Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even Sunday's storm clouds and steady rain dampened spirits at the University-Lutheran (Uni-Lu) Homeless Shelter Walkathon...
Over 50 people made the four-mile trek on either Harvard's outdoor and indoor tracks to raise money for the homeless shelter's renovations. The walkathon raised more than $2,000, surpassing coordinators' expectations...
However, further smaller-scale studies--published in journals such as Pediatrics and Public Health--have documented a relationship between obesity and poverty among specific and varied segments of the homeless population. These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
...Where do homeless people eat? Although the foods at municipal and charity-run shelters may be of decent quality, foods obtained from fast-food restaurants, delicatessens and garbage bins are not as healthy. What sorts of lives do homeless people live? Wealth and stability--which the homeless lack--invite knowledge of and time for pursuing a healthier lifestyle. This means access to healthy food, appropriate health care and safe locations to exercise or relax. Hicks focuses his dull and uninformed contempt on a woman who can be assumed to lack these resources...
Last week the plates made it impossible to forget. At 1:47 on Tuesday morning, Taiwan was slammed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. Centered near Puli, the quake left nearly 2,000 dead and at least 100,000 homeless and toppled some 6,000 buildings. Relief agencies from around the world, including the U.S., Turkey and Russia, mobilized to help. In financial centers, stocks took a pounding of their own as investors fretted about what the shutdown of Taiwan's microchip industry would mean to the always jumpy electronics sector...