Posts Tagged ‘obese’
State Run Food Programs Don’t Allow Organic Products
Written By: Toril Fisher The State of Michigan along with many other states, does not allow WIC mothers to purchase any organic products. See WIC Card here. The Woman, Infant and Children Supplemental Food Program (WIC) is set up to help safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age five who are at nutritional risks by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating and referrals to healthcare. This is one of the most successful government feeding programs with many notable successes.
4 Ways To Avoid The “Holiday Weight Gain” Just In Time For Thanksgiving and Christmas
One of the toughest times of the year for those trying to lose weight is the holiday season. Most people will gain between 5 and 7 pounds from Thanksgiving to New Years. While the holidays are a time to rejoice, celebrate and share fond memories, it also a time for eating, eating and more eating. Wherever you go, whatever you do, food always seems to be the central focus. Cookies, chocolates, fruit cake, eggnog, holiday breads and a myriad of other ‘goodies’ can been seen in the kitchen, on the coffee table, at the office, grocery store, friend’s house… even your chiropractor’s office! How can you try to maintain your weight and heart-health during such a tempting time? I’ve come up with 4-steps to surviving the holiday hoop-la that is sure-fire success – this season and in the future ones to come.
The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating
At the supermarket: Look for birds labeled “free range.” Close quarters in the henhouse give bad bugs the chance to spread, as do high-volume processing operations. Free-range chickens, which are given more room to roost and are usually slaughtered in smaller numbers, present a potentially safer option. For example, Ranger chickens, a free-range brand sold in the Pacific Northwest, came up negative for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Consumers Union’s tests.
Americans Are Less Healthy Than They Were in 1988
Anyone who hasn’t heard the healthy lifestyle message has to be living under a rock. But whether it’s the vegetable-hating inner child or the primal urge to conserve physical energy asserting itself, millions of middle-age Americans are having none of it.
Cheat Sheet–12 Food Additives to Avoid
By Jean Weiss for MSN Health & Fitness Whoever coined the term food additives had it all wrong. Including something new in a food doesn’t always add up to more, at least when it comes to your health. Studies that test the safety of additives are based on animal trials. It is difficult to deduce whether the results of an animal study equate to human health, though many of these studies show that some additives could be cancer-causing.
300 Pound Psychologist or 300 Pound Comedian?
My weight loss story has a unique twist to it due to my career path. I am a psychologist, and theorist/writer; I co-authored SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIORS (Harper/Collins, 1991).
1 in 5 Preschoolers are Obese
CHICAGO – A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.
13 Foods to Avoid
As a doctor I have made it my mission to educate as many people about the philosophical pitfalls of believing “if it’s on the shelf, it must be safe”. In the US we suffer from something called the “shortest healthy lifespan”. That means we spend more years battling chronic disease than our peers from the 12 industrialized nations. There are many factors leading to this problem, but one of the obvious is how loaded our diets are with artificial chemicals.
Men Only: Strategies for Weight Loss
Men are better at saying “no”: An intriguing study that warrants further review is the one published a couple of months ago on temptation and how the sexes differ. It would appear that men have an easier time warding off temptation and aren’t as prone to emotional eating than women. I don’t know that I fully agree with this. From my own observation, I think this is true to an extent however I would say that perhaps men are tempted by different kinds of bad foods.
'Love handles' raise death risk
Carrying extra fat around your middle dramatically increases your risk of early death, even if your overall weight is normal, say researchers. A study of almost 360,000 people from nine European countries found waist size a “powerful indicator” of risk. Each extra 2ins (5cm) raised the chance of early death by between 13% and 17%. The New England Journal of Medicine study stressed GPs should regularly measure patients’ waists as a cheap and easy way to assess health.
10 Diseases Linked to Soda Pop
The number of Americans who consume products that contain sugar-free sweeteners grew from 70 million in 1987 to 160 million in 2000. At the same time, the incidence of obesity in the United States has doubled from 15 percent to 30 percent across all age groups, ethnic groups, and social strata. And the number of overweight Americans has increased from about 30 percent to over 65 percent of the population. And though soda is rather addictive treat and for many of us it would be hard to give up soda habit once and for all, at least we should try to place it to the category of things we enjoy on occasion. As for me, the following information will surely keep me away from opening another can.
