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Healthy Recipes for Families
Would you like to see the kid’s menu? Why bother? You know what is on it: chicken nuggets, french fries, mac and cheese and hot dogs. No wonder obesity has reached epidemic levels in America. But eating healthy isn’t complicated. Add fruits and vegetables to your diet and avoid sugar, white flour and trans fats. But how do you get your kids to eat the good stuff? The following are some tips on how to make healthy changes to your family’s meals.
How Does Nutrition Affect Learning?
If you’ve ever been stuck at work, stomach rumbling from hunger, you know how difficult it can be to concentrate on the task in front of you. You might feel tired, sluggish and even a little irritable. As a consequence, you’re probably not able to perform to the best of your ability. Now imagine you’re a child who had to go to school without breakfast because your parents didn’t have enough money to feed you. Unfortunately, this is a reality for many school-aged children, and the effects of poor nutrition on learning are a widespread problem.
Information on Teen Pregnancy
According to Women’s Health Channel, approximately 33 percent of teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years old become pregnant each year in the United States. Of those pregnancies, 80 percent are unplanned. Despite the decline in teen pregnancy from 1991 to 2005, the rate actually increased by 3 percent between 2006 and 2007. Currently, Hispanic girls make up the highest percentage of teenage mothers with the most significant decline occurring in African-American girls.
Types of Birth Control Pills Available
When birth control pills (or the Pill) were first made available to women in 1960, it was a liberating breakthrough. For the first time, women had a way to directly control reproduction. What they couldn’t control were the significant side effects associated with birth control pills, which until the 1980s were produced as a one-dose, one-hormone-fits all medication. Today however there are a number of different types of birth control pills available, with different hormones in differing levels, giving women a number of options to minimize side effects and maximize reproductive control.
Is Separation Good for Marriage?
A separation takes place when two people elect to no longer live together. People choose to live separately for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is an economic decision based on where each partner can find work. Other times, couples choose to separate to gain perspective on whether or not they want to continue their lives as a married couple. Most people, when they hear the term “separation,” believe that it is a stepping stone toward divorce.