Quarter 4- Journal 1: Is too much of anything unhealthy?

The statement "too much of anything is unhealthy" is often made. Let us assess the validity of said statement. So let's take three examples, and analyze how an obsession with any one of them would affect one's life. We'll take: vegetables, which are to be good for one's health; drugs, which are to be bad for one's health; and playing solitare, which would probably have a neutral effect on one's health. Now in health class, you learn that there are three areas of balance to lead a happy and healthy life. These are, physical health, social health and mental health. Now, we can analyze how each of the prescribed obsessions. If you eat too many vegetables, it will have no affect on your social health, or your mental health. However, these greens will take a toll on your physical health. With only eating vegetables, one won't get the necessary proteins to fuel their bodies, and will be less physically active. Eating too many vegetables will throw off one's balance by throwing off their physical health. Therefore, having an obsession with vegetables is unhealthy. If you do too much drugs, it will obviously have an affect on all sorts of your life. You will first of all, spend all of your time doing drugs, and therefore lose physical capability. You will lose mental health because drugs are bad for your brain, and you will lose your friends socially, because you would be associated as a druggie. Therefore, doing drugs ruins all three points of balance in your life, and are BAD. If you play solitaire too much, it will have an affect on your physical and social health. Since you'd be playing solitaire in solitary, you would spend less time with your friends, and less time exercising. Therefore, playing too much solitaire would throw off the balance of your social and physical healths. In conclusion, too much of anything is unhealthy, since it throws off the essential balance of health between physical, social and mental activity.