Breastfeeding can help prevent against obesity later in life, but the reason for this still isn’t known. In an effort to find this link, Katherine F. Isselmann has been comparing the feeding habits of mothers who breastfed their babies and mothers who bottle fed their babies.
Nine worksites were designated treatment sites and three control. At treatment sites, employees were provided enhanced access to healthy foods in vending machines and cafeterias, greater access to physical activity through walking trails and pedometer programs, dissemination of multiple health education materials, leadership training, physical activity and weight management programs, health assessments and individual consultations, and online behavior change programs. Researchers found that after one year, employees who participated in the environmental weight management interventions significantly reduced their blood pressure risk and maintained a steady weight when compared to employees at control sites.
The Smart Choices Program
Oct 29
Big Food companies including Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Unilever have with the assistance of The Keystone Center developed The Smart Choices Program in a partnership with some academicians, health and research organizations and retailers. This is their new checkmark logo.
Take a look at the qualifying criteria and share what you think of them by adding a comment below. Is the intention to avoid tougher regulation like a mandatory traffic light system? Is The Smart Choice Program a first step in quietly accepting that GDA-labeling is actually confusing and misleading to consumers? What do you think of the new nutritional criteria?
See also Marion Nestle’s blog on this topic, and Camillas comments or my second post on this topic.
Nutrition Experts Tom and Janice Baranowski created Video Games to Help Children Prevent Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
Americans more fearful of shark bites than this common, potentially lethal disease.
Vi har set folkeskoler, hvor man har forsøgt sig med at give eleverne en portion havregrød, inden undervisningen begynder. Det kunne være et rigtigt godt initiativ i gymnasierne også, for det har vist sig, at koncentrationsevnen er blevet meget bedre af det, udtaler formand for Danske Gymnasieelevers Sammenslutning Mina Bernardini til Foodculture (side 11).
In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children’s weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and University of Washington report that higher neighborhood greenness is associated with slower increases in children’s body mass over a two year period, regardless of residential density. This study of over 3,800 inner city children revealed that living in areas with green space has a long term positive impact on children’s weight and thus health. The study appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Nutella som sund morgenmad
Oct 28
Per Clausen har spurgt Eva Kjer Hansen om fødevareministeren vil sikre, at det ikke fremover bliver muligt at reklamere for Nutella som et sundt morgenmadsprodukt i TV2 og andre medier? Læs svaret her.
153 overweight/obese adults with metabolic syndrome got written copies of Australian national dietary and PA guidelines were provided to all participants. Half of them also took part in a 16-week lifestyle program which provided 1) dietary and PA information based on national guidelines, 2) behavioural self-management tools, 3) food-label reading, supermarkets tour and cooking, 4) exercise sessions, and 5) peer-group support. This group-based lifestyle program achieved improvements in body composition and cardio-metabolic and physical fitness similar to individualised interventions which are more resource intensive to deliver. It confirmed that active training in lifestyle modification is more effective than passive provision of guidelines. Such programs should include social support and self-management techniques.
Newer, more expensive drugs and rising rates of blood sugar disease are to blame.