Despite the fact that americans are more and more conscious about their weight, despite the fact that we have more and more socalled low fat foods and sugar substitutes, obesity is increasing constantly in the united states. I think its fair to say we have an epidemic of obesity in the united states. Today there are more than 100 million americans who are either overweight or obese. This is a disease and a condition which causes a whole host of important medical complications, so i think we have a very Serious Public Health problem on our hands that we need to address as a nation. Narrator poor food choices, combined with increasingly sedentary lifestyles, are blamed for the dramatic increase in obesity over the last several decades. Close to 35 of women and 31 of men over the age of 20 are now considered obese. Ralph cygan obesity is defined by excess body fat. A normal body fat for a male is somewhere in the 20 range. For a woman its 25 to 30 range. Unfortately its not easy to measur
The environment is a crucial factor in the health of each of us. If the environment is not healthy, there is no way we can truly call ourselves healthy. Persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades have greatly reduced environmental pollution. Ib our rivers dont catch on fire anymore. Persistent efforts and regulation over the last few decades we dont have big, black plumes in most communities in america. We dont see slicks going down the great lakes. So people believe, because they dont see it, that, somehow, were in a better state now than we ever were before, and the truth is, that all weve done is cosmetic surgery. We have scraped off the surface and made that look pretty, but beneath it are the invisible chemicals that are getting into our food supply, our water supply and our air each and every day, and poisoning us. Not gross poisoning, but subtle poisoning, day after day after day. We are not exposed to individual toxicants in the environment. Were exposed to hun
Narrator pregnancy is usually a 38week procs. Healthwise, theres much a woman needs to do and learn during that nine months. Barbara korsch i think that, you know, usually people dont make a conscious effort to prepare for that. They are in the state of mind, and lets hope they have someone whos going to father the child whom they respect and whose values they like. I like to say that a pregnancy begins when two people who are in love with each other decide that theyre going to become pregnant and raise a child till that child is 20 to 30 years of age, not before. J. P. Garamone weve been married 13 years. We pretty much put the decision off till later on. We really thought that we would, you know, travel and do a lot of things together, etc. , etc. , and then when the time was right, wed figure, you know, wed talk about it then. And then one day, it was like, is this going to be a nursery or is this going to be a guest room . Tracey garamone and i went for my annual doctors appointmen
Some are shown cradling a supernatural infant part human, part jaguar who may have been their link to the spiritual world. Similar figures appear on sculptound at la venta thtirlg me to be altars. But decades later, a clue to their true function was discovered far from the coast, at the mntainous site of oxtotitclan. Its name means place of caves, which ancient mesoamericans regarded as sacred entrances to the underrld, the mythic realm of ancestral and supernatural srits. A rock painting above the cave mouth shows a ruler wearing a bird mask and feathered costume. His elaborate throne depicts a monstrous supernatural face, similar to tse on the socalled alta of la venta, incating thath, too, were rones. Priousesearch proposed that la venta was exclusively a site where priests resided and conducted ritual activities. However, new research has shown that it was a more complex urban area. New speaker with the new findings, we find a much more dense population, not only on the site, on th
Join us now at the dawn of a civilization to uncover the roots of power, prestige and wealth. In the pyramids and monuments of the ancient maya, workers search for clues to the emergence of a vanished civilization. These are the ruins of the ancient city of copan, honduras. Dozens of stone monuments, called stelae, proclaim the power of mighty beings. Until experts could read these carved hieroglyphs, most scholars thought these largerthanlife figures represented maya gods. But we now know they are portraits of copans rulers, with names like butz chan. Smoke shell. And the most powerful of all, 18 rabbit. The maya called them cul ahau, or divine lord. The title was inherited. We call them kings since they passed their power to brothers or sons. A dynasty of 16 kings ruled copan for 400 years. How did they first acquire their power . And how were the maya governed before the kings . To answer such questions, archaeologists discuss their ideas of political change. Which says, heres the r