Category: Childhood Obesity
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Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution”
27 comments on Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution”I didn’t watch the show. I wasn’t going to blog about it, for one thing. But this article Arun Gupta wrote at Alternet is fascinating, digging into the various federal and state requirements for school lunches, how both policy and kids’ tastes encourages the use of processed foods … and here I am, blogging about it. That [Jamie Oliver] failed to meet the nutritional guidelines, went way…
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Worth Reading
I was damaged as a result of being a fat kid, certainly; however, what damaged me was not my fat, but the messages I received about fatness. I was damaged by both perceiving myself and being treated by others as inferior, an object, something in need of repair, and not a person worthy of basic respect. I was seriously damaged by the endless dieting, such that I…
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Friday Fluff
Okay, y’all, this week has been depressing. First Michelle Obama wants to make fat kids thin through the magic of exercise. Then the media asserts that deaths from alcoholic liver disease are due to childhood obesity and talks about diet and exercise for kids as if it’s never been done before and all of this reminds me of how every diet I’ve been on eventually resulted…
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A Question for the Ages
An obese child 6 to 9 had a 37 percent chance of being an obese adult if neither parent was obese. But if at least one parent was fat, the child’s change of growing up to be fat nearly doubled, to 71 percent. The work fits well with current thinking about adult obesity, medical experts say. The condition appears to have a strong genetic component — most…
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