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Thursday, May 04, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Addiction / obesity assistance in Canada and the US?
PAEDIATRICS Vol. 113 No. 1 January 2004, pp. 152-154
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POLICY STATEMENT
Soft Drinks in Schools
Committee on School Health
Overweight
Overweight is now the most common medical condition of childhood, with the prevalence having doubled over the past 20 years. Nearly 1 of every 3 children is at risk of overweight (defined as body mass index [BMI] between the 85th and 95th percentiles for age and sex), and 1 of every 6 is overweight (defined as BMI at or above the 95th percentile).1 Complications of the obesity epidemic include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary plaque formation, and serious psychosocial implications.2-6 Annually, obesity-related diseases in adults and children account for more than 300 000 deaths and more than $100 billion per year in treatment costs.7-9
Read More / Related Story.
See also: Junk Food Addiction and Fat tax on fast food? and Addictions bleed nearly $40B a year from economy: study
U.S. schools to become pop-free
In an effort to combat child obesity, about 35 million students in the United States will no longer be able to buy regular soft drinks at school. Click HERE or the picture to read more:
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Importance of Religion in Canada
From http://news.sympatico.msn.ca (2319 votes)
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From Salvationist. a - Who is religious?
Who's religious?
Notes from article: 40% of Canadians have a low degree of religiosity, 31% are moderately religious and 29% are highly religious.
Religiosity is lowest among young people and higher among individuals in older age groups. Men are also much more likely to have low religiosity than women.
The degree of religiosity expressed by Canadians is associated with the religious background of their parents. Among individuals who said that neither of their parents had a religion, 85% had a low degree of religiosity and only 10% had a high degree.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
A Report Card on Child Nutrition
Key Findings excerpts -
Good News:
China's success story stands out - a giant leap to reduce underweight prevalence rates by more than half, from 19% in 1990 to 8% in 2002. At the same time, China's child mortality rates have also declined from 49 per 1000 births to 31 per 1000. The virtual elimination of iodine deficiency has boosted the brainpower of China's children.
and Bad News:
One in four children under five is underweight (27% in developing countries, or 146 million). This situation underlies the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five every year while in the industrialized world social inequalities are rising, and significant undernutrition rates can still be found in minority groups. Obesity is also becoming a major public health problem.
Links: Link to the full Progress for Children report / Key findings / Country ratings / UNICEF in action
The Salvation Army set to launch May Red Shield Campaign
The theme of this year’s campaign is ‘Fighting Hunger’. As The Salvation
Army continues to serve over 1.5 million people every year, it becomes
increasingly apparent that many in our society live perilously close to the
poverty line. The number of food banks in Canada has tripled during the last
15 years, and The Salvation Army remains a key figure in the ongoing battle
against hunger. In 2005, 560,000 adults and 265,000 children received
material assistance from The Salvation Army while 1.3 million meals were
served thru nationwide community feeding programs.
“The Salvation Army exists to meet human need,” says M. Christine MacMillan.
“Food is a basic necessity of life and by simply providing a meal and a
friendly face, we can give hope for a brighter tomorrow.”
Read more:
http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2006/the-salvation-army-set-to-launch-may-red-sh
ield-campaign/#more-203
146M children dangerously underfed, UN warns
More than a quarter of children under age five in developing countries don't get enough to eat and are at risk of dying prematurely, says a UNICEF report.
Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition found that 27 per cent of young children in those countries - or about 146 million people - are underweight, many to a life-threatening degree.
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Read the rest of the Story from CBC
Read the UNICEF report
The UN's World Millennium Development goals for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are at risk of not being reached. (World Food Programme, Gerald Bourke/AP)
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