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  found link!

  Here's the link http://webpub.allegheny.edu/dept/envisci/ESInfo/ES110sp20 ...On My year of teaching environmental science without a textbook posted 1 year, 3 months ago 11 Responses

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  these are not the only factors

  I lived and taught in the S. Bronx for three years.  There, like many places, there is both a high level of poverty and a high level of obesity.  Quality food WAS difficult to obtain; the produce aisles of the local Pathmark contained nothing I wanted to eat - spotty veggies, withered carrots, white tomatoes. But I think it's more than that.  But,like someone before me pointed out, if you care and take the time, you can eat right.  However, poor people spend a HUGE amount of time working (often two jobs) and they are under tremendous stress from many things: financials, child-rearing, violence, etc.  Sometimes an exhausted person turns to comfort foods too frequently.  I know I gained 25 pounds when I lived there, anyway.  I left for my health.  What if I didn't feel that I had the option/resources to leave?  

  "Those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin

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  link to online syllabus

  Very interesting article.  You've done what I'm considering doing this year during my first high school environmental science course.  Unfortunately the link to your online syllabus doesn't work - at least for me.  I'd love to get a peek at it.  On My year of teaching environmental science without a textbook posted 1 year, 3 months ago 11 Responses