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    kilojoules I consume to stay in a healthy weight range. 2. I feel that I do eat too many meals from takeaway outlets. I usually eat between 2-3 meals from takeaway outlets each week‚ mainly because of the convenience of them. As I need to fit in school work and fit with my families’ schedule‚ the convenience is very compelling. 3. Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | 1 hour of taekwondo/ fitness training. | 2 hours of work (teaching taekwondo).2 hours

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    Childhood Obesity

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    Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. The NSW Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey (SPANS) conducted research in 2010 and found that 22.8% of children between 5-17 years of age were classified as overweight or obese (Health NSW‚ 2012). Studies have shown a dramatic rise in the number of obese children in the last few decades and it has been shown that between 1980 and 2000‚ obesity rates doubled among children and tripled among teens

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    Childhood Obesity The days of children playing hide and seek outside are gone. Walking long distances to and from school‚ walking to a friend’s house to play on the weekends or walking to the bus stop to go to the mall with friends. It is rare to find a child carrying a bagged lunch to school‚ which would include a healthy lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches‚ an apple with cookies or chips being the unhealthiest part of the lunch. Child obesity is the result of poor nutrition at home

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    CHILDHOOD OBESITY: CAN DIABETES BE PEVENTED? Mary Lally ENG 122: English Composition II William Johnson May 1‚ 2012 CHILDHOOD OBESITY: CAN DIABETES BE PREVENTED? If you could image living in this world 10 years from now how would you picture what the average person would look like? Are they fat or skinny? Obesity is becoming an epidemic that is slowly killing many people. With more and more children becoming overweight there health is getting worse at an early age. I will show you how being

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    Obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible but yet most neglected health issues in America causing an escalating global epidemic of overweight. Also known as “globesity” that is taking over the United States (Controlling the Global Obesity Epidemic). Although‚ obesity may not be the Black Death‚ it is still a severe health crisis that needs to be treated immediately (Griffin). Statistics show that two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children struggle with either being overweight

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    Childhood Obesity: African American Cooking May 28‚ 2011 Introduction Obesity is a disease that has beset the lives of so many people around the world for decades. It is considered the most essential health concerns today. The focus of obesity has since shifted to concentrate on the obesity in children. Childhood obesity is on the rise at an alarming rate‚ especially in African American communities. The commonness of obesity in African Americans children is remarkably higher that white

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    Year Round School Truth be told ‚ year round school isn’t even year round‚ so why go if it hurts more than it helps. It affects not only the students‚ but the parents and teachers as well.Year round school does not benefit the students because‚ the students don’t get to experience fun summer vacations with their families and friends‚ there’s no actual proof of better grades‚ and affording childcare all year is a big issue for parents.Year round school became an issue when it first began in the

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    Drug Testing in Schools Kortney Gherardi DeVry University Drug Testing in Schools Drug testing in schools for extracurricular activities has been a controversial issue for years due to privacy reasons. There are schools that have already implemented drug testing for extracurricular activities. Drug testing teaches students that using drugs while participating in extracurricular activities is not acceptable. It is a good way to teach the students responsibility. It teaches the

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    more than 3000 K-12 campuses around the country‚ school isn’t necessarily out for the summer.” (Zubrycki pg. 1). Year-round schools have varied schedules‚ and benefit to students‚ teachers‚ and parents. Scientists have proven the schedule and multi-tracking of year-round schools are not just a benefit for the students‚ but for parents and teachers as well. Victoria Winterhalter states that year-round schools don’t extend the required 180 days‚ of school‚ but reorganize‚ or balance them throughout the

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    DB # 5 Explain how profits‚ piety‚ and politics affected American foreign policy in the late 19th century. Profits affected American foreign policy because the US was producing more that it could possibly consume at the time‚ they needed a market for their exports. In order to secure their share of the global market and make a good profit along with access to sugar‚ coffee‚ fruits‚ oil‚ rubber and minerals‚ the government built a stronger navy‚ acquired more coaling stations and colonies and invested

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