...becoming America’s next controlled substance. Background: The United States is currently in a dangerous cycle of sugar consumption and disease with nearly two out of every three adults categorized as overweight or obese.(Figure 1,2) Among those characterized, their bodies were given a surplus in calories without an equal response of physical activity. Obesity restricts productivity, lower one’s quality of life, and reduces life expectancy. The excess body fat results in significant health problems such as an increased risk of developing high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, depression and even orthopedic problems. Additionally, the society bears the bulk of the costs associated with America’s extra pounds. Cawley and Meyerhoefer estimated health care costs accumulated up to $209.7 billion a year treating obesity-related health conditions, and this is a large jump compared to the averaged $38 billion obesity costs in the mid ‘80s. These outcomes should be of no surprise to Americans with our substantial reliance on processed foods and larger portion sizes. Besides...
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...Tammy Thacker Obesity and the Proposal of Fat Tax English Composition II Dr. Wells October 27, 2014 Obesity and the Proposal of Fat Tax Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States of America. It is affecting our children's health to the point where they are being diagnosed with early onset diabetes and hypertension. . Obesity is the result of eating high fat, high protein foods along with a serious sedentary lifestyle. I intend to show that although obesity is on the rise applying fat tax is not the answer to our problem. Obesity is defined, medically as having a body mass index of more than 30. However, it can be effectively curtailed by lowering your caloric intake, exercise, and implementing healthier school lunches. The medical risks associated with excessive body weight is many and varied, include: osteoarthritis, coronary artery disease, stroke, and high cholesterol. Some people with obesity suffer from stress, low self-esteem, social disadvantaged and depression. According to data collected in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999), amongst U. S. adults aged 20-74 years obesity has nearly doubled from approximately 15% in 1980 to an estimated 27% in 1999. (Clark & Dittrich, November 2010) The obesity epidemic affects the world in the form of increase health insurance cost, medical bills related to different illness that occurs while being obese. It also poses for an increase in regular taxes so that the government can accommodate...
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...Why Should Unhealthy Foods Be Taxed Around The World? An Exploratory Essay Nicholas Jackson Goldey - Beacom College Why Should Unhealthy Foods Be Taxed Around The World? An Exploratory Essay I normally eat French toast sticks with bacon or waffles with bacon for breakfast in the morning because it is the most convenient for me - it comes in a pre-cooked package that I could throw in the microwave and be ready in the minutes – and it tastes good to me. Even though it may taste good to me and will settle for a breakfast meal for my stomach, I know it isn’t good for my body in the long run. However, after reading some of the writings of food activist Gary Sacks, I began to think more about what I should be eating healthy foods because there will begin to be taxes on unhealthy foods that are made. A prime example is in his article, “Traffic-Light' Nutrition Labeling and 'Junk-Food' Tax: a Modeled Comparison of Cost-Effectiveness for Obesity Prevention,” published in Nature Publishing Group, Sacks states junk-food' tax, price elasticity’s were used to estimate a change in energy intake in response to a 10% price increase in seven food categories. Sacks advice about the junk foods, my breakfast foods, starting to get taxed 10% makes me start thinking about what I should be eating. The waffles/French toast sticks with bacon have been pre-cooked and made so that the packaging can be heated up in a microwave oven, but on the same note, the food items look to be similar to...
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...Outline Structure I. Introduction A. Thesis: The use of drone strike’s is morally and ethically sound based on evidence that shows drone warfare saves American lives, are just as accurate as conventional air strikes, and save tax payers millions of dollars. II. Body Paragraph 1: The use of drone strikes has enabled the United States to neutralize thousands of terrorist targets without direct threat to American lives. B. Supporting evidence: 1. Explanation: You cannot put a dollar amount on a human life, however a U.S. military pilot has millions of dollars of training invested in them and the aircraft to make combat aviation safe. Look at the F-35 program for example it is highly experimental and has costed 1.5 Trillion Dollars. The most advanced drones such as the X-47B have only cost the United States 900 million dollars to develop and deploy due to the removal of the human element from flying the aircraft. 2. So what? If you look at all the aircraft crashes over the past decade they have killed 277 Americans. If you would have had drones in those combat areas versus manned aircraft those are 277 lives that could have been saved along with hundreds of millions of dollars in death benefits, lost training, and the cost of the aircraft. III. Body Paragraph 2: Topic sentence goes here. C. Supporting evidence 3. Explanation 4. So what? D. Supporting evidence 5. Explanation ...
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...A Pricing Strategy to Promote Low-Fat Snack Choices through Vending Machines Simone A. French, PhD, Robert W Jeffery, PhD, Mary Story, PhD, Peter Hannan, MStat, M. Patricia Snyder, RD, MPH Introduction There is general agreement that measures that would reduce the fat content of the diet in the population as a whole would be helpful in preventing or delaying the development of several chronic diseases.1-4 An important question for public health policy, therefore, is how to encourage the population as a whole to make lower-fat food choices. To date, environmental intervention strategies to reduce the population prevalence of high-fat food consumption have focused primarily on improving consumer knowledge through mass media, schoolbased, and point-of-purchase education.-"-- Such interventions have shown positive effects on nutrition knowledge, but changes in food-choice behaviors have been modest in magnitude, variable, and often short lived. Environmental strategies designed to influence food choice through mechanisms of availability and cost rather than nutrition education have received less research attention.5-14 Perhaps the most impressive of these studies in magnitude of effect was a recent cafeteria-based study that examined pricing and availability influences on food choice.'4 Prices of fruit and salad were reduced by 50%, and the number of fruit and salad items available was increased. Purchase of fruit and salad increased threefold during...
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...test it on humans at all. Only once the Golden Rice is tested on animals and there are no harmful effects, then can the product be tested on humans (Coliherr 2011:2; Pryor & Mackenzie 2014:2). Golden Rice is made to overproduce beta carotene. There are retinoids in the beta carotene that are toxic and this can cause birth defects. Feeding adults and children beta- carotene enriched foods could cause an overdose intake of vitamin A which could thus lead to Hypervitaminosis. The effects of Hypervitaminosis are: birth defects, liver abnormalities and reduced bone density that could lead to Osteoporosis (Coliherr 2011:2). The environmental factors that one should be concerned about are that in the poorer communities and developing nations this grain is being planted as the main source of vitamin A. This will lead to there being a very poor biodiversity. Depending on a multiple of vitamin A substances is not healthy as Vitamin A is fat soluble, one will need fat and protein in their diet to be able to intake the vitamin A. In the poor communities and developing nations, there is no protein and fats available or affordable. This can cause the concern of whether the Golden rice will provide the health benefits that it was created for (Coliherr 2011:2; Riley...
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...Fat Tax in the United States Abstract The United States has one of the least healthy populations in the entire world. That seems out of skew because we are also considered one of the most powerful. In the near future we will have a universal healthcare program that will basically enforce everybody to have health insurance of some sort. You would think you would want this for a nation on route to good health. This is not the case now, but there is one way in starting the path. Fat Tax in the United States The United States of America is the most obese nation in the world. In the United States obesity is estimated to cause an excess 111,909 to 365,000 deaths per year, while 1 million (7.7%) of deaths in the European Union are attributed to excess weight. Not only is obesity taking lives, it is the cause of numerous health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Our country, as a whole, needs to start being more careful about what our bodies intake. Various ways have been introduced in doing this. The majority of them would not be enforced and are typically in the form of a dieting or a workout regimen. Yeah, like everybody wants to do that. One of the most overlooked ways in reducing health risks in America is implementing a tax on fat of all things. It seems a little far-fetched at first but many would be surprised how genuine of an argument this is. The idea of a fat tax is so obscure to many. This is probably because it has never been in effect...
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... The Fast Food Epidemic On Health In today's society, fast food has become a large part of many American's lives. With the rising numbers of obese people, it is hard not to draw a correlation between the increase in fast food and obesity. Most obese people don’t want to be obese and wish they could lose weight, yet they continue to struggle with their fast food intake and obesity. This is due to the advertising done on the consumers, the highly addictive food itself, and most importantly, how advertising and addiction combine with children to form habits that are kept once they become adults. These factors are the reasons that fast food restaurants are to blame for the rising obesity and health risks across America. The government needs to step in and place regulations on these fast food restaurants so they will stop taking advantage of people's weaknesses. Before it can be gone into detail about how fast food companies are to blame for people over eating their food, it first must be proven that fast food is indeed the main problem causing today's obesity in America. It is known to many people how the number of fast food restaurants in America has increased tremendously over the past several decades, but it is difficult to calculate by how much due to the lack of historic statistics. Also, it is difficult whether or not to categorize certain restaurants as fast food. Although,...
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...success in the food industry is marketing. The food industry is the best at manipulating and altering perceptions and persuading its customers that their product is a necessity. Big food corporations have had a major influence on the spread of obesity in America. Fed Up argues that if we want to see change we need to be the change. According to the film, kids watch an average of 4,000 food-related ads every year; that’s about 10 per day (Fed Up). Additionally, 98% of food related ads that children view is for products high in fat, sugar, and sodium (Fed Up). Fast food companies are targeting kids in their marketing strategies and it is leading to kids developing bad habits and ideas about food at an early age....
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...doubling since 1980” (Nestle, 2006); this is of huge concern because soft drinks provide empty calories, or calories that only bring with them a high-density of energy but not of nutrients. If 10% of your calories consistently does not provide the nutrients you need, the amount of optimum nutrients is curtailed and could eventually lead to a form of malnutrition or a vitamin deficiency. Overweight children are at an especially high risk because they tend to “consume 1200 to 2000 calories per day from soft drinks alone” (Nestle, 2006) and not only does this cause a form of malnutrition but it makes it more likely that these children end up with an excess of calories, which leads to obesity....
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...is causing the most harm. I fell that whether for medical or recreational use marijuana needs to be removed from its Schedule I status because it does not meet the definition of what a Schedule I drug is, it does not have adverse health effect if used properly, and it could positively affect the United States economy if taxed and/or used as a renewable resource. Many studies have found that marijuana meets none of the Controlled Substance Act’s criteria for placement in Schedule I, and therefore the government is required by law either to permit medical use or to remove the drug from federal control altogether. In regards to what a Schedule I drug is, Section 812 of the Controlled Substance Act states: Substances in the schedule have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Some examples of substances listed in schedule I are: heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), peyote, methaqualone, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphtamine (“ecstasy”). (“Title 21 CFR Excerpts, Section 1308.”DEA Diversion...
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...their territories, in late 1800 the first diary cooperative was found and trough 1900 the cheese engineering and producing developed to the today’s applicable high industry level (Yiva Ardo). In 1999 the Arla foods diary company was founded (Yiva Ardo), which today is the largest diary company in the Europe (William Reed) ‘and it commands 51% value share’ (Euro Monitor) of Danish cheese market the rest of market share is saturated with thirty smaller diary companies (Danish Agriculture & Food Council). The Danish cheese market is marketed by domestic diary production, imported cheese and dairy products measures approximately 25% of domestic consumption, on the other hand the value of the dairy export totals to EUR 1.8 billion annually (Danish Agriculture & Food Council). As the EU cheese market including Danish market stepped in a mature life cycle, the activities became more competitive and volatile; the main task of current players should be to consolidate current market positions (The Diary Site), on the other hand the maturity of the cheese market and high volume production, demanded a structure change in milk production sector as well, from many mid-small sized farms the market was restructured to small number of large farmers. The growth of market and the changes in trends pursuing healthy life style the Danish food regulatory body submitted the tax filling on cheese ‘to be in line with other unhealthy consumer products like alcohol and tobacco’...
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...Assignment 1: To Build or Buy Small Business Management Business 402 July 27, 2014 Assignment 1: To Build or Buy 1. Craft a brief strategy for a business concept that would directly compete with the small business you selected. As an entrepreneur one must be willing to take risks and face uncertainty in order to pursue an opportunity and to make a profit (Scarborough, 2012). 7-Eleven is a very successful brand and franchise that is known worldwide. As a frequent patron of this established, an opportunity has been identified to directly compete with 7-Eleven. As a competitor in the convenience store market the establishment would be called G’s Stop N’ Go. As a direct competitor, research is necessary to understand the strengths and weaknesses of 7-Eleven to be able to compete and make effective decisions. From state to state and city to city 7-Eleven’s can be found everywhere are very visible and known. But based on the companies SWOT analysis a weakness that has been identified was the hacking of ATM machines that negatively impacted consumers’ loyalty (7-Eleven, Inc., 2013). FBI has investigated the case and stated that a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals at 7-Eleven convenience stores had been breached. ATMs hackings at 7-Eleven stores reflects the company's weak application security system (7-Eleven, Inc., 2013). To take advantage of this weakness, G’s Stop N’ Go would have industry proven application security system that are...
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...Intervention in the market What are the main reasons for government intervention? The main reasons for policy intervention are: •To correct for market failure •To achieve a more equitable distribution of income and wealth •To improve the performance of the economy Options for government intervention in markets There are many ways in which intervention can take place – some examples are given below Government Legislation and Regulation Parliament can pass laws that for example prohibit the sale of cigarettes to children, or ban smoking in the workplace. Employment laws may offer some legal protection for workers by setting maximum working hours or by providing a price-floor in the labour market through the setting of a minimum wage. The economy operates with a huge and growing amount of regulation. The government appointed regulators who can impose price controls in most of the main utilities such as telecommunications, electricity, gas and rail transport. Free market economists criticise the scale of regulation in the economy arguing that it creates an unnecessary burden of costs for businesses – with a huge amount of “red tape” damaging the competitiveness of businesses. Fiscal Policy Intervention Fiscal policy can be used to alter the level of demand for different products and also the pattern of demand within the economy. Indirect taxes can be used to raise the price of de-merit goods and products with negative externalities designed...
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...ACKNOWLEGEMENT Preparing a term paper is not very easy. We faced many problems when we started the work on the report but we are greatly thankful to Almighty Allah for enabling us to get successfully through our responsibilities. Very warm and special thanks to our respected course instructor Kashfia Ahmed for assigning this task to us. We would like to give thanks especially to our friends and group members, for their enthusiastic encouragements and helps during the preparation of this term paper by sharing ideas regarding this subject and for their assistance in typing and proof reading this manuscript. Executive summary The summary describes the history of the "Taara Refined Soyabean Oil" and the target market of this product, its strengths and weakness of how the customer buying pattern influenced by factors. This report tells us that how we launch a new soyabean oil brand in the market, how the company selects their target market, how they select their brand name, logo, logo color, slogan, how its pricing strategy, brand sense, brands elements, factors influence the customer buying pattern. It also mentions that what are the packages of soyabean oil launch into the market according to customers need and affordability. What pricing strategies usually followed by "Taara Refined Soyabean Oil" marketing programs and promotional activities are clearly and briefly covered in the report. Another vital element is finding its SWOT and PEST analysis specifically what...
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