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America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.

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TV Dinners: Fat Lies

Dinner guests chew on modern day obesity panics and the obsession with our eating... more

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Global report: Obesity bigger health crisis than hunger

Obesity is a bigger health crisis globally than hunger, and the leading cause of... more

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Americans Eat Their Weight In GM Food Yearly

Americans are eating their weight and more in genetically engineered food every year,... more

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Inspiring: Wisconsin Anchorwoman Delivers Powerful Message on Bullying (VIDEO)

Jennifer Livingston, an anchor for Wisconsin’s WKBT morning show, took a few... more

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Alzheimer's could be the most catastrophic impact of junk food | George Monbiot

There is evidence that poor diet is one cause of Alzheimer's. If ever there was a case for the precautionary principle, this is it

When you raise the subject of over-eating and obesity, you often see people at their worst. The comment threads discussing these issues reveal a legion of bullies who appear to delight in other people's problems.

When alcoholism and drug addiction are discussed, the tone tends to be sympathetic. When obesity is discussed, the conversation is dominated by mockery and blame, though the evidence suggests that it may be driven by similar forms of addiction.

I suspect that much of this mockery is a coded form of snobbery: the strong association between poor diets and poverty allows people to use this issue as a cipher for something else they want to say, which is less socially acceptable.

But this problem belongs to all of us. Even if you can detach yourself from the suffering caused by diseases arising from bad diets, you will carry the cost, as a growing proportion of the health budget will be used to address them. The cost – measured in both human suffering and money – could be far greater than we imagined. A large body of evidence now suggests that Alzheimer's is primarily a metabolic disease. Some scientists have gone so far as to rename it: they call it type 3 diabetes.

New Scientist carried this story on its cover on 1 September; since then I've been sitting in the library, trying to discover whether it stands up. I've now read dozens of papers on the subject, testing my cognitive powers to the limit as I've tried to get to grips with brain chemistry. Though the story is by no means complete, the evidence so far is compelling.

About 35 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease worldwide; current projections, based on the rate at which the population ages, suggest that this will rise to 100 million by 2050. But if, as many scientists now believe, it is caused largely by the brain's impaired response to insulin, the numbers could rise much further. In the United States, the percentage of the population with type 2 diabetes, which is strongly linked to obesity, has almost trebled in 30 years. If Alzheimer's, or "type 3 diabetes", goes the same way, the potential for human suffering is incalculable.

(click on the link for the full article)There is evidence that poor diet is one cause of Alzheimer's. If ever there was a... more

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A 297-Pound Twelve-Year-Old Called Too Big to Play Football

The story of twelve-year-old Elijah Earnheart, who, at six-one and 297 pounds, was... more

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Federal task force wants obese Americans placed into counseling

If you’re a US citizen, there’s a one-in-three chance that you’re also obese. Now after failed attempt after failed attempt at slimming down citizens, a federal panel is pushing to force overweight Americans into counseling.

The US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) introduced their latest plans to help push down the obesity rate in America this week, and their newest effort calls for more than just urging people to exercise. The federal panel of medical experts is asking primary care physicians to put obese Americans into intensive counseling programs in order to combat the epidemic.

"Obesity is a very serious health problem in the United States, and in the past 30 years, obesity rates have dramatically increased," Task Force member Dr. David Grossman, a pediatrician at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, says in the USPSTF press release put out on Monday. "The good news is that is that even modest weight loss can reduce health risks for people who are obese. And, there is strong scientific evidence that shows that intensive programs with 12 to 26 sessions in the first year can help people manage their weight."

While experts have long argued for urging obese Americans into specialized programs to push healthier habits on them, the USPSTF is asking physicians to place any patient with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more into counseling. Currently more than one-third of adults meet that criterion, with non-Hispanic black adults more than 44 percent likely to be considered obese.

According to a report compiled earlier this year by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 42 percent of the US population will be obese within the next two decades. At the time of that publishing, the Institute of Medicine’s Shiriki Kumanyika told Reuters that "People have heard the advice to eat less and move more for years, and during that time a large number of Americans have become obese.” Advice, many argue, hasn’t been enough, though.
“The average person cannot maintain a healthy weight in this obesity-promoting environment,” added Kumanyika.

The USPSTF has been urging primary care doctors to screen patients for obesity as early as 2003, but if their new guidelines are adopted, physicians will be prompted to push for counseling outside of their office. What’s more is that, if US President Barack Obama’s healthcare law passes scrutiny from the Supreme Court this week, Medicare and most private insurers will be forced to cover most or all of the proposed counseling programs — something that is certain to attract opponents of all size. If justices in Washington refuse Obama’s plan, however, the recommendations will likely be refused.

Full Story: http://rt.com/usa/news/force-obese-counseling-us-799/If you’re a US citizen, there’s a one-in-three chance that you’re... more

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Forks Over Knives Documentary

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More Signs The Apocalypse Is Upon Us - Burger King's Bacon Sundae

Swine on ice!

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Pull Coke's corporate charter!

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"When Great Ideas Rise" or "Let Them Eat Wood?"

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Annual symposium on global agriculture and food security a front for Monsanto-biotech/pesticide industry

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A Discussion of "The Weight of the Nation"

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How to Monitor Your Child’s TV Time

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Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday

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Community Must Be Aware of the Effects of Television Ads To Children

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Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly those in low-income areas such as the South Bronx. Nutritionists say lessons in healthier eating and cooking begin with a cultural understanding of food: http://womensenews.org/story/health/120409/healthy-eating-teachers-target-cultural-taste-buds

Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly... more

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Rewritten Headlines: Oprah to California

Tony D rewrites the news so you don't have to!

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