Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
3/31/2012
Crazy Situation
A GAP-certified Richmond County farm cannot get carrots into a local school, 1/4 mile away, a school where the obesity rate is 42%. Contact NC Dept. of Education, Richmond Co. school board or NC Ag. Extention if you can think of a solution.
2/03/2011
Food Matters Showing Feb. 4, 7:00, Raven's Wing
Food Matters is a feature length documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family's health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.'s and Medical Journalists you will discover...
How to use food as medicine
Who needs vitamins?
Is organic better?
How safe is our food?
Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol
Foods that fight Anxiety and Depression
Natural therapies for Cancer
Which drugs might do more harm than good
The best ways to detox, lose weight and keep it off
[Also: potluck at 6:15, meditation at 5:30, yoga with Mark at 4:00]
How to use food as medicine
Who needs vitamins?
Is organic better?
How safe is our food?
Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol
Foods that fight Anxiety and Depression
Natural therapies for Cancer
Which drugs might do more harm than good
The best ways to detox, lose weight and keep it off
[Also: potluck at 6:15, meditation at 5:30, yoga with Mark at 4:00]
7/19/2010
Angry Moms at SCC July 22, 6:30
“We are facing an obesity epidemic. This generation will be the first in the nations’ history to live shorter lives than those of their parents.” - Centers for Disease Control
Sustainable Sandhills Presents “Two Angry Moms”
Thursday, July 22nd 6:30-8:00 PM
Dempsey Student Center Sandhills Community College
Two Angry Moms shows not only what is wrong with school food; it offers strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting healthy, good tasting, real food into school cafeterias. The movie explores the roles the federal government, corporate interests, school administration and parents play in feeding our country’s school kids. See what happens when fed-up moms start a grass-roots revolution!
Please stay after the film for a panel discussion with local school food experts.
Sustainable Sandhills Presents “Two Angry Moms”
Thursday, July 22nd 6:30-8:00 PM
Dempsey Student Center Sandhills Community College
Two Angry Moms shows not only what is wrong with school food; it offers strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting healthy, good tasting, real food into school cafeterias. The movie explores the roles the federal government, corporate interests, school administration and parents play in feeding our country’s school kids. See what happens when fed-up moms start a grass-roots revolution!
Please stay after the film for a panel discussion with local school food experts.
2/13/2010
Celeb Chef to Fight Obesity Gets TED Prize
TED Prize to fight obesity and to educate about food!
http://www.tonic.com/article/jamie-oliver-ted-prize-wish-movement-fight-obesity/
http://www.tonic.com/article/jamie-oliver-ted-prize-wish-movement-fight-obesity/
9/16/2009
Happiness Is Contagious
From the NY Times: "But two years ago, a pair of social scientists named Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler used the information collected over the years about Joseph and Eileen and several thousand of their neighbors to make an entirely different kind of discovery.
By analyzing the Framingham Heart Study data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing.
And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn’t.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html?pagewanted=2&em
By analyzing the Framingham Heart Study data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing.
And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn’t.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13contagion-t.html?pagewanted=2&em
7/20/2009
7/12/2009
6/20/2009
6/15/2009
5/25/2009
5/13/2009
HFCS, It's Everywhere. Read the Label
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2008/dec2008_Metabolic-Dangers-of-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup_01.htm
4/29/2009
3/16/2009
School Lunches Fall Prey, Lobbyists
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Healthy-People-Healthy-Planet/School-Lunches-and-Lobbyists.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=iPost
1/15/2009
5/15/2008
Not Guilt, but Anger
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_051508E.shtml
[And the movie, King Corn, is now available thru Netflix. The more we learn, the more powerful we become.]
[And the movie, King Corn, is now available thru Netflix. The more we learn, the more powerful we become.]
2/15/2008
1/18/2008
11/15/2007
Diabetes/Plastics Connection
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml
"As if the potential for cancer and mutation weren’t enough, Dr. vom Saal states in one of his studies that “prenatal exposure to very low doses of BPA increases the rate of postnatal growth in mice and rats.” In other words, BPA made rodents fat. Their insulin output surged wildly and then crashed into a state of resistance—the virtual definition of diabetes. They produced bigger fat cells, and more of them. A recent scientific paper Dr. vom Saal coauthored contains this chilling sentence: “These findings suggest that developmental exposure to BPA is contributing to the obesity epidemic that has occurred during the last two decades in the developed world, associated with the dramatic increase in the amount of plastic being produced each year.” Given this, it is perhaps not entirely coincidental that America’s staggering rise in diabetes—a 735 percent increase since 1935—follows the same arc."
"As if the potential for cancer and mutation weren’t enough, Dr. vom Saal states in one of his studies that “prenatal exposure to very low doses of BPA increases the rate of postnatal growth in mice and rats.” In other words, BPA made rodents fat. Their insulin output surged wildly and then crashed into a state of resistance—the virtual definition of diabetes. They produced bigger fat cells, and more of them. A recent scientific paper Dr. vom Saal coauthored contains this chilling sentence: “These findings suggest that developmental exposure to BPA is contributing to the obesity epidemic that has occurred during the last two decades in the developed world, associated with the dramatic increase in the amount of plastic being produced each year.” Given this, it is perhaps not entirely coincidental that America’s staggering rise in diabetes—a 735 percent increase since 1935—follows the same arc."
5/06/2007
Twinkies Vs. Carrots
Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well as the packaging and a hefty marketing budget.
So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots?
You'll find the answer in this NYTimes article (link below) called "You Are What You Grow." Read the article. It will explain not only the answer to the above question, but why Americans are so obese and how our U.S. agricultural policy--the farm bill in particular--is going to continue fattening us up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?ex=1178596800&en=400518717aae4dc1&ei=5070
So how can the supermarket possibly sell a pair of these synthetic cream-filled pseudocakes for less than a bunch of roots?
You'll find the answer in this NYTimes article (link below) called "You Are What You Grow." Read the article. It will explain not only the answer to the above question, but why Americans are so obese and how our U.S. agricultural policy--the farm bill in particular--is going to continue fattening us up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html?ex=1178596800&en=400518717aae4dc1&ei=5070
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