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...week. Their collective schedule left little time for food-shopping, let alone preparing meals at home. "By the time we came home, it would be late, and we knew that eating late wasn't healthy," says Chris. "So [dinners were] fast food because there wasn't time to cook a meal...
...recent study of 50 low- and middle-income working moms and dads, for instance, researchers at Cornell University found that only 40% of mothers said they had time to cook a meal at home five or more days a week. More than half the parents in the survey admitted that in order to accommodate their work hours, they ate in the car, opted for quick-fix solutions like frozen dinners, bought take-out meals on the way home or skipped meals instead of cooking. Some chose not to clock out--and give up wages--for a meal break. "There...
...offices and factories aren't the only places where eating habits can go awry. Experts are realizing that it takes the collaboration of an entire community--from employers to school districts to food retailers--to help families learn to cook and eat healthy meals at home instead of getting dinner handed to them through a car window. "It's not just about telling people what they should do, but making it easier for them to do it," says Dr. David Katz, director and co-founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center...
...liberal voters can accept and moderates will tolerate is a challenge Kratovil shares with nearly 50 other freshmen and sophomores in districts won by George W. Bush and McCain in the past two elections. President Obama's party could lose 40 seats next November, according to political expert Charlie Cook, if Democrats fail to pass health-care reform and polls continue their downward spiral. "The kinds of conditions that create wave elections are the kinds of conditions we're seeing right now," he says. "Kratovil is in bad shape - as bad as an incumbent...
...South Wales Legislative Council and an MP for Kevin Rudd's Labor Party, Voltz says she joined the military police because in 1987 it was the only military corps in which, as a woman, she would see some action. "I wasn't going to join the army to cook, or to type, or to be a signaler in some room...