Every day, we wake up with a choice. We can choose to embrace the day as a new opportunity to learn, grow, and make a positive impact on the world, or we can let fear, doubt, and negativity hold us back. It's easy to get caught up in the challenges and obstacles we face, but it's important to remember that these challenges are what shape us into who we are. Each obstacle is a chance to learn something new, to become stronger, more resilient, and more capable than we were before.
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Children in America in regards to health suffer from many more health issues and the main reason is the obesity in America. Over 50 percent of the American population is overweight and one-quarter have reached dangerous obesity levels. Personal lifestyles have lost the get up and go, to get up and eat! Consuming high levels of non-nutritional foods is leading to many chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiac arrests, and other preventable illnesses. Its nothing to see a 300 pound plus man or woman. We are now conditioned to buy larger sizes and pay more for the extra x. have gotten so used to see it that we don't even think twice when we see it. Now lets back this up one step, what about a 300 pound boy or girl who is 8 or 9.
Now we have a problem. The reason why kids are getting t obese is because they consume unhealthy foods that contain too much sugar, fats, and oils. They are not eating nutritional foods that are demanded by the food guide pyramid, which emphasizes the consumption of adequate fruits, whole grains, and vegetables. People of this generation prefer to have everything quick and efficient, which includes their food. Americans are fast-food junkies and are languid so they cannot cook their own meals. Top fast food industries try to manipulate our minds by using subliminal perception or mass marketing to attract us. Fast food chains spend excessive amounts of money on advertisement to ensure that children know what new toy the happy meal is promoting this week or what restaurants allow kids to eat free on Tuesday nights. For example, parents are taking an enormous step to prevent their children to be induced by these elaborate commercial that they are filing a class action suit against the Nickelodeon channel for displaying commercials that influence children to eat unhealthy foods.
Another reason why children are corpulent is because the poor food choices in public schools through out the United States. Instead of having numerous contracts with the soda and chip vendors, they should try healthier approaches to children. Studies indicate that nutritional food consumption by children has a direct correlation with their academic performance in schools. Since the government is overly concerned with “The No Child Left Behind” act that they totally disregard health and physical education programs in public schools. After enacting this infamous law, state legislatures and school official have put their full attention towards better programs that help students excel in the standardize tests that the state uses to evaluate each student’s intelligence. Perhaps if we provide these students with healthier foods and physical activity daily they will excel in these standardize test and as well as in their class. Published Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:04 AM by salmonte Comments KRobbin3 said: I completely agree with you on this one. People nowadays are living lifestyles where exercise is not a priority.
Childrens' toys such as hoolahoop, bop- it, jump robe, bicycle ect are being replaced with video games. Children are spending costless hours playing these games, surfing the web and watching the boob tube. American culture is becoming a very lazy one. The children watch the parents who are bringing home McDonalds and the people on tv who are playing the latest video game. Obesity is becoming the norm and this is not exceptable. It is a health risk and it pertrays laziness & glutany. Not Good-- February 11, 2006 4:52 PM Home Homepage Childhood Obesity Statistics and Facts January 2007 General Stats According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16 percent of children (over 9 million) 6-19 years old are overweight or obese -- a number that has tripled since 1980. In addition to the 16 percent of children and teens ages 6 to 19 who were overweight in 1999-2002, another 15 percent were considered at risk of becoming overweight. ("Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 1999-2002"; Oct. 6, 2004) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over the past three decades the childhood obesity rate has more than doubled for preschool children aged 2-5 years and adolescents aged 12-19 years, and it has more than tripled for children aged 6-11 years. ("Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 1999-2002"; Oct. 6, 2004) Overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults. This increases to 80 percent if one or more parent is overweight or obese. (United States Department of Health and Human Services) Costs/Socioeconomics Obesity-associated annual hospital costs for children and youth more than tripled over two decades, rising from $35 million in 1979-1981 to $127 million in 1997-1999. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.) Adolescents with no insurance or public insurance such as Medicaid are more likely than those covered by other insurance to be overweight, according to a 2003 study. ( J.S. Haas et al. (2003) The association of race, socioeconomic status, and health insurance status with the prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 2105-2110.) Among white teen girls, the prevalence of overweight decreases with increasing socioeconomic status. Among black teen girls, the prevalence of overweight remains the same or increases with increasing socioeconomic status.(P. Gordon-Larsen et al. (2003) The relationship of ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and overweight in U.S. adolescents. Obesity Research, 11, 121-129.) Exercise Experts agree that inactivity and poor eating habits contribute to obesity. While national guidelines recommend 150 minutes of physical activity each week for elementary children and 225 minutes for older children, only Illinois has a statewide requirement for daily physical education. Nutrition Nearly one-third of U.S. Children aged 4 to 19 eat fast food every day, resulting in approximately six extra pounds per year, per child. Fast food consumption has increased fivefold among children since 1970. ("Effects of Fast-Food Consumption on Energy Intake and Diet Quality Among Children in a National Household Survey," Pediatrics, January 2004.) Obesity-related Disease For children born in the United States in 2000, the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives is estimated to be about 30 percent for boys and 40 percent for girls. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.) In case reports limited to the 1990s, Type 2 diabetes accounted for 8 to 45 percent of all new pediatric cases of diabetes, in contrast with fewer than 4 percent before the 1990s. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.) In a population-based sample, approximately 60 percent of obese children aged 5 to 10 years had at least one cardiovascular disease risk factor, such as elevated total cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin or blood pressure, and 25 percent had two or more risk factors. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.) Data from the NACHRI Case Mix Program show inpatient diabetes cases in children's hospitals have increased approximately 12 percent between 2002 and 2004, and average adjusted estimated costs have grown approximately 10 percent during the same time frame. (Information pulled September 2005. NACHRI maintains the nation's largest pediatric-specific inpatient database, housing over 3 million discharge records from 72 children's hospitals.) Minority Data Among boys, the highest prevalence of obesity is observed in Hispanics. Among girls, the highest prevalence is observed in African Americans. ("Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance, 2005," Institute of Medicine.) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, non-Hispanic black (21 percent) and Mexican-American adolescents (23 percent) ages 12-19 were more likely to be overweight than non-Hispanic white adolescents (14 percent). ("Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 1999-2002"; Oct. 6, 2004.) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mexican-American children ages 6-11 were more likely to be overweight (22 percent) than non-Hispanic black children (20 percent) and non-Hispanic white children (14 percent). ("Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 1999-2002"; Oct. 6, 2004.)According to the statistics on obesity in America, at least 68% of Americans are overweight.! Of these people at least 2-3% are considered morbidly obese and require surgery for their survival. This statistic is astounding and has been confirmed by the National Institute of Diabetes. We are in the middle of an obesity epidemic in the United States! More than one out of three people is overweight. This can and will lead to future health problems. The American Heart Association stated that Obesity is on the top of the list as a major heart attack risk factor. Not only can obesity be linked to heart attacks , but strokes, high blood pressure, type 2 Diabetes, and cancer can also be added to the list. Other diseases related to obesity include depression, and cardiovascular disease.Obesity does not discriminate based on race or gender or even age.
Childhood obesity is the most heart breaking. There has been an astounding increase in childhood obesity in the last ten years. Technology, fast food, and the supersized mentality are contributing factors for childhood obesity. Our children are less active now than they have ever been. Video games and television help to keep our childern from being active outdoors. According to the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and My.WebMD.com website, over 25% of children in the United States are obese. Children who suffer from childhood obesity are more likely to suffer from adult obesity than children who have a healthybody weight. Over 85% of children diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes are obese. Children should not have to suffer from this disease. Parents should take an active role in raising children to be healthy conscious individuals so they will be less likely to suffer from these diseases. Obesity not only can cause early childhood diabetes,but can be damaging to the self esteem of these children
I can only imagine how upset Shaun Hannity is this morning. Considering that he had dedicated his show for the past 4 years to STOP THE OBAMA EXPRESS. Would you believe that his line of thinking was, he wanted to take the country back to the way it was when Bush was running it?? His radio and television show were dedicated to making President Obama a one term President.
Each day his show began, with a count down of how many days were left before the next election and it would be their opportunity to get the president out of office. I suppose it was a hidden agenda, with his comments, but lets face it taking the country back, to what? Slavery... To a time when the Country was crumbling with the housing melt down, or possibly to the blessed time when gas was $ 5.00 a gallon. Here is the shock, many people, conservatives... Believed in the crazy notions of Hannity. To take their country back. I would like to believe that Hannity is a fair minded individual who has plenty of friends who are black... "MEAN WHILE BACK AT THE RANCH" I suppose if he employed 5 black people I could see the value of his comments, that he would vote for a "black". Maybe one day Hannity, you convince the world that you are a fair and open minded individual. Although if you listen to his line of attack on the President, it leaves you asking you a question, of whats his problem!
I listen to Hannity and Limbaugh simply because I want to hear what they thinks. Now there shows are filled with reason why Romney did not win. Lets face it radio kings the attack on the president to challenge his birth place in 1960, or who he hung out with in the 70's and 80's or simply just blaming him for everything that he had nothing to do is ludicrous... Every drop of gas that was poured on the attacks on the president are just shameful. No matter what happens today, tomorrow or a month from today its not all the presidents fault, all bad, no good~
I think like this, the reality is that Obama is no Jimmy Carter. In just a matter of months the world is going to see a great turn around in the economy and the job market. Hey who am I kidding, Clinton is one of a few presidents to put the country in the black. They rode Clinton like a Rodeo Bull, with the thought that nothing that he was doing was right. Now 20 years later the conservative party realize that he really was a good president. So world buckle up and enjoy the ride for I am sure no matter how good Obama is, he will never really get the proper praise for the things that he has done, or will do
Hannity and people with his thinking have to realize that this Country has changed!!!
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"Police opened fire on dog after it reacted angrily when officers
approached homeless owner who appeared to be having a seizure.
Star, the pit bull shot in the head by police in the East Village
Monday, is now in “critical but stable condition,†animal control
officials said.
Animal Care & Control was caring for the wounded pit bull, but an
agency spokesman refused Tuesday to further describe Star’s condition.
Star and its owner, a homeless man named Lech Stankiewicz, were outside a
KFC at 14th St. and Second Ave. about 4:15 p.m Monday when police
arrived for what appeared to be a medical situation involving
Stankiewicz." - AsianTown
I understand the rational to shoot the dog but what damn, maybe I am getting soft in my old age!!!
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"An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a man in west
suburban Maywood Saturday after the officer crashed his motorcycle
trying to avoid running into the man's daughter, according to officials.
The officer was on a northbound motorcycle heading home about 10 p.m.
after his shift in a West Side police station and saw a 4-year-old girl
dart into the street in the 1100 block of South 1st Avenue, authorities
said.
The officer ditched his bike but the bike hit the child and her
18-year-old cousin. The girl's father, 26-year-old Christopher
Middleton, approached the officer yelling and screaming, authorities
said. He was inside a nearby restaurant when the accident happened, said
Larry Shapiro, a spokesman for the village of Maywood." - Policemag
Police arrested 40-year-old
Kimberly Lawson for allegedly having sex with a
dog, a German Shepherd named Adam.
The dog's owner Caroline Morris says she found out
about the abuse when her neighbors came and told
her what they saw.
"Saturday morning and he just said someone is
having sex with my dog, and I just could not
believe it and I said lets call 911 and that's
what we did," said Morris." - Memphis
What if an unknown illness cost you everything? That is what happened to a Mid-South woman whose medical crisis has baffled doctors for almost three years now. It is a medical mystery you may find hard to watch, but what this woman lost to disease she has gained in strength and spirit. Shanyna Isom was a high school graduate working toward a law degree. "I was in my junior year and I was studying criminal justice," she said. Today, loved ones have to help her get out of bed or off of the sofa. "It's almost as if it's a nightmare and you're trying to wake up out of that," she says. A nightmare that began in September 2009 when Isom had an allergic reaction to steroids she was given for an asthma attack. Within months, she was eaten alive by a debilitating skin disease doctors have yet to diagnose. "Over time it started to turn my legs black with bumps," Isom said. Doctors in Memphis treated Isom for everything from eczema to a staph infection." - 5 News
"An honor student who worked her way out of Chicago's crime-ridden Roseland neighborhood to become the first in her immediate family to graduate from college, Moody's life had once been on a different course. But in May, less than a week after she received a degree in criminal justice from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, a jury convicted her of killing a 21-year-old mother of two after a senseless altercation over a young man. Moody claimed that she had been bullied by a group of women from the neighborhood and that the shooting was self-defense. The jury decided it was second-degree murder. Now the young woman born to a prostitute and crack addict who abandoned her at the hospital after birth, a young woman who believed that education would be her ticket "out of the ghetto," is serving a 30-year sentence in an Arkansas prison. "My world has been turned around," Moody said, tears trickling down her face as she sat for an interview at the McPherson Unit, a women's correctional facility about 100 miles northeast of Little Rock." - chicagotribune
"Who does this dump shit?" This dumb ass girl actually went to another house to beat her up, because she said something on Twitter. The police should lock her ass up! What makes it so bad, what if she would have killed the girl while she is stumping on her. She could deny it, but hey Sherlock wanted her friends to video tape the beat down so that she could broadcast it later..."WOW"
Premeditated murder is what it would have been called if she accidentally kill this girl in her fit of rage.
Just think, that her minute of anger could have cost her a life time of anguish behind bars...
"A Memphis jury has found 17-year-old James
Prindle guilty of raping a 23-month-old girl. The
jury took all day on Friday to convict Prindle on
all counts.
Prosecutors claimed Prindle committed the
disturbing act against the toddler while
babysitting at Cordova Creek Apartments in August
of 2010. Though just 15 at the time, he was later
charged and indicted as an adult.
"There's no DNA, no semen, no blood stain. You'll
hear how the child was bleeding but nothing links
James to the sexual assault," said Prindle's
defense during opening arguments.
Prindle was accused of bathing the child before
running to a neighbor for help. Prosecutors say he
told that neighbor a lie that a "large black man
wearing a mask broke into the apartment," that
police later disproved.
The next story Prindle told, according to
prosecutors, was that his friends were responsible
for the rape. His defense attorney says he lied
about the robber because he was trying to stay out
of trouble with his mother for having friends over
when he was supposed to be babysitting.
"He's hanging out with friends, high, running the
apartment complex. That's what he was doing,
making up stories lying about being in the
apartment every time he was left alone for hours,"
claimed the defense.
Prindle's attorney says Prindle, who had not only
smoked marijuana but had taken Xanex, wasn't home
at the time of the rape and says once he found the
little girl beaten and bruised he did everything
he could to help her" - Memphis
George Zimmerman Explains How He Killed Trayvon Martin! He makes it sound like he really was trying to do the right thing, but the sad thing someone was calling for help. Some of this makes sense but you need to listen to both videos...
Trayvon Martin 911 call
George Zimmerman explaining how he killed Trayvon Martin.
Now that you have heard both sound bites does that really sound like Zimmerman Screaming for help????
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Its funny that the people who are deep into the world seem to know the good book and can break it down so that it make sense. Why cannt some preachers not do that?
This is so sad that they are fighting about a man. Then lets take it a step farther she is kicking the girls ass and get tired and says I am tired. Lets stop, REALLY????
A father beat to death with his hands a man who
tried molesting his 4-year-old daughter after the
little girl was heard screaming on the family's
rural Texas ranch, authorities said Monday.
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said the 23-
year-old father, whose name has not been released,
is unlikely to be arrested for Saturday's killing
and that no evidence so far has led investigators
to doubt his story.
"There doesn't appear to be any reason other than
what he told us," Harmon said.
Harmon said the victim was a 47-year-old man from
Gonazles with no apparent prior criminal history.
His name continued to be withheld Monday because
authorities still hadn't tracked down any of his
family.
The victim was an "acquaintance" of the father who
had come to help care for some horses, Harmon
said. He did not know how long the two men may
have known each other. The girl was taken to a
hospital to be examined and has since been
released, Harmon said.
The father called police late Saturday afternoon
and told them he attacked a man caught trying to
sexually assault his daughter, Harmon said. The
alleged attack happened near a barn where some
horses were being kept.
They arrested the daycare worker
what happened to this bad ass little boy?
"
Surveillance video from Kiddie City Childcare
Center in Vicksburg shows a nine year-old's reign
of terror over a room of infants.
The boy can be seen punching one little girl
multiple times.
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Then choking another, then patting her back as she
cries in pain. Another time he violently shakes
another child.
In an exclusive interview with a WLBT
photojournalist, the boy's aunt says the family is
embarrassed by the attacks and the daycare should
be shut down.
"He bad. He fight but he don't fight little
babies. He do also have a problem. He take
medicine every day and he just a normal child,"
says Vinia Dolley." - 3 News
The fight between 2 girls is one thing, even if the fight is between a girl and a guy is another thing. Tshe bitch move is the ideal that this punk sucker punches this girl and knocks her out is low and someone should have beat his ass!!!
Where did all this gray hair come from is the question that I keep asking myself? When I looked in the mirror the other day and I realized much to my surprise that I am getting older. My chest that looked so good did have black hair and now turning gray.
Life is filled with peaks and valleys and the facts that you must learn to survive. The first an most important is that only 2 things are certain, and that is life and death. What you do within the begining and the end is the extra. Nothing is guaranteed. I have lived my life hoping and wishing that I did things different this way or that, but lets face it what I did in my life, was what it was!
I never valued being a kid, always wished for the day when I would grow up. Unfortunately when that wish came true, the price I paid was- I got older and closer to death..
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Lets face it I am getting older and I am not the man I used to be. My body does not respond like it used too, and what worked good, just works now!
I have gain something called patience and plenty of understanding, but trying to share it with your kids is like trying to pull a stubborn wisdom tooth, (you need plenty effort).
Older would be a term that describes me now... When I graduated in 1981 things were so different. My world was just beginning and so many things were happening all around me. Much to my surprise when I hear some songs on the radio, it shocks me back into reality of wow that was 30 years ago! I laugh at myself sometimes when I think back to days gone by when people were my age, I used to think that they are old... Although some how, I don't feel that way now!
You never know that you are getting older until you look into the mirror one day and you see gray hair. My children are 18 and getting ready to go to college and I am shocked to say, I am almost 50!
Getting older is the day you walk into a store and girls are not looking at you because you look good, but because you are that old guy!
Your dance that was considered contemporary when you were young is out of date and exposes you for how old your are...
Unfortunately the things that help to solidify the fact that you are getting older is when the aunts and uncle's are gone and you are the old head....
The turn around moment is the pivotal point in your life when you realized that things in your life has changed. As I reflect back on my past I realized that I experienced several turn around moments.
The first turn around moment in my life came when I received my first job. As a adolescent I was caught in a time space continuum, where minutes were hours and each day of your life was a major event that never seemed to end!. The first paycheck open Pandora's Box. Once I acknowledge that minutes and hours determined how big or small my check would be. It made my time space continuum disappear, and now hours seem to vanish like seconds in a day, and time was just something that we occasionally referred to.
The day that I graduated from high school was my first realization that the turn around moment had begun. I knew that nothing was ever going to be the same and it was time for me to GROW UP!
Having children is usually the next moment of the turn around. As you watch them being born, that is not the icing on the cake. The turn around moment for most people is, that it seem like yesterday that you were changing diapers and now you are putting them through college. " Does anyone know what happened to the time space continuum, where minutes were hours and each day of your life was a major event that never seemed to end"?
The next moment of the turn around begins around the time that you hit that forty area and grey hair is becoming quite apparent and bifocal is something you need to see up close. You look in the mirror and the person that you see is different!
The most significant Turn around Moment is when you bury your parents and everyone that you once referred to is now gone. The turn around moment is not quite what you thought, you see the turn around moment is growing old and when your realization of the truth has began and the cycle of life and your destiny is going to end.
My moment of truth is nothing more that a realization that everyone is going to experience the turn around moment. They will be born, and they will die...
Another reason why children are corpulent is because the poor food choices in public schools through out the United States. Instead of having numerous contracts with the soda and chip vendors, they should try healthier approaches to children. Studies indicate that nutritional food consumption by children has a direct correlation with their academic performance in schools. Since the government is overly concerned with “The No Child Left Behind” act that they totally disregard health and physical education programs in public schools. After enacting this infamous law, state legislatures and school official have put their full attention towards better programs that help students excel in the standardize tests that the state uses to evaluate each student’s intelligence. Perhaps if we provide these students with healthier foods and physical activity daily they will excel in these standardize test and as well as in their class. Published Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:04 AM by salmonte Comments KRobbin3 said: I completely agree with you on this one. People nowadays are living lifestyles where exercise is not a priority.
