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One of the difficulties of changing childhood eating habits is the uncertain degree to which environment, genetics, and culture are contributing to the adult and childhood obesity epidemic. One primary intervention would be to study the degree to which influences such as junk food advertising, school lunches, and the proximity of fast food restaurants to schools affect students' BMI. By assessing the degree to which exposure to unhealthy food advertising, meals in schools, and availability of snacks outside of school affect a student's weight, this could provide guidance as to what strategies should be used to prevent childhood obesity. On a secondary level, treating children who are overweight or at risk for obesity with specific intervention programs that could be compared against the weight and health records of control groups would give further guidance as...
Finally, at a tertiary level, communities with high populations of obese and overweight children could become the target of specific intervention strategies, like prohibiting the introduction of new fast food restaurants into the area, interventions which then would be studied over time.
However, the idea of removing extremely obese children from the home seems like a dubious strategy to lower the child's weight. First of all, finding good foster homes better than the original environment for a child is difficult, even for children in more conventional abuse situations. Secondly, the child will eventually have to return to the home, and unless the behaviors of the parents are modified, it is likely that the child will simply fall back into the same bad habits he or she practiced previously.
large terrorist WMD attack might be conducted. I have also indicated the most probable type of materials that could be used and the potential targets and probable forms of attack. It is rather difficult for the policymakers to weigh up the likelihood of a mass-casualty terrorist attack in their nation states. On the other hand, the consequences of such a prospect call for the governments worldwide to give serious attention
Home Security Vulnerabilities Intruders are constantly looking for home security vulnerabilities that might make their invasion easy and swift. This effectively means that the more vulnerable a home is, the higher its chances of being targeted by robbers. In this text, I keenly observe my residence from the outside in an attempt to identify potential security vulnerabilities. In addition to identifying the specific areas burglars would likely focus on; I also
The shift toward standardized testing has failed to result in a meaningful reduction of high school dropout rates, and students with disabilities continue to be marginalized by the culture of testing in public education (Dynarski et al., 2008). With that said, the needs of students with specific educational challenges are diverse and complex, and the solutions to their needs are not revealed in the results of standardized testing (Crawford &
JFK Inaugural Speech It was a very cold day on January 20th, 1961, when John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office, was sworn in as the new president, and delivered a rousing speech to a shivering audience and to a television audience worldwide. The young president was forceful, quite eloquent and used phrases that have become iconic in the American experience. This paper reviews and critiques the speck. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Pictures on the news of American flags being burned seem to appear more often than they used to. Perhaps my generation just isn't used to having our nation criticized to the extent that it has been since our response to September 11; we all know there have been anti-American protests in the past, that flags have been burned and protests against certain American military endeavors waged. Anti-Americanism has many definitions
Vertical Farming-Opportunities and Challenges for Singapore There has been much talk surrounding the environmental issues of food production, with many now suggesting the city is the ideal place for growing food to cater for rapidly expanding urban populations. In Singapore, small-scale examples of this are emerging, such as Changi General Hospital and the Tanjong Pagar apartment complex. This dissertation will examine the Vertical Farming movement, and look at the opportunities and