Potato school lunches
When a physician sees spikes like this all kinds of red flags pop up and he must address them for the health of his patients. The blood glucose-insulin spikes followed by the sudden fall in blood glucose and insulin levels create a dangerous roller coaster inside the body of any child or adult who eats potatoes frequently. Dr. Walter Willetts of Harvard School of Public Health wrote about this event in 2005 in his book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy. "This blood sugar roller coaster--- and the insulin one that shadows it-- triggers the early return of hunger pangs." The pancreas goes into full swing and secretes insulin to transport that sugar into all cells of the body and into storage units for later use. The pancreas works hard. It is an entire organ that is devoted to the delivery of digestive juices flowing into ducts and insulin into the bloodstream. "When a child eats a white potato," one doctor writes, "it's like there is a glucose flash flood in the blood stream." If Senators Collins of Maine and Udall of Colorado had consulted with the medical establishment they would been told how dangerous the potato really is when eaten frequently. But, it is clear politicians don't have to seek the whole truth and nothing but the truth. As Frederick Douglass, the famous writer and activist of the nineteenth century said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." The food companies and agriculture companies who make contributions to politicians eventually morph those contributions into demands. Power starts to concede at this point. It always has and it always will. The system has to be changed for our children's sake. Call your political representatives and senators and tell them about our potato video. We want to talk to them. Dr. Willett's reply to Congress's lack of vision "Unfortunately, Congress embedded their changes to the school lunch plan in a broad spending bill that President Obama could not veto. This is a short term victory for potato growers and narrow parts of the food industry, but the losers are our children who will pay in shortened lives and suffering. In the debate about foods in schools, Senator Collins from potato-growing Maine argued that our country could not afford the cost of approximately one billion dollars a year to feed children healthy vegetables instead high-starch foods. This is amazingly short-sighted, because the costs of the obesity epidemic already raging in our children's generation will be many hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades. In reality, we can't afford a society burdened with disability at what should be productive ages and ever escalating medical costs." Dr. Walter Willett's full response Senator Collins speaks to the Rotary Club in Bangor, Maine on January 3, 2012 Still clueless! |
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It takes only 26 calories to lift an SUV
Michael Bauer of Between Meals column in the San Francisco Chronicle writes about energy in food in 2007. |
Back in 2007 we sent an article about the energy in food to the Between Meals columnist Michael Bauer at the San Francisco Chronicle. He found it so interesting and surprising he wrote about our efforts to increase the awareness of calories in food. Some readers understood it, some did not. Now, in 2011 it appears our legislative bodies, our schools, our restaurants, our grocery stores are beginning to understand the process that creates energy from burning matter like food. The ninety billion dollar a year medical tab for our obesity problem in this country is bound to lower significantly if we only stick with it and make sure our children eat more fresh veggies and fruit and get plenty of exercise at school and at home. We have created an image that will help you and your child focus on healthy living. Take a look at our Do you hear the call poster. Hang it up in the kitchen. Talk to your children about this image. This image will make it a lot easier to put some of these fresh veggies and fruits onto your plate each and every day. Healthy Choices |
He really is talking about senators, representatives having so little clue about science and its importance in our lives! |
What is a calorie?
How do we determine what a calorie in food really is? Can we make an equivalence that makes sense? Macho Meals: Man With a Pan by John Donohue |
Does your doctor have a HEALTHY CHOICES poster in his clinic?
A good healthy eating starting point for your family is this image of your own healthy living neighborhood. Our 18x24 inch poster helps every child focus on healthy eating. Doctors and teachers are telling us they like it because it helps the family focus on healthy eating from the get go! Dr. Roxanne Sukol, internist at Cleveland Clinic writes: "It really is colorful and user- friendly. The poster is beautiful and well designed. The message is important: if people grow their own food, they will ultimately improve their own health." Her poster is framed in the harvest pumpkin color. Dr. Laura Lawson author of City Bountiful A Century of Community Gardening in America says of our poster, "...this has nutritional and emotional benefits." Ask your favorite framer to frame your HEALTHY CHOICES poster in a color you like.
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Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit
This article will surprise you!
How many SUVs can you lift after eating this Hawaiian Burger that has 1450 calories?
Fundamental: It takes 26 calories to lift an SUV. 1450 calories divided by 26 = ? SUVs 25 SUVs? 40 SUVs? 50 SUVs? Moral: One can only hope!
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