Math Blog: Child Soldiers

Over the past decade, a number of two million children have died because they were involved in the armed forces. I truly found this astounding and very suprising. If the rate keeps going up, the world might end up loosing up to five million children per decade. All this is because children are being used as soldiers. The use of child soldiers should be stopped immediatly in order for the number of deaths to go down. This connects to math because it has to do with the NUMBER of children dieing. If the number goes down, then more children will grow and the population will keep increasing. Finally, I would like to say that the two million children were innocent and thats why they were used for that purpose.

Couch Potatoes May Have Shorter Lives

On January 11, 2010, researchers concluded that people that sit and watch tv for 4 hours and more may have shorter lives. If one tends to sit all day and not exercise, then they will have a shorter time on Earth due to the fact that they are not burning calories and losing body fats. If people took less time watching tv and a bit more time jogging or at the gym, then death rates due to laziness may go much lower. This increase in deaths does not just come from watching tv. This includes sittting in front of the computer as well. Therefore, people and kids should be careful now a days. The time spent on the computer and watching tv should be limited if we want to avoid dieing early. I myself will get off the computer once I finish this blog! We should all take action starting today because we don't know what can happen if we watch 5 more hours of television. It is said that we should only watch tv and sit on the computer for 2 hours at most. Starting now...we should follow that rule in order to prepare the way for healthier life styles!

http://www.livescience.com/health/couch-potatoes-TV-watching-shorter-lives.html