"Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us " by Michael Moss

       
   
      From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.
 
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Being modest obese might not present wellness risk

A research discovered that individuals who are considerably overweight are at greater chance of early loss of life, but not those who are merely overweight.It's a common medical avoid that carrying excess weight increases the chance of concerns such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes and therefore the chance of a early loss of life.

This research covering people in the United States, North America, European countries, Australia, Chinese suppliers, Taiwan, Japan, South America, Indian and South America.They discovered that increased chance of early loss of life apply across the board to those who are merely obese and overweight.

A total of 270,000 individuals passed away of any cause during the research. When the researchers done crunches the figures, they discovered, as expected, that individuals who were considerably overweight  with a BMI, or BMI, of 35 or more had shorter life covers on regular than those who were of regular body weight, defined as having a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9.

But the researchers also discovered that individuals classified as overweight, with a BMI of 25 to 29.9, passed away at a little bit lower rates not greater than those of so-called regular body weight. And they discovered that those who were a little bit overweight, with a BMI of 30 to 34.9, passed away in no greater figures than did their regular body weight colleagues.

The success sides revealed in the research were not large. Those who were overweight loss weight were on regular 6% less likely to die during the research than those whose BMI obtained in the regular range.

Those with light being overweight  also known as grade 1 being overweight  were at no increased chance of loss of life compared with individuals with a regular BMI.

But those who were heavier than that with a BMI of 35 or above had a 29% greater chance of loss of life during the research.

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Ban Fast-food Advertising in Public Places

The health officials in auckland are worried about an obesity epidemic want fast-food advertising dropped from public property, including bus shelters, and are questioning fast-food and soft-drinks sponsorship of public events,and also they have raised concerns over the lack of political power to stop fast-food restaurants being built near schools and in poor areas.

For the health issues concern, ban was among the last moves of the outgoing Labour Government in 2008. It lasted eight months, then was overturned by the National Government.Obesity in Auckland poses a challenge for health workers. 35% per cent of Year 9 students in the Auckland District Health Board area are classified overweight and another 35% are sticking with obese.

Following the controversy about the health conditions in teens the regional health service is seeking support from the Auckland and Waitemata district health boards. It needs a healthy food environment Policy to focus on the benefits of better nutrition instead of negative effects of obesity.

The term Obesity is a genetically, biologic-ally based state. If it inherit genes that make you a food seeker, and you put that person in an environment where food is being promoted and it's 24/7 and it's cheap and palatable, that person will respond to that stimulus.

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"Beverages are not a Major cause for Obesity"

Children's and youth who consume juice and sweetened beverages, such as fruit punch and lemonade, are not at any higher risk for than their ,who drink healthy beverages, a new study has claimed .

 

 It says the relationship between beverage intake patterns of Canadian children and their risk for obesity and found sweetened beverage intake to be a risk factor only in boys aged upto 6 and 11,no consistent association between beverage intake patterns overweight and obesity." said lead author Susan J. Whiting.

He stated that,food and beverage habits are formed early in life and are often carried over into adulthood, over intake of sweetened beverages may put some children at increased risk for overweight and obesity. Boys aged 6-11 years who consumed mostly soft drinks were shown to be at increased risk for overweight and obesity as compared with those who drank a more moderate beverage.

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Dr. Mike Evans gets our attention with a video in which he explains in a simple and interactive way how important preventive health is for us and how we can start being healthier right now .


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Documentary : "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by Dr. Lustig

 Robert H. Lustig, MD  - Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF

Dr. Robert Lustig lectures on the perils of sugar, Fructose in particular.He talks about how obesity has risen at the same time as fat consumption has decreased, how soft drinks and the invention of High-Fructose Corn Syrop are two of the larger culprits and the biochemistry of Fructose.


Cliffnotes:
* We are eating more calories than before. This wouldn’t happen if the brain were suppressing your appetite properly. The suppressor is being circumvented.
* Coca Cola uses sugar to hide how much salt it contains. The salt is there to make you thirsty again.
* All countries that have adopted the US diet are having the same problems with obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
* Up to 30% of Fructose is metabolized into fat. A low-fat high-Fructose diet isn’t really low-fat.
* Fat consumption has reduced by 25% in the last three decades. At the same time obesity has increased.

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Best Weight-Loss Advice in 2011

Studies show a direct link between vitamin D deficiency and obesity. Although it is not fully known why, people with a deficiency in this vitamin tend to have much more body fat than those who are not deficient.
Due to digestion difficulties, many people are unable to absorb vitamin D. This deficiency is causing increased risk of death from heart disease, loss of memory in older people, severe asthma in children and cancer. It is possible that vitamin D can help prevent or treat types 1 and 2 diabetes, glucose intolerance and multiple sclerosis.

After eating a meal, drinking four to six ounces of dark wine - a blackberry Merlot is excellent - helps the body digest the meal, break down the foods so the body can absorb the nutrients and helps speed the waste on its way out of the body. Wine cuts the risk of heart attack, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes,slows the decline of cognitive function and colon cancer by 45 percent.

Pair the vitamin D3 supplement - have a blood test done to determine how many units your body will need - with the wine. It is possible to lose five pounds a week until ultimate body weight is achieved.

Adding a fresh apple to the diet could add another pound or two of weight lost when eaten daily.

Bottom line: Get tested for vitamin D deficiency. Take a supplement of 2,00 to 8,000 units daily. Drink four to six ounces of Wine after lunch  (where permitted ) and after dinner. Make an Apple part of the daily lunch or afternoon snack.

via @examiner.com

LINKS:

Obesity Linked to Lower Vitamin D Levels http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/news/20101217/obesity-linked-lower-vitamin-d-levels

Clear association between obesity and vitamin D deficiency  http://www.physorg.com/news195411310.html

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In U.S., Obesity Afflicts Even Some of the Tiniest Tots

American kids are becoming obese, or nearly so, at an increasingly young age, with about one-third of them falling into that category by the time they're 9 months old, researchers have found. There are some caveats about the research, however. The infants were not studied recently: They were born about a decade ago. And it's not clear how excess weight in babies may affect their health later in their lives. The study found no guarantee that a baby who's overweight at 9 months will stay flabby when his or her second birthday rolls around.

Still, the study in the January-February 2011 issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion does present a picture of babies and infants who are carrying around a lot of extra weight. The findings also suggest that small changes in an infant's diet can make a big difference, said Dr. Wendy Slusser, medical director of a children's weight program at Mattel Children's Hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles. For example, she said, "if you don't give your kid juice and have them eat the fruit instead, suddenly there's 150 calories less a day that can make a big difference in weight gain over a long term."

The researchers examined federal data about 16,400 children in the United States who were born in 2001. After adjusting the statistics so they wouldn't be thrown off by such factors as high numbers of certain kinds of kids, the study authors found that 17 percent of 9-month-olds were obese and 15 percent were at risk for obesity, for a total of 32 percent. At two years, 21 percent were obese and 14 percent were at risk of becoming obese, the investigators found.

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