1. As you have read, the health of children is of special importance in public health. Check out some of the facts on childhood obesity at the link below. So, what do you think would be best to address this? Should there be better foods served in school? Should there be more gym classes? Should PE be required for all years in school?
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/obesity/facts.htm2.Watch the clip on Tobacco from John Oliver's show. Discuss your thoughts after watching this piece.
3. Please go to the following website:
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/On the page, you will see a video, it is a clip from the PBS documentary on prohibition. The clip is titled, “A nation of drunkards.” Please watch the clip (it is only about 6 minutes in length) and answer the following questions.
When physicians would recommend people consume cider or beer instead of water from local streams or lakes, why do you think the alcoholic drinks actually were safer to drink?
What was “grog time”?
What was the cause of the increase in use of distilled spirits (rum, whiskey) in the 1800s?
By 1830 the average American over 15 drank the equivalent of how many bottles of whiskey per year?
What were some of the negative consequences of the increase in consumption of distilled spirits? List at least three.
Go to the Unintended consequences part of the page…
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequences/In a paragraph, discuss with some detail at least two of the unintended consequences of prohibition. Please do not directly quote or copy from the article, all your writing must be in your own words.
Explore one of the other parts of the webpage and summarize what you found there.
Page visited________________
Summary of what you read.
After exploring this website and the material from lecture, you have learned about some of the benefits along with negative consequences from prohibition. What are your overall thoughts on prohibition and do you think something like this should be tried again?