Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized |
The ultimate affront to the barbaric practices of bribing kids to eat vegetables, restricting calories, forbidding certain foods, and otherwise interfering with a child’s instinctual eating cues is here. Everyone has their own ideas about what is and isn’t healthy to eat, how much people should eat and exercise, and so forth. And these ideas are typically imposed upon young children...
Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jul 23, 2012 | Uncategorized |
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...
Jul 19, 2012 | Uncategorized |
By Matt Stone Recently I had an interview’tentatively set up on the topic of childhood obesity.?As soon asI knew about the interviewI 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...
