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Obese Children Are Often More Obese Adults

Obese Children Are Often More Obese Adults

It has been long thought that there is a direct relationship between childhood obesity and one’s tendency to carry that obesity into adulthood. Not only are one’s eating habits and proclivities established at a young age, but certain physiological changes are established during childhood as well. Both habits and physiological tend to follow a person from childhood into the adult years.

William Dietz, Jr., MD, PhD, Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and Committee on Energy and Commerce. In his …

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Emotions, Family & Business

Thinking about starting a business? Well before you do it, make sure you have a conversation with your family and explain to them what you’re looking to do. This is especially important if a spouse or other family member is going to provide financial support while you work to get the business up and running.
Some of the steps you want to take to get them involved include:
• Going over the business plan • Involving them with the actual business planning• Having an uninterrupted conversation explaining your plans
Here’s the reason why you want to get them involved. In …

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Easy Ways You Can Help to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Easy Ways You Can Help to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Did you know that our military is threatened because of the childhood obesity epidemic? That’s right. Not enough of the applicants can pass the physical required after recruitment. This should point out how severe the problem has become.

It’s easy to point fingers and blame everyone around us about this menace. However, the time has come for action, not finger pointing. It means that all of us have some responsibility to deal with it. What can we do?

While there is plenty to do for all of us, we parents have …

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What Is the Best Age to Start Piano Lessons?

What Is the Best Age to Start Piano Lessons?

If you have a young child and have been thinking about getting him or her started in piano lessons, you have probably heard many reports about the benefits of starting at a very young age. It is true that crucial musical development takes place in babies and toddlers starting at birth, and that children need musical stimulation from very early on in their lives.

But when you take a look at your two-and-a-half-year-old, it might be hard to imagine him or her sitting patiently on the bench through a thirty minute …

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Are You Letting Your Past Sabotage Your Satisfying Senior Sex

Are You Letting Your Past Sabotage Your Satisfying Senior Sex

One of the questions I’m often asked is some version of “Dr. Pat, what can I do so the sexual abuse I experienced as a little kid doesn’t still get in the way of the intimacy I want with my honey?”

It’s not uncommon to start to uncover an awareness of, or reawaken feelings about, past traumas, especially sexual trauma or abuse, when you are working making things better.

Does this mean it’s time to give up on having a loving, intimate relationship with your honey? Not necessarily.

However, it …

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Ladder Of Years by Anne Tyler

Delia, short for Cordelia, is the central character of Anne Tyler’s Ladder Of Years. As usual for Anne Tyler, Delia is a Baltimore resident, a wife, a mother and probably, at least from the outside, a pillar of strength and dependability in both family and community. The children are growing up. Which children don’t? Bet then it’s how they grow up that matters, isn’t it? Sam, the husband, is doing moderately well. Moderate seems to be the word, as far as Sam is concerned. He’s hardly made a success of the business he inherited from Delia’s father, but the family …

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Self-Esteem – Part 3

Self-Esteem – Part 3

Take heed what you put in your minds & who you surround yourselves with

Do you have your inner armor on so that when someone speaks negatively against you, it doesn’t pierce you?

Do you speak negatively to or about yourself to others and do you allow others to speak negatively to or about you?

i.e.: you make a mistake and say to yourself, “Stupid! How’d you do that!” This is a negative affirmation.

Never should that word come out of our mouths in dealing with anyone, especially ourselves! And never allow anyone to belittle you.…

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Childhood Obesity: Destruction From Within

Childhood Obesity: Destruction From Within

As I take a look around at the news and news documentaries on obesity, it seems that the most serious threats to the welfare and well-being of American youth may not be a terrorist attack, but rather the succumbing to the effects of astutely targeted food advertisement, fast food restaurants marketers, and the video game industry. How so? All of the aforementioned contribute to the ongoing epidemic of childhood obesity. Let’s examine some of the facts related to the growing numbers of overweight and obese children.

For too long, Western society has used food as …

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The Wonder and Awe of a Child – My Dad’s Greatest Gift to Me

The Wonder and Awe of a Child – My Dad’s Greatest Gift to Me

My dad was a special just because he was my dad, but because he had an awe and wonder of the world that was infectious. He never lost that childlike awe of the world around him.

I remember going to a business meeting with Dad in Wichita, Kansas. After the meeting he stopped at a convenience store, purchased some sandwiches and drinks, then drove to the airport. He parked the car along one of the sidings and we watched the airplanes takeoff and land.

Whenever a …

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5 Tips For Boosting Confidence in Early Childhood Education

5 Tips For Boosting Confidence in Early Childhood Education

Early childhood education is the foundation of learning in the first part of a child’s life, also known as the formative years. This is generally from birth to age eight. The formative years are the most vulnerable times as this is the time when the character is formed. What a child learns and experiences between birth and eight, will make or break his or her confidence. ECD teachers can help to build a child with a strong character that will adjust easily to all situations in life. It is important to …

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How To Keep Children Entertained During Travel

Traveling with children can be a difficult thing to do, especially if you are planning a long trip in the car or a plane ride. Kids are usually pretty well behaved in the beginning, but as they become bored and stir crazy they will also start to be more fussy and ornery. These tips will help you keep them happy next time you are traveling:
Invest in a portable DVD player. It is amazing to see how long kids can be entertained by a simple little machine! Bringing a portable DVD player along with several of their favorite movies is …

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Categories: Mom and Baby Yoga

How To Create An Enlightened Generation From Home Using The Law Of Attraction?

The world is always trying to modify the character and attitudes of adults – what a backward way of changing the world. Lets take a different approach and start to target our children with the law of attraction. At a young age children have no preconceived ideas, they have not become cynical through their life experiences – they are a blank canvas waiting for us to splash wonderful colours upon. It is our duty to introduce the law of attraction to them and there is no better place to start than in our homes.

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Today’s Education

Today’s Education

What is education? Education is a process of learning new skills, knowledge and values. Education starts when we are still a baby in our mothers’ womb. Education never ends; it follows us until our very last breathe. Through education, we become a better person.

Teachers are provided to teach us. They are capable to teach us reading, writing, history, science and mathematics. Lessons are either taught in English or Malay in most educational institutions.

There are 4 common types of education:

1. Primary Education. Also known as Elementary School. Consisting about 5-7 years of studies, starting from the …

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How to Combat Childhood Obesity

How to Combat Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is out of control in the United States today. Statistics show the number of children between 6 and 11 who are obese have doubled since 1980. Being over weight as a child will lead to an adult having many diseases that could have been preventable if they would have maintained a healthy weight as a child. Childhood obesity can be prevented if you follow some of the simple rules below:

First, teach your children the sound rules of nutrition. Start them at an early age eating healthy food. Do not use food as …

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A Day at the Lake

A Day at the Lake

Darren and Jamie crossed the police tape and surveyed the lake, or what was left of it. What was once a crystalline spherical mirror was now a massive crater, half a mile across, looking like the aftermath of a meteoric impact. Jamie smiled gleefully as he overlooked the scene; Darren didn’t share his enthusiasm.

“What did they say happened here again Jamie?”

“Not sure. A sinkhole or something.”

“What’s a sinkhole?”

“Dunno. My Dad said they were making a mine underground, and they accidentally drilled into the bottom of the lake. Drained the whole thing …

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4 Positives Of Early Learning With Toddlers

4 Positives Of Early Learning With Toddlers

Early learning has been recognized as an integral part of child rearing for some time now – and with the advent of the internet, it has only become more and more important. Children need to be prepared for the life when they enter school. The problem is that a lot of parents do not know much about it or are skeptical of it – preferring their children to develop at a natural pace and not wanting to interfere. However, this is not true – children need to be nurtured from a young age …

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There Will Be A Mess, One Way Or The Other!

Covered in sand the children ran to greet their guests as they heard the scrunch of tyres in their driveway.
As the mother stepped from the car she was horrified,
“How on earth do you stand the mess! We could never have a sandpit. I loathe the stuff and Tony would never cope with it in the house.”
Her children stood, gazing with longing eyes at the sand and were too overwhelmed to utter a word.
The hostess invited them inside where she had set up a table for the children to enjoy a time of painting and gluing. Smocks …

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Photograph Psychology – What Stance You Make Says So Much About You

In this day and age, only a handful of people do not possess a camera. Be it from a build-it cell phone camera to those hard to understand not to mention expensive SLRs. It is time to check out if the people you have captured are actually telling a hidden story.
Most of the time you’d whip up a camera when there is a family gathering right? Try to analyze this situation when capturing family portraits:
– Do they stick so closely together?
– Is there one member who stands a little away from the entire group?
– Are there …

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