EFFECTS OF OBESİTY ON CHİLDREN Nutrition has been an important and basic‚ natural necessity for humans for a very long time. However as the tastes and tendency to eat increased health problems emerged. One of the most fatal diseases is obesity. In ancient time obesity is from the Latin obesitas‚ which means "stout‚ fat‚ or plump." Ēsus is the past participle of edere (to eat)‚ with ob (over) added to it. (Harper‚31th December 2008 ) The Oxford English Dictionary documents its first usage in 1611
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The Effects of Television on Children Raed Zeabi 12 B Ms. Gina Udrea Sharjah American International School - Dubai Abstract Every day for the few decades; children have been subjected to the harmful messages of advertisers on television. There is some discussion in the literary works over the years at which adolescent children can distinguish television broadcasts from programs‚ and when they can conjure up and want what they lay their eyes on and when they are able
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The Effect of Divorce on Children According to Berk (2008)‚ 45% of American marriages end in divorce and half of those involve children. The effect divorce has on children is critical knowledge that people need to understand to be able to help these children overcome the behavioral‚ emotional‚ and social problems that they acquire during this time. There are four studies in particular that I have found that have quite fascinating results. The first article that I discovered was from Andreas
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EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON CHILDREN In today’s world Technology is everywhere. We use computers for almost everything in everyday life‚ including “babysitting” our children. Computers can have both positive and negative effects on children‚ while some of the negative effects on health and development are unseen. As adults‚ we understand the physical world around us and the concepts inside computer programs. Children‚ on the other hand‚ need to learn this with traditional play and outdoor
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1997-1998 The Internet Today: Causes and Effects 1996 was the year of Internet. We constantly saw and heard the word "Internet" everywhere last year. The beginning of the Internet was the computer network called ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) which started in 1969 and was supported by the Department of Defense in America since they wanted the webbed network which cannot be severed easily. At the beginning‚ ARPA had been used for the military need; and when it became more commercialized
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Every year over one million children under the age of 18 are affected by divorce in the United States; we have the second highest divorce rate in the world. Compared to children who are raised in a household with both their mom and dad‚ the children of divorce “will not observe and have no chance to learn how to create a long term loving relationship‚ how to resolve family conflict‚ how to build trust‚ when to compromise‚ when to stand firm‚ how to choose a lover‚ and how to commit to another with
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Read about influence of advertising on children. Advertising affects children and commercials influence children which can be seen in their constant demands for products advertised on television. There can be many negative effects of advertising on children if parents are not careful. Although advertisements help us to become aware of the products in the market‚ they have their negative effects also. Children today are exposed to all types of advertisements on the various media like the television
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The Effect of Divorce on Children Abstract The present studies will show how the statistics of divorce and children involved in a divorce have dramatically decreased over the past 35 years (US Census Bureau‚ 2004). The emotional stresses of living situations prior to‚ during‚ and after a divorce between parents and their children‚ as well as‚ the behavioral issues that may occasionally be found during these difficult times are important as to determining the developmental crises that may ensue
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The Effects of War on Children In the times of war children were being used as weapons to kill. Many of these children grow up around war‚ but did not know of it or just thought it was not real. These children are sometimes brought into war‚ but after war is where they really cause trouble in different ways. These children sometimes suffer because of what they did. And because of war‚ children change their behaviors‚ and the way they see the world‚ but the thing is does it always leave a negative
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“Tug-of-love” Children and Stepfamilies. Everybody knows that family is a way of stable and happy life‚ but occasionally something happens and its happiness and wealth break down and family breaks down too‚ it is going through divorce‚ hence this may cause formation of step-families and ‘tug-of-love’ children as well. Every thirty seconds‚ a child’s parents divorce. According to some experts‚ divorce is the single most traumatic experience in a child’s life. For the 1.1 million children in the United
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