Word: alcoholics
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Although legislators have for some time protected children from advertisement of regulated substances--such as tobacco or alcohol--this is the first relatively high-profile attempt of psychologists to regulate their own participation in the marketplace...
Most advertisers and researchers agree that manipulating children into desiring harmful products--such as tobacco or alcohol--is a problem, but the psychologists who signed the letter to the APA point to a deep-rooted problem in consumer culture--treating children as a separate market...
...According to a new study by researchers at Iowa State University at Ames, when parents smoke, drink too much alcohol, eat too much junk food and otherwise neglect their health, their kids often do the same. By the same token, kids whose moms and dads exercise and watch their diet tend to follow that example. In two-parent households, children seem to follow parents closely along gender lines, with boys mimicking Dad's lifestyle and girls copying...
...suspect that one of the most influential parts of the summertime for most of us was our sudden submersion in the real world. By using this loaded term, I am not referring to the current MTV hit, although I am not sure that torrid romances and too much alcohol caused summertime regret. Nor am I alluding to the famous Cosby show episode where Theo must face taxes, jobs and rent, all the responsibilities of the "real world," although I am sure many of us got a big kick out of playing grown up: renting an apartment, hosting dinner parties...
...lower risk for SIDS. McKenna told the Associated Press that even in the deepest stages of sleep, mothers respond within seconds to their baby?s slightest noises. In his studies, he says, the only time parents have been unresponsive is when they are desensitized by drugs, alcohol or some other means. In the end, experts agree that something as personal as sleeping arrangements probably won?t be affected by government studies. Now, if they would only ban waterbeds...