... 25.0 to 29.9; Class I obesity, 30.0 to 34.9; Class II obesity, 35.0 to 39.9; and Class III obesity, 40.0+. The WHO (2000) terminology differs slightly, but the cutoff points are the same. As explained by Gere (1998, p. 20) "In growing children, in whom weight and height are both changing (and at different rates), the definition of obesity is ... a number of immediate, intermediate, and long-term health consequences (Must & Strauss, 1999). These include classic cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, abnormal blood lipid levels, and impaired glucose tolerance. Respirato...

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... like he was picking sides and hurting one of his parents. Many of my friends recalled at one time or another crying themselves to sleep at night. They remembered praying every night that their parents would get back together and love each other again. The negative effect that ... immediate family member (Zinsmeister, 1997). Divorce was considered to be more devastating to these children than the death of a friend, parental physical abuse, peer pressure or suffering serious injury (Zinsmeister, 1997). According to one statistic, up to 250,000 out of the million children a year whose pare...

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... cannot do it alone. Amanda Korman asserts in her article, "Homeless Funding Just Isn't Enough," that "flat funding has created a greater need for local support" and "shelters are really feeling the pressure." In today's tough economy, government funding and programs consistently fall short of the need. Criminalizing feeding of the homeless is counter-productive where permitting ... The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olansky, in which O'Brien writes, "These 18th- and 19th- century points of light succeeded (private, faith-based charities), Olansky insists because they were nong...

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