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...Sit down on a bench in a park with a person on either side of you," says Penelope Slade-Royall, director of the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. "If you're not overweight, statistically speaking, both of the other people sitting with...
...galvanizing nations and international organizations to protest and intervene. When there is a typhoon in Burma or an earthquake in China, the world knows what questions to ask. What can we do? How can we help? But when a calamity is preventable and unfolding systematically before our eyes, nations sit on their hands. The world, as W.H. Auden wrote in his beautiful poem Musée des Beaux Arts, "turns away quite leisurely from the disaster...
...Public Health. "We know that kids will be more active if their parents are more active." The key, says Katz, is to get the entire family to be more imaginative about what activity means. Not everyone likes to play soccer or climb trees, and most kids won't sit still for an hour-long workout--or more likely, sitting still is exactly what they will do. But none of that is necessary. Katz has developed school programs based on short bursts of activity five or more times a day. The goal is not to follow a single regimen...
When I moved into my apartment three years ago, the first thing I did after I tipped the movers was sit down on a box, crack open my laptop and sniff the air for wi-fi signals. And I found them: my apartment was chock-full of delicious, invisible data, ripe for the plucking. You couldn't say I made a conscious decision at that exact moment to become a criminal. But it definitely got a lot harder not to be a criminal...
...available. Many obese children live in what are called nutritional deserts, where there are few nearby supermarkets offering the produce nutritionists recommend. Instead, families may rely on corner delis and bodegas, which tend to stock fattening, processed food, in part for economic reasons: processed foodstuffs are cheaper and can sit on shelves indefinitely. (Between 1989 and 2005 the real price of fruits and vegetables rose 74.6%, while the price of fats fell 26.5%.) Supermarkets, where better choices are found, are three times as common in neighborhoods that are in the highest quintile of income as they are in communities...