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tis, infertility and strokes. And all o f
this is preventable.
O ver the past generation M adi
son Avenue has found out that
children are very susceptible to
television advertising and fast food
com panies have targeted our chil
dren for special attention. This,
coupled with the num ber o f m oth
ers now in the job market, has meant
that more children are eating more
junk food more often, more junk
food and 25 percent few er veg
etables and fruit. In addition, more
children are drinking soft drinks
instead o f milk and some school
cafeterias have succum bed to pre
paring the high calorie, high fat, low
fiber foods that children crave.
At the sam e time, as children
watch more and more television,
they are less likely toexercise. Those
who sit at com puters also are not
moving. And many school districts,
facing financial difficulties, have
cqt back on physical education
classes.
All o f this means that our chil
dren, especially children o f color,
are in real danger.
etables, fruits and milk. Exercise
regularly with our children and
grandchildren (it w on’t hurt our
health either). Get our churches,
mosques and temples to start exer
cise programs for our youth. Limit
the am ount of television our chil
dren watch each week. Get our
schools to get rid o f soft drink ma
chines and get healthier foods in
school cafeterias and make sure
Stop feeding our children junk food,
high carbohydrate diets and soft
drinks and instead feed
feed thei
them more
vegetables, fruits and milk.
According to the American Dia that recess and physical education
betes A sso ciatio n , ch ild ren as is back in the school day.
young as four are now being diag
Type II diabetes could become
nosed with diabetes and the dis the most dangerous disease to at
ease is approaching epidem ic pro tack ourchi Idren since polio. There’s
portions in our teens. Many o f the not a vaccine that can prevent this
teens that now have diabetes have disease, but there are lifestyle
diseases once reserved for older changes that can. It’s up to us. For
Americans such as high blood pres the sake o f our children and our
sure and high cholesterol.
children’s children. Let’s get busy.
This can all be prevented. Stop
Bernice Powell Jackson is the
feedingourchildrenjunk food, high executive minister for justice and
carbohydrate diets and soft drinks witness ministries for the United
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I' m talking about obesity— the fact
that our children, especially chil
dren o f color, are too fat and are
therefore reporting alarmingly high
rates o f the type o f diabetes (Type
II) normally found in adults.
This will mean that our children
and grandchildren will face more
com plications from diabetes, in
cluding hypertension, blindness,
kidney disease and earlier death. It
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Congress treats
majority black
city unfairly
by U.S.
R ep . E i . eanor
H olmes N orton
done unequal treatm ent for any
A m ericans, especially Americans
who fight our wars and pay their
taxes.
To inform the country of their
undemocratic predicament, the Dis
trict will hold its own first-in-the-
nation primary on Jan. 13. The vote
will dem onstrate to the world the
untold story that stains our dem oc
racy— that residents o f the nation’s
capital are A m erica’s last second-
class citizens and to ask for the help
they need.
D.C. is a majority black city, but
all w ho live there are equally un
equal. The Congressional Black
Caucus and our congressional al
lies have endorsed the No Taxation
W ithout R epresentation Act to
give D.C. residents equal represen
tation in Congress.
E-mail or phone your Senators
and Representatives. Tell them you
will be watching to see if they sign
on to cosponsor the bill to assure
dem ocracy at home first.
A fter4()yearsofcivil rights laws,
are A m ericans throughout our
country equal? The answer m ay
surprise you.
Some Americans stand out as far
less equal than others. Surprisingly,
these Americans live closest to the
seat o f American democracy. They
are the citizens o f the D istrict o f
Colum bia, our nation’s capital.
Polls show that m ost A m eri
cans think D.C. residents have are fighting and dying in the w ars
the sam e rights as o th er A m eri in Iraq and A fghanistan as they
cans. H ow ever, the citizens w ho have in every w ar our nation has
live in the n a tio n 's capital have fought, beginning with the R evo
no senators and th eir house rep lutionary W ar — the one fought
resen tativ e cannot cast a vote for to elim in ate taxation w ithout rep
them on the floor o f C ongress. re sen tatio n .
Y et, D.C. residents pay m ore than
The frustration o f living with
any state except C onnecticut in unequal rights is especially cruel
U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes
the taxes they pay to support our when few Americans even know Norton is from Washington, D.C.
governm ent.
about it. D.C. residents are certain and is a member o f the Congres
At this mom ent, D.C. residents that Americans would never con sional Black Caucus.