The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brief includes these US facts: 46 percent of all youth marketing expenditures is dedicated to television. 75% of toddlers and preschoolers, 84% of school-age children and 73% of adolescents watch television every day. 98% of food advertisements viewed by children and 89 percent of advertisements viewed by adolescents were for products that were high in fat, sugar or sodium. Download the new 12 page report.
The Institute of Medicine will develop a framework for evidence-informed decision-making in obesity prevention efforts. It will focus on policy- and community-level interventions designed to influence food, eating, and physical activity environments.
Børn i balance
Nov 3
Læs om 21 kommunale projekter i satspuljen ‘œKommunens plan mod overvægt’, der alle arbejder med forebyggelse af overvægt blandt børn og unge.
En lettere barndom
Nov 3
Sundhedsstyrelsen lancerer nu kampagnen ‘En lettere barndom’. Den sætter fokus på forældrene. Det er ikke altid let at erkende, at ens barn vejer for meget. Men det kan have stor betydning for barnets livskvalitet og helbred, at forældrene støtter barnet i sunde vaner. Erfaringen viser desværre, at 70 procent af dem, der vejer for meget som unge, også er overvægtige som voksne. De de 2 nye reklamefilm på www.enletterebarndom.dk.
Food preferences play a central role in food choices and consumption. 341 black children (43% boys; 68% fourth graders) attending low-income, public elementary schools in southeastern Louisiana volunteered to participate. Height and weight were measured and they answered questions about their preferences for 38 different fruits and vegetables during the fall of 2005. There was a negative association between children’s mean f&v preference score and their body mass index for age percentile (P=0.01). Children who reported a very low preference for f&v were 5.5 times more likely to be categorized as at risk for overweight or overweight than were those who reported a high preference for fruits and vegetables (P<0.01). Read more
Diets that meet the least restrictive of the food-group recommendations, expressed on a per 1,000 calorie basis, receive maximum scores for total fruit (5 points), whole fruit (5 points), total vegetables (5 points), dark green and orange vegetables and legumes (5 points), total grains (5 points), whole grains (5 points), milk (10 points), meat and beans (10 points), and oils (10 points). The following negative aspects are also included in the new algorithm: saturated fat (10 points), sodium (10 points), and calories from solid fats, alcoholic beverages (ie, beer, wine, and distilled spirits), and added sugars (20 points). The new index can be used to monitor the diet quality of the US population and subpopulations, evaluation of interventions, and research.
Patients with diabetes who participate in a program combining aerobic and high-force eccentric resistance exercise demonstrate improvements in glucose control, physical performance, and body fat composition.
Many adults may be meeting experts’ 30 minute recommendation on exercise if all types of activity, from work and play, are counted, a study of Swedish adults hints. Researchers found that among 1,470 adults ages 18 to 74, nearly two-thirds were meeting the goal of moderate physical activity on most days of the week. Getting more people off the couch, they say, will take broad “social-ecological approaches” which essentially means making it easier for people to be active in their daily lives. That could include making it simpler for people to walk or bike – by building more sidewalks, for instance – or giving them more parks and recreational areas.
4231 adults from seven European countries answered questions from a group of Fench researchers. Adults with high personal motivation were more likely to be active than those without motivation. Participants perceiving high social support from work or school were more likely to be active. So were those with perceived opportunities for PA. BMI had no effect.
This review provides an overview of some key biological mechanisms that may provide important metabolic links between nutrition, physical activity and cancer.