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Teenagers are probably the least likely among us to eat enough fruits and vegetables or to get adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals from their diet. And children of lower-income households are at even higher risk of undernourishment, since they may not have access to regular or well-balanced meals...
That's why researchers at the University of California, Davis, studying multivitamin use among kids and teens expected to find that lower-income children would be more likely to take supplements to make up for their spotty diets. Instead, researchers found the opposite. When they analyzed the results of a national survey of more than 10,000 children and adolescents ages 2 through 17, they found that those who were most likely to take vitamin and mineral supplements were those who needed them least - in other words, youngsters in higher-income families, who ate consistent and nutritious meals...
...Palestinian non-violent and violent resistance to the military occupation is fully legal under international law. On the other hand, many of the specific tactics, especially airplane hijacking, suicide bombing targeting civilians, including children and old people, and indiscriminate rocket attacks, have been widely denounced as criminal...
...Numerous observers have charged Israel with committing war crimes during the war. Without downplaying that aspect, I think it is important to understand the 1,300 Palestinian casualties, including 400 children as well as many, many women, versus 13 Israeli casualties, as typical of a particular kind of “police action” that Western colonial powers and Western “ethno-cratic settler regimes” like ours in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Serbia and particularly apartheid South Africa, have historically undertaken to convince resisting native populations that unless they stop resisting they will suffer unbearable...
...South Australia, Premier Mike Rann warned: "Everyone has a responsibility to care for the elderly and children who were the most vulnerable." He also had to explain why the state's power supply had collapsed as tens of thousands of residents turned on their air conditioning...