Speech ScriptName: Tarnimatul UmmahStudent Number: 1206278845 .Theme: Health PromotionTopic: Something Harm MemoryTitle: Avoid This to Save Our MemoryAudiences: University StudentsPurpose: To persuade the audience not to do something harm their memory.IntroductionAssalamualaikum wr wb. Good morning everyone. Hows everything going?Let me introduce myself. My name is Tarnimatul Ummah. Im student of Faculty of Nursing University of Indonesia. Im going to talk to you today about something related to our daily activity. Im going to do the speech for about seven minutes. If you have questions, please keep it until the end of the speech. I will give you time to ask me later.Ok, lets begin.Can you remember what you did yesterday?How about what you wore 3 years ago? Can you remember it?Hmm, what about the most romantic event youve ever got? Do you remember it?So, do you know where those things saved? Those saved in our brain, in our memory. It seems that our memory is located not in one particular place in the brain, but is instead a brain-wide process. In addition, some things we do can endanger our memory. So now, Im going to talk about all the harmful things for memory. It is essential for us, because we cant deny that we need the memory in this life.

BodyFirst of all, what is the meaning of memory itself? Memory is our ability to encode, store, retain and then recall information and past experiences in the brain. Whenever we face some event, place or anything, our senses and brain will encode to store and retain it in the brain. So when we need that we can be able to recall it. The brain area which have a role in the memory proses are cortex, temporal lobe, medial temporal lobe, basal ganglia, and hippocampus. Those are part of our body, so everything we do can affect them and the memory. Here are some habit which are harmful for our memory.1. Poor Diet. Our diet affect the health, right? But what is the effect for our memory? A 2009 study at the University of Cambridge found that rats who consumed a high-fat diet took 25 percent longer time to complete a maze than when they consumed a normal diet. This is related to intake of nutritional needs. So, pay attention to your food and nutrition intake.2. Smoking. Cigarette contains nicotine, which positively affected several domains of cognition, including short-term episodic memory accuracy, working memory and response time. Smoking harms memory by reducing the amount of oxygen that gets to the brain. So, would you still burn your money to endanger your memory?3. Sleep deprivation. Both quantity and quality of sleep are important to memory. Getting too little sleep or waking frequently in the night can lead to fatigue, which interferes with the ability to consolidate and retrieve information. Memory distortion is greater after sleep deprivation. So, make sure the quality and quantity of your sleep are appropriate.4. Depression and stress. Depression make us difficult to pay attention and focus, which can affect memory. Stress and anxiety can also get in the way of concentration. When you are tense and your mind is overstimulated or distracted, your ability to remember can suffer. Moreover, stress caused by an emotional trauma can also lead to memory loss. So, manage the stress, and save your memory.5. Eating a lot of sugar. It can lead to blood sugar level elevation. Elevated blood sugar levels damage small and large vessels in the brain. It leads to decreased blood and nutrient flow to brain cells. In addition, it may also disturbs signaling between and within the cells of hippocampus. When you eat all off those sweet foods excessively, your memory will get a bitter one.6. Lack of exercise. Exercise can increase the function of the memory. It facilitate the blood to flow well up to the brain cells. It also increase the number of hippocampus, which forming memory. So lets exercise regularly for our health and memory. Those are some activity that harm our memory. ConclusionIn conclusion, we need memory for life. Several things said before are looks very dangerous for our memory. However, by avoiding those things, we can save our memory.Lets save our memory, because as Haruki Murakami said, People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel Lets store and retain all the beauty things in our memory, and stay alive!Thank you for your attention.Wassalamualaikum, wr wb.

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