Posts Tagged: childhood obesity

Massachusetts Fat Letters – BMI Report Cards

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The timeless practice of “looking busy” has reached new heights, and I suspect this is just a small sample of what’s in store for the world in dealing with the “childhood obesity crisis.”  Massachusetts has taken upon itself to issue “fat letters” to parents when a child reaches a body mass index that is significantly above normal.  Yes, this is really happening.  Accompanying this letter are some recommendations on how to take action against rising body weight.  Pretty scary when the recommendations they are advising are most likely to be conscious calorie reduction and increased physical activity – both of which are well-known and thoroughly proven to increase body fat percentage over time – not to mention increase the risk of many adulthood diseases like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer.  Of… Read more »

The Biggest Dietary Change Ever Made

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Over roughly the last 100 years, the United States, and the rest of the world, has undergone a dramatic dietary change.  We eat less at home and more at restaurants.  We eat fewer foods made from scratch and more that are processed and packaged at a factory far, far away.  There are of course many other changes (frequent dieting being equally if not more significant).  But the biggest change of all is a change that you’ve probably never heard of, or were aware of in the slightest.  The biggest change seems to have been our collective increased consumption of two fatty acids in particular – linoleic acid (LA) and Arachidonic acid (AA). The primary sources of LA are vegetable oils (corn, soy, canola, sunflower, cottonseed, etc.) and peanut butter, and… Read more »

How to Get Better Sleep

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By Rob Archangel, 180DegreeHealth.com staff writer Recently, Matt’s been riffing on the topic of childhood obesity and possible causes of it.  One of the factors is getting enough sleep. According to this article, both obese kids and lean kids tend to get insufficient sleep during the week (around eight versus nine or ten hours per night), but lean kids sleep in and make up some of their sleep debt on the weekends, whereas obese kids don’t. The researchers in the mentioned study say that just about all kids would be better off with more and more regular sleep. I’d say that goes for adults too. So what to do about it, for both kids and grownups? I want to offer a few strategies and outlooks that have been helpful to… Read more »

Childhood Obesity

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Recently I had an interview tentatively set up on the topic of childhood obesity.  As soon as I knew about the interview I started thinking about what I wanted to say and got really excited.  Then the interview got canceled.  Well, I had too much that I wanted to say floating around in my head to just let it die.  Below is a faux interview on the topic.  For those that don’t have the time to listen, some of the main points covered are…. Most factors that control a person’s susceptibility to store excess fat when entering into the modern environment is set in motion during the first few years of life and BEFORE life.  Most think purely in terms of genetics, but I’ve always thought of genetics as a misleading term, because there is a great deal that we inherit that… Read more »

Early Age of First Menstruation

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I used to be pretty far out, man.  At least, I went through a phase of several years in which I was pretty far out.  I wore wooden jewelry and really tried to believe in dumb things with no real proof, evidence, or logic, like fairies or Astral travel.  I noticed during that time, the people I encountered, and the ideologies I came across – there wasn’t a large requirement for much proof, evidence, or logical thought.  It’s almost if it was more valid if it just came to you from somewhere out in the cosmos.  Neale Donald Walsch said so! I spoke in Grass Valley, California last weekend, one of the great American meccas for the alternative, New Age, and all things in between.  Only a few minutes into my talk about how a high… Read more »

Breakfast Cereal Causes Obesity!

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I mean, they serve this devitalized, sugar-laden, grain-based garbage to kids… why I oughtta!!!  Some kids cereals have over 30% of their calories coming from sugar!  White, crappy sugar!  And grains?  Obviously grains are responsible for the obesity epidemic.  As Dr. Mercola has been talking about for years, (and you know he’s a renegade insider that really knows what’s going on), grains spike insulin.  I mean, INSULIN!!!  Jesus tapdancin’ Christ!!!  We know that insulin is the fat storage hormone, and the more carbs you eat, grains and sugar especially… well, Adios kids.  R.I.P.  Sorry we’ve been making you all obese and diabetic with these damn breakfast cereals.  And to think, marketing to young children with prizes and toys and cartoon tigers and toucans and stuff?  Despicable!!! In a rumored rat… Read more »

Causes of Childhood Obesity & Childhood Obesity Facts

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When I was in grade school just a couple short decades ago, many of us were a little pudgy. I had a pretty sweet gut going as did most of my friends. But obese? There was only one kid in my grade that could be considered obese. He was the fat kid. Like “Lardass” in the movie Stand By Me, or of course “Chunk,” being really fat was unique and freakish. Oh have times changed, and in such a short period of time as to ring some serious sirens.Now childhood obesity is referred to as an “epidemic”, but it cannot be cured until people have an accurate understanding regarding the causes of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity has come out of nowhere, just like type 2 diabetes (which used to be… Read more »