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According to the Acting Attorney General of New Jersey Mr. John Hoffman, on 16th October 2015, and a Toms River used car dealer was given three years prison sentence for sales tax fraud. This process happened after he failed to file over $156,000 in sales tax to New Jersey State. The man pleaded guilty to the second-degree failure to file tax to on July 2014. The man got indicted in 2013 after an investigation done by both Criminal Justice Division and Division of Taxation Investigations. This inquiry came after routine canvas in which the investigators were searching for dealerships without valid licenses (Joseph, 2015). In the canvas, they realized that the sentenced man’s used car dealership had not remitted sales tax to New Jersey State from the start in 2007. When the Division of Taxation demanded payment, the man filed his sales tax returns. He attempted hiding the total number of vehicles he sold and remitted only $48,593 in the audit. After reviewing the registrations of vehicles, the state discovered that the man should owe $205,157 sales tax he collected. Di Cecilia, who is 58, owns Automation LLC located on Route 9 in the Toms River. He pleaded guilty before the Superior Court Judge Lydon in Trenton to count of failure to turn over the collected sales tax. He deliberately took the step to defraud from his filed returns. On top of the prison sentence, he man was ordered to restitute $220,797 (Karen Wall, 2015).

This matter is a criminal offense and more specifically a white collar crime. Evading to pay tax means one makes the profit while burdening the responsibility to others. The victims of this offense are both the state as well as the ordinary complying taxpayers who get pressed to cater for the evaded tax. The man was directly stealing from the state. The state needs the taxes to improve service to the population. I strongly agree with the intervention put by the law enforcement to handle this problem. Continues perpetration of such practices denies the state its rights. Sentencing as well as forcing him to restitute the whole process can serve as deterrence to potential defrauders in the state. This situation can send a message to those evading tax to foster compliance so that the state cannot get exploited by a few greedy individuals. The state will end up lacking resources to help its population. This crime has very adverse effect on the society in that the state may decide to raise taxes to cater for the evaded taxes. This process can make living expensive for innocent people.

From my personal perspective, this crime is a far-reaching white collar crime. Such crimes usually get committed by individuals who, always under occupations, they exploit social, economic as well as technological abilities for personal as well as corporate gains. People do these crimes are business and money oriented. This crime involves falsifying of reports, deceit, as well as concealment instead of applying violence for an illegitimate gain of money.defendants convicted of such crimes, usually makes false statements to obtain what he wants. Therefore from these white collar crime characteristics this crime suits the group. The man is so smart in that he can sell cars to people and evade taxes. In the investigation, he goes ahead hiding some returns from the scrutiny. Such type of smartness makes similar crimes go unnoticed and end up making business unfair.

Introduction
Childhood obesity has rapidly increased in America over a short period. Currently, nearly one in three children is obese. This number is even higher among African American as well as Hispanic societies where 40 percent of the children are overweight (Blackwell, 2012). If the country does not put measures to solve this issue, a third of the children born in the 2000’s or later will end to suffer from diabetes at some point in lives. Most of the children will face chronic obesity health problems such as cardiovascular risk factors (high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, heart disease, cancer, obstructive sleep apnoea and asthma. Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that should get addressed through prevention interventions and government policies so as to avoid future health complications.

In the recent past, many people led lives that kept them at a healthy weight. Children walked to school and from every day. They used to run around in recess, participated in gymnastics class as well as playing for long hours after school and before supper. Dishes got cooked at home with healthy portions of natural ingredients. Vegetables that are an excellent source of dietary fiber that helps reduce the risk of chronic diseases were part of the meal on a daily basis (Nkrumah-Elie, et al., 2012). Chemically raised food was rare while snacking between meals was scarce. These practices assisted in reducing the risk of childhood obesity; however the present day situation has allowed the population to become crippled by child obesity. Currently, kids have very opposite lifestyle. They now go to school by car or bus rides. Gym classes, as well as after-school games, got extinct. Evenings get spent on TV, video games as well as the internet. Families take less home-cooked food as required. Snacks are now the tradition in many households (Willhite, et al., 2014).

Obesity is the major challenge that faces children in the United States. In my opinion, many problematic illnesses that affect many children today are as a result of fast foods. It gets attributed to the fact that the children fall a victim to the fast foods advertisements that encourage their addiction to fast foods. My view, therefore, is that there should be stringent measures imposed on fast food industry especially in the method of advertisement, in which the key advertising practices target children (Blackwell, 2012). Many lifestyle diseases including cancer and other obese illness related problem gets attributed to the fast food snack that the children eat each and every day. The fast food industry consistently advertises their products in all the mass media that is greatly accessible to children. Some of the mass media in which children have access and where they get the information are the Internet, radio, and television (Wurtzel, 2015. Before the introduction of fast foods, children lived a normal healthy life and consumed health food; however the introduction of fast foods into the market led to a change in eating lifestyle. The eating habits of the children entail more of snacks in between meals than fruits or any other food. Home cooked food does no longer get preferred in households. It, therefore, calls for the need to regulate the fast food advertisement, as it has impacted heavily on the children eating habits on foods that are less healthy.

Fast foods get widely supported due to their high convenience regarding costs and time saving, as well as taste and flavor (Anderson, et al., 2014). Consuming fast foods is the fastest way of satisfying one’s hunger compared to preparing a meal at home that entails visiting the grocery store, cooking and later washing utensils. It is also more economical compared to preparing a meal at home where there are expenses from cooking ingredients and resources such as gas. However, these factors should not get considered for the loss of an individual’s health that may result in adverse effects.