In a country that spends more than forty billion dollars on dieting supplements a year, it's no surprise that more than ten million people have serious eating disorders. ... Commonly, people link eating disorders to females, and this stereotype is causing serious eating disorders, held by men, to be over looked and to go untreated. It is important to realize that eating disorders create a serious problem in our country and people must also become aware of what causes some people to develop eating disorders. ... To be able to make the answers to this questionnaire fair, I attempted to ...

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On one hand, Radley Balko, author of "What You Eat Is Your Business," argues that the government shouldn't have any say so on what people choose to eat no matter how fattening it is to the people. ... Banzhaf III author of "Lawsuits Against Fast-Food Restaurants Are an Effective Way to Combat Obesity" argues that although it is the fast food fault that people are becoming obese it is also the people fault that they are becoming obese because they know what they are eating and whether it's healthy or not. ... We also shouldn't blame the fast food corporations ...

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Locavores state that eating locally grown food supports farmers and small business in their communities. ... The beautiful city of Los Angeles has close to 4 million residents, meaning lots of fast food restaurants for people to eat on the go, and supermarkets that make it easier for a consumer to get everything they need at once (Barboza). ... By eating within the season people are guaranteed freshness, and this is also the time when food is least expensive. ... People with balconies can grow their plants in pots and hand-water them. ... This also saves people money and reduces trips to the g...

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Statistical and medical facts demonstrate the positive outcomes that vegetarianism offers, because unlike omnivores, most vegetarians do not eat all the fat and hormones that most people eat. ... It also shows how people have lost weight because of this new lifestyle. ... Because vegetarians can help people with illnesses and with weight-loss, many people can start to be hopeful and content again with a new perspective of life. ... Eating an animal is like eating a pet; both are animals with feelings. Nobody would like to eat animals when imagining their pets as a meal. ...

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Napkins are used to keep off messy stains and loud eating noise is usually considered bad form. ... The differences in the eating utensil also show how different the 2 cultures are. With knives and forks that are used in the western style of eating, their purpose is to avoid eating with bared hands, an unsanitary and inappropriate act at the dining table. ... Eating with bared hands is often associated with the likes of barbarians and cannibals. ... Inversely, people eat fast meals to save time so they can enjoy other activities. ...

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The fact is that millions of women and teenagers in America risk their lives trying unproven diet drugs, eating improperly and even starving themselves in pursuit of a physique like that of the sexy, half-dressed models displayed in magazines and television. ... Research shows that poor body image often leads to excessive dieting and can lead to depression, drug use and to serious eating disorders. Eating disorders usually develop at a young age and after periods of excessive dieting. Anorexia, which consists of self-starvation and excessive exercise and Bulimia, whose traits are excessive ...

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As illustrated in the novel, citizens who thought they were eating high quality foods were eating anything but. ... The response to the domination of bosses was "The Progressive Party Platform of 1912" , a new political party aimed at fulfilling the needs of the people. ... Poverty plagued our cities and people struggled to survive. ... Rather, they promoted, with success, that the government had a responsibility for the welfare of its people, especially those in need. ...

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The goal of the fitness field is to provide a place where people enjoy going on a regular basis to work out. ... However, it is not solely the inactivity, but inactivity in conjunction with habitual (mindless) eating. ... Phil Show, people tend to associate eating with certain activities such as watching the television, working on the computer, studying, etc., all sedentary activities. ... People must be able to view physical activity as having minimal time consumption with maximum benefits. ... In big cities, many people do not own a car because of the public transportation systems availa...

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People from all over the world have incorporated tortillas into their menus, substituting traditional breads such as hot dog buns, lasagna, pitas, sandwiches, pizza, and casseroles. They are no longer for Mexicans to enjoy: Americans are now eating meatball tacos, corned beef on tortillas, spinach salad on a tortilla shell and even a tuna melt on a tortilla. ...

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Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. ... Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well. ... What it doesn't tell you is that hysterical drug enforcers are burning down and permanently destroying the precious and sacred Coca plants of the Columbian people. ... However, because what ever alcohol was being sold on the black markets, the people w...

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Because of the diverse cultures, many people in the US have learned more about the outside world without having to travel to other countries. ... In a community with a diver's culture, opinions and decisions are made after analyzing and understanding others peoples point of views. This helps bring the people in a community much closer to each other. ... We can eat the type of food we crave at anytime and anywhere because food from all cultures is easily and readily available. ... People in such communities know their duties and will always have the interest of fellow members of their comm...

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Television: How It Might Affect Children When thinking about a significant argument to present, I ultimately chose to write about a simple medium of entertainment that people of all ages know and love - the television. ... These affects may not be known or realized by many people. ... The quality of the programs viewed on television by young people today are filled with images of violence, sex, drugs, and an assortment of other things similar. ... Another aspect of television's physical effects on children is that it can even cause children to develop eating disorders in order to loo...

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People face different hurdles each day that stand in the way of achieving full happiness and oneness, whether it be in the form of social standards, political norms, cultural differences and expectations, and even racial stigmas. ... Perhaps, this poem is the best example of how cultural, social, and even racial stigmas hold people back from achieving their true identity in life. ... This first line sets a tone that the narrator is very proud to be American, whether people look at him as American or not, and he is willing to be patient and wait it out until people see him that way as well. Eve...

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Is reality in today's world a big contest to see who is the most attractive, or who can survive on a remote island eating bugs and rats for the longest? ... For instance, someone might see that all of the people on these shows have outgoing personalities. ... Millions of people are prying into other peoples lives to see the scandal and drama that takes place within these shows. ... In response to the problem of making people feel insecure about themselves, there are a few things that need to be done as soon as possible to eradicate this problem because it is the most likely to affect t...

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Some of the Irish people fled from the infected land in search of a new and pure world. ... The others who stayed true to their homeland faced a war of life that shattered many dreams and put fear into the hearts of the Irish people. ... Prime Minister Peel bought two shipments of Indian corn to feed the people, only to discover the corn meal would cause scurvy, diarrhea and citizens with unsatisfied appetite to the former potato-eating Irish (TIF). ... As time progresses and history fades, the people of Ireland have paved a sturdy path for the future. ... Emigration before, during and after t...

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Hiding in a place of her clothing and wishing she was back in her environment with her people who were not that much different from her. ... If one will look into the history perhaps they will find that beauty was always something that people were leaning towards too. ... (Korhonen 339) So who shapes the images of how attractiveness looks like and why are they so important to the people and their societies? American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; vario...

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In Percival and Black's study with sixth-graders and multiculturalism, they realized that, although they were examining a specific Native American tribe, stereotypes of that tribe or people can develop (2000). For example, all African Americans from the South eat collard greens and corn bread. ... From 1960 to 1970, the percentage of married couple families "defined by the Census' Current Population Survey as " two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together... Postmodern theory also helps us to understand while...

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Over the years television has been a major source of entertainment for people of all ages. ... There are also many commercials that support the idea of weight loss, convincing people of all ages that they should have a certain body shape, and the idea of having clear skin, considering blemishes to be embarrassing (despite the fact that they are completely normal). ... While watching TV, many people indulge in large amounts of unhealthy snacks including chips, sodas, pizzas, and candy. ... It can also influence eating habits and other factors dealing with their health. ...

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In the article "Two Ways to Belong In America" we see how two very similar people adapt to America in completely different ways. ... As a first generation American child I have gone through many of the same things as most of the, like being embarrassed of eating Indian food at lunch, feeling disconnected from my mother country, and not feeling like I'm turley Indian because all that I have missed by living most of my life in America, but I especially relate to Taher Hassonjee who states that he feels caught  in the middle of two lives and how it takes mental fortitude to decid...

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These different "groups- of people have different patterns of behavior. ... Muslims, by religious decree, are not allowed to eat pork, or pork-related products. ... Different needs of people in different countries affect the business and economy relative to each country (Belkaoli 88). ... Many American people believe in the way of the American economy, However, The way America runs its finances is not necessarily right. ... Managerial styles in an overseas business must fit the needs and styles of the local people (Robinson 137). ...

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Cultivation of the crop began thousands of years ago in China where the people had little regard for the psycho-active side effects of the plant (Richardson 41). ... There is no evidence of the people of the colonies eating or smoking the plant due to the fact that those cool climates lessened the psycho-active material (Stwertka 16). ... What few people fail to realize is that this and other drugs were banned by the fault of racial intolerance. ... Many times people will see marijuana as an addictive drug that causes people to commit crimes of violence as well as other legal offenses. ... FDA...

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These people defended life imprisonment as a more rational choice. ... It is argued that the social cost of keeping a criminal alive, sheltered, eating and sleeping out of tax payer's money is shocking, whereas homeless people all around the country would benefit much more from this money. ... It is believed that fear of execution discourages people from committing crimes. ... Historically, many people have been wrongfully executed for crimes that they did not commit. ... Often, the only people who know what really happened are the accused and the deceased. ...

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There is a long-standing and, to a degree justifiable, mistrust of the "White Man" by indigenous people in America. ... Additionally, studies support that the stress of attempting to adapt to two dissimilar cultures has significant impact on overall mental health, drug abuse, suicide rates, and eating disorders. ...

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" To put it differently, the fact is legislations that protect people's privacy are weak and insufficient, therefore low-wage employees have been subject to routine drug tests although they are irrelevant and unrelated to their purpose, and moreover it is not the duty or right of the employer to intervene with their employees' personal matters. There has been a recent manifestation of a national trend requiring employees and other personnel to submit drug screenings when applying for jobs, even when registering for public assistance, which single outs the low-wage employees and ...

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