morning welcome to changes the program on sustainability i'm susan gregory the coordinating producer of the show and this week's show was produced employee recorded by media studies students from vancouver island university thanks to their professor robin davies for facilitating that project hello and welcome to changes a radio show hosted by the i used to g two seventy one class in which we discuss a range of subjects my name is general or injure and i'll be a host for this week today we will be discussing relationships the term relationship may seem very straightforward at first but in reality is a very complex term that can refer to any number of things this is because we as humans tyvon our interactions with ourselves technology and other humans and today's segment then will be felt thing on these three main relationships that many of us will be our first speaker today and he will say they want to eat healthier lose weight gain muscle and this off in search of the food they put in their bodies what does it mean to eat healthy first of all other to serve the three categories of macronutrients consists of first we have carbohydrates carbs all to make of the most important energy source found in various foods your digestive system changes carbohydrates and to glucose or blood sugar your body then uses the sugar for energy for your cells tissues and organs second it's also served both positive structural and metabolic functions now that we have that covered we can go into detail about two main health goals for people building muscle and was in fact a lot of diets out there that make pre made allotments of food and designed exercise routines but many of these diets don't explain the rules of these foods in our body let's explain weight loss a person's weight loss on a day to day or week to week basis is due to the amount of calories they have taken weight loss is a matter of calories in versus the amount of calories burned a person can reach or weight loss goal by staying under a certain amount of calories per day on a consistent basis since muscles composed of protein to make sense of the need ample amounts of protein when trying to drop body fat you don't want to lower protein intake eating fat does not lead to fat again especially when you get the right kinds namely essential fats i feel maybe three and model in saturated fats these fats actually encourage weight  loss protein and fat which are essential there are no essential carbs because your body can convert protein and fat into carbs so to lose fat you should start by reducing your carb intake first with this in mind since weight loss is predominant of calories  versus calories out is not recommended that you simply skip meals as i can for your body into starvation mode slows your metabolism down because you distort more fat when you side eat if you decide to limit your carbon table dieting you may experience a few changes in your body's behavior a lot of people complain that they have no energy when eating low carb and the difficulty working out that's because in those who have been eating higher carbs their bodies have adapted to burning carbs their primary fuel source one problem with low sweet potatoes whole grains and some fruit one really problematic card for most people's fruit which is down in fruit and in products that use high fructose corn syrup is a sugar that the body doesn't use well the majority of us we consume gets acids also been found to help with weight loss particular at body fat polyunsaturated fats also lower total cholesterol seafood like salmon and fish oil as well as corn soy sunflower oil are high and polyunsaturated fats this also includes  also high in saturated fats there are foods they can eat to help boost natural peppard some of the best fat burning foods available include walnuts which are a rich source of omega three fatty acids oatmeal because a slow digesting so fat burning can remain higher throughout the a great source of modern saturated fat just make sure to avoid low fat peanut butter is due to the replacement of carbs and sugar broccoli doesn't contain many carbs or calories but leaves a person feeling full as well in combination with fat burning foods you can also include lean sometimes he can only leave messages of when he will be calling and make sure that the person will be there to catch this call as for me who is now living in the alex it is quite interesting to see how different the phones were back then it would seem very inconvenient for us now but thank you for the people in that age and that time this is the probably the cutting edge technology product not to mention the time when people can only send letters set the purpose of communication i was just talking about the common occasion function of a small pool is not valued as in the past people nowadays are looking for a variety of you i think we can all relate the smartphone has become deeply intertwined into our everyday lives just the other day i was late for school because i couldn't find myself alone even though i didn't need it any case they increased ownership of the smart phone has dramatically changed the way in which we communicate with each other there's no sense of privacy anymore when you own a cell phone since you are expected to be available for communication twenty four seven there is also a computer aspect of the smartphone which you rely on heavily to tell us where we need to go what we should be doing and what we need to know the smartphone is just one of the many technologies that change our lives in this way sixteen it's the twenty first century and us we all know this is the digital age when it comes to communication there is no hesitation it's just the easiest way to do it as we have it now and of course throughout i pads sky google hangouts search engines we have it all in order to access our maps music television and radio and it just keeps going on and on and on and on the website google offers such a wide variety over websites and links that when it comes to things in real life you don't really need to learn anything anymore because when it comes down to it if you have a question what do most modern people do they look it up on google communications of course i mentioned it developed throughout the years so you can get this for example the original telephone was  and after all this time and all this years in eight hundred seventy six they decided ok this will work this will become a hit on the market to what least will give it a try and they should know that after one hundred forty years people use their phone in this case as a daisy survivor when it comes down to it people use it for text messaging calling but not only that we use it for the internet it's we use it for maps we have things called no real need forty actual person to be present with you in the same room you can talk to somebody on the other side of the will see him hear him see their emotions see their reactions and it don't even have to be physically there with you they can be on the other and of course the cell phone itself was still in survey development of course because back then we had the what does it have been brick cell phones to dark blue pull out in green screen telephone and now we have this booklet sized computer which is smarter than the person themself in the comes down to it can tell you how to breed how to make out how to ride a bike if you  look it up but you know how to do it immediately after that but it has some concerns as well because when it comes down to it people don't live to learn anything anymore and studies show because of the way we communicate nowadays there is no real need for us to go physically look at somebody talk to somebody and it has downgraded our facial expressions it has downgraded our social capabilities when it comes down to it and that's a worrisome thing because how is that going develop throughout the years children will never have the experience of people that say fifty years old or had when they were young there's not really that need to go outside in play with other kids because you can stay inside behind your computer they video games do exactly the same thing and still be with friends although not physically but turning all that negativity it side the consideration for the technology as we have it now looking back at the end s really have advance of a lot compared to what we had one hundred years ago and that example would be for example the keyboard or the computer itself a lot of people don't know how it was developed or what the ancestor was when it typewriter and thinking about this it is very funny to see where all of this has started when it comes to telephone we have telegraph when it comes to computers it was a typewriter was a mechanical device for gosh sakes and look where we are now it's truly amazing yes there are two sides to this whole story and the fans don't want to look at it of course you have to keep it real and take your limitations seriously but if people used to stick knowledge she in a positive way as i said with their limitations we can have a really vibrant communication system where we can help each other more and more and more through this system i want to talk about this because it's a touchy subject people have debates about what we do nowadays is good or bad it doesn't matter it doesn't depend on the technology on the communication system that we use it depends on the people and how to use it this is you know i think something to think about how can we how can we work with this we are more aware of the new state of the news in the events in the world is this a good thing because for example we have taken the events in paris as seriously if we would have had it thank you dirk the introduction of these advanced technologies has surely changed our way a living has durcan teresa touched upon one of the main ways in which technology has affected us is the way in which we communicate with each other now more and more people are primarily communicating through social media applications and text messages rather than face to face interactions and our next section conor will be discussing how technology has changed the way in which we maintain welcome everybody and why they call her subtle and today with me i have two guests who are willing to share their experience of having an online based friendship for the first question here to ask you a little bit about yourselves and to share your experience of having to learn friendship how did you meet your friendship of all based on an online interactions and you think because your friendship mostly based online that is affected you and how you communicate with evolved to more than you thought it might have solely because a lot of your track is are based online he do from time to time get together face to face he feel like some stress is left on because you do most of your interaction on li or something along those lines i never really thought about that actually like it kind of does all the interactions it's kind i'm naturally so i never really had like any  and other friends that are involved in that show as well and it just kind of became since everyone so busy so often it was just sort of an easier way of having a way to hang out on a regular basis even at the most online that you grow to know the person and their personality and their likes and dislikes and it's made your friendship grow pissants i think being able to get to know someone through text is actually something that is kind of important because you're not big like it's so easy for the person you pick up all the social cues but being able to kind of learn that a better person through the way that they do the type that i feel like that kind of speaks more to their character because you're figuring out a lot more of the instead of the generic social cues that you see everyone exhibit in person everyone in person is looking in eye contact they're making little facial expressions when they're kind of going sing or smiling at certain things you have to really pay attention to the way the t actually tell whether or not they're happy with that now that that that cetera et cetera so i do think that by spending a lot of time typing in addition to talking in person having a kind of split friendship that way it does end up so you don't have to it's like when people are complete just jerks to each other online they don't have to worry about the consequences it's often quite to that degree obviously with us and my at facebook and s conversation so you can focus more on what's being said rather than on how it's being said yeah but at the same time by perceiving the text itself you can pick up subtleties of them in text like past relationships i've had print chips and other and more intimate i was able to pick up the subtleties and text pretty easily between a few people especially an ex girlfriend of mine and i could tell immediately when something was up just based on the way their punctuation would change just to saw the little thing but noticing that and you can tell by how someone will react i didn't notice it with other people because it was just specific between certain people see is going to pick up their subtleties just based on tax alone like i figure it's there's been times really someone's making a slight at me but they're actually just being her sarcastic right here joe but we talk about it it's like ok that's cool so i hear it in the time that there is a misunderstanding you just  like say what's up what do you actually need and i think because we've been so candid as well and cracked a lot of jokes that sometimes you hinge on personal that it doesn't really if we do do something that's kind learn people's texting habits and what they mean by certain words and punctuate is a fairly recent scale that we have been forced to develop an artist to adequately communicate and understand each other the main focus of co segment was maintaining relationships through technology but what about the relationships that we farm between people we have never met before and james the segment he will be discussing the relationships and communities that many people are now forming through hello everybody my name is james bays and today we're in this segment i'm going to be talking about the perception of video games and what people think about them what gamers think about them and the way in which community can actually be placed in video games and people can use them as a way of escape from the real world or just to cope with another mental health issues and i think that it's  really a great topic to get on with because there's so many people out there that have this weird perception of video games do or people who are based on the fact that they play video games so that's what i'm going to talk about today so one of the first things that i want to get into is what people think video games do to gamers and what gamers are and that kind of stuff basically there's this perception there's this idea that video gamers really hardcore intense gamers but you know gamers that play for several hours a day they are lazy or they're unintelligent or they don't have patience and all this other kind of stuff negative stuff sure there are going to be some people that play video games a lot and they may be those things but in reality most of them are actually just people that enjoy having visual stimulation maybe want to challenge like puzzles you know it all depends on what kind of games you're into one of the things that i'm going to talk about now these games you're you're immersed in an entire world that has been fashioned online are you playing the you're playing with millions of other people depends on the depends on the game but i'm going to specifically talk about world of warcraft because that's a world that i've been immersed in for several years now and one of the things that people especially about world work out people assume again the same things that people are lazy or they're living in their mom's basements those kinds of things very negative things but you know some again some of that might be true been not everything is what society perceives obviously so one of the things that i really like about m m r p g's is the community that comes with and you can really learn so much about the real world in the virtual world it's kind of weird but hear me out here so basically there's these things called guilds and basically a guild is just a group of people that choose to play together whether whatever it may they were doing and so whether it's they're forming groups smaller groups together and going out and killing things or if they're going an adventure to go and try and do some quests to achieve the same goal those kinds of things and what i found with guilds is obviously there's going to be different types of guilds there's going to be guilds that are super hardcore into progressing through the game as quickly as possible and because it's an m m o and that it can kind of continues on forever there's all these things to you never beat the game you can beat like certain pieces of content but you can never actually beat the game so you always have all these things to do so you're going to have guilds that again like i said are going to be extreme they're going to want to do things as quickly as possible get that hardcore stuff done then you have more casual guilds now casual guilds is what i'm more familiar with as i'm more of a he sees me a casual player and what i've learned from my guild there called monkey business is even if you don't know somebody in person people that you meet online can really change how you look at the world and i mean this in the way that you can really get different perspectives from these people you have no fear and the reason you have no fear is because it's an online environment and online environment you tend to have a more open communication with people because you know you don't know them in real life they can't see your face they can you can see them judging you i guess is a best way to put it and in this casual guild it really feels like a family and i think that because of that environment that i've been placed in it has extremely helped my mental health and i'm sure several other people have felt the same way where they can really confide in those people online because they're friendly and they been with them and they've done stuff together through this virtual world and learned so much together that they can actually have a real conversation via online and really just be open about themselves and it really helps my mental health in the sense that you know i have my i have i do have some social anxiety sometimes it's hard for me to meet new people and interact with them as i'm sure many people also have the same issue but being online like i said you had that and an enemy and you can just be yourself sure you could be somebody else if you wanted to and that again would be if that's what helps you deal with whatever you're dealing with then do what you have to do but you can really just adapt and learn so much from other people because it's an online world  so that's a major reason i wanted to talk about it and the reason this applies to the changes is that you can really see changes in your mental health and the way you interact with people in the real world after you've been immersed in such a virtual open world in meeting all these other new people you can take things that you've learned from this virtual world whether it be not necessarily just from the people but the game itself whether it be economics you know there's banking there's auction houses there's all that kind of stuff you can  there there's the skills you have to learn you can there's a you have to have strategy when you go into certain places like when you do for example of what's called a raid and you have to manage thirty people to cooperate and work together to do for the same goal those are huge leadership skills that you can learn just from a video game and i think that's really amazing and i think a lot of people don't understand that there's so much that can come from a video game and how it applies to real world and you can just you yourself change more and more as you get into more video games and the different types of king video games out there that have different ways of doing things different strategies different different worlds that you can adapt to and i think that's really amazing and i think a lot of people really need to take a step back and kind of look at these gamers and have a different perspective on them because you just have what society feeds you and what you see online and all that kind of stuff yeah there's going to be a lot of people out there that maybe aren't the nice's of people and they're going to treat you poorly and you're going to have that but guess what you have the real world too so having that in the fictional virtual world again you adapt to those people and you'll have a better idea of how to deal with them in real life sure you can just ignore them can just right click on them and hit ignore in the real world but it's something that you can learn from and i'm going to wrap it up here thank you so much for listening i hope you have taken away something from this segment and i hope you all have a great day thanks for listening