Fighting Childhood Obesity Starts at Home

by Rick Hendershot,
It is a fact that people are generally getting fatter in many western societies. This is reflected in the popularity of diet books and fitness equipment. But while most of us realize it would be good to lose a bit of weight, we are only vaguely aware of the staggering levels of "obesity" in our societies. We are even less aware of the impact this is having on our children, and the widespread existence of childhood obesity.

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Don’t Drink Your Calories!
Author: Karen Cole-Peralta

It may well be that soda pop is mankind’s worst ever discovery. If you drink soda pop, especially the caffeinated kind, it could kill you, as shown recently when a man’s death seems to have been associated with his overconsumption of diet soda. But most especially, it can go right after your kids’ health. Pop gives the average teenager approximately 12.5 teaspoons of refined sugar a day.

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You may think after all of the talk lately about carb reduction that you need to avoid eating carbohydrates. But the exact opposite is the case. The kinds of carbohydrates you get from fruits and vegetables are a necessary basis of your daily diet. Instead of helping you “pack on the pounds,” they actually help you to burn fat. They are also a major source of fuel for your body, especially your muscles, brain and nervous system.

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Go for Scientific Weight Loss

Author: Karen Cole-Peralta

Considering the US Center for Disease Control’s advice is a very good idea. Fat, although systematically proven useful to the human body, is not only a waste of food. When you’re fat, if very fat, you’re obese, and you do indeed have a disease. It can sneak right up on you like a homicidal lunatic. In spite of how you feel about yourself emotionally, you should really do your utmost to keep your weight from assuming immense proportions—or you’ll only be dooming yourself.
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Weight Gain in Adulthood — Slowing it Down

Author: Karen Cole-Peralta

The biggest problem we face in America today is not terrorism – it is obesity. This is according to Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in America. And it seems much of this problem is happening in a slow and creeping way, through gradual young and middle-aged adult weight gain, over very long periods of time.
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Achieving Real Weight Loss
Author: Margie Geiser

The state of health in America is not very positive. As of today, according to the Center for Disease Control, an estimated 65% of adult Americans are considered overweight and 30% of those are considered obese. Cancer – much of it preventable -- has now surpassed heart disease as the number one cause of death and the number of people who know they have diabetes is now up to 14.6 million.
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Life Insurance – Smokers and Overweights pay over 50% more!
Author: Michael Challiner

When an insurance company calculates its premiums, it has to work out the risk of you dying whilst the policy is in force. (Or with Critical Illness Insurance, the risk that you will become critically or seriously ill during the policy's term.) In this context, smoking and obesity have become increasingly important issues.

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Diabetes
Author: Djehuty - The people's herblist

Diabetes If you're a so-called diabetic, ask yourself this question: are you tired of injecting yourself with insulin like a heroin addict? Or popping pharmaceutical grade insulin pills like a junkie? Or checking your blood sugar level 2 and 3 times throughout the day using some man made gadget with a predetermined blood sugar level?
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Thyroid Gland
Author: Djehuty - The people's herblist

The thyroid gland is located at the front of the neck. It is slightly heavier in women than in men and enlarges in pregnancy.

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