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Katrin Fischer

Endless Barrage of Hard Sell - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • I wanted my children to grow up alert to the silken, studied salesmanship of those who want your trust but are not really your friends.
  • In serious discussions of advertising today, I sometimes miss that harsh humor.
  • Studies show that advertising does help push children and adolescents toward unhealthy behaviors
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  • 4,000 students from seventh through 10th grades, assessing their exposure to alcohol advertising on television and asking about their alcohol use.
  • Many children are playing “advergames” online, for example, intended to promote products.
  • television advertising remains very important in the ways that foods are marketed to children
  • They’re advertising on other Web sites, social media — Facebook is huge
  • advertising does increase the odds of underage drinking
  • studied childhood obesity and its links to screen time
  • two portions of identical foods, one set out on a McDonald’s wrapper. The children were asked to point to which foods tasted better
  • Up to the age of 7 or 8, children are thought to be unable to understand the nature of advertising
  • most important strategy is probably to reduce screen time
  • Katrin Fischer on 15 Feb 13
     
    CITATION Perri, Klass. "Endless Barrage of Hard Sell - NYTimes.com." Health and Wellness - Well Blog - NYTimes.com. N.p., 11 Feb. 2013. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. . SUMMARY Studies show that cigarette, alcohol and subtler product placement ads do push children and adolescence significantly towards unhealthy behaviors, and in today's world it's getting more difficult to shield children from the Internet and social media. Adolescence who watch alcohol advertisements are in a sense being sold a product that parents don't want them to be associated with. Food advertisements are also very influential especially over younger kids who in the USA are seeing 12 to 14 food ads on television a day. Research also links childhood obesity to screen time. In an interesting study where children were given two identical burgers where one in a McDonalds wrapping, an overwhelming number said that the burger in the McDonalds wrapper tasted better. It's also proved that children up to the age of 8 don't understand the nature of advertisements, and so the most important and efficient way to decreases the effect of advertisements on kids is to reduce their screen time.
  • Katrin Fischer on 15 Feb 13
     
    COMMENT I found this article really interesting- especially the McDonald burger test- because what we're learning in health really connects to it. I think it's interesting to see what effects advertisements have on our brains and how little young kids know about the point of advertisements. It makes me think about how much time I spend on electronics and how that might be effecting how I look at products without even knowing it.
Collin Morgan

A Valentine's Day Gift to Save a Marriage - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Collin Morgan on 14 Feb 13
     
    This article is about a good gift to give for valentine's day if you want to improve your marriage. I realize that none of us are married, but i still thought it applied to us because one day, we will be married. The gift that this article says that one of the best gifts to give is an IOU for every four months, write about the most significant fight in their marriage as a neutral observer. The study concluded that those who write about their marital conflicts from a neutral position actually tend to have less fights later on because they realize what they could have done or said better. The study also shows that those who have less fights actually have better health because they do not have as much stress as those couples who fight and don't look back over their argument.  I got this article from the NY Times, and it is dated Feb. 10th, 2013
kanaida r

An Unexpected Road Hazard: Obesity - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • obese drivers are more likely than normal weight drivers to die in a car crash.
  • But among the obese, the higher the B.M.I., the more likely a driver was to die in an accident.
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      kanaida r on 13 Feb 13
       
      Do obese people wear their seat belts properly? Do they fit in them? Do these people eat while driving? Do they use the car more often, creating more chances of accidents?
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  • The reasons for the association are unclear, but they probably involve both vehicle design and the poorer health of obese people.
  • Other factors that might have affected fatality rates — the age and sex of the driver, the vehicle type, seat-belt use, alcohol use, air bag deployment and whether the collision was head-on or not — did not explain the differences between obese and normal weight drivers.
  • kanaida r on 13 Feb 13
     
    Hoffman, Jan. "An Unexpected Road Hazard: Obesity." New York Times (blog). N.p., 21 Jan. 2013. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. New studies now show that obesity has other risks. From statistics on height and weight from drivers who have been in a car accident with at least fatality, they were categorized based on BMI (Body Mass Index). Based on this data, the higher the BMI, the more likely a driver was to die in an accident. The rationality behind the associations are unclear, but they probably involve the poor health of obese people and vehicle design, because crash-tests are usually done with average-sized adult and human dummies. Other factors that could have affected death rates could not explain these differences.
harima y

Getting the Right Dose of Exercise - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit.
  • Some previous studies had suggested that working out only once or twice a week produced few gains in fitness, while exercising vigorously almost every day sometimes led people to become less physically active, over all, than those formally exercising less.
  • Rather, they felt pressed for time and reacted, it seems, by making choices like driving instead of walking and impatiently avoiding the stairs.
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  • For the new study, published this month in Exercise & Science in Sports & Medicine, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham gathered 72 older, sedentary women and randomly assigned them to one of three exercise groups.
  • However, the women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy, over all, than the women in either of the other two groups. They were burning about 225 additional calories each day, beyond what they expended while exercising, compared to their calorie burning at the start of the experiment.
  • A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit.
  • Some previous studies had suggested that working out only once or twice a week produced few gains in fitness, while exercising vigorously almost every day sometimes led people to become less physically active, over all, than those formally exercising less.
  • Rather, they felt pressed for time and reacted, it seems, by making choices like driving instead of walking and impatiently avoiding the stairs.
  • However, the women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy, over all, than the women in either of the other two groups. They were burning about 225 additional calories each day, beyond what they expended while exercising, compared to their calorie burning at the start of the experiment.
  • harima y on 13 Feb 13
     
    Reynolds, Gretchen. "Well Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six Comments." Well Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six Comments. New York Times, 13 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. The article tells us that four workouts in a week is better than six workouts in a week. Study shows that women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy than the woman exercising six times a week. Woman who exercised four times a week burned 225 calories a day. Although losing so much calories is unhealthy, people must realize that being healthy is important. Reynolds, the author of the article conveys how most people who are healthy are exercising four times a week. He also conveys that working out six times a week weakens your body.
  • harima y on 13 Feb 13
     
    These days many people are unfit and should workout more. However, I do believe working out heavily and intensively beyond that person's ability is wrong. Although some scientists believe that working out six times a week is healthy, I believe working out four times a week is better. I do think so because one needs to rest (i.e. having 3 days to rest). Working out six days may produce aching and serious injuries. I do believe, however, that people should exercise because one many live longer by working out.
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