Accelerating progress in obesity prevention : solving the weight of the nation / / Committee on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention, Food and Nutrition Board ; Dan Glickman [and others], editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911091068703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2012
• ISBN: 9786613653215; 9780309221573; 0309221579; 9781280676284; 1280676280; 9780309221559; 0309221552
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (478 pages) : color illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): GlickmanDan
• Disciplina: 362.1963/98
• Soggetti: Obesity - Prevention - United States; Needs assessment - United States; Obesity - prevention & control; Environment Design; Needs Assessment; Program Development; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The vision -- Assessing the current situation -- Goals, targets, and strategies for change -- Study approach -- Physical activity environments -- Food and beverage environments -- Message environments -- Health care and work environments -- School environments -- Answering questions about leadership prioritization and assessment with a systems perspective.
• Sommario/riassunto: One-third of adults are now obese, and children's obesity rates have climbed from 5 to 17 percent in the past 30 years. The causes of the ; nation's obesity epidemic are multi-factorial, having much more to do with the absence of sidewalks and the limited availability of healthy and affordable foods than a lack of personal responsibility. The broad societal changes that are needed to prevent obesity will inevitably affect activity and eating environments and settings for all ages. Many aspects of the obesity problem have been identified and discussed; however, there has not been complete agreement on what needs to be done to accelerate progress. Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention reviews previous studies and their recommendations and presents five key recommendations to accelerate meaningful change on a societal level during the next decade. The report suggests recommendations and strategies that, independently, can accelerate progress, but urges a systems approach of many strategies working in concert to maximize progress in accelerating obesity prevention. The recommendations in Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention include major reforms in access to and opportunities for physical activity; widespread reductions in the availability of unhealthy foods and beverages and increases in access to healthier options at affordable, competitive prices; an overhaul of the messages that surround Americans through marketing and education with respect to physical activity and food consumption; expansion of the obesity prevention support structure provided by health care providers, insurers, and employers; and schools as a major national focal point for obesity prevention. The report calls on all individuals, organizations, agencies, and sectors that do or can influence physical activity and nutrition environments to assess and begin to act on their potential roles as leaders in obesity prevention.

The miseducation of the West : how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world / / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911146984203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2004; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024
• ISBN: 9798400686306; 9786612408861; 9781282408869; 1282408860; 9780313057755; 0313057753
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Collana: Reverberations : cultural studies and education
• Altri autori (Persone): KincheloeJoe L; SteinbergShirley R. <1952->
• Disciplina: 070.4/4990909767
• Soggetti: International education - United States; Islam - Public opinion; Multicultural education - United States; Public opinion - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 September 11, Terror War, and Blowback; 3 Loving Muslim Women with a Vengeance: The West, Women, and Fundamentalism; 4 Iran and American Miseducation: Cover-Ups, Distortions, and Omissions; 5 Consequences of Perceived Ethnic Identities; 6 The United States and Israel: Double Standards, Favoritism, and Unconditional Support; 7 The Great European Denial: The Misrepresentation of the Moors in Western Education; 8 Schooled to Order: Education and the Making of Modern Egypt; 9 The New Bogeyman under the Bed: Image Formation of Islam in the Western School Curriculum and Media10 Desert Minstrels: Hollywood's Curriculum of Arabs and Muslims; Notes; Index; About the Editors and ; the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: The Miseducation of the West examines the ways in which educational institutions such as media and schools have shaped Western views of Islam. The nature of these messages tells readers as much, if not more, about Western self-images as they do about Islam and Islamic peoples. Quickly emerging is a Western perspective on the other. Westerners found easy justification for the colonial conquest of many Islamic lands. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries England, France, and to a lesser extent Russia colonized much of the Muslim world with the United States entering the picture after World