American Meat Institute has on Aug 7th responded with a statement that attacks the WCRF/AICR report by citing alternate conclusions that were reached by a review of the evidence that was commissioned by AMI. Such an ad hoc literature review, paid for by an interested party and conducted by two scientists alone, lacks the scope, objectivity and rigor of which the AICR expert report is a model.
A Dutch school-based obesity prevention program was succesful in reducing the average soft drink intake in 418 boys by 300 ml/day and 436 girls by 222 ml/day. The children were 12-13 years old. No effect was seen on consumption of high caloric snacks, screen-viewing behaviour; and active commuting to school.
Sundhedsstyrelsen anbefaler nu ældre til at træne både styrke og kondition – mindst én og helst flere gange om ugen. Fysisk aktivitet halverer risikoen for funktionsevnetab og afhængighed i slutningen af livet.
This study includes 856 children aged 4-7 years living in Crete, Greece. 60% of all children consumed sugar-added beverages on a daily basis. High consumers of sugar-added beverages (> 250g/day) had two times greater risk of being overweight and/or obese.
This is based on 38,790 Japanese men aged 45-74 years. The many researchers concluded that to prevent this disease, priority should be placed on smoking and drinking cessation.
A unique public-private partnership between 3 Research Councils and 15 food and drink companies has today launched a 4 mio £ research program to improving scientific understanding of the key issues linking diet and health so that food companies can address obesity, heart disease, anaemia and other health problems to the benefit of the consumer.
On youtube you can find the “Protect our kids”-video. And you can find more info and see how the campaign is relating to the USDA Child Nutrition Act on http://www.cancerproject.org/media/cna_help.php
The Cancer Project, a non-profit organization in AUSTIN, Texas, is running commercials in Austin to support the ban of all processed meat from the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs. The group wants deli meat, hot dogs and hamburgers taken off school menus.
490 men were recruited from a health care worker’s union. Knowledge, perceived benefits, stage of readiness, perceived barriers, and daily servings of F&V intake were recorded. 94% percent were unaware that men should consume at least nine servings of fruits and vegetables daily. 94.5% recognized that there are health benefits to eating F&V BUT perceived health benefits were not associated with F&V consumption.
Self-reporting sucks III
Aug 7
104 fourth-grade children were observed eating school meals and the next day interviewed about the previous day’s intake. Almost half of the items that these kids reported eating were pure fantasy = not existing according to the observations.