...Whether it’s obvious or not, Americans like to eat unhealthy. Although not everyone is guilty of these cheats, it’s important to maintain a healthy diet on regular basis. The fact that many Americans are somewhat incapable of making quality health choices on their own adds a need of government involvement. Therefore, government regulation on what is consumed by America is fair because they’re looking out for the common good of society. The government's involvement in Americans’ food and drink choices is based on keeping them healthy. Improper diets in Americans leads to obesity and diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. A ban approved in New York, NY limits sugary drinks like sodas to be sold in only 16-ounce bottles...
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...Accounting 3230 Fall 2014 Part I: Leonard Company sponsors a defined benefit pension plan for its employees. The following data relate to the operation of the plan for the years 20X2 and 20X3. | 20X2 | 20X3 | Projected benefit obligation, January 1 | $ 600,000 | | Plan Assets(fair value and market-related value), January 1 | 410,000 | | Pension Asset/Liability, January 1 | 190,000 CR. | | Prior Service Cost, January 1 | 160,000 | | Service cost | 40,000 | $ 59,000 | Settlement rate | 10% | 10% | Expected rate of return | 10% | 10% | Actual return on plan assets | 36,000 | 61,000 | Amortization of prior service cost | 70,000 | 50,000 | Annual Contributions | 97,000 | 81,000 | Benefits paid to retirees | 31,500 | 54,000 | Increase in projected benefit obligation due to changes in actuarial assumptions | 87,000 | 0 | Accumulated benefit obligation at December 31 | 721,800 | 789,000 | Average service life of all employees | | 20 years | Vested benefit obligation at December 31 | | 464,000 | (a) Prepare a pension worksheet presenting both years 20X2 and 20X3 and accompanying computations and amortization of the loss (20X3) using the corridor approach. (b) Prepare the journal entries (from the worksheet) to reflect all pension plan transactions and events at December 31 of each year. (c) For 20X3, indicate the pension amounts reported in the financial statements. Part II: The accounting records of Scotty inc show the following data for 20X2....
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...States is becoming an increasing epidemic. Several people and agencies have indicated ways to help Americans lose weight. Even the government has made suggestions on losing weight. In the article “The Fed’s Fib about Low-Fat”, written by journalist Michael Fumento, the government’s approach to have a low-fat diet is being critiqued. This article is read by adults of different cultures throughout the country, which arose in the syndicated newspaper The Washington Times. Michael Fumento is a medical journalist; currently living in Floridablanca, Colombia. His work appears in many newspapers. Fumento argues that the government’s approach to have a low-fat diet, precisely to “reduce the fat in their diets to 30 percent or less of total calories”, is inaccurate and does not point to weight loss or a healthy user. Fumento seems extremely concerned and worried about the government’s suggestions to have a low-fat diet. He also seems angry at the food industry for bringing forth such things that can cause the nation to continue to rise in obesity. In this article it shows that he is a cautious and caring individual. Although Fumento reveal very little about himself throughout the essay, because of his knowledge about the government and the food industry readers will know that he has participated in some type of study regarding to it. He also states that he has written a book about the prone matter, which helps intensify his reputation to be a force in writing this article. Fumento’s handling...
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...developments have come by in families within America as several revolutions took place.Consequently, the lifestyle of citizens have transformed from the basic to a more sophisticated one. In the early days, to take food rich in proteins was the ideal culture among the people. The government and media made emphasis on including more proteins in the diet to provide energy for work (Allen, 924-932). A majority of the male population were working hard labour jobs. Then came the industrial revolution where machines replaced human labour at work. Thus, more food was processed and canned for consumption after many days. Later, a research done reported that 65% of the population in America was employed in the active labour force. Consequently, less time was available for a family member to prepare quality food since an individual spent averagely 30 mins to prepare a family meal (Allen, 924-932). Invention of machines and other easily available food options promoted eating processed foods to meet the stringent working hours. Thus, as David says it in his essay “Don’t blame the eater” eating habits changed for worse. In fact in his essay he states ‘then as now, these were the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal. By age 15, I had packed 212 pounds of torpid teenage tallow on my once lanky 5-foot-10 frame’, David insinuates that food processing firms have a strong influence to lifestyle diseases like obesity in America today (Zinczenko, 195). David...
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...For Lundberg it was easy to transition her diet into a vegetarian diet because she had grown up accustomed to that type of lifestyle. As a grandmother she began to realize that not only does she worry about her family members but that the benefits that contribute to being a vegan can certainly be a huge help on saving the planet we live on. There are many consequences that America may face if they continue to eat the way they eat, is what Lundberg is trying to argue. The purpose of her argument is to get others to consider a vegetarian diet in their life to potentially eliminate problems that arise from their meat intake. Her argument was weak due to not having a strong support to her evidence, losing that confidence by asking rhetorical questions, and not taking advantage of her resources. A reason why her argument was not that effective was because instead of making her argument strong she weakened it by asking rhetorical questions. Those questions in which she did not have the answers to it. Or let alone her answers to it weren’t well supported. Once the rhetorical question have been asked the reader should not have to stop and try to think of the right answer to her question. They can also skip the question and not think much about it, that’s when her argument became weak because some parts were missing which could have helped her. There are sometimes when the author can get away with this, but the way Lundberg structured her essay it was a down side to it. Her confidence...
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...In his essay “Being Fat Is OK,” Paul Campos disputes the federal government’s definition of “overweight” (206). He even goes so far as to suggest that the government is perpetrating a fraud against the unsuspecting American people by setting weight standards that are unreasonable and not founded on any scientific fact. He points out rather convincingly that these standards “not coincidentally, serve the interests of America’s $50 billion per year diet industry” (207). It is his belief that the obsession with dieting in this country is caused by a series of intricate “lies” propelled by “the dishonesty of the propaganda war that the diet industry, with eager cooperation of our government, is carrying out against the American people” (207). Campos contends that it is not the government’s concern for our health but greed that influenced the stringent standards released that define someone as overweight or clinically obese. Campos confers that if Americans were lead to believe they were overweight they would flock to the market to purchase some of the thousands of dietary products provided by the industry. By providing quotes from the editors of extremely credible sources such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Campos exposes the weak link between being overweight and our overall health. In fact, Campos shows that there is little to no solid scientific basis to support the benefits of dieting at all. By doing so, Campos successfully creates an image of doubtful integrity on...
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...“What If It’s All Been a Big, Fat Lie,” by Gary Taubes In the first paragraph of the essay, Taubes inserts the statement “Any theory that tries to account for obesity in America, has to account for that,” referring to the sharp rise in obesity in the 1980’s and setting up his thesis that carbohydrates, not fats cause obesity. What does this mean? Taubes makes it seem plausible that fat causes obesity and offers reasonable doubt that carbohydrates may be the culprit, instead. William Dietz who runs the division of nutrition and physical activity at the Center of disease control said “As far as exercise and physical activity go, there are no reliable data before the mid-80's.” In 1990’s study by Center of Disease Control shows "exercise activity remains unchanged from 70’s to 80’s.” Why was the data not reliable? People in the 70’s and 80’s were not exposed to fast food and junk food which lead them to eat healthy. We watch television and most of the time we see fast food commercial. Since we see these fast food commercials, we crave for it and we drive ourselves to the drive thru and buys are self meals. However, we tend to eat so much unhealthy food, most us tend not work out which leads us to have health problems. What foods have good or bad cholesterol in them? Foods high in good fats include vegetable oils (such as olive, canola, sunflower, soy, and corn), nuts, seeds, and fish. Foods high in bad fats include red meat, butter, cheese, and ice cream, as well as processed...
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...David Zinczenko in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater” confronts the topic of adolescent obesity and its correlation to the daily consumption of fast-foods. The author reveals that he too, at one point, fell victim to the “golden arches”. The author’s personal narrative revealed that after eating fast-food twice a day he weighed two-hundred and twelve pounds standing at only five foot ten. I sympathize with the author about the ever increasing numbers of childhood obesity, the money in which is donated to childhood obesity research, and the misconception of nutrition labels of prepared foods. The author used valid statistics to acclimate the reader to his point of view. He believes that the problem should not just be assumed by the consumers...
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...Citizens of the United States of America are normally unhealthy eaters, especially compared to other countries around the world. This is mainly caused by several fast food companies we have in this country compared to other countries around the world. In our society, people travel to establishments such as McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, etc. for dinner or lunch and think nothing of it. While in other places around the world these fast food chains are viewed as a treat that one gets every so often. Why in the United States is fast food consumption viewed as much more acceptable than other places? In David Zinczenko's Don't Blame the Eater he claims that the reason our society is like, this is because kids in America have few other alternatives, not only this, but the parents of these children, let them eat like this because of the convenience, in today's modern society the world moves quickly and for parents it is just easier to drive down the road to...
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... • the structure of the traditional essay • the benefits of writing the traditional essay The Structure of a Traditional Essay Diagram 图解 Title of the Essay I. Introduction • Opening remarks to catch reader’s interest • Thesis statement • Plan of development (optional) II. Body • Topic sentence 1(supporting point 1) specific evidence • Topic sentence 2(supporting point 2) specific evidence • Topic sentence 3(supporting point 3) specific evidence III. Conclusion • Summary (optional) • General closing remarks • (or both) Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay 1. Mastering essays will help make you a better writer; 2. The discipline of writing an essay will strengthen your skills as a reader, listener and speaker; 3. Writing will make you a stronger thinker. Chapter Two The Writing Process This chapter will explain and illustrate • the sequence of steps in writing an effective essay • prewriting • revising • editing Prewriting techniques: a. Freewriting b. Questioning c. Making a list d. Clustering(Mapping) e. Preparing a Scratch Outline f. Writing the first draft g. Revising: h. a. the content of your essay i. Is my paper unified? j. Is my paper supported? k. Is my paper organized? l. b. the sentences of your essay m. Do I use parallelism to...
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...Tiana Jackson Essay 2-Short Essay September 29, 2014 “Fat is a Feminist Issue” Obesity is an increasing epidemic in the United States, in fact an estimated fifty percent of women are overweight (page 448). Being fat is not just a feminist issue, most women do not have control over their weight gain or inability to be fit. To say fat is a feminist issue is sexist and bias. However the pressures placed on women in American society to maintain a certain imagine is increasing through everyday media. Therapist, publisher and author Susie Orbach wrote “Fat is a Feminist Issue” in 1978, one passage of the book Susie states “fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue. Fat is not about lack of self-control or lack of willpower. Fat is about protection, sex nurturance, strength, boundaries, mothering, substance, assertion and rage. It is response to the inequality of the sexes. Fat expresses experiences of women today in ways that are seldom examined and even more seldom treated…..” (Page 449). Some may argue that obesity is a woman’s disease, I would say this is primarily true, obesity is a disease that affect men as well but in today’s society media plays a big role in our everyday lives. The things that are highly favored by majority can reflect our own lifestyles. However the pressure to look a certain way, and ...
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...Since food is the source of nutrition, the availability of foods is variable. Some groups consume a healthy amount of seafood; some of this group has a good supply of vegetables where gardens are popular. Many immigrants that live and settled in cities where wild game and gardens are not readily available. America is noted for fast food, a highly addictive opportunity for an impromptu meal. People adapt fast to fast food habit; fortunate many fast food restaurants are reducing their Trans fat and calories. According to some research in most ethnic groups the diets need improvement. The Hispanic children in the US are the greater risk for obesity than other ethnic/racial groups in the United States, in a study 1,030 Hispanic children between the age of 4 and 19 found less than optimal diets in both overweight and non-overweight participants. Information about Hispanics in the US eat has been compiled through a national survey conducted USDA. The Hispanics are less likely to consume vegetables, although they have a slightly consumption of fruits. Compared to the non-Hispanics. Hispanics love whole milk but they don’t like low fat or skim milk. Also there are more likely to eat beef but less likely to eat processed meats such as hot dogs. Obesity and overweight are issues that the government has received attention and also health related institutions. In United States obesity has increased dramatically in the last couple of years with an average of 5 out of 10 death related to...
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...Persuasive Essay Because many African American men don’t go to the doctors regularly they unintentially put them selves at risk for developing lupus a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body. According to the Lupus Foundation of America one in 2,000 people in the United States has Lupus. But regularly check ups can help detect early stages of the disease, which in turn can help patients avoid the need for Dialysis or a Kidney transplant. As African American women whose brother has recently battled with lupus, I understand how debilitating and frightening this disease can be. I also understand how, in many cases, such suffering may be needless. Indeed, had my brother gone to the doctor’s and been proactive in his healthcare, his Lupus could have been averted. I argue all of my readers, especially African American men, to do what they can to protect their health, including receiving regular physical exams and adopting health maintenance habits. Around June 2009, my brother Justin 29 began to get ill. Most days he was fatigued and had some slight swelling in his feet. Expecting that the swelling was only temporary, he didn’t go to the doctor. However as the symptoms worsened and swelling continued moving from his feet to his knees he finally went to the doctor. “I thought I was having an allergic reaction to something I ate and would be better in a couple of days” he remembers. Months and months went by; doctor’s visits increased and the...
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...of these immigrants to settle down in the place the first set down. These immigrants came from various parts of Italy they were scattered all around the US. This paper will look at the common menu of those Italian migrants and look at how it has involved in the community that is now known as the Italian-American. This essay will mainly try to address the significant issues of the process of ethnic identity. This paper will argue that the role of family is very important in advocating ethnic identity. The influence of a very rigid and traditional family institution helped the Italian immigrants whom in the end were known as Italian American to maintain their identity. This is fascinating because despite undergoing changes from generations to generations their tradition is still very much alive and important to them. The paper will further argue this point by looking, the transmission of ethnic consciousness amongst the Italian American. Last but not least we will look at the maintenance of ethnic group boundaries and most importantly, the role of food in such process. Overall, this essay aims to look at the evolution of the Italian migrants in America and how this has affected their everyday food. This paper will articulate all the forwarded arguments and try to answer the main question of whether Americanization disintegrated the original Italian culture and traditions amongst the migrants or have their community managed to stand by their roots and maintain...
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...become disconnected from the values and beliefs we once held. This loss of culture has led to many health concerns. .Fortunately, there is a new food culture emerging in America. This new culture includes a range of treatments that is used by Americans to promote health and wellness. In many traditional cultures, the health and wellness of an individual is related to the combination of the mind, body, and spirit. 2. Traditional culture, such as Native Americans, have used diets and plants to promote health by living in unison with the earth. They equated health and wellness to wholeness. Unfortunately, this way of life has been lost with every new generation. “Less than 100 years ago, diabetes was almost unheard of among Native Americans. Today diabetes runs rampant through many tribes as they integrate into the mainstream culture and adopt the typical American lifestyle.”1 Our values and beliefs have become so different which has caused us to become disconnected from the earth. 3. This disconnection is what many consider to be the source of the health and wellness issues we face today. We eat more as a social, political, or moral statement instead of a means to 2 promote health and wellness. “The American Heart Association, World Cancer Research Fund, and American Institute for Cancer Research recommend a diet that consists...
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