Youth Insight

In fact, a recently released survey supports the need for quality after-school programs that offer students homework assistance and academic goal-setting to help deter kids from crime and substance abuse.

Television is the No. 1 homework distraction, according to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America/JCPenney Afterschool Fund Survey, which questioned students about homework and on graduating from high school. Sixty-seven percent of students said teachers should assign homework, but 54 percent claim there is too much of it.

» Read more: Research Shows Need Exists for After-school Program

There is an easy way to evaluate the state of our health and our own health risks. It is your waist circumference which is a good indicator of the amount of abdominal fat you have. Women should measure less than 35 inches and men less than 40 inches.

Although you likely have fat stored in places all over your body it is relatively harmless. But abdominal fat is not so harmless and can threaten your health. This fat is stored beneath the muscles and inside the abdominal cavity wrapping itself around major organs hindering their functioning.

» Read more: Self Evaluate Your Health With A Waist Measurement