January 22, 2011

Fear Is Keeping Our Children Inside

Filed under: children — Tags: child obesity, childhood obesity, children, danger, fear, obesity — sgordon @ 1:28 am

If you remember your childhood, you know that it was filled with many hours spent outdoors playing with friends. Of course, this was back in a time where there was little fear of the dangers of strangers. Over the past twenty years or so, there has been a growing concern of child abductions. While this is a legitimate fear, is this something that parents should be concerned about as much as they are? Before taking away your child’s right to play, maybe we should look at the facts.

Keeping kids inside the house is only enabling them to hurt themselves in other ways. It’s no wonder childhood obesity rates are rising the way they are. Two thirds of parents are unaware of the fact that their children should be getting at least sixty minutes of exercise per day! Keeping children indoors also leaves children with little to do.

Statistically, a child is abducted or goes missing every forty seconds. While this seems quite frightening, most parents don’t know that children who run away are also included in these statistics. Children who are known to run away may attempt to do so as many as forty times a year on average. Therefore, the data can be misleading.

Real “stranger danger” incidences are extremely rare. It is estimated that there were a total of 115 stranger abductions in the U.S in 1999; that is approximately one in 650,000! Though child abduction is certainly a relevant fear, it is a little over hyped.  Decide for yourself if it really something society should worry about as much as it does? Or would it make more sense to worry about things like the rapidly climbing child obesity rate, or perhaps teen suicide?

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January 21, 2011

How Safe Are Genetically Modified Foods

Filed under: health — Tags: FDA, genetically modified food, genetics, health, natural, nutrients, safety — John @ 11:17 pm

Genetically altered foods always create mixed feelings among different people. Some people are adamantly against even the idea of genetically altered foods because they believe we should not go about changing things that are in nature. Other people see the benefit of being able to change any “negative” aspects of our foods, such as the browning of fruits. There are also people who are somewhere in the middle of both arguments. These people accept the idea of having genetically altered foods, but say they would not feel comfortable actually eating the food.

According to science, genetically altered foods are perfectly safe for us to consume. In fact, many scientists would agree that these genetically altered foods are probably even better for us than their natural alternatives. By changing genetics in foods, it gives us the ability to lengthen the time it takes for a certain food to expire. While at the same time, we may be able to place more nutrients into the foods we eat to make them healthier for us to consume.

Those that are opposed to altering food, however, say that you cannot simply just change one thing without affecting the entire genetic makeup of whichever food you were eating. Basically this idea would suggest that by altering the expiry date of food, we would also accidentally and unknowingly alter some other aspect of the food, which may not be so beneficial. Some people go so far to suggest that in a few years time, we will discover that genetically modifying our foods will cause some very harmful and dangerous side effects.

There is no agreement on the safety of modified foods and there probably never will be. The most we can do is to keep ourselves informed and choose what we believe to be the best course of action.

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