In the article,¨ The battle against fast food begins in the home¨, Daniel Weintraub claims that parents are who to fault for their child(ren)’s obesity problems. Weintraub supports his argument by explaining the data and research to show that most studies focused on,¨the increasing consumption of fast food and soft drinks, larger portion sizes in restaurants, the availability of junk food on campus, advertising junk food to children and their families, and the lack of consistent physical education programs in the school.¨ The author’s purpose is to inform and raise awareness that their parent’s are who to fault so that their child(ren) could stop blaming everyone else, for something that happens at home. I agree with Weintraub's are you meant for many reasons. there might be some kids launching lawsuits against the fast food industry, for making them fat. The problem here is that the food industry has no fault.
The primary target audience for this article is going to be parents, children, and young adults. This article documents how children eating fast food are part of the cause of childhood obesity and the major effects eating too much fast food can do. The author gives several “short-term and long-term consequences” that can happen from eating a lot of fast food which are gaining more weight than those who don’t eat out as often, not meeting nutrient needs, and consuming more calories than
The author Dorothy Nixon in the article “Fat chance” the author informs how kids do not exercise enough leading to hearth diseases and diabetes. Children have too much technology now. Technology has become a great impact on children becoming obesity. It’s expensive to become healthy due to the fact that of sports fees are expensive; also their practice equipment. Children’s don’t go out and play anymore instead kids are inside for hours playing video games or watching television more than being outside exercising.
Over recent years, the United States obesity epidemic has increased in abundance to the point where an individual should be worried about making healthier life choices. Eating habits are an immense reason why our health has changed for the worse since the 70s. People die young due to developing obesity related diseases. Diseases occur from choices people make, what one decides to eat, and how much an individual decides to eat. Studies show the life expectancy for an unhealthy person who chooses to eat a bigger portion size, often less than the average individual who keeps a balanced way of eating.
(41 and 42) Life was going good for her, so she wasnt going anything to help the world with it's life or death situation. As it says in the text, “‘Do the parents have three volunteers?’ said Leora Ducan. ‘Last I heard’ said Dr. Hitz, ‘ they had one, and were trying to scrape two up. ‘ ‘I don’t think they made it’ she said. ‘Nobody made three appointments with us.” Taking this piece of evidence as a whole, it is clearly being shown that Ducan isn’t desperate.
For example loss of going to the movies appeared to get the point across with older children however going to bed early did not. Foster child cannot be physically disciplined. What disciplinary techniques will you use with foster children? Foster Parent One: LaDonna is aware that foster children cannot be physically disciplined and have implemented, the use of time outs, positive reinforcement, and loss of privileges as well as time in. The foster children in the home during the pre-varication reported no physical disciplined has ever been used or seen.
I find that if you compile information about the place you are going to and share that information with your family so that they can get an idea of what life could be like their. Start very early with sharing all information especially with older school age children. If it is possible for you to obtain pictures of the town and house you are moving to you should get as many photos of the area as possible and take the opportunity to make it a conversation session with your family. I always find that a moving party is a fun way to make some memories to take with you of friends you are leaving behind. You can start a personal phone book of addresses with your children so that they can send pictures or post cards to their family and friends of their new place.
One of the most important factors that affect a child 's development is the relationship and attachment of the child with their primary caregiver. John Bowlby studied the development of the child; he was interested in how childhood relationships affected kids as they grew older and became adults. He was also concerned with the relationship of the child and primary caregiver and how they interacted, and the effect this had on later life. Bowlby 's theory established that children’s earliest relationships shaped their later development and characterized their human life, "from the cradle to the grave"(Bowlby, 1998). The attachment style that an infant develops with their parent later reflects on their overall person.
The more popular it becomes to be healthier the more the prices of fruits and vegetables rise. No matter where you are in the world the healthy food will usually cost a lot more than the unhealthy food. There is not much of a difference if you are at the grocery store or at a fast food restaurant. Most people are always on the go, moving fast which makes it harder to find time to prepare healthy meals. Having children makes food choices even harder because they are known to be very picky eaters.
In the middle east and Malaysia, there are huge marketing promotions of food high in fat and many parents are having a tough responsibility in which they are confined between picking a good selection of food products to maintain their health and the health of their children or to succumb to their desires and their children’s requests to buy unhealthy advertised food products. Therefore, fast food advertising has a profound negative influence on children’s food choices and parents buying behavior in the middle east and Malaysia as it attracts them through several mediums and themes, resulting in unhealthy eating habits and an increase in the consumption of unhealthy food that causes negative health effects as obesity and weight gain, along with a tendency in the middle eastern society and the Malaysian to eat western style fast foods, which in return creates a growing demand for western fast food outlets that rises from the western culture influence on