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Thursday 24th May 2007
Celebrity weight loss secrets: Posh’s favorite diet book, Taylor Hick’s transformation, and more
CalorieLab Not that Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham needs to lose any weight, but she’s recently been spotted with the book Skinny Bitch, a guide to vegan eating with a sassy, Hollywood attitude. One critic says the book dispenses pretty common weight-loss advice: stop eating junk food, sugar, sweeteners, caffeine, dairy, refined carbs and alcohol. The book is apparently militantly anti-meat, calling people who try to lose weight while eating meat morons and referring to the Atkins Diet as the rotting meat diet. It’s more an advertisement for vegetarianism than it is a diet book. There’s a joke in there somewhere about the authors being bitches because they aren’t eating junk food, sugar, dairy and alcohol, I’m sure…
Back to basic meals to fight obesity
The Daily Post The loss of basic cooking skills is partly to blame for the global obesity epidemic. But Rotorua health officials are fighting back. Waiariki Institute of Technology and Health Rotorua have teamed up to develop a project aimed at teaching people how to cook healthy, nutritious meals. The project, led by Waiariki's food safety tutors Liz Fitchett and Rosie Shand, was developed after consultation with the Rotorua community last year. They found that a problem for many people at risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes was a lack of knowledge about how to access and cook healthy food.
Free fruit for primary schools tackles rising obesity
Kilkenny Advertiser Primary school children in Carlow and Kilkenny may soon have their fill of fruit as a resulat of a proposed EU drive to stamp out child obesity. Kids between the ages of four and 12 are set to reap the rewards of a free fruit for schools initiative which has been suggested as part of EU Agricultural Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel's overhaul of the European fruit and vegetable industry.
Obesity can start as early as infancy
South Mississippi's Sun Herald The path to diabetes and heart disease may begin in infancy for children in poor urban households, according to a nationwide study released this year that suggests as many as one-third of 3-year-olds in low-income families may be overweight or obese. The study found the problem is even more pronounced in Hispanic households.
Overweight Americans Fight Obesity at Church
Voice of America America is getting fat. Nearly one third of adults in this country are obese. To help combat obesity, some cities have banned unhealthful ingredients in restaurant food. Other communities support listing students' weight on their report cards. A new effort in Philadelphia is turning to religion. This community-based weight-loss program is part of a four-year study of the prevention and treatment of obesity in high-risk populations. Temple University researchers have partnered with churches to test whether an Internet-based telemedicine system can help overweight and obese African Americans in the nearby community lose weight.
Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Macrophages may have role blocking obesity
News-Medical.net Macrophages - the scavenger cells of the body's immune system - are known as troublemakers for the role they play in obesity, but Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have found that the cells can also be saviors when it comes to metabolism. The researchers highlight the beneficial role of macrophages in combating the effects of a high-fat diet in mice in a study that will be published in the May 21 advance online edition of Nature. "Macrophages have a reputation for being the bad guys," said the study's senior author, assistant professor of medicine Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD. "We have found that they can also do good things."