Sponsored by TV-Free America. A guide for health promotion practice. K. Glanz and BK Rimer, 1995. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This may displace other more active and meaningful pursuits such as reading, exercising, or playing with friends.
Schools support lots of drug and alcohol education but do little about dieting.
Dieting can spread in schools rapidly as a common theme and bond among girls as they deny themselves food. Healthy Weight Journal describes programs that groups are designing in schools and communities to prevent the problem. Nutritional rickets due to a vitamin D deficiency is being reported in North Carolina in African-American infants. The children have been breastfed about a year without vitamin D supplementation and little exposure to sunlight. The abnormal craving for and ingestion of nonfood substances such as clay, starch, or chalk.