Food marketers can tout ‘real fruit,’ ‘whole grain’ and ‘cardioprotective’ on labels all they want. What matters is that smart eaters seek out nutrition boxes and ingredient lists before scarfing down that bag of nachos. With nutrition top of mind for most Canadians, it seems food marketers will go to any length to convince shoppers their products are healthy. Chances are you’ve seen the claims: “made with whole grains,” “contains real fruit,” “boosts immunity,” even “cardioprotective” or “strengthen your body’s natural defences”, “burn calories” or even “cleanse and restore”. Many food labels do point to information that can help you follow a healthy diet. But some are downright misleading. Lets get rid of them. A fed examples are mentioned.
Alle 11-årige børn har lyst til at deltage i idræt i deres fritid, men socialt udsatte børn deltager sjældnere i de aktiviteter, de kunne tænke sig. Hver fjerde lever ikke op til Sundhedsstyrelsens anbefalinger om fysisk aktivitet mindst en time hver dag.
Lack of sleep, excessive television/computer screen time, stress, gambling, alcohol and tobacco use and other health-related issues are taking a toll on college students’ academic performance, according to a study just released by the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service.
Good news from California
Oct 22
The prevalence of overweight children ages 0-5 dropped slightly in California from 14% in 2001 to 12% in 2005 according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Based on data from 3287 adults aged 30-69 who participated in surveys on cardiovascular risk from 2003 to 2006 Japanese researchers concluded: Eating until full and eating quickly are associated with being overweight in Japanese men and women, and these eating behaviours combined may have a substantial impact on being overweight.
UJ researchers argued yesterday that the nation’s diet is unlikely to improve significantly if healthy eating policies fail to take into account the diverse nature of contemporary family life. Decisions about what to eat aren’t simply a matter of individual choice but are instead rooted in people’s diverse family circumstances, embedded in the routines and rhythms of their everyday lives, subject to their available resources and shaped by their social, ethnic and religious ties. Most people are aware that they need to eat ‘five-a-day’ but many don’t achieve these targets because they are forced to act within their circumstances.
America is facing a health crisis. Even though America spends more than $2 trillion annually on health care—more than any other nation in the world—tens of millions of Americans suffer every day from preventable diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some forms of cancer that rob them of their health and quality of life.
Trust for America’s Health undertook a year-long consensus-building process, consulting more than 150 leading health experts and organizations to assemble recommendations for effective ways to modernize the federal public health system to meet the range of health challenges we face.
This new Blueprint for a Healthier America published in October 2008 is a federal policy guide for the next president, administration and congress, with expert recommendations to revitalize the nation’s ability to protect the health of all Americans.
The 133 page report Blueprint for a Healthier America contains a vision statement signed by more than 140 leading health organizations that outlines principles to make disease and injury prevention a cornerstone of America’s health policies. 4 Guiding Principles for Prevention forms the basis of which the 2 first are:
1. Prevention must drive our nation’s health strategy.
2. Americans deserve healthy and safe places to live, work, and play.
The blueprint report also contains an agenda for modernizing public health paper that defines the need and scope for a policy agenda to modernize public health. This paper is the result of a series of consensus meetings with more than 35 experts and national organizations.
Speaking at a conference on childhood obesity, officials from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced plans to move forward with a proposal to ban interactive advertising targeted at children.
Sæt skolen i bevægelse
Oct 21
Dansk Skoleidræt lancerer nu initiativet ‘Sæt Skolen i Bevægelse!’, der fra foråret 2009 skal gøre fysisk aktivitet og bevægelse til hverdagsrutine for elever i 0.-8. klasse.
At cykle til og fra skole forbedrer markant børns kondition og kan have stor betydning for deres sundhed også på længere sigt, viser en ny undersøgelse.