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So women accept unhealthy jobs, long hours, or work-shifts that are hard to adjust to family needs, along with new forms of exploitation and sexual harassment Even when these and other practices are illegal, women do not protest, fearing for their jobs.
The main risk factors for developing these conditions – smoking tobacco, excessive alcohol consumption, being overweight, and insufficient physical exercise – reflect deeply ingrained unhealthy behaviors.
The codependency construct is rooted in the psychopathology of human relationships whereby two partners, whether out of need or convenience, draw unhealthy support from each other.
One of the most lamentable developments of our time is that so many are now prepared to try unhealthy palliatives and short cuts.
This approach is both unhealthy and immature, yet not necessarily very damaging.
President-elect Bush’s pronouncements display an unhealthy bias towards short-run macroeconomic meddling, rather than sound emphasis on the long term.
The Russian bailout, whether ultimately justified or not, exemplified a very unhealthy situation in the world economy.
While there may be a biological component to men’s propensity for risk taking (especially among young men), gender norms reinforce risky or unhealthy behaviors by associating them with masculinity.
The issue is less whether any such diet works in general (though some of them are actually unhealthy) than whether more than a few individuals can follow such a regimen over the long term.
But every day that Gazans are left to stew in an unhealthy mix of siege, poverty, and unemployment is a day that strengthens the Hamas hardliners.
But a good society is one in which you do not have to get lucky to avoid a life of poor education, unhealthy food, and dead-end jobs.
Many countries have introduced, or are considering, taxes on unhealthy foods and drinks – in particular, those to which sugar has been added.
The US also suffers from an epidemic of malnutrition at the hands of the powerful US fast-food industry, which has essentially poisoned the public with diets loaded with saturated fats, sugar, and unhealthy processing and chemical additives.
We should take this as an opportunity to redouble our efforts to end this deeply unhealthy practice – and save elite sports.
Waistlines expanded as previously salubrious diets, needed to fuel massive physical exertion, became increasingly unhealthy.
Among other things, such surveys should aim to create a clear picture of adolescents’ exposure to avoidable risk factors, such as alcohol and illicit drug use, unsafe sexual behaviors, violence, obesity, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet.
The automobile has greatly advanced mobility, but at the cost of unhealthy air pollution.
It is important to remember that statistics is about generalities: For every 100 people who are 90% likely to be healthy, 10% will be unhealthy – and it may or may not be their “fault.”
It is perhaps true that unhealthy habits are more concentrated among poor Americans, a disproportionate number of whom are black.
This would be unhealthy and make the transatlantic compound unsustainable.
Healthy populations are better able to produce, trade, and innovate, while unhealthy populations strain public budgets and create risks that discourage economic exchange.
Yes, much has been said about the unhealthy political-regulatory-financial dynamic that led to the global economy’s heart attack in 2008 (initiating what Carmen Reinhart and I call “The Second Great Contraction”).
Finance ministers could tax unhealthy food and subsidize healthy food.
Each age, culture, and tradition defines what is an unacceptable body weight – unhealthy, ugly, or corrupt.
Over time, this marriage of convenience morphed into a full-blown and inherently unhealthy codependency.
Now, new legislation mandates better nutrition, bans sugary drinks and sweets, and forbids the parallel sale of unhealthy alternatives to the main menu (which had been a major source of funding for subsidized lunches).
First, it is becoming apparent that many health problems are self-induced: too much unhealthy food and drink, too much smoking, too little sleep or exercise.
To assert one policy and practice another is unhealthy for democracy, as well as being economically inefficient.
Such interventions support unhealthy, distorted, and destabilizing growth, causing the debt burden to grow and, eventually, triggering systemic collapse.
While NATO and the EU have improved their working relations, more steps need to be taken to eliminate mistrust, unhealthy competition, and information-sharing blockages.
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