Health Department tickets vendors for leaving carts overnight | New York Post
Risky health behavior including binge-drinking, unsafe sex, and use of hard drugs was less common among disadvantaged students at good schools than among peers at mostly worse schools. The teens were otherwise similar, all applicants from low-income Los Angeles neighborhoods to top public charter schools that admit students by lottery. The researchers compared behavior in almost 1,000 such pupils in 10th through 12th grade. Overall, 36 percent at the high-level schools engaged in at least one of 11 risky behaviors, compared with 42 percent of teens at the poorer-performing schools. The study doesn’t prove the schools made the difference, and it has limitations that weaken the results, including a large number of students who refused to participate. Still, lead author Michael Wong, a UCLA internist, said the results echoed findings in less rigorously designed research and fit with the assumption that “better education will lead to better health.” – AP
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Photo: Seth Gottfried MORE ON: NY Health Department to unveil first ‘Youth Sexual Health Plan’ City health inspectors went on a ticketing blitz early Friday morning, issuing violations and stripping permits from eight food vendors outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art for abandoning their carts overnight. The vendors, all disabled veterans with licenses to sell hot dogs, sodas, knishes and kebabs on Fifth Avenue, claimed at least 10 inspectors swooped in around 4:30 a.m. and closed down the food hub without ever giving a reason. The city Health Department said it doled out violations after receiving complaints that the carts were left unattended for several hours in violation of food safety regulations, which allow a cart to be left https://myspace.com/alex-simring alone for up to half an hour. Vendor Barbara Morris said she complained to the department after worrying others were selling day-old food because they didnt replace their carts at night. But vendor Dan Rossi griped, With two carts we make about $1,200 a day. Now its going to be zero. Permits were reinstated later.
Health Department tickets vendors for leaving carts overnight | New York Post
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