door awaits the swole trainer ready to take that weight off like a hog.

First week gone and the trainer has him worked like a mule.

The closing of summer approaches and a new lifestyle

Is about to be full. With his brother seeing improvements

He starts to worry 

Because he’s in no hurry

To stop picking on his brother.

He thinks and thinks about what to do

But with no worry in the world he keeps on doing, no matter how bad the duel.

With weight losing  

And his muscle improving,

He knocks off the pounds of fat, knowing he is not losing.

Last day of summer and he’s looking at the scale

And sees that he did not fail.

Looking back at it he’s much happier he chose exercising instead of the costly bypass.

Oh, his name

As spoken with no shame,

Henry the Last.

Exploratory Essay

Colie Rogers

Ms. McKoy

English 2

September 2, 2013

Exercise or Gastric Bypass?

            Should obese people who can help themselves, exercise or spend money on a gastric bypass? I think people who can help themselves should exercise instead of spending money on such a costly surgery. Obesity is a major problem in the whole world, mostly the United States. More than thirty five point seven percent of U.S. adults are obese. The yearly estimated cost of the medical cost in America was one hundred and forty-seven billion dollars. I have an obese friend who used to be actively involved in sports and he would tell me that exercising helped him out.

            Studies have shown that people who have had the Gastric Bypass surgery have had multiple side effects. One of the major side effects is that most people get a divorce because of the big changes. They could also face changes such as: anemia, osteoporosis, suicide. They face suicide as a problem because of all the work they have to put in to keep the weight off. This surgery also can result in a dangerous potential of hypoglycemia (low blood glucose). In all, these are just a few effects that could, or possibly might happen when getting this surgery done.

            In my research I have found out the exercise is the best thing for obese patients. By exercising regularly, you help your body out because you are preventing yourself from getting any other diseases. This has been shown that exercising boosts your mood and helps you from being a depressed person. It’s also a very cheap way to lose weight then to spend money on very expensive surgery. Most researchers have said to just start slowly and look at the barriers that stop you from exercising. In the end, you are spending about thirty minutes of your day to benefit yourself and it cost a lot less.

            This is all just a common sense thing to me. Some people look at this as ‘I should just take the easy way out and get a surgery.’ What most people do not know is about the side effects that come with this. From exercising and being physically active you feel much better. I say this out of personal experience because not only do I exercise every day, but I push myself to strive for my goals. All you really need is a goal and some passion and in the end you will have lost more weight then you expected to lose to begin with.