Response to Language, Truth and Logic by AJ Ayer
The Nature of Science
Ayer makes the argument that empirical science must serve as the basis of all claims, as it is through empirical science—evidence obtained through the use of the five senses Continue Reading...
21st century, one only need drive down a road to see the number of fast-food restaurants, or walk into most any grocery store to be besieged by advertisements, contrary opinions, and diet products. Everyone in the medical community agrees that there Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Disease Prevention
Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic through School Reforms
Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic through School Reforms
A current health crisis facing developed nations is the obesity epidemic. Continue Reading...
Preventing Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity is on the rise in America and across the world. Obesity presents physical, social, and emotional complications for all sufferers. However, childhood obesity is especially concerning because the chronic Continue Reading...
In other words, sports participation may actually discourage some children from being physically active.
Another current intervention is to reduce the amount of time that a child spends in front of a screen of some sort. Screens, whether computer s Continue Reading...
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In the article, Taubes correlates the increase in sugar in the American diet with an increase in weight gain. In 1986, according to United States Department of Agriculture analysts, every American consumed on average 75 pounds of sugar. In the ear Continue Reading...
Moreover, vegetarianism is theoretically possible at McDonalds by eating the token salads on the menu. The token salads might still be in keeping with the tenets of agro-business but they do not contain meat products. Still, Pollan hints at how thos Continue Reading...
Unhealthy food choices are heavily advertised, and those advertisements are frequently targeted towards children. Moreover, much of today's food marketing is inherently deceptive. Unsophisticated consumers, and most children fall into that category, Continue Reading...