I’m Not Raising My Hand for Chocolate Milk
This LA Times article describes what happens when your kids are raised to prefer sweetened foods. Reporting from Chicago – The dairy industry recently rolled out an expensive media campaign in praise of chocolate milk, a classic school lunch drink that’s under assault for its sugar content. As trade groups spend upward of $1 million to defend the drink, three fifth-graders have come to its rescue. A year after the school...
Study: Obesity Increases Risk of H1N1 Complications
According to the NYT, hospitalization rates are increased for obese/morbidly obese people with swine flu infections. Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the most comprehensive look yet at swine flu hospitalizations. About a quarter of those hospitalizations have been for people who were morbidly obese, even though such...
Physicians Have Less Respect for Overweight Patients
This Johns Hopkins study confirms some anecdotes I’ve heard/read. October 22, 2009-Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about obesity could be affecting the long-term health of their heavier patients. Mary Margaret Huizinga, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant...
Andrew Malcolm is Losing It
And it’s not a pretty sight. I think his article in the LA Times, on the recent White House “Healthy Kids Fair,” was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but it failed… both as humor and reporting. The problem? Malcolm evidently couldn’t decide who he has more contempt for… Michelle Obama for using her position to promote healthy living, or overweight/obese Americans, whose “…flabby thighs...
This is Just Wrong…
The “War on Obesity” has definitely lost its bearings when a healthy, 4 month old, 100% breast fed infant can be labelled “obese” and denied health insurance. By the numbers, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don’t take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy they are otherwise. “I could understand if we could control what he’s...
“if you need a study to tell you sugar water is bad for you than you are probably dumb.”
LOL – I didn’t write that, just so you know. It’s one of the comments posted in response to this article in the Sacramento Bee. A sweeping statewide study released today points to soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as one of the main reasons why we are fat. “For the first time, we have strong scientific evidence that soda is one of the – if not the largest – contributors to the obesity epidemic,”...
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