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The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Gary Null and Amy McDonald See book keywords and concepts

Sometimes the intake for the ventilation system is too close to the area where all the school buses line up. The bus drivers let the engines idle for long periods, resulting in all the gasoline fumes and hydrocarbons entering the ductwork intake and circulating throughout the school. Dr. Rapp describes some of her cases involving environmental allergies.

Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood blasts TV promotion of junk foods to children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

CCFC has been active in the fight against BusRadio -- a commercially sponsored radio channel designed for a captive audience of children on school buses. Reflecting the marketing strategies of television advertising, BusRadio focuses on the "tween" market, promising advertisers "a unique and effective way to reach" children in this age group.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Kids are also targeted on the Internet, on school buses, in classrooms and cafeterias, at the movies, on DVDs, and even via cell phones. The insistency, consistency, and almost urgency of all this marketing seems unstoppable, as the CCFC points out. Just about every major media program for kids has a line of licensed merchandise that sells breakfast cereals, snacks, candy, and fast food. » Many toys are really junk food ads in disguise. Take, for example, Coca-Cola Barbie and McDonald's Play-Doh.

Health Begins in the Colon Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN See book keywords and concepts

According to the contract, school administrators were required to encourage students to drink sodas (even in class) to meet annual sales quotas and "... Coke machines were placed in locker rooms, and athletic directors emptied them each week and used the change to purchase equipment."40 Since when do colas improve athletic performance? Obviously, achievement was outweighed by profit in School District 11.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

Colorado school buses advertise 7 UP and Old Navy.35 Schools and food companies think of ever more clever ways to collaborate. Joining the age-old ads in school newspapers, yearbooks, and programs for theatrical, musical, and sporting events, there are reports of advertising and corporate logos on school-sponsored television stations, recognition on a school district's voice mail system, "spirit buses" with a school's logo along with the logo from Burger King, signs in hallways, and logos on posters, calendars, book covers, and mouse pads.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Fatal pedestrian accidents can occur when young children get on and off school buses. School-age children—as well as their younger brothers or sisters who may meet them at the bus stop—should be made aware of safety practices on and around school buses. Children should remain seated when aboard a bus, and they and their drivers should be aware of how to use emergency exits. Children should stay ten feet away from the curb while waiting at bus stops; when getting off the bus, they should never step into the road until the bus has pulled away from the curb.

Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living Gary Null See book keywords and concepts

Sometimes the intake for the ventilation system is too close to the area where all the school buses line up. The bus drivers let the engines idle for long periods, resulting in all the gasoline fumes and hydrocarbons entering the ductwork intake and circulating throughout the school. "In one case I encountered, a school had a printing press, and the exhaust pipe from the printing press was at exactly the same level as the ventilation intake on the roof, with the result that all the chemicals from the printing press were going right back in and circulating throughout the school.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

School-age children—as well as their younger brothers or sisters who may meet them at the bus stop—should be made aware of safety practices on and around school buses. Children should remain seated when aboard a bus, and they and their drivers should be aware of how to use emergency exits. Children should stay ten feet away from the curb while waiting at bus stops; when getting off the bus, they should never step into the road until the bus has pulled away from the curb.

Prevention's Healing With Motion: An All-New Approach to Health and Healing Based on Simple Mind and Body Exercises The Editors of PREVENTION See book keywords and concepts

Assuage the rage On the way to your job, choose a route that steers you clear of school buses and other traffic-jam magnets. If you minimize annoying traffic problems, you'll do your heart a lot of good. Researchers used to think that people with so-called Type A be- The Anatomy of Heart Dise Heart disease starts quietly when a certain type of cholesterol, known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL), starts accumulating in the arteries leading to your heart, which can happen when you have too much LDL floating around in your bloodstream.

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