Boost for Health? Researchers Isolate Protein Linking Exercise to Health Benefits
Keep riding that bike! There is something to exercise afterall.
"There has been a feeling in the field that exercise 'talks to' various tissues in the body," said Spiegelman, a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. "But the question has been, how?"
Looking Ahead: 2012 Food Politics
Happy news-- and not so happy news-- When we began looking at childhood obesity in 2007, we found little in the news about farm to table programs, community gardens, organic farms, local food dudes. Now, the landscape is full of news about such things. That is the good news. But, because so much money is at stake in food, the battle between politics and healthy choices will continue to rage. We cannot depend on congress to understand what the difference is between a pizza and a vegetable, but we can depend on one another to continue to seek knowledge about what foods are good and what foods are not so good for our children and get that knowledge to politicians who want to remain being politicians.
Congress Delays Setting Nutrition Standards for Kids—Again
Recall that the industry spent a reported $37 million to oppose the IWG recommendations. Apparently, it was money well spent.
The Potato Dispute: Should We Allow Starch in School Meals?
It isn't a case of starch. The baking potato is the one food other than table sugar that causes a significant rise in sugar in the blood and this is followed by a sudden spike in insulin. This event causes tissue damage and can lead to the development of a whole list of complications of disbetes: nerve damage, loss of vision, kidney disease, besides diseases like heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, colon cancer.
Attacking the Obesity Epidemic by First Figuring Out Its Cause
This month the United Nations General Assembly will focus on noncommunicable diseases, with the “wicked problem” (as Brian Head, a social scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia, put it) of the global obesity epidemic front and center.
Hiding Vegetables in Kids' Foods Can Increase Vegetable Intake
"Vegetables have been shown to help lower calorie intake. The problem is getting kids to eat enough vegetables."
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"...uncovers some of the “hidden persuaders” that cause us to overeat, and offers simple strategies to help us stop. "
How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains
Click to learn more: In this groundbreaking investigation of the insatiable American appetite, Dr. David Kessler explains why we eat more than we need to and what we can do to stop the vicious and unhealthy cycle of overeating.
Changes in Specific Dietary Factors May Have Big Impact On Long-Term Weight Gain
modest changes in specific foods and beverages, physical activity, TV-watching, and sleep duration were strongly linked with long-term weight gain.
Ed Bruske of The Slow Cook tells us all
Someone wasn't exactly honest with the yuong student who polled his fellow classmates about chocolate milk.
High-Fat Diet During Pregnancy Programs Child for Future Diabetes
This is called epigenetics. What a woman is eating at the time of conception doesn't affect her eggs, However, if she eats a high fat diet then the picture changes... Look for changes in the regulation of glucose metabolism. The diet environment of the fetus is very important to the offspring before birth. Somehow, the high fat diet of the mother affects the liver of the baby. This is good science. Heed this report mothers-to-be!
Two Years Old -- A Childhood Obesity Tipping Point?
Paving the way for disease and an early death! This is not a healthy baby.
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Occupy the Food System
It's not just in the financial sector, but in all facets of our lives. Are we about to do some housecleaning?
A new approach to weight loss?
If built-in reward systems in the brain are already present when a child is young, why not allow him to reward himself with healthy foods? Let him build up a batch of healthy food recipes as he grows up. Just because toxic foods are available doesn't mean he has to participate and consume them. Does it?
Mother's diet during pregnancy alters baby's DNA
"Studies in animals have shown that changes in diet can alter the function of genes - known as epigenetic change." This reveals you can't have your cake and eat it too! Heed this article, pregnant women. Do not eat junk, high carbs during pregnancy. And, do not drink alcohol during pregnancy. The epigenetic evidence is mounting. You will surely pay the price
Fat babies are not always healthy babies
Edamame. I was with him until the edamame.
Corporate Food Interests Censor Talk of Rebates in School Meals
Trouble is brewing with school food service companies who take rebates. Find out who the food service manager is at your school and discuss the contract the school has with food service companies like Chartwells and Sodexo. A few months ago we alerted you to this one problem with our school food service managers. After many phone calls to our localschools we found out there is a chef at a school in Atascadero who is working for Sodexo. Check her out! Is this what you want for your kids? Keep gathering info that can help your school district stay away from the bandits!
Dad's Weight and Diet Linked to Offspring's Risk of Diabetes
Why would it be the dad's reproductive cells that are the culprit in setting the next generation up for obesity? Welcome to behavioral genetics, folks! It is happening on a broad scale. It's all dad's fault! Don't be so quick to judge. The evidence is just coming in now!
Since sperm are being created during the dad's lifetime, whatever he eats and drinks affects those developing sexual cells. If the dad is eating a high-fat diet, then the sperm at the time of fertilization will be the sperm that are affected by that diet that fertilize the egg. Women's eggs are already developed at birth. They don't make eggs after birth. So, what the woman is eating at the time of conception doesn't affect her eggs. You will hear a lot more about the metabolic consequences of a high fat diet from father to offspring in the coming months. This topic is just maturing now and will be one we will all be talking about shortly.
Could Our Minds Be Tricked Into Satisfying Our Stomachs?
...the key to losing weight could lie in manipulating our beliefs about how filling we think food will be before we eat it, suggesting that portion control is all a matter of perception.
Overweight Children Have Eating Patterns Different from Those of Normal Weight Children, Norwegian Study Finds
A study of fourth graders reveals all....
A Star Chef Celebrates Fall Vegetables
“It makes for good eating to reconsider and create dishes that let vegetables play a major role.’’
Beyond “Museum” Gardens
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl writes, "Gardens that exist as exhibitions to only be looked and talked about will not move us anywhere close to where we need to go." We agree with Jesse that the issues of 'garden in every school' and 'healthy eating' are becoming steroidal. We know what we need to drive this package of good intentions toward a reasonable and lasting nutritional path for our children. And we at StarChild Science are creating it. Watch for our Hear the Call Healthy Living Poster which is coming out soon!
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Diet Rich in Slowly Digested Carbs Reduces Markers of Inflammation in Overweight and Obese Adults
"Glycemic load" refers to how the intake of carbohydrates, adjusted for total grams of carbohydrate, affects blood-sugar levels. Lentils or pinto beans have a glycemic load that is approximately three times lower than instant mashed potatoes, for example, and therefore won't cause blood-sugar levels to rise as quickly.
These types of low-glycemic-load carbs include whole grains; legumes such as kidney beans, soy beans, pinto beans and lentils; milk; and fruits such as apples, oranges, grapefruit and pears. Neuhouser also recommends avoiding high-glycemic-load carbohydrates that quickly raise blood glucose. These include highly processed foods that are full of white sugar and white flour, and sugar-sweetened beverages and breakfast cereals.
Todmorden: A town where greenthumbs, not sticky fingers, prevail
Incredible Edible, an ambitious, agrarian-minded scheme that’s brought together an entire community under one common goal: to become completely self-sufficient in food by the year 2018. And so far, things are going swimmingly.
How to Reduce Childhood Obesity: Get Government to Pay Attention
If governments paid attention to the research, Marion Nestle proposes 5 things that could happen:
- Tax unhealthy foods and beverages
- and what else?
Congress Blocks New Rules on School Lunches
Apparently, Congress didn't seek professional opinions about heatlhy eating for our school children. The well known researcher Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard School of Public Health wrote in 2001, ten years ago, a wonderful book entitled Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy where he talked about the dangers of the baking potato when eaten frequently. He found that this one food causes a spike in glucose and insulin just like the spike in glucose and insulin when we eat table sugar. He removed it from the vegetable category of food and put it in its own category called "Use Sparingly". This one ruling made by Congress on Monday, November 14th will come back to haunt Congress. It will set the children back greatly in Maine and Colorado especially because it is those states that are potato states and they will feed their school children potatoes more often than just once a week as the USDA recommended. The medical costs for those two states will jump dramatically due to this irresponsible decision to block the USDA proposal for healthy school lunches. The variability among different types of potatoes, rices, and oats is REAL. They contain different types of starch (amylose, amylopectin) and that affects the degree of starch gelatinisation.
Michael Pollan: On the Steve Jobs of agriculture
"...but someone will be the Steve Jobs of agriculture.”
Are Genes Our Destiny? Scientists Discover 'Hidden' Code in DNA Evolves More Rapidly Than Genetic Code
Remember the article about dad's weight and diet being the culprit in setting up the next generation for diabetes? Now, scientists understand how this takes place without genetic noise. Our genes are not our destiny after all!
Eat a Protein-Rich Breakfast
A protein-rich breakfast does help your body control appetite and regulate food intake. Maybe that's why many cultures eat grasshoppers for their protein source. Grasshoppers have 3 times as much protein as beef! Should we start feeding our children grasshoppers?
Weighing in on the diet wars
Carbs got to go! While you read this, think of the efficient use of insulin as your bottom line. Insulin receptors are not only in the gut, they are all over the brain, hormonal system and immune system. They are everywhere. In fact, information substances such as insulin links our brain, body and behavior. Carbs trigger insulin release creating an inefficient use of insulin which then creates dangerous eating behaviors. High protein breakfasts don't trigger insulin release. If you are going to eat carbs, wait until mid-morning to do that.
A Different Education: Compost and Community, Not Literacy
This school has a mission that they are going to keep: "create a resource-rich safe space for youth empowerment and sustainable community development,"
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