1 - People adopt health-related behaviors in order to stay healthy and to combat disease.

2 - This description bears a marked similarity to those offered by a number of eminent sociologists who adopt the trait approach.

3 - Because the majority of young people aged 5-17 years are enrolled in schools and because of the amount of time that children spend at school each day, schools provide an ideal setting for teaching children and teens to adopt healthy eating and physical activity behaviors.

4 - Alternative fuels must be cost competitive with traditional fuels in order to ensure widespread adoption, which is necessary for their benefits to be realized.

5 - The children and grandchildren of those who stayed have become increasingly assimilated, marrying Indians without European ancestors and adopting local languages.