WFB:
Researchers aimed to link air pollution exposure to childhood obesity, failed
Researchers were awarded more than $4 million by the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to study whether exposure to air pollution led children to eat more fast food.
The $4,146,875 grant was awarded in 2013 to fund a five-year study at the University of Southern California into whether proximity to “near-roadway air pollution” was a contributing factor in childhood obesity.
In their published study, released this year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the researchers say they were unable to prove any association between pollutant exposure and obesity in children, but were able to find a correlation between pollutant exposure and changes in fast-food consumption patterns.
The study was based on interviews conducted with school-age children in twelve southern California communities in the 1990s. Diet information was based on self-reported information from the students, who were given a “food frequency questionnaire” annually until they graduated high school. Pollution levels were estimated for each student’s residential address.
The recorded information was inadequate for answering the question it was paid to answer on childhood obesity, the study explains. read more
They weren’t trying hard enough.
Send ME the money!
I’ll show a 1:1 correspondence between whatever they want!
The $4,146,875 grant was awarded in 2013 to fund a five-year study into whether proximity to the University of Southern California was a contributing factor in obtaining the $4,146,875 grant.
FIFY
That reminds me… I think I’ll go fire up the globe and cook me some burgers!
The kids didn’t get fat, but the researchers sure did!
The democrats in government all view spending as stimulating the economy and no regime squandered tax money quite as vigorously as Obama’s. The idea of directing funds to where it would improve the lives of citizens never entered their thinking. If any money found it’s way to something that did some good it was purely coincidental.
He wasn’t only a loathsome asshole he was a stupid loathsome asshole.
And Chicken Little once again uttered those immortal words, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling.” If pollution doesn’t kill us all it will be globull warming or eating too much fast food or socialism if these cowards and chickenshits and their brain dead followers ever get their way to implement full blown socialism. Gimme a friggin break I’ve had enough of your crying wolf and trying to persuade us that you know what’s best for us.
The study was based on interviews conducted with school-age children in twelve southern California communities in the 1990s.
So you’re telling us a diet of refried beans, burritos and nachos is fattening. Ok.
geoff – Oh yeah? Well tell that to all the rafters in New York City!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/06/12/flashback-abcs-08-prediction-nyc-under-water-climate-change-june
Oh wait-a-hold-it…
Being a prisoner in the country during the occupation of a democrat in control of government is like being strapped into the seat of a speeding car with a drunk at the wheel.
You have to helplessly watch and await the horrible accident you know is coming.
As well as contributing indirectly to globull warming by all those kids farting.
I’ll bet these researchers all physically resemble the unibrowed Nellie Ohr.
*cough* Hey, I ain’t complaining, except I hate the freeway noise.
There is no end to the foolish and wasteful ways that government so freely spends other people’s money
As the great Euell Gibbons said :
Eatin’ pussy reminds me of wild hickory nuts.
Even Barky loved his cheeseburgers but he had to hide them from his husband, Mike.
The real deal was so a good slice ended up back in their foundations and the DNC. Yeah I know it was for children.
Awww maaaan. I tried eating fast food as fast and as much as I could. Oh well.