Can I have a penny for your thoughts (survey)?

1. Should public transport services run during the festive season for 24 hour cycles? (Note: Can hlep elderly and disabled geet to family who can’t otherwise collect them but someone has to be doing all the driving and will be kept away from their own families at Christmas time and this includes Christmas Day itself).

2. What else should be done to alleviate the obesity epidemic in western countries especially when it concerns children? Ie should schools and teachers be allowed to ban or even confiscate unhealthy food from students? Even if it’s the parent who has given it to the child?

3. What laws and regulations should be in place to prevent dog attacks (especially severe ones which leaves the victim dead or permanently injured)? Will banning certain breeds be enough to prevent this happening? Would educating children about dog body language etc be a good idea?

4. Should a person of sound mind be allowed to leave their money (in the event of their death) to an animal (not charity for animals ie their pet hermit crab)? Or should it be illegal for animals to be able to inherit money?

5. Should parents legally be held accountable for their teenagers drinking underage? What if it is on the parents property or something major happens whilst the teenager is drunk? (ie someone gets alcohol poisoning or sexually assaulted)

6. Should measures such as banning poker machines be put in place to prevent gambling addiction? (Note that government gets a lot of revenue for them for economy but gambling addictions tears apart families and ruins lives).

7. Would same sex classrooms be better for student learning? (Ie no getting distracted with flirting etc and possibly higher self esteem from not being hypersensitive about what the opposite sex is doing or saying and male and females brains are actually different and therefore learn differently but you have to work with the opposite sex in the real world ostracising them for one another may deplete those social skills)

8. How long should a missing persons case be high priority before being considered cold and not having as much attention paid to it? What if it’s the disappearance of a child or disabled person? (ie in heed of the Madeliene McCann case)

9. The new invention (which may or may not become available as it is still in early stages) the nanopatch in which vaccinations can be absorbed through the skin and dissolved. Is this a good idea? Or is it better to just have the needle and get it over and done with?

10. NASA scientists believe they may have discovered a new Earth which could possibly be habitable. Given the chance would you move to a brand new planet? Taking into account that you’d have to rebuild EVERYTHING and of course it’d cost the Earth (both literally and figuratively) but you could start over no pollution etc that could hinder life on Earth.

Please copy and paste questions

What does this sentence mean? Could you help me?

Hello. I’m a foreigner studying English.
While reading a script of an interview, I met with a sentence the meaning of which I can’t understand.
As long as you answer me, I hope you are a native. But I will welcome whoever you are if you know English well enough. My questions are as follows.

” Childhood obesity speaks to a culture that is really struggling to build health and fitness into the fiber of our day in , day out weekly activity. ”

The interview is about ‘ childhood obesity epidemic’.
I know each word in the sentence, bu (ironically) I can’t find out the meaning of the sentence.
The parts stopping me from understanding it………are
1. speaks to a culture ….??
2 into the fiber …

Really, I’ll appreciate your help.

A question about weight…?

I’ve asked a question on here before about whether my weight was normal for my height.

Even though my BMI is 22 I was told that I was too fat and that I should be lighter. Most people suggested a weight that would put me at 17.7 on the BMI.

I though we were in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

Why do people think someone who is a completely healthy weight be underweight?

Which major would be better for becoming a dietitian or nutritionist?

I have looked on collegeboard’s website for majors and I found two: Nutrition Sciences and Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies. I despise biology & chemistry (but adore learning about food portions, what one should eat, etc.), but I am willing to suffer through it in order to become a dietitian or nutritionist.

I want to pursue one of these majors because I really want to stop the obesity epidemic!! I want to make a difference in at least one person’s life. Ever since my dad had a minor heart attack, I became interested in nutrition. Not how a carbohydrate is processed, but what foods are best for you, how much sodium you should intake, and things like that.

My question is, which one is better for that occupation? These are the typical college courses each major offers:

Nutrition Sciences:
* Anatomy
* Experimental nutrition
* Immunology
* Lifecycle nutrition
* Medical nutrition therapy
* Microbiology
* Nutritional biochemistry
* Nutrition and metabolism
* Organic chemistry
* Physiology
* Vitamin and mineral biochemistry

Foods, Nutrition, & Wellness Studies:
* Community nutrition
* Culinary arts
* Dietetics
* Experimental foods
* Food service management
* Nutritional science

How many obese people do you see going to churches?

An extract from an article I just read –

Take a concrete example: obesity. America and the developed world are witnessing an obesity epidemic. Too many American adults and children, from diverse cultures and many ethnic backgrounds, are grotesquely overweight. This is partly because they lack good dietary habits. So they consume fast food and junk food, as well as bovine growth hormones (thanks to the dairy industry), all of which contribute to obesity. They also watch too much TV and get too little exercise. But there’s something else going on here: I believe that many such people are starving spiritually, and are trying to satisfy their spiritual appetites with food. Of course it doesn’t work; in fact, it backfires. People who are fulfilled in life eat less and better food on average, not more and worse; whereas people with unexamined diseases are trying to fill a spiritual void with cheeseburgers and fries. John Lennon once sang, “Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall” – meaning an infinite number. You can say the same about obesity, in an opposite way: It takes an infinite number of Big Macs to fill a spiritual void.

This prompted me to ask the above question. What is your take on it?