Archive for November 19th, 2008
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Fat Loss: Food Advert banned
Heres what the Government is deciding to encourage people to create fat loss. From healthfetch.org
“We have known for some time that childhood obesity has gripped our culture, but little empirical research has been done that identifies television advertising as a possible cause,” says Chou, the Frank L. Magee Distinguished Professor at Lehigh’s College of Business and Economics. “Hopefully, this line of research can lead to a serious discussion about the type of policies that can curb America’s obesity epidemic.”
Such an action would consequently result in the reduction of fast food advertising messages by 40 percent for children, and 33 percent for adolescents.
The study—the largest of its kind to directly tie childhood obesity to fast food advertising on American television—is based on the viewing habits of nearly 13,000 children using data from the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, both issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.
A 2006 report issued by the Institute of Medicine indicated there is compelling evidence linking food advertising on television and increased childhood obesity. “Some members of the committee that wrote the report recommended congressional regulation of television food advertisements aimed at children, but the report also said that the final link that would definitively prove that children had become fatter by watching food commercials aimed at them cannot be made,” says Grossman.
“Our study provides evidence of that link,” he says.
The Centers for Disease Control estimate that, between 1970 and 1999, the percentage of overweight children ages 6-11 more than tripled to 13 percent. Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 also saw a significant increase, reaching 14 percent.”
I hope people learn from this and start making fat loss seriously.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Rapid Weight loss, banning adverts wont help
Hey guys, the state things are coming to, honestly, we are blaming other things for our own problems. Instead of quietly making rapid weight loss, we have to raise an uproar about everything. Here take a gander at this, from healthfetch.org
“A ban on fast food advertisements in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, according to a new study being published this month in the Journal of Law and Economics. The study also reports that eliminating the tax deductibility associated with television advertising would result in a reduction of childhood obesity, though in smaller numbers.
The study was conducted by researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) with funding from the National Institutes of Health. NBER economists Shin-Yi Chou of Lehigh University, Inas Rashad of Georgia State University, and Michael Grossman of City University of New York Graduate Center co-authored the paper, which measures the number of hours of fast food television advertising messages viewed by children on a weekly basis.
The authors found that a ban on fast food television advertisements during children’s programming would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 by 18 percent, while also lowering the number of overweight adolescents ages 12-18 by 14 percent. The effect is more pronounced for males than females.
Though a ban would be effective, the authors also question whether such a high degree of government involvement—and the costs of implementing such policies—is a practical option. Should the U.S. pursue that path, they would follow Sweden, Norway and Finland as the only countries to have banned commercial sponsorship of children’s programs.”
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Mastering Spanish
Others have held onto their native language through generations. One such group is Hispanics, who tend speak Rosetta Stone Spanish through the third generation, according to a study by researchers at the State University of New York in Albany.Twenty-eight percent of third-generation Hispanics in the United States still speak Rosetta Stone Spanish.In contrast, only 8 percent of third-generation Asians speak their native languages.The ratio is higher with most other third-generation ethnic groups. For example, about 90 percent of third-generation Asians speak only English at home.
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