Ways Your Family Can Help The Enviroment

Aiding the environment should be a family endeavor that is shared between adults and kids. Saving the planet is, after all, part of ensuring that your children have a great life to look forward to in the future.

One way to help the planet is to eat more tofu. This is not a joke. Eating beef and chicken is taking a big toll on the Earth. A Cornell study showed that producing meat protein takes eight times the energy that producing vegetable protein does. Six percent of all greenhouse gases from producing this.

However there are drawbacks to this. A strict vegetarian diet requires careful planning in order to get all the iron, vitamin B12, and other nutrients your body needs. Still, even part-time vegetarianism pays off for the environment and your body. If you can explain why this is a good idea to the kids you might just get away with it – except when it is BBQ season and they start craving a hamburger.

Did you know that a single lawn mower can put out more pollution than 73 brand new hybrid cars?

If you’re already enthusiastic about better lawns and gardens, you may not mind burning calories and building up muscles in an effort to spare the air. It is time to stop using so many garden tools. Lawn mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers, are extremely eco-unfriendly, spewing an incredible amount of CO2 into the air. In a single day, southern California’s lawn tools do more to pollute the air than every airplane in Los Angeles.

The answer is using push mowers. You can dispense with the leaf blower by using a simple broom and rake. Or, you can ditch the power hedger and get intimate with your plants by using a pair of pruning scissors.

If you are like most people you probably feel like you cannot do without a shower. If your household is like most, heating water accounts for 20 per cent of your electric bill each month. But you don’t have to ruin your life with shorter showers or cold plunges. Below are some baby steps to curb your water heater’s appetite for electricity.

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Spotting Anorexia Nervosa in A Teen

Eating disorders tend to appear when a teen is facing several big changes at once. One such time is early adolescence, when a child faces a changing body, blooming sexual feelings, and is likely graduating to a different school. This is when a teen might feel like he or she is out of control.

If this is the truth than food might seem like the one thing your child can control. Anorexia nervosa is a primarily female disorder. It usually develops between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five. However symptoms can develop as young as age nine.

One of the first signs of it is if your child starts refusing desserts. She might also start refusing bread and fried foods. This might seem healthy to you at first but the reality it is that a healthy teen normally likes to eat a great dead.

Anorexia may start with the child establishing a strict rule of no desserts. Then she may also exclude bread from her diet. She could go on to deny herself more and more foods until she exists on only celery and raw foods.

Another sign of anorexia is the presence of a lot of weight loss books around like 'The Skinny Bitch Diet.' This is a strict macrobiotic diet that is very popular with Hollywood celebrities like Lindsay Lohan.

If your child seems thin and is known to have a period and then the period mysteriously disappears then you are dealing with someone who has an eating disorder.

The alarming thing is that more and more little girls feel compelled to be on third diet. Surveys now show that many girls from the third to the sixth grade are now worried about their weight and are on some kind of inappropriate diet.

A girl that is suffering from anorexia nervosa is usually way too worried about gaining weight but will not necessarily admit it. They tend to lie to doctors as well, reassuring them that they will eat more. Then they don't. If you spot your child lying about how thin she is or how much she eats then you could be in some trouble.

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