[LM_NET] Share: Dental Health and National Defense

[Ed Nizalowski <ed.nizalowski@GMAIL.COM>]

I’ve been catching numerous references to the importance of dental
health to our overall health.  Yahoo had a great summary of these
things one of which specifically mentioned school:

“Kids with dental problems often struggle with school.  They’re
distracted and easily agitated.  Teachers will say they have behavior
problems, but they really have toothaches.”  [Winifred J Booker, DDS]

Here is the URL:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/50-secrets-from-real-dentists-1281272?pg=1

        In another story our military has finally woken up to the threat that
school lunches pose to our national defense.  No, this is not another
“News of the Weird” story.  Unhealthy people make for unhealthy
soldiers.  This is a no brainer.  I certainly hate the notion that we
need better nutrition so that we can have a better military, but maybe
with better nutrition we will have better thinking capacities and
realize that the military solution is a last resort and is usually the
least effective option.
Here is the URL for this story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36659202/ns/politics/

        This is just another illustration of how our society spends billions
of dollars and billions of hours in time dealing with the effects of
our problems rather than the real cause of our problems.

Ed Nizalowski
Newark Valley High School
Newark Valley, NY
ed.nizalowski@gmail.com

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