As Walmart announced plans today to label certain foods with a new green "Great for You" label, some diet and nutrition experts told ABC News they applauded the move, while others questioned whether a company that sells food could set objective standards for what is healthy.As if assh**es who sell "healthy foods" advice can be objective.
Taste receptors on the tongue help us distinguish between safe food and food that's spoiled or toxic. But taste receptors are now being found in other organs, too. In a study published online the week of February 6 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) discovered that beta cells in the pancreas use taste receptors to sense fructose, a type of sugar. According to the study, the beta cells respond to fructose by secreting insulin, a hormone that regulates the body's response to dietary sugar...Taste buds?
Using human and mouse pancreatic cells, Tyrberg, along with postdoctoral researchers George Kyriazis, Ph.D. and Mangala Soundarapandian, Ph.D., found that fructose activates sweet taste receptors on beta cells. Together with glucose, fructose helps amplify insulin release. To substantiate this observation, the team took a look at cells genetically engineered to lack the taste receptor gene. Without the gene, fructose did not stimulate insulin release, underscoring the role beta cell taste receptors play in insulin signaling.
As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success. A recent article published in The Journal of Black Psychology (a journal from the Association of Black Psychologists, published by SAGE) finds that African American women beginning a new group weight loss program are more successful if they are less experienced with weight management and if the program meets in a church.Believe it.
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.Liar.
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.
"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.You can check out the Exhibits here.
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."
"All you have to do is work out harder and eat less! Get your 10,000 steps in!"What to do?
"All you have to do is…eat less!"If this means fewer Calories in than out, then she is right.
The images above cover the period of time from around the release of their book, December 26, 2006, until just about the present.
"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)
"Excerpt from The Best Life Diet (sic) - by Oprah WinfreyRight.
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."
The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, researchers say.And the rest of us get to pay for it.
The Newcastle University study, published in the journal Diabetologia, analysed data from more than 400,000 pregnancies in North East England.
The risk of defects such as congenital heart disease and spina bifida were increased.
National guidelines already recommend having good control over blood sugar levels before trying to conceive.
Both Type 1 diabetes, which tends to appear in childhood, and Type 2 diabetes, often linked to diet, lead to problems controlling the amount of sugar in the blood.
This is known to cause problems in pregnancy, such as birth defects, miscarriage and the baby being overweight due to too much sugar.
There is concern that rising levels of diabetes, particularly Type 2, could make the issue worse.
Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.Or not really?
Forty-four percent of salt consumed can be linked to 10 types of foods, CDC said. Bread and rolls lead the list followed by cold cuts and cured meat, pizza, poultry, soups, sandwiches, cheese, pasta dishes, meat dishes and snacks such as pretzels and potato chips.
Bread may not have much salt in a single serving, but when eaten several times a day can raise daily salt intake. A single slice of white bread could contain as many as 230 milligrams of salt, according to the CDC.
Soy isoflavone supplements did not decrease breast cancer cell proliferation in a randomized clinical trial, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.Or is it dummies?
Maintaining or improving current fitness levels, as well as not packing on the fat pounds, are both independently associated with a lower risk of developing hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and hypercholesterolemia in healthy adults, research shows.To learn how to train and get fitter, see here, here, here and here.
"We know that people who exercise will lose weight and improve their fitness, but in the real world, some people don't lose weight even though they might gain some fitness," Dr Duck-chul Lee (University of South Carolina, Columbia) told heartwire . "Some of these people might stop exercising because they expected to lose weight and haven't, but this study shows that they should also be aware about their changes in fitness. Even though they don't lose weight, if they increase their fitness, they can offset some of the negative effects of being overweight."
The lights have dimmed on Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN, site of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, just as new data suggest that retired National Football League (NFL) players have a lower rate of deaths from all-causes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease when compared with the general US population [1].The key is to get or remain trim.
That said, the reduction in mortality and cardiovascular disease was observed in the smaller players--defensive backs, punters, kickers, quarterbacks, and wide receivers, as well as fullbacks, halfbacks, running backs, tight ends, and linebackers. For the true giants of the gridiron, the linemen, the players often weighing 300 lbs or more, cardiovascular disease mortality was not significantly reduced compared with the US population. The study looked at athletes who were playing professionally 15 to 50 years ago.
"Size continues to be an important factor for these players as it is for the general population," lead researcher Dr Sherry Baron (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH) told heartwire .
Ninety percent of Americans eat too much salt every day, and the top food offenders include cheeseburgers, pizza, bread, deli meat and potato chips, US health officials said on Tuesday.Remember that those recommendations are under attack.
The average American eats about 3,300 milligrams of sodium per day, and that does not include salt added from the shaker on the table, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vital Signs report.
US guidelines recommend that people limit sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams per day.
The monetary burden of child abuse in the United States rivals that of other major health problems such as diabetes and stroke, according to researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).You can bet that these numbers are mostly for non-nutritional abuse.
The lifetime medical costs for each maltreated child in 2008 averaged $210,012 (in 2010 dollars), outstripping that of type 2 diabetes (range, $181,000 - $253,000) and stroke ($159,486). Costs associated with each fatal case were even higher ($1,272,900), resulting in a low-end conservative estimate of $124 billion in total lifetime economic burden.
"Compared with other health problems, the burden of [child maltreatment] is substantial, even after conservative assumptions are used," write CDC researcher Xiangming Fang, PhD, and colleagues in an article published online January 31 in Child Abuse and Neglect.
Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has very little effect on glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not using insulin. In a review of data from 9 trials of SMBG involving 2324 participants, any effect on HbA1c levels was found to occur only in the first 6 months, during which time the HbA1c level decreased by 0.26% (95% confidence interval [CI], -0.39 to -0.13). Data from 2 trials involving 493 participants showed that the effect of SMBG was no longer significant at 12 months follow-up, with a decrease in HbA1c levels of 0.1% (95% CI, -0.3 to 0.04).The rest of us should stop being so stupid and refuse to pay for fat people's illnesses of choice.
Uriell L. Malanda, MD, and colleagues from the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam reviewed 12 studies involving 3259 patients with diabetes who are not insulin-dependent. The results are published in the latest issue of the Cochrane Library. "Regular self-monitoring of blood glucose in non-insulin-treated patients has minimal impact on glycemic control, has no impact on general well-being or quality of life, and is rather expensive," Dr. Malanda explained in a press release. "Consequently, it does not add to a clinically relevant long-term benefit."
Women who took pomegranate seed oil pills to relieve symptoms of the menopause, such as hot flashes, were found to receive no significantly better benefits than those who were given a placebo pill which contained sunflower oil, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna wrote in the journal Menopause. The authors added that theirs is the first (albeit small) proper clinical trial to test pomegranate seed oil for the symptoms of menopause.Oops.
A small experiment in which photographs of vegetables were placed in the tray compartments for school lunches has had some success in boosting vegetable intake in one US elementary school [1].I have dealt with Traci Mann before. See here.
Dr Maria Reicks (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) and colleagues say in their research letter in the February 1, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that cardiovascular risk factors related to obesity often take root in childhood, so convincing children to eat more healthily is a major goal of the public-health community.
They compared school lunches on two days--one a control day where lunch was served as normal, and the second an intervention day where the photos were used. Other than adding the photos to the trays, cafeteria procedures were otherwise identical, and the same meal was served on both days.
Coauthor psychologist Dr Traci Mann (University of Minnesota), told heartwire that she doesn't think this specific intervention has been tried before and that the inspiration came from an experiment where supermarket trolleys were divided into compartments and labeled, which was successful in persuading shoppers to buy more fruits and vegetables.
Doctors who are normal weight are more likely to give patients advice on diet and exercise, according to a new study.Except for the morons who worship AdipOprah, who wants the fat leading the fat?
Heart failure is associated with a decline in mental function and loss of gray matter in the brain, which may make it more difficult for patients to follow instructions regarding their medication, a new Australian study has found [1].And guess who is more likely to have heart failure - a fatso or an intended-size human?
Lead author Prof Osvaldo Almeida (University of Western Australia, Perth), commented to heartwire : "The regions of the brain that showed loss of gray matter are believed to be important for memory, reasoning, and planning. They are also consistent with the possibility that patients with heart failure may have trouble following complex management strategies."
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's warned it may downgrade "a number of highly rated" Group of 20 countries from 2015 if their governments fail to enact reforms to curb rising healthcare spending and other costs related to aging populations.That is the only reform that is needed.
Negative social interactions may increase proinflammatory cytokine reactivity, new research suggests. When chronic, this reactivity has been associated with hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, depression, and some cancers.Wonder what amount of stress is associated with being a frigggin' weenie.
In a prospective study of more than 100 healthy young adults, stressful or "hostile" interactions during daily living were associated with increased levels of the cytokines IL-6 and soluble receptor for tumor necrosis factor-α (sTNFαRII).
Significant levels of increased inflammation were also found after the participants engaged in competitive interactions, such as in school, the workplace, or even for another's attention, but not in leisure-time activities such as sports.
"Our findings about negative and competitive interactions were pretty much what we expected. But when we broke down the types of competitive activities, we were surprised that leisure activities didn't fall into this heightened inflammation group," lead author Jessica Chiang, doctoral student in health psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Medscape Medical News.
She noted that having a few of these negative or competitive social interactions "is not going to be detrimental to health." However, if these interactions are experienced day in and day out, they can add to a patient's stress burden.
Americans are eating unhealthy amounts of sugar, and excess sugar should be regulated like alcohol and tobacco, say researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.And it will always be right.
"We are now seeing the toxic downside [of excess sugar intake]," Robert H. Lustig, MD, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment, tells WebMD. "There has to be some sort of societal intervention. We cannot do it on our own because sugar is addictive. Personal intervention is necessary, but not sufficient."
His views on regulating sugar are published as a commentary in the journal Nature.
Regulating Sugar: Industry Weigh-In
WebMD asked the Sugar Association, an industry group, to review the recommendations.
Charles Baker, PhD, the association's chief scientific officer, responded by email. "When the full body of science is evaluated during a major review, experts continue to conclude that sugar intake is not a causative factor in any disease, including obesity," he says.
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.Instead of replacing one "burden" with another (taxing the calorically responsible), let's just burden the calorically irresponsible with the results of their irresposibility, i.e., tax fat person items and have them pay for the real costs of their sick care.
U.S. government spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs will more than double over the next decade to $1.8 trillion, or 7.3% of the country's total economic output, congressional researchers said on Tuesday.It is not the aging of the population.
In its annual budget and economic outlook, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said that even under its most conservative projections, healthcare spending would rise by 8% a year from 2012 to 2022, mainly as a result of an aging U.S. population and rising treatment costs. It will continue to be a key driver of the U.S. budget deficit.
A new study strengthens the association of long-term use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) with increased risk for hip fracture in postmenopausal women, particularly those who smoke.Just as they will with the IMHO malpractice known as fat person drugs.
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