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...Rosen: When we look at kids' lives today, we're seeing the same convergence of events that's promoting greater obesity in adults: Less physical activity and a toxic food environment. If you study the two ingredients that influence weight - physical activity and nutrition - you can see the root of the problem. Young kids tend to be very active, but that activity level drops off in middle adolescence, around the start of high school. That's especially true for girls, who can experience a lot of peer pressure not to participate in sports...
...Then, of course, you have the food issue. In terms of eating behaviors and nutrition, kids live in a kind of toxic environment. Kids' social lives mean they're more likely than adults to consume most of their calories at restaurants or parties or somewhere else away from home. That social trend leads kids to consume higher-calorie and higher-fat foods - and in portion sizes you won't see at home. Fast food restaurants, for example, "super-size" everything as a way of maintaining customer loyalty, so you have kids regularly drinking 20- ounce Cokes versus a more normal...
Indeed, when a controversial memo regarding the disposal of toxic waste...
What are we to make of the Bush Administration's early promises about protecting the environment? The President's pledges to Congress that he would clean up toxic industrial sites and provide more money to the national parks were cautious, inoffensive stuff. But his new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, is talking a much bolder game. Day after day last week, she spoke of getting the sulfur out of diesel fuel, tightening pollution controls on power plants and even curbing emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that causes global warming, which is the biggest...
...poisonous. A friend and former colleague who is black, James Reynolds, is writing a book which explores that thesis. (By the way, I use dashes rather than spelling the word out on the grounds that it's bad manners, or worse, to sling around a word that is historically toxic and has always been used, by whites, as a weapon designed to be hateful and wounding to those whom it is aimed at. If blacks use the word - as they sometimes do, with versatility - it is their business, a usage at home in contexts of their selection...