...large percentage of processed foods and animal products, has been shown to be linked to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Many of these health problems would be reduced if we were to cut back on our unhealthy eating habits. By changing our current eating habits we would benefit by saving not only saving millions of lives but also billions in healthcare costs. In Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables, Mark Bittman uses appeals to ethics, facts and statistics, and logic to support his proposal to fix America's dangerous eating habits. Bittman appeals to ethics by portraying the fast food industry as motivated by greed. When describing the food industry, Bittman states that “[the food industry's] mission is not public health, but profit, so they’ll continue to sell the health-damaging food that’s most profitable, until the market or another force...
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...How much does it take for this generation to change their eating habits? The generation around the world is known for a large percentage of people being obese. Who the society blames are restaurants and the food they consume that causes them to become addicted. People consume foods that are not as healthy as they think. Conservatives are getting obese because they are always eating at restaurants and lack of working out. In reality is there no motivation for them to work out or what is the excuse for not burning off any junk food they consume. Restaurants are not a place to blame because what they sell benefits them on the profit they earn. People are what they eat and what fast fooders consume. There are many ways in which consumers and obese...
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...The Earth is Round and So are Americans Is it too late to fix America’s obesity epidemic? Ever since the 70’s Americans eating habits and lifestyle has changed. Fast food industries is the major reason why America has become one of the most obese countries in the world. Women rights also changed, this meant that women now were able to have a job which made a huge difference in families. Fast foods took advantage of this situation to target the kids due to the fact that women had less time at home to cook homemade meals. Ever since those years not only has fast foods become an everyday meal but is causing huge health problems in America. The most Epidemic problem is obesity and has increased over the years, and is killing thousands of Americans. Back in the 1970’s before fast foods, life expectancy of people was...
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...public-health interventions have failed spectacularly. But why? Although the rise of obesity is often described as an effect of specific individual and lifestyle choices, the problem is largely a byproduct of deeper political and economic changes in society. In a recent study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, a group of researchers, led by myself, found that, when compared with more protected economies, countries adopting more aggressive deregulation policies experienced faster increases in body mass index and consumption of fast food and soft drinks. After taking into account alternative explanations and competing risk factors, we concluded unequivocally that the freer an economy is, the fatter its people are. How does an unregulated market relate to the rise of obesity? Through market concentration and the rise of food oligopolies that flood markets with cheap, unhealthy, ultra-processed products, in addition to fast food and soft drinks. It may seem paradoxical, but unfettered market competition tends to naturally degenerate into market oligopolies. This happens because, in a market without rules, the winners of a competition find it more profitable and rational to suppress the very competition that made them win. This often translates into a gradual decline of smaller economic actors, which are pushed out of business or...
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...Fat Tax in the United States Abstract The United States has one of the least healthy populations in the entire world. That seems out of skew because we are also considered one of the most powerful. In the near future we will have a universal healthcare program that will basically enforce everybody to have health insurance of some sort. You would think you would want this for a nation on route to good health. This is not the case now, but there is one way in starting the path. Fat Tax in the United States The United States of America is the most obese nation in the world. In the United States obesity is estimated to cause an excess 111,909 to 365,000 deaths per year, while 1 million (7.7%) of deaths in the European Union are attributed to excess weight. Not only is obesity taking lives, it is the cause of numerous health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Our country, as a whole, needs to start being more careful about what our bodies intake. Various ways have been introduced in doing this. The majority of them would not be enforced and are typically in the form of a dieting or a workout regimen. Yeah, like everybody wants to do that. One of the most overlooked ways in reducing health risks in America is implementing a tax on fat of all things. It seems a little far-fetched at first but many would be surprised how genuine of an argument this is. The idea of a fat tax is so obscure to many. This is probably because it has never been in effect...
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...Physical factors such as community size may result in overcrowding which often restricts people’s use and participation in outdoor activities such as walking or jogging. Similarly, industrialization has resulted in urbanization, with large parks that are not within walking distance for most residents and small parks with limited recreational areas. Supermarkets, fast food restaurants and other establishments are ubiquitous thereby providing easy access to unhealthy foods such as, high sugar/calorie beverages. Despite increasing health awareness only 19 percent of the residents thought their health were poor or fair, because of the trend in the community they thought being overweight was the norm while percent of the residents felt that their neighborhood were unsafe so they are less likely to go outside and be active. Similarly many people fear health...
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...including self control that people do not understand yet, but possibly can be educated if willing to. Many blame the fast food joints, while others say its the persons choice to be or not to be obese. In order to fix the obesity epidemic in teens and young adults major changes must be done so that the threats of dying before the older generation can be vanished by just having the common knowledge about health and a change in their lifestyle. Educating teens about the risks of obesity and the benefits of being healthy can play a major role in stopping the obesity epidemic.Alice Waters, author of No Lunch Left Behind presents a valid point when she suggests that “We...
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...Farm Subsidies Farming has been around since the beginning of time and has undergone significant developments since the time of the earliest cultivations. It hard to believe that farming is still an important tool for producing food since we are all surrounded by fast food restaurants. The United States Agriculture Department, USDA, has always supported the Agricultural business through Farm Subsidies programs. The U.S Agriculture Department has distributed between 10 billion and 30 billion into their Farm subsidies programs to large farm businesses. These subsidies consists of direct payments, counter-cyclical payments and marketing loans to the contracted farm producers. Just to better understand how each payment works direct payments are granted to farm producers based on the usage of their land and their history of crop production. This means that some individuals may receive direct payments for land they own, even if they are not currently producing commodity crops. Like direct payments, counter-cyclical payments are tied the production of crops, so farmers may receive payments for crops they are no longer growing. The marketing loan program guarantees minimum prices for crops. Producers can take out marketing loans, using their crops as collateral, in order to hold the crops and sell them when prices rise. Most of the Government’s farm subsidies funds go to farmers that produce the following top five commodity crops which include wheat, corn, soybeans, rice and cotton. The...
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...Food Deserts-The Impact Food Deserts Have on Today’s Society Abstract Food Deserts is defined as large and isolated geographic areas in which mainstream grocery stores are absent or distant. The research has demonstrated the statistical link between Food Deserts and worse diet-related health outcomes, after controlling other key factors. The actual term ‘food deserts’ is quoted, by S. CUMMINS (British Medical Journal, 2002, Vol.325, p.436), as having been originally used by a resident of a public sector housing scheme in the west of Scotland in the early 1990s. There are several ways to look at food deserts. 1). low- Income Project 2). The independent. 3). The observer 4). The guardian. This research paper will elaborate on the ways foods deserts are defined and what affect it has on the health and well being of cultural families and communities. Table of Contents Page Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………………...2 Table of Contents ………………………………………………………………………………....3 Chapter One Context of the Problem ……………………………………………………………………......5-10 Statement of the Problem ……………………………………………………………………10-16 Research Questions ……………………………………………………………………………...16 Significance of the Study ……………………………………………………………………16-19 Objective of Study …………………………………………………………………………...19-20 Research Design and Methodology ……………………………………………………………..20 Materials ………………………………………………………………………………………...20 Organization of the Study………………………………………………………………………..21 Limitation of...
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...Prevention: The New Health Focus Because of rising concerns regarding an increase in unhealthy American lifestyles over the last thirty years, attention is being brought to the benefits of a focus on wellness rather than on disease. Proponents of the advocacy for better health practices have long been offering first-string solutions for many of America's crippling health concerns; however, even though there have been significant inroads, their voice has largely gone unheeded. Currently, as America steps into the unknown territory of nationwide health reform, corporate plans to encourage their employees toward better health through incentive programs, increased government subsidies and resources, and involvement by non-profits to reward healthy practices will help shift the paradigm from treatment to prevention. This shift from a disempowered place to a positive focus offers not only solutions to unhealthy trends in America, but also injects a 'can do' attitude into a beleaguered nation. A blog from The Economist in 2013 presents the problem of declining health in America in a succinctly stark light. They indicate that even though our "life expectancy rose from 75.2 years in 1990 to 78.2 years in 2010, this seemingly good news actually masks two problems. First, though women live longer than men, their life expectancy is rising more slowly. Secondly, both sexes have a lower life expectancy than their peers in other rich countries, a gulf that has widened since the 1980s."...
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...HBSP Product Number TCG239 THE CRIMSON PRESS CURRICULUM CENTER THE CRIMSON GROUP, INC. Boulder Public Schools Edward Caton, a teacher in a midsize elementary school in Boulder, Colorado, hoped someday to rise through the administrative ranks to serve as a principal of his own school, but he felt that to do so, he should understand more about the position to which he aspired. This was especially important to him in terms of the control he might have over the budget, which he knew was central to real power in many organizations. In an effort to learn more about the operations of the Boulder Public Schools, he set up some informational interviews with the principals of an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. Before making those rounds, he visited the headquarters of the Boulder School Committee to obtain background information for his interviews. BACKGROUND Mr. Caton learned that the Department of Implementation (DI) was central to the school system. It’s manager reported directly to the Superintendent of Schools. The DI was responsible for making school enrollment projections each December for the coming fiscal year (which ran from July to June). These projections were important since annual staffing needs for each school were determined by a rather complex formula that used the DI's projections as the starting point. Moreover, since personnel formed the bulk of the budget, these projections effectively determined a school's budget. Each school...
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...CHAPTER 14 Human Capitalism Parachuting cats into Borneo — Stopping the waste of people — Curitiba’s web of solutions — Faster travel without freeways — Subways on the surface — Simple, fast, fun, and cheap — When garbage isn’t garbage — No hunger pangs — A place for living — A symbol of the possible W H AT D E S T I N AT I O N D O E S O U R S O C I E T Y W A N T T O R E A C H , A N D H O W W I L L I T get there? Lessons in what not to do can often be found in cities, where most officials, overwhelmed by a flood of problems, try to cope by naming and solving them one at a time. If they are faced with congestion, their answer is to widen streets and build bypasses and parking garages. Crime? Lock up the offenders. Smog? Regulate emissions. Illiteracy? Toughen standards. Litter? Raise fines. Homelessness? Build shelters, and if that seems to fail, jail the loiterers. Insufficient budget to fund all these competing priorities? Raise taxes or impose sacrificial austerity, to taste. Disaffected voters? Blame political enemies. Sometimes single-problem, single-solution approaches do work, but often, as previously described, optimizing one element in isolation pessimizes the entire system. Hidden connections that have not been recognized and turned to advantage will eventually tend to create disadvantage. Consider what happened in Borneo in the s. Many Dayak villagers had malaria, and the World Health Organization had a solution that was simple and direct. Spraying DDT seemed...
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...FINAL REPORT Impact of Trade and Economic Policy Reforms on Key Sectors of the Egyptian Economy PREPARED BY ATR Project SUBMITTED TO USAID/Cairo Ministry of Foreign Trade SUBMITTED BY Nathan Associates UNDER CONTRACT NO. PCE-I-00-98-00016-00 Task Order 827 2 April 2004 Contents Executive Summary Egypt’s Economy in Relation to the Global Marketplace Trade Policy and the International Trade Regime Impact of Trade Regime Changes on Subsectors Conclusions Next Steps 1. Introduction 2. Egypt’s Economy and Its Place in the Global Arena Egyptian Economy Today Structure of the Economy Labor force, Employment and Unemployment Macroeconomy and Balance of Payments Trade Patterns Macroeconomic and Trade Policy Reform Current Challenges Distinguishing Characteristics of Egypt’s Economy Water Resources and Growing Population Pressure Oil and Natural Gas Geographical Location Egyptian Culture Higher Education Socialism and Its Aftermath Egypt’s Comparative Advantage in the Global Economy Changing Global Economy Egypt’s Economy in Relation to Three Waves of Globalization Revealed Competitive Advantage Analysis v vi viii xi xiv xvi 1 5 5 5 7 8 10 12 13 14 14 16 16 16 17 18 19 19 22 25 II 3. Trade Policy and the International Trade Regime Current Trade Regime in Egypt Tariff Structure Non-tariff Barriers to Trade Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Agreements Multilateral Agreements Regional Agreements Bilateral Agreements Trade Regimes of Major Trading...
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...[pic] [pic] Economics Project: Exchange Rate, Balance of Payment and Trade deficit. [pic] |Topics |Page No | |Introduction |02 | |Defining |03 | |Exchange Rate, Bop & Trade Deficit | | |Pakistan Trade, Monetary Policy |04 | |Historical overview |05 To 07 | |Causes |08-11 | |Solutions |12 To 15 | |Conclusion |16 | | | | [pic] Introduction: Exchange...
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...ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM After air and water, food is the most essential resource people require to sustain themselves. These resources are provided by the layer of interconnected life that covers our planet: the biosphere. Yet the way the food system provides food often severely damages the health of the biosphere through soil and aquifer depletion, deforestation, aggressive use of agrochemicals, fishery collapses, and the loss of biodiversity in crops, livestock, and wild species. The global food system has become such a dominant force shaping the surface of this planet and its ecosystems that we can no longer achieve sustainability without revamping the food system. At the same time sustainable food systems provide great hope for building a sustainable future—a future in which all can lead satisfying lives within the means of the biosphere. In this brief, we use Ecological Footprint analysis to document the current food system’s demand on the biosphere. Ecological Footprint accounts track the area of biologically productive land and water needed to produce the resources consumed by a given population and to absorb its waste. The Ecological Footprint allows us to monitor a central threat to sustainability: the liquidation of the planet’s natural capital as we consume more resources than nature can regenerate and create more waste than nature can recycle. Our analysis reveals the leading role played by the food system in this liquidation...
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