Source:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
TED Talks (February 2010) The way we eat in the developed world is causing needless death -- and shortening the lives of the next generation of kids. Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity
project in Huntington, West Virginia, Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. My wish is for you to help a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people everywhere
to fight obesity. — Jamie Oliver
Overweight & Obese: Studies
Underweight: <= 18.5
Normal weight: 18.5 - 24.9
Overweight: 25 - 29.9
Obesity: >= 30 Healthy Weight for You
...There is strong evidence that the protective action of cruciferous vegetables derives at least in part from isothyiocyanates
(ITCs), a group of phytochemicals with well-known cancer preventive activities. "The bladder is particularly responsive to
this group of natural chemicals," Zhang said. "In our experiments, the broccoli sprout ITCs after oral administration were
selectively delivered to the bladder tissues through urinary excretion."
Other cruciferous vegetables with ITCs include mature broccoli, cabbage, kale, collard greens and others. Broccoli
sprouts have approximately 30 times more ITCs than mature broccoli, and the sprout extract used by the researchers
contains approximately 600 times as much... [Read More]
...Researchers say the amount of protection you get is remarkable, considering how little you have to eat. Just three servings
a month can help keep your bladder healthy, but there's a catch. Scientists say when these same vegetables are cooked,
something in their chemical make up makes them less effective when it comes to bladder cancer.
"When they are eaten raw, they induce a kind of enzyme that may detoxify carcinogens," says James Marshall, PhD at Roswell
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Why am I so fat?
Why do I take so many pills?
Why do they cost so much?
Why does my medical insurance cost so much?
Why don't I feel good?
What's my problem?
PROCESSED PEOPLE features in-depth discussions with leading health experts
detailing why so many of us are sick, and offers solutions to our current
devastating health crisis.
Tragically, many Americans are victims of a "health care" system and way of life
which are devastating to our overall well-being. To those running our system,
the bottom line on the dollars we're able to spend is more important than the
bottom line on our health. We're caught in a perpetual grinding machine, unable
to escape.
It's nearly impossible to be liberated when there's so much confusing,
conflicting information from "the authorities" — be they the government or
industry-controlled organizations like the American Dietetic Association. You
find yourself wondering: Do they really have your best interests at heart?
And the statistics are terrifying.
Two hundred million Americans are overweight.
One hundred million are obese.
More than 75 million Americans have high blood pressure.
Some 24 million are diabetic.
Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death for men and women,
followed by stroke and obesity-related cancers.
Obesity has overtaken tobacco as the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths
in the United States.
Over 50% of bankruptcies are caused by what has become to be known as
"medical debt".
Fast food, fast medicine, fast news, and fast lives have turned many Americans
into sick, uninformed, indebted, "processed" people. PROCESSED PEOPLE examines these topics:
Why are we so fat?
What is health?
Health care or sick care?
Are we what we eat?
Do we need to eat animal products?
What's the role of exercise?
What's a processed person?
Can you "de-process" yourself?
What happens if we don't change?
PROCESSED PEOPLE tells how and why Americans got into this mess, and what we
can do to break the "processed people" cycle. [...] [Read More]
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The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has partnered with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to publish a position paper, "Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults," focusing on access to safe...
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Children with serious intestinal problems have to be fed intravenously. Systems exist that enable intravenous feeding to be carried out at home. Mr Inaki Irastorza, paediatrician at the Cruces hospital in Bilbao, spent some 15 years analysing how serious intestinal problems in children were treated at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London...
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A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, also showed the reverse when fast food prices fell, then consumption, weight and diabetes risks rose...
A new study claims that having sugary drinks every day could put people at a greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease. American researchers found that the excessive consumption of sugary drinks, which can contain up to 200 calories each, contributed to 130,000 cases of Type 2 diabetes and 14,000 cases of heart disease between 1990 and 2000 in the USA...
The Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) welcomed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's proposed hospital reform package. But the Association warned that without a multidisciplinary approach to implementing the reforms the Government risked 'missing the mark' in meeting patient needs...
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Americans recognize things need to change in the grocery aisle, and they support Uncle Sam's efforts to overhaul what is included in their food and on the packages. The majority also believe they are individually responsible for making the right food choices to avoid obesity, but will readily accept the government's help to be successful, according to a new survey by FoodMinds...
Under a $7.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rush University Medical Center is developing a novel program, called WISHFIT, to help pre-menopausal women reduce visceral fat through a sustained increase in physical activity and reduction in stress...
The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably think they are...
A new study from the US found that normal weight women in their 40s and older who drank a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese and overweight compared to their non-drinking counterparts...
A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where fast food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, also showed the reverse when fast food prices fell, then consumption, weight and diabetes risks rose...
The health risk factors of obesity and overweight in Alabamians will be the focus of a combined satellite conference and webcast March 17 from 2-3 p.m. central time. Excessive weight and obesity are major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, the No. 1 cause of death worldwide...
During the school day, children eat roughly one-third of their nutritional needs while at school. Besides lunch, breakfast and snacks may be served, providing ample opportunities for obesity-prevention strategies by offering more nutritious food...
Health Affairs this month is devoted to the topic of childhood obesity, with the first study of the group - National, State, And Local Disparities In Childhood Obesity - pointing out that "new data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health show that the percentage of children ages 10-17 who are overweight ...
There's an epidemic in progress, and it has nothing to do with the flu. A ground-breaking study published in the March 2010 Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found an astonishing 59 per cent of study subjects had too little Vitamin D in their blood. Nearly a quarter of the group had serious deficiencies (less than 20 ng/ml) of this important vitamin...
The increased risk of colorectal cancer associated with obesity may be largely restricted to tumors that have no or low microsatellite instability (MSI), a common condition in most colorectal cancers, according to a new study published online March 8 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
