Children's Physical Activity Increased By Parents' Endorsement Of Vigorous Team Sports

Just like nutritional child abuse, here is more "it's about the parents" info.

"Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says.

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Duke University studied a sample of 681 parents of 433 fourth- and fifth-graders from 12 schools in Houston. They found that those parents who conveyed the importance of high-intensity team sports to their children had more active children. Both the boys and girls watched less TV and spent less time on their computers.

The findings appear in the July issue of Health Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

Endorsing all types of exercise - both team sports and individual sports - increased boys' activity levels but not girls', the study said.

'The difference between activity levels in the girls and boys had to do with the parents' attitudes toward the types of activities. Parents encouraged sons to partake in vigorous- and moderate-intensity team and individual sports, and vigorous-intensity home chores, such as heavy yard work, more than they encouraged these activities for their daughters,' said lead author Cheryl Braselton Anderson, PhD. 'There still is gender bias on encouraging boys to participate in certain sports and strenuous activities more than girls.'"

Look no further than the home to see the cause of and the cure for overfatness.

Policymakers, Experts, Public Agree: Physical Activity Plan Needed

More stupidity in problem-solving from a confederacy of dunces.

"Dozens of the nation's leading organizations in health care, science, medicine and public health are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week with one goal in mind: to develop a national physical activity plan that will make America healthier. Congressional leaders and members of the public both agree that emphasizing disease prevention measures, such as increasing physical activity, is essential to combating chronic diseases, which account for 70 percent of all deaths in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The preventive power of physical activity has been noted by lawmakers. During mark-up of the Affordable Health Choices Act in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) said: "'he one overarching goal of health care reform is to recreate America as a genuine wellness society - one that emphasizes wellness, fitness, good nutrition, and disease prevention. Consider this: Right now, some 75 percent of health care costs are accounted for by heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and obesity. What these five diseases and conditions have in common is that they are largely preventable and even reversible by changes in nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle.'...

The plan will focus on eight key sectors that have heavy influence on physical activity: business and industry, the nonprofit sector, health care, transportation, education, mass media, parks and recreation, and public health."

Doomed to fail.

The only approach that will work is cutting these fat people loose from the sick care system by making them pay more for the greater resources they hog and levying fat taxes on their fat selves.

Any other approach, such as those advocated by policymakers and experts will not succeed.

More Americans than ever are obese: CDC

Kudos, fatsos.

"Americans are getting heavier than ever, with more than 26 percent of the population now fully obese, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday.

Despite warnings that the population must stop layering on the fat and frightening statistics that show two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, the weight trend continues, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

'The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased to 26.1 percent in 2008 compared to 25.6 percent in 2007,' the CDC said in a statement.

'If this trend continues we will likely see increases in healthcare costs for obesity-related diseases,' said the CDC's Liping Pan, who headed the study."

Only if we agree to keep paying for the calorically irresponsible.

"'Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes,' the CDC's Dr. William Dietz added in a statement. 'As obesity increases among all age groups, we are seeing chronic diseases in much younger adults compared to a few decades ago.

'For example, we now see young adults who suffer from heart disease risk factors and other conditions such as type 2 diabetes that were unheard of in the past.'

The agency used its Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a telephone survey of 400,000 adults, to gather its data.

At least 30 percent of adults are obese in six states -- Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, the CDC found."

Congrats, fats.

"The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online BMI calculator at http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/."

BFD.

The Pig Is Clever Like A Fox

Oprah's participation in the weight loss debate is an Orwellian nightmare - the pig is in charge.

Well, the pig is clever like a fox.

Just in time to rollout the new version of the book she co-wrote with Bob Greene, AdipOprah, an IMHO whore-for-the-money and clear threat to people's health, devoted the cover and cover story of her O(bese), The AdipOprah magazine, to her weight woes.

In typical fatso style she basically blames her alleged mere 40-pound weight gain on her poor, defenseless, thyroid gland (again).

She is clearly spewing the slop in which she rolls.

The rollout of her “updated and revised” book together with the rollout of her personal story about why she cannot get the rolls out of her belly are an interesting coincidence.

I will bet, it was not “updated and revised” to tell people it is crap and that she and Bob are liars.

Personally, IMHO, it is nothing more than another attempt by a crooked person to rip-off money from desperate people. (According to the bovine billionaire herself, there are "more than 2.4 million" of them who read the magazine. Add to that the people who watch her TV show, listen to her radio programming, watch her TV network and visit her website and you have an awful lot of impressionable people being fooled.)

What she is talking about this 2008 holiday season is, IMHO, nothing more than another attempt at thievery. This is not new for them as Bob and Oprah, IMHO, have a history of using lies and falsified images to scam the public.

(IMHO, Oprah with Bob are every bit as crooked as Oprah is with her other boys, Mehmet and Michael, David and Jorge.)

Despite the fact that the IMHO whore-for-the-money admits that she was gaining weight beginning "in February 2007," she was too greedy to recuse herself from promoting the diet scheme concocted by her and Bob, instead averring how well it worked for her. Even to this day.

I just pulled this (12-14-08) from their diet website. The website is copyright, 2007. The hardcover edition of the book came out December 26, 2006. The paperback edition came out December 26, 2007. The "I" is fatso "O":

I lost weight in stages. First I became active, and I still work out even though I really hate it, but I know if I don’t I will end up 200 pounds again. Then I started working on my eating. I stopped eating past 7:30 at night. When Bob told me it would make a big difference in my weight, I resisted. I thought it was going to be too hard. But I was surprised to find that it wasn’t; even more surprised when it turned out to be one of the most effective changes I made.

I’ve now taken most of the bad foods out of my diet and replaced them with good. I eat smaller portions and I eat healthy foods as a way of life, not a diet to go on and off.

Liar.

And the picture used on the website to promote the diet is:

Double liar.

(Here are real images of Oprah on her/Bob's diet.

Triple liar.)

Which is the same picture (the background was changed) she and Bob used to rip people off in 2008, on their website:

Quadruple liar.

And other places on the web:



Quintuple liar.

And at a "discount":



Sextuple liar.

And they promoted her and still promote her (12-24-08) as a "success" on their diet (enlarge the image if you have to or just click on it to get to the page):

Septuple liar.

Scummy Oprah and Bob are all talk about integrity as if it means something to them. This is from the complaint to the FTC about Bob and Oprah and their false and deceptive advertising:

"As will be seen in Exhibits A, B and M, there is much made of 'truth' and 'truthfulness' by both Mr. Greene and Ms. Winfrey. Likewise, they speak of accepting responsibility for one’s actions. In fact, 'truthfulness' and 'responsibility' appear in the General Index on pages 272 and 271, respectively, in the hardcover edition.

I submit that in the FTC’s taking of its responsibility it has the opportunity to not only protect consumers from what I contend (and what I posit a reasonable consumer would contend if he/she were aware of them) are clearly false and deceptive advertising practices, but also to provide Ms. Winfrey and Mr. Greene with opportunities to accept responsibility for and the consequences of their dishonesty and untruthfulness."

You can check out the Exhibits here.

Here is their chance to stop the talk and do the walk, which, incidentally, Oprah claims is a big part of the fatso "cure":

"All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in!"

What to do?

Give back all the money they took under clearly false pretenses (plus interest earned and any damages), apologize to the world, do some jail time for being the IMHO crooks they are, shut their mouths for good (and the mouths of Oprah's other experts), stop publishing/writing on topics at which they are failures, slither off into the sunset and just go away for good.

That is integrity.

Incidentally, there is one truth among all this drivel of hers.

"All you have to do is…eat less!"

If this means fewer Calories in than out, then she is right.

And what is most important is that you do not need their sh**ty book in order to do that.

Complain to the FTC about her, Bob, Mehmet, Michael, David and Jorge, so it will get these IMHO parasites out from the broadcast media.

The sooner the better. Stop them before they harm again.

You can make a difference.

Oprah and Bob Greene Scamming The Public - Again

The headline links to the Oprahcide or Death By Oprah website.

This link will take you to the Jail For Oprah website where you will find FTC complaints filed re:

Oprah and Bob and

Oprah and her diet expert's books and

Oprah, Jorge Cruise and David Katz.

Here is a picture of Bob and an Oprah that never existed in reality:



I am clear that, IMHO, Oprah and Bob are two of the leaders in the nutritional homicide movement. There are others, like Mehmet Oz, IMHO.

But what is so grossly apparently dishonest, is the Photoshopped image of AdipOprah.

Her entry into the fitness/weight loss domain is like the book Animal Farm.

The pig is in charge.

She claims to be all about integrity, but it is clear to me that she is a dishonest person who has a profit-motivated integrity of convenience that is basically the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help her Photoshop.

This is how Oprah really looks.

Big and fat and with chinny chin chins.

And big thighs and fat ass.

To see more images of AdipOprah and how she really looks following Bob's and Oprah's Best Life Diet, go:

here

here

here

here

here

here

The images above cover the period of time from around the release of their book, December 26, 2006, until just about the present.



But when you are a whore for the money, well, truth in extra-large packaging goes out the door.

However, "Sale Pricing" does not.

Here is a new "deal" Bob and The Killer Queen of Daytime TV are offering.



One look at the real Oprah - same faked image.

One look at the real Oprah - same doomed to fail advice.

One look at the real Oprah - same guaranteed to make you poorer and them richer scam.

This is how The Best Life Diet is described at amazon.com:

"From the bestselling author of Get With the Program! and Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover comes The Best Life Diet, a lifetime plan for losing weight and keeping it off. Bob Greene helped Oprah achieve her dramatic weight loss, and he can help you too. You'll eat the same delicious food that Oprah enjoys, and, just like Oprah, you'll have Bob to encourage you at every step."

Just like he did for Oprah! (see images and image links above, in case you have forgotten how good Bob is and/or how fat Oprah is)

Shame on her.

She should be ashamed but I suspect she is not.

If she ever had an ounce of shame, it has likely been replaced by pounds of fat.

In Oprah's own words:

"Excerpt from The Best Life Diet (sic) - by Oprah Winfrey

You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth. Every unwanted pound creates another layer of lies."

Right.

And Oprah is the multi-layered liar.

Laughing all the way to the bank with your money.

To find out more about what I believe is going on, read the FTC complaint filed regarding her and Bob. It is available here.

Consumer Reports - Profile In Incompetence (Update)

Today is July 14, 2009. No response from CR since June 11, 2007.

Here is a chronicle of my communications with Consumer Reports re: their June 2007 cover story on "Rating the Diets."

The quality of their work is, IMHO, shamefully shoddy and their analytical skills fatally flawed - just like diet programs.

Of particular interest is CR's response, via a Mr. Harzewski speaking for the Editors.

Read it all.

Then, you decide.

To me, these folks are dangerously incompetent.

Caveat subscriber.

To access all the Fitness Rants, click here.

New Report Finds American Obesity Rates Climb Again - Fruits & Vegetables Important To Combating Obesity

Nope. Only eating fewer Calories than you burn is "important to combating obesity."

"Adult obesity rates did not decrease in a single state over the past year, but rather increased in 23 states. Also, the percentage of obese and overweight children is now at or above 30 percent in 30 states...

Elizabeth Pivonka is a Registered Dietitian and CEO of Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH), the nonprofit entity behind the Fruits & Veggies-More Matters® national public health initiative..."

Ah, a paid bias.

Who could have seen that coming?

"'Don't feel like you need to give your diet a complete overhaul right away. Sometimes big changes are difficult to stick to. If you can only make one diet change right now you're best option is to add just one extra serving of fruit or vegetables each day. You'll find you won't need to eat as much of other foods when you do.'"

Don't feel like you EVER need to give your diet a complete overhaul.

That prospect is daunting for many people.

And don't rush into "exercise," either.

Just cut back on the Calories a small amount.

But only if you want to succeed.

Then, with some success out from under your belt, you can make some additional changes.

And add a training program.

Nearly Two Thirds Of Adults In UK Don't Do Enough Exercise, Survey

Yeah, so what?

"A survey of UK adults found that nearly two thirds are risking their health by not doing enough exercise and putting themselves at greater risk of potentially fatal illnesses like cancer, heart disease and stroke.

The Opinium Research survey was conducted in April this year for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) thorugh an online poll of 2,084 UK adults. A regional breakdown is published on the CSP website.

Despite overwhelming evidence that exercise is essential to health, helps fight obesity and reduces people's risk of developing chronic and life threatening disease, it appears that the 63 per cent of UK adults know they are putting their health at risk by not doing enough exercise."

That'll scare 'em.

Not.

Recall that these are the same people who would rather die than "exercise."

Older People Benefit From Progressive Resistance Strength Training

Yep - training is what it is all about. Not "exercise."

"Progressive resistance strength training not only helps older adults become stronger but also makes their everyday life easier, a Cochrane Review suggests.

Muscle strength decreases naturally as people age. This reduction in muscle strength could affect older adults carrying out daily activities. Progressive resistance strength training is a type of strength training that uses free weights, exercise machines, or elastic bands to strengthen muscles. Key to this type of this (sic) exercise is adjusting the resistance, or weight, according to the person's progress. This exercise can be prescribed to help older adults gain the strength necessary to carry out everyday activities such as walking, climbing stairs, bathing or doing housework."

Go for it if you value your independence.

Obesity a risk factor in swine flu?

Well, duh. It is pig flu, after all.

"Some swine flu cases in Michigan are raising questions about obesity's role in why some people with infections become seriously ill.

A high proportion of those who have gotten severely ill from swine flu have been obese or extremely obese, but health officials have said that might be due to the fact that heavy people tend to have asthma and other conditions that make them more susceptible. Obesity alone has never been seen as a risk factor for seasonal flu.

But in a report released Friday, health officials detailed the cases of 10 Michigan patients who were very sick from swine flu in late May and early June and ended up at a specialized hospital in Ann Arbor. Three of them died.

Nine of the 10 were either obese or extremely obese. Only three of the 10 had other health problems. Two of the three that died had no other health conditions."

Despite this, and all the other evidence of the deleterious effects of porkulence, I am willing to bet that the swines among us will do nothing to shed the pounds.

Study Links Nitrosamines to Mortality in Diabetes, Other Diseases

Now they are bad again. (e.g., good, bad, good, bad)

"Rising mortality rates for diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease in recent decades parallel increased exposure to nitrosamines in the food supply and environment, researchers found.

Nitrosamines, nitrates, and nitrites can induce DNA damage, oxidative stress, cell death, and cancer, and they have been associated with insulin resistance, according to Suzanne de la Monte, MD, MPH, of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and colleagues.

Insulin resistance is a characteristic of normal aging, as well as of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. Rates of these diseases have increased so rapidly in recent decades that genetics likely can't explain what is happening, the researchers said in the July issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

'Epidemiological trends support exposure rather than genetic causes of these diseases,' they said.

They proposed that exposure to nitrates, nitrites, and nitrosamines -- through the food supply, smoking, and use of products such as fertilizers -- might be to blame...

Some nitrosamines are deliberately added to foods for various reasons. Sodium nitrite, for instance is added to meat and fish to prevent toxin production by Clostridium botulinum. It's also used to preserve, color, and flavor meats."

Nutritional doublethink.

Still think they have any idea what a "healthy food" is?

Memory Impairment In Alzheimer's Reversed By Caffeine In Mouse Model

Caffeine is good again!

"Coffee drinkers may have another reason to pour that extra cup. When aged mice bred to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease were given caffeine - the equivalent of five cups of coffee a day - their memory impairment was reversed, report University of South Florida researchers at the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center."

Or maybe not...

Caffeine is healthy
Caffeine is unhealthy
Caffeine is healthy
Caffeine is unhealthy

Still think they have any idea what a "healthy" food is?

More doublethink.

Updated Position Paper On Vegetarian Diets Released By The American Dietetic Association

Terrible news for vegetarians.

"The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on vegetarian diets that concludes such diets, if well-planned, are healthful and nutritious for adults, infants, children and adolescents and can help prevent and treat chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes."

Besides the facts that is the 21st century ("hello-o") and the ADA is just now "updating" it's position to "approve" of vegetarianism, any diet that is "well-planned," by definition, is "healthful and nutritious."

N'est-ce pas?

Morons.

But the real bad news is that dietitians, like docs, the government and others are also sources of the bad diet advice that prevents people from succeeding at weight loss.

If these folks endorse/approve of something, one has to look it twice, and very carefully each time, since they are so very wrong about the fundamentals.

The one saving grace for vegetarians is that, statistically speaking, when enough monkeys at keyboards type for long enough, one of them is bound to eventually write Shakespeare.

This may be that moment for the simians at the ADA.

Fatty Liver Disease Responds to Extra Exercise

But fat people don't.

"Increasing physical activity may improve liver and metabolic manifestations of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) independent of weight loss, a randomized clinical trial revealed.

Even small changes, such as an extra hour per week of exercise, resulted in significant reductions in ferritin, aspartate and alanine aminotransferases, and gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (P<0.05>

These effects, as well as the improvements in insulin resistance and other metabolic parameters, remained after adjustment for changes in weight, the researchers reported in the July issue of Hepatology."

Why do what is simple when you can be a burden to everyone else?

Fatheads.

What's in that bottle? Congress says water unclear

The beverage choice of idiots.

"Bottled water makers make millions off people who believe their products are purer than tap water, but consumers do not realize that they are less regulated than plain old tap water, according to a U.S. Congressional report released on Wednesday."

Yup.

And how stupid are the bottled water imbibers?

"'Americans are willing to pay top dollar for bottled water, which costs up to 1,900 times more than tap water and uses up to 2,000 times more energy to produce and deliver,' Michigan Representative Bart Stupak told the hearing."

But these same morons are probably unwilling to pay for their own sick care whining for government (read public) money to make them "healthy" after proving that they make bad choices.

"Joseph Doss, president and chief executive officer of the International Bottled Water Association, told the hearing that Americans drank 8.7 billion gallons (33 billion liters) of water in 2008, or 28.5 gallons (108 liters) per person.

'Sales revenues for the United States bottled water market in 2008 were approximately $11.2 billion,' Doss said. 'Bottled water consumption is about half that of carbonated soft drinks and only slightly ahead of milk and beer. (sic)...

Stupak pointed out some of the claims by bottled water makers.

'Aquamantra uses the design on its labels to affect the molecular structure of California natural spring water to make it more refreshing and wholesome to drink,' one company's website claims.

Poland Springs water talks about a polio victim who lived 52 years more after drinking water from its spring."

The next time you hear some s*ithead bottled water drinker bitching about how bad their personal economy is, do us all a favor and whup 'em upside the head.

Can Employee Weight Tip the Balance Sheets?

More acknowledgement from the Feds that fat people should not be hired.

"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled a free Web site application last week called LEANWorks designed to motivate employers to start healthy living programs and weight loss measures for their employees.

Yet, a keystone to the LEANWorks program, the "obesity cost calculator" for companies to estimate how much their obese and overweight employees cost them each year, has started a debate between some public health experts and size discrimination activists."

"Size discrimination activists."

The debate, of course, has frequent stops and starts as time-outs are taken for feedings.

Still...

Fat employees are more expensive employees.

"In 2000, the total cost (direct and indirect) attributable to obesity was estimated to be $117 billion, and between 1987 and 2001, diseases associated with obesity accounted for 27 percent of the increases in medical costs. Medical expenses for obese employees are estimated to be between 29 percent and 117 percent greater than medical expenses for employees with a healthy weight."

If fatsos want to be hired, clearly it should be at a reduced pay.

Since they cost more, pay them less.

That evens the compensation playing field and removes the discrimination against the fit.

The real problem here is not admitting the greater cost of the fat, it is the advocacy of a doomed to fail approach for employers to take.

"The CDC assessed a number of businesses to identify promising worksite programs that incorporate nutrition and physical activity using SWAT methodology. Small and medium worksite programs that met both business and public health goals were identified and selected based on six criteria-innovativeness, data quality, effectiveness, sustainability, public health relevance, and feasibility.

The following are some examples of successful worksite obesity prevention programs."

Here is a poster child for a case study that worked!

See what I mean?

More Loneliness, Anxiety Experienced By Overweight Kids, MU Study Finds

Another recognized consequence of nutritional child abuse.

"As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of Missouri study has found that overweight children, especially girls, show signs of the negative consequences of being overweight as early as kindergarten.

'We found that both boys and girls who were overweight from kindergarten through third grade displayed more depression, anxiety and loneliness than kids who were never overweight, and those negative feelings worsened over time,' said Sara Gable, associate professor of human development and family studies in the MU College of Human Environmental Sciences. 'Overweight is widely considered a stigmatizing condition and overweight individuals are typically blamed for their situation. The experience of being stigmatized often leads to negative feelings, even in children.'"

Now why would a kid like this feel lonely or anxious?

You can sit around all day wringing your hands, lamenting and moaning about the matter, but none of that will work.

This will.

Take action.

Health Secretary Says New Mexico Must Address Serious Obesity Problem

This is a press release, voluntarily released (as if they should be proud of it), and exemplifies why we are losing the battle of losing weight.

"In response to Trust for America's Health "F as in Fat" report released today, Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil, MD, said New Mexico needs to continue to strengthen its obesity-prevention efforts to address a serious problem with obesity. The report details obesity rates by states and discusses effective state policies and programs.

'We must take the problem of obesity seriously and continue to help individuals develop healthy eating and activity habits so we can prevent our obesity rate from rising further,' Dr. Vigil said.

New Mexico's adult obesity rate is 24.6 percent from 2006-2008, a 1.1 percent increase since 2005-2007, according to the national report. The report examined rates for diabetes, adult and childhood obesity, hypertension, physical activity levels and poverty. In all categories except for poverty, New Mexico ranked in the middle of states and was not among the top 10 best or worst states. New Mexico has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country."

Here you have a state that increased its fatso rate and is going to "continue to help individuals develop healthy eating and activity habits."

"Continue"?

You have failed at what you are doing why would you want to "continue" an unsuccessful approach?

I know.

Because you, like the rest, are an idiot.

However, at least the others kept quiet about their stupidity.

"The report also highlighted legislation and policies that can curb obesity rates. Governor Bill Richardson implemented nutrition rules for school vending machines and food sold in schools in 2005. He has made obesity prevention a priority in his administration."

Well what do you expect from the same state that brought us Bill Richardson?

Self-help 'makes you feel worse'

Yep. Which is how the IMHO crooks like Oprah and her diet/fitness experts operate.

It is a confidence game.

"Bridget Jones is not alone in turning to self-help mantras to boost her spirits, but a study warns they may have the opposite effect.

Canadian researchers found those with low self-esteem actually felt worse after repeating positive statements about themselves."

Which is why the Killer Queen of Daytime TV has to resort to excuses about her thyroid (which is almost certainly untrue) or her depression to lie her way out of why she is such a big, fat cow despite all the trappings that come with extreme wealth.

"A UK psychologist said people based their feelings about themselves on real evidence from their lives."

When all is said and done, after wasting hour after hour listening to the Cow and others of her species, e.g., The View, fans are still fat, unhappy, depressed suckers.

The same is true for the IMHO criminally dishonest "love yourself no matter what" advocates.

It does not and will not work.

"The researchers, from the University of Waterloo and the University of New Brunswick, asked people with high and low self-esteem to say 'I am a lovable person.'

They then measured the participants' moods and their feelings about themselves.

In the low self-esteem group, those who repeated the mantra felt worse afterwards compared with others who did not.

However people with high self-esteem felt better after repeating the positive self-statement - but only slightly.

The psychologists then asked the study participants to list negative and positive thoughts about themselves.

They found that, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts.

Writing in the journal, the researchers suggest that, like overly positive praise, unreasonably positive self-statements, such as 'I accept myself completely,' can provoke contradictory thoughts in individuals with low self-esteem.

Such negative thoughts can overwhelm the positive thoughts.

If people are instructed to focus exclusively on positive thoughts, negative thoughts might be especially discouraging."

The inconvenient truth is that the truth will win in the short run and people trying to fool themselves will quickly lose (not the weight) - over and over again.

If you need more data to move you to reality, just surf any of the fat person websites and see how many of them longed to be thinner and fitter and "healthier," trying for years only to remain failures. Then and only then did they come to the false epiphany of "self-love" is what will cure them.

And now they struggle to love their fat, unfit and sick selves.

This self-love tripe is the type of crap IMHO TV/media fitness/weight loss/self-help charlatans like Dr. Phil, Jorge Cruise, David Katz, Mehmet Oz, Michael Roizen, Bob Greene, Kelly Brownell and their ilk foist on a all too eager to believe public.

Ditto for the politicians, at all levels, where the ranks are engorged with people who plainly and simply are rank.

"The researchers, led by psychologist Joanne Wood, said: 'Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most.'"

Right.

I covered this years ago in the very first version of Why Diets Fail.

So, again, you are left with a choice:

Do you follow sh*t or do you follow what works?

Try to make the right choice.

Your life and the value of your life depend on it.

Rebound Acid Reflux with PPIs May Induce Dependence

Still think they have any idea what a safe drug is?

"Popular antacids known as proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, may cause or aggravate the very acid-reflux symptoms they're used to treat, according to a new study.

After two months of taking esomeprazole (Nexium), 44 percent of healthy volunteers who started with no symptoms developed significant heartburn, acid reflux or dyspepsia, compared with 15 percent who took a harmless placebo, the scientists reported in the July issue of Gastroenterology.

Worse, this apparent "rebound" acid secretion could lead to dependence on the drugs, according to the research team led by Dr. Peter Bytzer of Copenhagen University in Denmark.

PPIs are among the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide, with doctors in the United States writing 113.4 million prescriptions for the drugs last year, according to the health care information company IMS Health. The class includes drugs such as Prilosec, Nexium and Prevacid."

And some of these things moved from the prescription-only domain to the OTC realm.

You can bet that the IMHO malpractice of fat person diet drugs will continue to reveal more and more complications as time passes.

Really.

Better to lose the weight properly and on your own than having drugs involved.

Cutting Calories May Be Key To Evolutionary Fitness

Animals are smarter than fat people and care more about their offspring.

"Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful and produce as many offspring as this would allow them to. However, recent research has shown that, even when food is abundant, energy intake reaches a limit, even in animals with high nutrient demands, such as lactating females. Scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Vienna suggest that this is due to active control of maternal investment in offspring in order to maintain long-term reproductive fitness."

No surprise.

As you descend the evolutionary chain (though an argument can be made that fat people are throwbacks but if you try to throw them back you will likely throw out your back) there is evidence of animals making an "investment in offspring in order to maintain long-term reproductive fitness," which human parents are too uncaring to make.

Wanna shed the pounds?

You have to make an "active investment" in consuming fewer Calories than you eat.

Period.

There is and there will never be any other way until the physical laws of the universe change, which is really unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Five Communities Selected For Alabama Physical Activity And Nutrition Grant

Heaven help them.

"Five Alabama communities have been selected to receive grants of $3,000 each to stimulate community-based physical activity and nutrition programs to reduce risks for overweight and obesity. Receiving funding will be Anniston, Birmingham, Greensboro, Millbrook and Montgomery.

Alabama was selected as one of eight states to receive funds through the Balancing InTake and Expenditure grant from the Chronic Disease Directors Association in early 2009.

Dr. Donald Williamson, state health officer, said, "The funding will be applied to stimulate community-based physical activity and nutrition program planning, implementation, reporting and evaluation to reduce risks for overweight and obesity."

The Alabama Obesity Task Force money was received by the Alabama Department of Public Health and was distributed by the State Obesity Task Force. Members from the Obesity Task Force were instrumental in reviewing submitted applications and selecting recipients.

Fred Smith, with the Walking Club of Jacksonville State University, will use the money to expand current activities. Smith says, 'The Jacksonville State University Walking Club is pleased to partner with the Alabama Department of Public Health on the BITE grant in partnership with local agencies and the communities in the development and acceptance of wellness and health education.'

Bree Garrett, with the Jefferson County Childhood Obesity Task Force in Birmingham, plans to heighten awareness through the development of more promotion materials for local urban farm and low-income inner-city residents."

They are about to fail as all other similarly misdirected efforts have and will.

With initiatives like these, Mississippi is in jeopardy of losing its coveted Number One position.

Exercise Helps Patients With Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Another misdirected effort based on the clearly, 100% unfounded belief that fat people give a bigger damn about healing themselves than they do about robbing the rest of us for money to pay for their caloric irresponsibility.

"NAFLD is the most common form of chronic liver disease in developed countries. It is associated with the metabolic syndrome, which also includes obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, and is characterized by elevated liver enzymes."

I.e., NAFLD is a disease of fat people.

"The patients in the intervention arms worked with exercise scientists who provided individually tailored counseling on how to increase both planned and incidental physical activity. Walking was the main type of exercise discussed and patients were encouraged to be active for at least 150 minutes per week.

After three months, participants in the intervention groups were nine times more likely to have increased their physical activity by an hour or more per week, compared to patients in the control group. Those who were active for more than 150 minutes per week, and those who increased their level of fitness, also showed improvements in liver enzymes and other metabolic indices. The effect was independent of weight loss."

After tying up "exercise scientists" for 3 full months and "who provided individually tailored counseling on how to" walk for 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week, all they had to show for it was a change in blood tests.

No data were presented to show that it made any other difference.

Suggestion - if you ever go to a doctor who treats a test and not a patient, find another doc.

Also, no data were presented to show that after all these squandered efforts and wasted resources the formerly sessile fat people continued their walking.

Another example of crap research.

Let the calorically irresponsible enjoy the results of their behavior and stop inutile endeavors to help those who do not want it or who claim to want it and then waste it.

Wise up!

Mom's Weight During Pregnancy Affects Her Daughter's Risk Of Being Obese

Kudos, fatsos. More early child abuse.

"A mother's weight and the amount she gains during pregnancy both impact her daughter's risk of obesity decades later, according to a new study by Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine."

Stop the child abuse.