Are you one of the 23 million people living in a food desert as described by Michelle Obama?
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Taking on “Food Deserts”
Posted by Cammie Croft on February 24, 2010 at 03:08 PM EDT
Food desert? What’s a food desert?
As part of Lets Move!, the campaign to end childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama is taking on food deserts. These are nutritional wastelands that exist across America in both urban and rural communities where parents and children simply do not have access to a supermarket. Some 23.5 million Americans – including 6.5 million children – currently live in food deserts. Watch the video below and learn what the First Lady is doing to help families in these areas across the country.
Bullsh*t they don’t have access to a supermarket. It’s called a car, or if you don’t have one, asking a neighbor to take you.
And besides, if obesity REALLY is a problem as Chewbacca has suggested, walking to and from the market would seem to kill two birds with one stone.
Five positives/negatives that children experience today in comparison to 1995-1999?
I need some ideas for my Psychology of Child Development class. The prompt is: “List at least five positives that children between six and ten years experience today in comparison to when you were there age.” And then five negatives, too. I was six in 1995… what has changed since then?
I have a few but need a couple more:
Positives- More advanced technology that can be used for education, a better understanding of disabilities like autism, a better knowledge of the importance of nutrition.
Negatives- More negativity, violence and sex in the media, higher obesity rates in children, more children being born out of wedlock, more concentration on standardize testing/less time to “be a kid”, higher divorce rate (haven’t found the statistics for this one yet though).
Thanks for your help!
I’ve noticed that kids in that age group now are very hooked on technology compared to when I was that age. With my younger siblings it is at times a battle to get them to simply play outside. I remember as a kid playing kick ball with neighborhood kids, or hide-n-seek. Now a days kids are content being on the computer or playing video games all day. Also I believe that standards in school learning levels has decreased. Kids are not expected to know as much, or put as much effort in as when I was that age. Hope this helps some
An Ironman for Down syndrome
On Aug. 29, 2010, Christian Maniscalco swam the equivalent of 43 football fields, biked the distance from Birmingham to Atlanta and ran the same length as Interstate 459 to raise money for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Adult Down Syndrome Clinic. It’s all part of Christian’s first attempt at competing in the Ironman triathlon. HEALTHY Armstrong to combat childhood obesity
Spilling The Beans With …. Geoff Tracy
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