Obesity Rates Continue To Rise
Obesity rates continue to rise in the US in spite of reduction in consumption of sugar, increase in fiber. This affects minority more. The answer may be found from the interventions we do with children.
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Timing of Meals: Cure for Obesity?
Does when you eat affect your weight gain? It does in mice- apparently if mice are restricted to eating over 12 hours they don’t gain the weight of mice that eat the same amount over a longer period of time. How can this help you? Well, if you are a mouse….
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Childhood Obesity, Food Insecurity, and Cooking
Food insecurity breeds obesity by allowing the view that having some extra weight is healthy. The most basic of all insecurities is overcome with obesity. Leading to an endless cycle of obesity this can be combated not by surgery, but by availability of fresh foods, and teaching people how to cook.
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Bacteria and Obesity
Is the rise of obesity correlated with the rise in antibiotics? Yes. But while bacteria may be involved in our digestion, there are other factors that are more commonly associated with the rise of obesity.
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Outrages of the Week in Food and Medicine
I like healthy food- and nutrition. So when I see people peddling “cage free eggs,” and saying that one artificial sweetener is “natural” and that these fries are “less fat” and especially doing weight loss surgery on a two year old- I am outraged.
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Parents Wildly Underestimate Children’s Calorie Intake
At the Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, researchers shared that parents underestimate the calories in their children’s fast food meals. The study involved 330 children. Kids consume approximately 7 trillion calories per year on sugary beverages.
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BPA and Obesity
A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA
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Childhood Obesity: Legislating Healthy Food
Schools that limit access to junk foods have fewer children that are overweight or obese. Perhaps it is time to make this a policy for all schools – we do have an epidemic of obesity among our children, and the schools are the surrogate parents for the children.
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