With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?
FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST
… Advertising to children 1st April 2004 Comment Advertising … Additives Fast Food Sugar Food And Health Children Consumerism Processed Foods Green … in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue? FOR: Jeremy …
Palestinian children as young as 11 work on Israeli farms in the occupied West Bank, an HRW investigation reveals. While the EU buys produce worth $300m a year from the illegal 'settlements', undocumented child labourers are exposed to pesticides, paid well below the minimum wage, enjoy no employment rights, and toil long hours in hot fields and greenhouses.
… Society pal-child-izzy-farm.jpg Palestinian children as young as 11 work on Israeli farms … and greenhouses. Hundreds of Palestinian children work on Israeli settlement farms in … human rights abuses against Palestinian children as young as 11 years old, who earn …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
… Rachel Ragg | 22nd September 2006 News Children Parents Boy Girl Behaviour Mental … Drugs Pharmaceuticals Play Culture Control Children Drugs Organics Organics Biotechnology … behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. …
Fear of traffic risks and ‘stranger danger’ are holding our children captive indoors. For the sake of their health and development, and for the environment they will one day need to protect, we have to find ways of getting them into the wild.
… Let Our Children Roam Free Tim Gill | 23rd September … Play Nature Education Woods Obesity Child Children Outdoors Children Education Food And Health Mental …
Children are an indicator species for the health of our communities, writes Melissa Henry - and they are being forced off our streets by traffic. This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them of exercise. It's time to break the vicious circle!
… We must make our streets fit for children Melissa Henry | 13th May 2014 Comment … UK Pollution Education safe-streets-cut.jpg Children are an indicator species for the … This adds further to traffic and pollution as children are driven everywhere, depriving them …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… Healing and inspiring children with animals, mud and a touch of … Society Health Wellbeing UK Organic apricot children in orchard-cut.jpg The Apricot Centre … animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle …
Production line education is creating clones and stifling the imagination of our children. Is it any wonder they are stressed and unhappy?
… Robotic children Nick Kettles | 2nd February 2009 News Education Children School Creativity Schooling Education Children Society Robotic_children_MAIN.jpg …
Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children were in 'out of home care'.
… again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children John Pilger | 6th April 2014 News … Politics Indigenous Peoples aboriginal-children.png Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John …
Camilla Scaramanga takes a look at how growing food in schools is having a positive impact on children, teachers, parents and wider society.......
… in schools is having a positive impact on children, teachers, parents and wider … improves health and well-being by encouraging children to eat the fruit and vegetables … outside the classroom believe it allows children to discover their own love for, and …
When the classroom is the outdoors the possibilities are endless. Phoebe Doyle explores the practicalities, the realities and the huge potentials of the outdoor nursery concept
… Secret Garden nursery: a unique daycare where children spend all day outdoors Phoebe Doyle | … the dangers lying ‘out there' waiting for our children, where watching a screen of one kind … some educationalists are yearning to set children free. Sue Palmer, author of Toxic …
The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said UK is failing to protect children from "harmful" junk food marketing.
… Junk fast food adverts aimed at children Jemma Crew | 23rd January 2020 News … Fund (WCRF) said UK is failing to protect children from "harmful" junk food marketing. … watershed on junk food advertising to protect children's health and human rights, a report …
Restricting foods won't help children learn how to self-regulate, parenting author Sarah Ockwell-Smith tells MARIANNE BROWN. Instead, teach them how to use their instincts, not their emotions.
… How to raise children with a healthy relationship to food … Restricting foods won't help children learn how to self-regulate, parenting … One is stickers – when used to reward children for ‘eating up’ their meals. Another …
No single country is adequately protecting children's health or environment.
… Children's health suffering from capitalism … Collapse Capitalism Thought Leaders filipino-children-cut.jpg No single country is adequately protecting children's health or environment. The health …
How do children learn? Is it through testing or open-ended class discussions aimed at piquing curiosity? Lizzie Overton, head teacher at Lewes New School, is spearheading a new approach to education
… Waldorf Montessori lizzieoverton.jpg How do children learn? Is it through testing or … basic desire of most teachers: to reach the children who needed an education most. She … were all 'delivering' a very similar deal - children were being pushed through a series of …
Supporting children's learning about climate change and their action for climate justice is an essential aspect of meaningful education.
… Leaders school-1974369_1280.jpg Supporting children's learning about climate change and … aspect of meaningful education. School children across the planet have been on strike … affects attainment levels? And should children bear the brunt of eco-anxiety caused …
In a damning indictment of our current way of life the UK and US have been ranked the worst of 21 'Advanced Nations' for children to grow up in by UNICEF. The UK came last.
… Britain's Children: Unhealthy and Unloved 14th February 2007 News Children UNICEF Wellbeing UK Parenting Children Consumerism Health News web pic …
Children feel the threat of climate change and want to drive radical action to safeguard their future - so we should too, argues children's author SUE HAMPTON.
… Children need sensitive climate change … | 25th September 2018 Comment Recycled Children School Education Climate Change Activism kids-2835431_960_720.jpg Children feel the threat of climate change and …
I am pro-vaccine, writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives. So let me explain why I edited the book 'Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak', which exposes the dangerous and avoidable use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around the world.
… Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines … thimerosal in vaccines given to millions of children and pregnant women here and around … vaccines when I was a boy in 1954. Today's children cannot school without at least 56 …
New study into the impact of outdoor activity on children's wellbeing suggests being outside makes youngsters feel more confident.
… Nature connection helps children learn Alison Kershaw | 7th November … study into the impact of outdoor activity on children's wellbeing suggests being outside makes youngsters feel more confident. Children believe that spending time in nature …
Climate dread among children and parents has risen due to increasingly frequent extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves, a poll has suggested.
… Climate dread among children Rebecca Speare-Cole | 30th November … climate_dread.jpg Climate dread among children and parents has risen due to … out by Opinion Matters on behalf of Save The Children, asked 1,000 children, aged nine to …
Naturalist and wildlife photographer Matt Adam Williams asks whether childhood experiences are the key to the long-term health of nature and the conservation sector........
… April 2013 Comment Nature Deficit Disorder Children 0564, short eared owl, aust warth … generation that has gone before them, today’s children are disconnected from nature; their … time as environmental challenges increase, children and young people are becoming more …
Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring at screens, writes Sandra Thompson. High time to get them outside with the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ...
… Reconnecting children with our wonderful world Sandra … Education Natural World bugstorey-2.png Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring … the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ... With children spending an average of almost 14 …
Similarities in the gestures used by children and gorillas reveal an evolutionary history of communication. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
… Young children use the same gestures as chimpanzees … Similarities in the gestures used by children and gorillas reveal an evolutionary … of communication. MARIANNE BROOKER reports Children aged one to two years old on the cusp …