Task 4a, Profession Inquiry Questions! please comment.

As discussed in previous blog I would like to develop my enquiry into health and how the effects of health can affect a person's career particularly that in the arts. From my previous post Lizzie had commented on how she would like to base her enquiry around the topic of mental health which I would like to discuss as a sub topic in my enquiry. But I am now brainstorming questions that I would like to discuss further into helping me with my research. 

Food? How seriously do people take food and their dietary requirements in the performing arts industry to consequently help maintain or increase health benefits? 

This question I believe will create different answers in terms of male and female but further more also dietary requirements. In terms of our NHS today and ways to discover all different types of allergies and dietary requirements every person will vary differently from dairy to vegetarians, vegan's, nut allergy's and how all of these combined ways of looking after oneself but also how food can help or hinder ones health and the benefits consequently on their career. I am a foodie and always will be i love all food except my one true hate in MUSHROOMS they are horrendous! the taste the smell the texture everything. But in my food love side of life my guilty pleasures are reading food blogs and buying cook books and watching cookery programmes. My cooking at the moment is greatly inspired but he recipe's of Deliciously Ella herself Ella Mills, Madeline Shaw and Clean Eating Alice. All who offer a great variety in ingredients and different types of recipes but all that are healthy and promote healthy eating. I know sometimes my eating habits are atrocious for example.. in the past week I have eaten 2 microwave meals. This in turn shocks me as I love to cook and I really try my hardest to be as healthy as possible... despite the occasional pack of custard creams i consume in one sitting with a couple of cups of coffee or that a bag of twirl bites whilst sat in on movie night. But despite the occasional blip my diet is 80% incredibly healthy. In my explores around food and how people eat and what they eat I am going to ask how food affects them in their life and if they are happy with how they eat now or would they change their eating habits if they wanted too. 

Next.... issues in health beyond our control. 

How do you go about your daily life controlling a condition which during the development has been completely out of your control but make sure that this does not hinder your working/ professional life? 

Since a very early age I have suffered from asthma and hay fever to which I will discuss a lot further in my enquires. Asthma in my days at performing arts college massively limited my dancing abilities. Having asthma and respiratory problems does not mean that you are unfit or are not strong enough to complete any cardio however it does make it a lot harder. Hay fever one may say isn't a health problem of too much concern but as a singer it does affect me. During the summer months continually having cold like symptoms and further more the affects of hay fever tablets can sometimes make your throat feel very dehydrated resulting in feeling very uncomfortable when singing. Because these are my issues I really want to dig deep into research and see how I can physically go about my every day life to help impact my career and not let this affect me. 

Further to asthma and hay fever I also have an auto immune disease called vitiligo. Vitiligo affects your immune system and in my family we have had our fair share of blood disorders and abnormalities which has resulting me to genetically having a very low immune system. When I get poorly i do feel it worse than others subconsciously and when my immune system fights back this then attacks the melanin in my skin and completely takes the colour away leaving pigmentation scars. This disease first started to affect me at 10 years old and growing up through my teenage years and early twenties it never really gets easier. Especially when people ask questions it really can affect one's self esteem and confidence. 

Again in my enquiry I would like to discuss this further and explore the benefits and consequences of this disease but I would also like to get information form other sources from other people who maybe born with hereditary diseases like mine and how they face and conquer their career and work to deal with their health issue and be better from it. 

Injury? something every performer will face at a point in their career? how do we recover? 

In my days at performing arts college it is rare to go to a class and someone not be sat out or be restricted to dance abilities due to injury as they are recovering which for dancers is massively frustrating but injury can also affect singers. Nodules, muscle injuries and how they affect breathing and posture. 

I would like to agin a point of view specifically from an actor a singer and a dancer on this question and see how injury has specifically affected them and the recovery it took to get them back to where they are today. 

Throughout the more blogs and articles I read more questions will follow this to take my practice enquiry further but first i would love to gain feedback on your thoughts to these questions and how they affect you or if they do affect you how?