| Poll: Stress divides youth along gender lines
NEW YORK -- Stressed out by your high-pressured job? Don't assume your kid is any less stressed out by school. Especially if she's a she. Young people experience stress at a high rate, and females more than males, an extensive Associated Press /MTV survey shows. A similar divide exists in terms of fears and safety: Girls and young women are less likely to feel safe in their neighborhoods, in schools, or from terror attacks. The source of stress changes as we get older, the survey shows. Among 13-17 year olds, school is by far the most commonly mentioned source. Among 18-24 year olds, it's jobs and financial matters. In all, fully 85 percent of young people said they felt stress at least sometimes. "I'm a pretty high-stressed person," says Katie Duda, 21, who's finishing up a degree in culinary arts and awaiting the birth of her first child in a few weeks.
Child commission wants junk food ban in its new guidelines on food in schools
For healthy children, stop sale of junk food, encourage students to take nutritious diet and promote physical activity. This is what precisely the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked all state governments to tell the schools. On eve of India's 60th Independence Day, the commission has issued guidelines on food and nutrition in schools considering rising children obesity figures, mainly in urban India. Commission says a quarter of children are eight overweight or obese. In Delhi, 24.2 per cent of school children were found obese in a survey conducted by Diabetes Foundation of India. A National Sample Survey Organisation survey released in May 2007 had pointed at huge increase in intake of fat food products among urban Indians, including school children.
Tips on how to get the lead out
Even before Mattel recalled more than 19 million Chinese-made toys, I wasn't sure what was safe for my little teether's mouth. Plastic was out, because until we know more about the effects of their chemicals, I didn't want him gnawing on softened products that contain phthalates. And last week, a federal panel ruled the compound used to make hard polycarbonate plastic -- bisphenol-A -- could pose a risk to the brain development of fetuses, infants, babies and older children. .
Local business people
FOOD SERVICE Lisa DiMartino has rejoined Harrison's Wine Grill & Catering as the catering sales manager. DiMartino has a degree from Johnson and Wales Culinary School and one from Penn State's Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management School. She has been in restaurant management previously at Maggiano's Little Italy in King of Prussia and Cleveland and Starbucks in Seattle. BANKING Donita Koval, president and CEO of Omega Bank, was recently named one of the top 100 people for 2006 by Pennsylvania Business Central, a business newspaper covering central and western Pennsylvania. Koval, who took over as CEO of Omega Financial Corp. last year, started at Omega Bank in 1987 as a credit analyst. U.S. Banker, a financial industry publication, named the Centre County resident to its 25 Women to Watch list, a national ranking, and she was one of eight female CEOs featured in the March 2007 issue of Community Banker magazine.
Parents complain on CBS kid's reality series
A CBS reality series in which youngsters run their own town evoked complaints from one of the children's parents. "Kid Nation", slated to premiere Sept. 19, was filmed over 40 days during April and May in a movie-set town in the high desert just south of Santa Fe. .
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