Census Bureau, more than 12% of the population in the state of Virginia is food insecure. It is a myth to think that people who need food are chronically poor. More likely, the person is unemployed, underemployed, suffering from poor health, or enduring the loss of a spouse. * The poverty rate for people living in suburban areas was 16.6 percent (7.9 million people) in 2009. * In 2010, the prevalence of household food insecurity in suburban areas was 12.6 percent (6.2 million households), and the prevalence of very low food security was 4.6 percent (2.3 million households).
GM520 Week 2 Assignment 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how?
Throughout the years the Western Washington Indian’s population kept decreasing they kept dying from the infectious disease of smallpox. (Fever, headache, and pain. Two days later rashes start to appear on their face, hands, and feet. The symptoms last for about two weeks and then rashes start spreading throughout the entire body and become bigger they end up looking like postural lesions. The lesions look like blisters they itch until they dry up and fall off.
1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how?
Manual handling factsheet Manual handling In a report carried out for the Health & Safety Executive based on self-reported work related illnesses during the years of 2001 and 2002, over 1.1 million people complained of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) being caused by a current or past work experience. This report concluded that an estimated 12.3 million working days were lost due to MSDs and that on average each sufferer took twenty days off work in any 12-month period. In 1992, the Manual Handling Operations Regulations were released (these have been updated in 2002). Manual handling covers some activities that are mentioned in the following list. Lifting objects.
Power Of Starvation Imagine going to bed without any food in your stomach. Then waking up and having to eat 1\12 of a small loft of bread. 30% of the population in Afghanistan deal with this situation almost every single day. Since there is not enough food to eat there are people dying of starvation, and trying to fill their stomach with anything they can find. Hunger in Afghanistan leads to the death of a lot of people each day.
environmental, food safety and labor standards (RFD.com). Eric Schlosser points out in his book Fast Food Nation that, “Every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 people are sickened from foodbourne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and fourteen die” (p. 195). Another staggering statistic pointed out by Schlosser in his book Fast Food Nation is that, “More than a quarter of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year” (p. 195). A government health official, who desired to remain anonymous, compared the hygiene of the large meatpacking companies to that of a crowded European city during The Middle Ages, when the public dumped excrement and urine out of the windows of their homes, raw sewage flowed in the streets, and epidemics were rampant (Schlosser,
Food Safety Bulletin Thomas Fowler SCI/220 University of Phoenix Brandi Knight March 12, 2012 In the past month, an outbreak of salmonella was discovered in Atlanta. There were approximately twenty people that were diagnosed with symptoms of salmonella. Out of twenty people only four was hospitalized. Diarrhea and vomiting was the cause for the hospitalization. The Food and Drug Administration are recalling ground beef purchased from the following stores, Star Meat, Harold’s Meat House, and Piggly Wiggly.
As members of society, one hears about the various diseases that occur amongst people around us. Continuously one tends to not realize the number of deaths that occur from these diseases. This article presents a study that was conducted that showed an estimate of nearly 4,900 people in Ontario are killed each year from infectious diseases while more than 7 million catch illnesses. Some of these disease consist of hepatitis C and B, E. coli, HIV-AIDS, or the common cold. The article continues to present numerical facts on cases and deaths from these diseases.
The health difficulties also become the importance of families seeking for help as Flood claims 30% of the households have at least one member in poor health, and 35% of adult recipients do not have health insurance, the decision of purchasing food with less nutritional values also causing diabetes and obesity to each household members and children, Flood says, “Poor nutrition is a leading cause of many of the major killers in our society, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many types of cancer.”, but it is also causing the food trade is getting more difficult when it focuses on one person’s health. Family members would need to find a job that will help them pay for utilities, food and transportation and even have enough to save for another day. Flood also claims that there has been more fruits and vegetables provided for students during school during lunch hour. Some students that skip breakfast, there has been schools that allow all students in the class eat in the classroom during the morning so they would not need to skip any meals. It is important for everyone to get his or her nutritional values everyday.