Adult Nutrition Education Initiative
Childhood obesity, and obesity in general, is a problem that has quickly become completely out of control in all levels of society. Those worst affected are those who believe they are unable to afford eating right or just don't know how. Let's use adult education programs to teach them they can!
Q1: I'd love suggestions as to other things that can be done to help stop this trend of obesity.
Idea Description
There is a very unhealthy trend in the US and several other countries in recent years- among the obese, it is a sense of mingled entitlement and resignation in regards to their body shape. Among others, it is disdain and disgust for the obese and for their families. There is currently little effort to teach the poor and relatively uneducated about the importance of nutrition. We propose a twofold approach. Adult courses offered at high schools and colleges for language and vocational training would be altered to include a very short session on nutrition and purchasing healthy food affordably. The second would involve spreading information in free clinics in easy to understand wording.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
With the $10,000, we would begin by designing an easy to read informational pamphlet or poster and attempt to post them in several clinics throughout Texas. Meanwhile, we will attempt to work with nearby community colleges and high schools and develop a short curriculum to be used in our program. Most of the work will be done by volunteers. With this much money, we could even afford to give out healthy recipes or foods to the first round of participants, but printing out a booklet (this is for the students, not the clinic attendees) of cheap and easy ways to avoid fast food to feed your children, and the importance in doing so, would be the ultimate goal.
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I like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs
I like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs
When I was teaching in the Bronx, I can't tell you how many students had health problems arising from obesity. This is a problem in poorer areas across the country--and the health effects are obviously exacerbated when one can't afford quality medical care. Kudos to you for taking steps to solve it.