Overweight Women Need More Exercise To Maintain Weight Loss

Insane. Moron alert!

"A study published in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine finds that overweight and obese women need to do more than just limit calories in order to sustain a 10 percent weight loss over two years: they also need to exercise 55 minutes per day, five days per week."

One only needs to "exercise" to maintain weight loss if one overconsumes Calories and then needs to burn them off.

There is and there cannot be and there never will be any other reason.

"The study, conducted by John M. Jakicic, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues, calculated the amount of exercise needed by studying 201 overweight and obese women who enrolled in a weight loss intervention between 1999 and 2003. After all women were instructed to eat 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day, the researchers divided them into one of four physical activity groups: one group burned 1,000 calories per week, one burned 2,000 calories per week, one experienced moderate intensity, and the last experiences vigorous intensity. The women also attended group meetings that discussed strategies for changing eating and exercise habits and received telephone calls with the intervention team over the two-years of the study."

And herein lies part of the problem - starvation dieting. (see here, here, here and here)

Compounding the starvation diet, is the burning of the extra Calories making the effective net caloric intake even lower.

"Results at the end of six months showed an average weight loss of 8 to 10% of initial body weight for women in all four groups. Maintenance of this weight loss, however, proved more difficult. At the end of two years, the average women's weight was about 5% lower than initial body weight, and there was no significant difference among the four groups."

Of course "maintenance proved more difficult" since these women only learned how to starve, not control their weight.

"Of all the women, 24.6% managed to sustain a weight loss of at least 10% o percent of initial body weight over two years. These women were more physically active than those who lost less weight, burning an average of 1,835 calories per week or having exercised 275 minutes per week more than baseline activity levels. In addition, this group of maintainers completed more telephone calls with the intervention team, practiced healthier eating behaviors designed for weight control, and ingested a smaller amount of dietary fat.

'This clarifies the amount of physical activity that should be targeted for achieving and sustaining this magnitude of weight loss, but also demonstrates the difficulty of sustaining this level of physical activity,' conclude the authors. 'Research is needed to improve long-term compliance with this targeted level of physical activity. Moreover, continued contact with the intervention staff and the ability to sustain recommended eating behaviors also may be important contributing factors to maintaining a significant weight loss that exceeds 10 percent of initial body weight, which suggests that physical activity does not function independently of these other behaviors.'"

All this "clarifies," is how foolish this research conclusion is and how little the experts know about proper weight loss.

To understand what you should do to succeed, go here, here, here and here.

Diabetes triples women's risk for birth defects

Kudos, fatsos.

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

"Women who have diabetes before becoming pregnant are about three times as likely as other women to have a baby with at least one birth defect, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

A variety of different birth defects are associated with mothers who have type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes, or type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease that is linked to obesity, the researchers said...

But Correa said some cases diagnosed as gestational diabetes may actually be type 2 diabetes that simply had gone unrecognized until the pregnancy."

More early child abuse.

Stop these people.

Eating CLA-Enriched Cookies Increases Levels Of Beneficial Fatty Acids In Breast Milk

Your breast milk is not good enough.

"Have a cookie before breast-feeding, mom? Eating special cookies enriched with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) can increase the level of these potentially healthful fatty acids in breast milk, reports a recent study in the journal Nutrition Research."

Better to enhance it with a product.

Do it for yourself.

Do it for your kids.

Do it for the sick care industry's bottom line.

RCN Supports Call For National Campaign To Tackle Obesity, UK

Sick care right on the ball and ahead of the curve again.

"The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) welcomed the Government's calls for all health charities, retailers, the health profession and community action groups to join in a national campaign to tackle obesity in the United Kingdom.

Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said:

'Obesity is this country's single biggest health issue and is threatening the health and wellbeing of the (sic) two thirds of adults, and a third of children, who are overweight or obese...'"

Those sick care professionals are good, damn good.

Just as good as they are in the USA.

Negative Effects On Bones After Weight Loss Persist Through Weight Maintenance

Really?

"When a person is losing a significant amount of weight, they expect to notice changes in their body. However, they may overlook changes happening in their bones. During weight loss through calorie-restricted diets, bones are being remodeled - breaking down old bone and forming new bone - at an accelerated rate. At the same time, bone density is decreasing, causing increased fragility. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher and collaborators at the University of Kansas found that the potentially harmful effects of weight loss on bone persist during weight maintenance following moderate weight loss."

Then there is this:

"'From this study alone, it is impossible to determine the consequences of accelerated bone remodeling during weight maintenance,' Hinton said. 'Because bone strength adapts to match skeletal load, body weight is one of the strongest predictors of bone mass. People planning on losing a significant amount of weight should consider incorporating high-impact weight-bearing physical activity into their exercise routine and consuming adequate calcium to improve bone health.'"

So where are the "negative effects"? (except maybe from the "high-impact" activity)

Right or wrong, either way, train to improve your muscles, bones and more.

Soft Drinks And Fruit Drinks And Risk For Diabetes In African-American Women Linked By Study

Get them out of the study and break the link.

"Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in African-American women. These findings appear in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine."

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

"The researchers note that while there has been increasing public awareness of the adverse health effects of soft drinks, little attention has been given to fruit drinks, which often are marketed as a healthier alternative to soft drinks.

'Fruit drinks were consumed more frequently than soft drinks in our study, and the proportion of total energy intake from fruit drinks in the U.S. population doubled from 1977 to 2001,' said lead author Julie Palmer, ScD, a professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. 'The public should be made aware that these drinks are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks with regard to risk of type 2 diabetes,' she added."

You do not get fat from fruit drinks, soft drinks, etc.

You get fat from more Calories in than out.

Population-Based Prevention of Obesity

Almost one month ago, in the July 22 issue of Circulation, the magazine of the American Heart Association, sick care, at least this segment of it, surrendered to the overweight/obesity epidemic and raised the white flag.

Though it did not have the courage to say so publicly, the AHA Scientific Statement included the following. They are but a sampling of the admissions contained in the article. I added the emphasis and some comments after each quote. The comments are in italics.

You decide if these are the words of people who either know what they are doing or those whom you want to have as your leaders. If you think that I went cherry-picking, follow the link in the title and check it out for yourself.

The proportion of adults and children who are obese has reached epidemic proportions, moving steadily away from the Healthy People 2010 goals of 15% prevalence of obesity in adults and 5% prevalence in children. These goals may be beyond our reach for several decades to come.

A clear admission of failure and the protracted nature of the overweight/obesity problem, despite years of sick care involvement.

However, even those overweight people who are able to lose weight are often unable to maintain their weight at that level, and no clear guidance currently exists on definitive strategies to achieve long-term weight loss in the population at large.

There is no maintenance strategy, so even if some people lose weight, the sick care establishment has no plan on how people can keep it off.

Besides the limited long-term success of most obesity treatments, another factor is the limited ability to deliver enough treatment to enough people. We are already unable to deliver obesity treatment services to those who need such services, while the numbers needing treatment are rising.

Success of so-called treatments is limited, i.e., not very good, and these bad treatments cannot, thankfully IMHO, be directly inflicted on more people.

For treatment of obesity, a large reduction in caloric intake of about 500 to 1000 kcal per day, along with increased physical activity, can produce a loss of approximately 8% to 10% of body weight over the relatively short period of about 6 months.

Read here, here, here and here on how this is the IMHO path to nutritional homicide.

The analogy is used to make the point that the clinical approaches in which we are so well trained and perhaps confident can never be sufficient to solve widespread population health problems unless broad-based population strategies are also applied.

Clearly "clinical approaches," i.e., sick care, "can never be sufficient to solve widespread population health problems." If overweight/obesity were truly sick care problems, then the tools of sick care would be sufficient. Think about certain illnesses, i.e., real medical problems. We do not hear of a need to apply a broad-based population strategy for strep throat. Or gallstones. We do not hear of a a broad-based population strategy needed to prevent or treat them.

In contrast to the extensive database available on obesity treatment, research to identify specific interventions to prevent obesity is still at a relatively early stage.

Despite all the decades of talk about diet and exercise, they claim the truth is "research to identify specific interventions to prevent obesity is still at a relatively early stage," i.e., they do not know what to do or what works. Nor will they ever so long as they ignore the controlling fact that overweight/obesity is not a medical problem and is not amenable to the tools of medicine.

Given that the ultimate determinants of obesity are individual eating and physical activity behaviors, the perception that one can solve the problem by refining the ability to help individuals to change their behaviors will persist.

This is a certain admission that no matter what is done in the name of genetic "cure," infectious "cure," hormonal "cure" or any other "cure," none of it matters. Only more Calories in than out does. So why is a single stinking penny being spent on these other non-causes and why isn't the AHA calling for a moratorium on that garbage? If any of these other "interventions" made a difference, "individual eating and physical activity" would not be the "ultimate determinants" of overweight/obesity. Further you cannot overcome any "ultimate determinants" by any other means except changing those behaviors. Period. End.

Although the picture of how to intervene is far from complete, guidance and research recommendations developed by various expert panels, working groups, and systematic reviews have led to an increase in obesity prevention research.

Despite the incompleteness of the picture, the AHA claims there are experts, groups and reviews that have done no better than to increase "research" not solutions. How would they know that they are experts? Maybe what it incomplete in their picture makes them nothing more than idiots on a Quixotic quest. It is not a maybe. And they want to be compensated handsomely for their misguided efforts based on their incomplete "picture of how to intervene."

But what is arguably most damning of all, if you read the article, is the complete abdication of any responsibility to act according to the law and save the children.

These IMHO lawbreakers, cite illness after illness and social/emotional problem after social/emotional problem kids develop from the nutritional child abuse they see and don't once step up to their responsibilities under CAPTA or call for responsible behavior from their colleagues under CAPTA.

They do however, offer ways for them to still profit from the problem they cannot and will never be able to solve.

Call for an end to the duplicity and lawless behavior of the sick care establishment.

Analysis Suggests Menu Labeling Could Help Average California Adult Avoid Over 2 Pounds Of Weight Gain A Year

A Pyrrhic victory.

"The analysis combines findings from two key sources to understand how calories posted on fast-food menu boards could shape the health of California. A 2008 New York City study found that patrons of fast-food restaurants where calorie counts were shown consumed 52 fewer calories per visit. And a 2007 consumer survey shows that California adults who eat at fast-food chains do so an average of 3.4 times per week. Based on conservative math, the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health calculates that menu labeling of calories in California could reduce caloric intake by over 9,000 calories per person annually."

Assuming, of course, that the Calories are not "compensated for" elsewhere.

This is clearly true - that "nutrition professionals" are wrong:

"In just two decades, Americans have fallen in love with eating out, consuming nearly half their calories away from home. Fast-food outlets, according to the analysis, are the largest single source of those meals. Unfortunately, knowledge of the nutrition content of fast food is hard to come by. 'Even nutrition professionals underestimate the calories contained in meals typically available at fast-food restaurants by 200 to 600 calories,' the analysis states."

And this is also true, as Fitness Watch readers have known for years:

"'Weight gain is a simple mathematical formula,' insists Dr. Harold Goldstein of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, a cooperator on the report. 'If you can skim 50 calories off your diet each time you eat out, you are going to reduce your weight gain and might even lose weight...'"

And weight loss is a simple mathematical formula.

It will always be about Calories in vs. Calories out.

However, I contend there is a better, more accurate way for people to lose the weight by employing the remarkable consistency of a fast food establishment's quality control.

Either way, nothing will ever trump Calories in, Calories out.

In Supreme Court Brief, Journal Editors Fault FDA Safety Record

A bit more about the pot calling the kettle black.

Read this short article if you want to experience more thrilling Big Sick Care on Big Sick Care violence.

(The titles to all Fitness Watch blog entries are links to the original articles.)

Then read this to see just how disingenuous the New England Journal of Medicine is IMHO.

Lawsuits help guarantee drug safety, doctors say

Well, the pot is calling the kettle black. Remember that it is the "influential medical journals" that IMHO support executioner medicine. Here is one example.

"Top doctors at the helm of one of the nation's most influential medical journals are giving the Supreme Court some unsolicited legal advice about a major case.

The Food and Drug Administration 'is in no position' to guarantee drug safety, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine said in a friend-of-the-court brief. Lawsuits can serve as 'a vital deterrent' and protect consumers if drug companies don't disclose risks...

Although the FDA is often called 'the gold standard' in drug evaluation, the journal editors urged the justices to be skeptical."

BTW, still think there is a safe drug or surgery for your overweight/obesity? There isn't. They are neither safe, nor indicated. Sue the docs just as they are requesting you to in this move before the Supreme Court.

An important aspect of this action by Big Sick Care is the clear admission that the drugs they push are really uncertain quantities.

They simply do not know what the effects will be (to wit, drug recalls and labeling changes) or whether the testing of the drugs was properly conducted and truthfully disclosed.

There is a stark reality here.

When it comes to sick care, it is impossible to know certain things and at some very real level you have to submit to faith, despite the fact that these disingenuous docs are attempting to shift blame:

"'The (court) system represents one of the key defense mechanisms that individuals have if a manufacturer has not made the risks of a product clear to the public.'"

(Isn't it your doctor who should make "the risks of a product clear to" you, the patient?)

This will never be eradicated from the system of Big Sick Care. (Neither will the finger-pointing, such as this case demonstrates.)

Nor will it be eradicated from the clearly faith-based complementary/alternative care system.

And it is absolute s**t to think that "lawsuits will guarantee drug safety."

The best for which one can hope is that lawsuits will lessen the likelihood of some foreseeable untoward consequences of drugs released into the stream of commerce from occurring.

Nothing will ever "guarantee drug safety."

Nothing.

It should be obvious that the best approach is to minimize your likelihood of entering the sick care system.

The only tool available to you that gives you the odds up on Big Sick Care is fitness.

When you are ready to take control, go here.

And when you are ready to sue them, just as they are requesting, for the malpractices known as bariatric surgery and diet pills, go here.

NIH Creates Global Health Program to Fight Chronic Diseases

Finally, a blessing beyond all.

"The Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight chronic diseases in developing nations.

The program is intended to build research capacity in cancer, stroke, lung disease, environmental factors, obesity, lifestyle and the relationship of all these conditions to the genetics of chronic diseases in countries often thought of only in terms of infectious diseases."

The NIH, the USA in general, other arms of the government and the USA sick care industry have done such a bang-up job already here, in the homeland, with obesity in particular, that it is about time they took their show on the road.

Only it is not a dog and pony - it is a pig and elephant show.

If I were the rest of the world, I would thank my lucky stars that I lived to see this glorious day.

Not.

Obesity Gene Affects Appetite, Children's Study Shows

Had the study been done by adults who know something (rare to find), instead of children, the conclusion would have been different.

"Variants of the FTO gene have been linked to obesity before, and in Caucasian populations it is the most commonly studied obesity gene, where findings have estimated that on average, adults with two copies of the variant are 3 kg (6.6 lbs) heavier, and adults with a single copy are 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs) heavier."

Ooh, a whole between 3.3 and 6.6 pounds!

Clearly the cause of the overweight/obesity epidemic, if true.

"Experts have welcomed the study, but the reaction is cautious, because the genetics of obesity is very complex. As the clinical director of the UK's National Obesity Forum, Dr David Haslam, put it in a comment to the BBC:

'We are looking at a thousand-piece jigsaw and we have shown how the first two pieces fit together.'"

The "experts" are full of it.

There is no gene in the universe that can result in overweight/obesity in the absence of more Calories in than out.

How much one eats is irrelevant.

The total number of Calories one eats is relative to what he or she burns is all that matters.

University opening new integrative medicine center

If you are a New Mexican, the enlightened Age of Aquarius is NOW! Congrats.

"Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life."

Ayurveda is an Indian form of health care. How good is it?

"OVER THE last fifty years, there has been a notable reduction in old-age mortality. Longevity of humans has risen substantially all over the world. The situation in India is striking; the average lifespan of an Indian has risen from less than 50 years to over 62 years within the last three generations. Factors such as increased immunity to pathogens, better nutrition, better public health and sanitation, and the discovery and use of effective drugs and vaccines are responsible for this increase in lifespan. The situation in Western Europe, US and Japan is even more striking, where people live up to their seventies, and are touching the 80-year mark."

Good enough for you to die earlier than you normally might.

And traditional Chinese medicine?

"The oldest and biggest Chinese medicine store in Beijing is stocked with traditional ingredients like deer's penis, dried seahorses, fungi, and ginseng."

Fortunately, the selection of penises to eat is not limited to the deer's dear penis:

"There is also a nice selection of penis cuisine as well, seal penis, ox penis, sheep penis, deer penis,lobster with donkey penis, horse penis and testicles with chili dip." (and here)

At least there is a therapeutic protocol for administering these medications:

"They are usually prepared in a hot pot or stir-fried, and one penis, according to traditional Chinese medicine, should be shared by three people."

Group therapy, apparently.

Why take Viagra/Levitra/Cialis in the privacy of your own home when you can chow down on a dead (I hope) deer's dear dick with some new flaccid pals?

Hey, add an Ayurvedic chaser for even better health:

"HINDU nationalists in India have launched a marketing exercise to promote cow's urine as a health cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer.

The urine, which is being sold under the label "Gift of the Cow", is being enthusiastically promoted by the government of Gujarat, one of three states in India dominated by Hindu nationalists...

The healing properties of cow dung and cow's urine are also mentioned in ancient Hindu texts. The research conducted by doctors at the cow-protection commission indicates that the urine can cure anything from skin diseases, kidney and liver ailments to obesity and heart ailments."

And it's been tested! It can cure anything! (You simply must try the cow dung when you visit New Mexico. I hear it is to die for. Plus you will get the full benefit of the treatment. What a deal.)

And don't forget about those horse testicles (see above). Drop the dip.

Instead, have the NEW "BEER" NUTS!

Give 'em a twist in the cow's urine. (Lemon is so passe. Besides you can get sick from lemon twists in your beverage. This stuff cures what ails you.)

Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!

Now it is possible that not all of these treatments will find their ways into the mouths of New Mexicans or others who travel great distances to this "medical center."

It is probable that some of them are going into the other end of NM's taxpayers' digestive tracts, ,i.e., poop chute, whether they like it or not.

What else would you expect from the state that has Bill Richardson, the man with "interesting" notions about sick care, as its governor?

Hey, wait a minute.

Dear Richard(son), isn't that another name for Dear Dick?

There must be some sort of holistic/complementary/alternative Jupiter Effect at work here.

Can't wait to see what Medicare/Medicaid/insurance reimbursement is on this stuff.

Great way to make a buck. Or is that bake a buck (to cook it's penis)?

And "The University of New Mexico goes beyond" Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine!

Cancer, beware. Your days are numbered.

FTC: Kids target of $1.6 billion in food ads

BFD.

"Children are confronted with such a barrage of advertising for food and drink — much of it unhealthy — that the entertainment industry should take steps to tie popular TV and movie characters to more nutritional products, the Federal Trade Commission says.

The recommendation was part of a report showing that the nation's largest food and beverage companies spent about $1.6 billion in 2006 marketing their products — especially carbonated drinks — to children and adolescents."

So what?

Don't let them buy the stuff - enact Gram Shop Acts.

Or don't buy it for them since the discretionary income of children should be near zero.

It is not the money spent on advertising.

It is the parenting habits of child-abusing adults and the complicity of sick care workers and school employees.

"The report, to be released Tuesday, stems from lawmakers' concern about growing obesity rates in children. It gives researchers new insight into how much companies are spending to attract youth to their products, and what venues the companies are using for their marketing. To come up with its estimate, the FTC used confidential financial data that it required the companies to turn over."

Lawmakers do not have real concerns.

Real concerns result in action.

Lawmakers' concerns result in inaction.

To wit, results to date.

If FTC wanted to do something meaningful, it would take down AdipOprah and her self-appointed army of IMHO nutritional homicide maniacs.

This is part of their mandate.

Instead, FTC has chosen to F**K The Children.

You can do something about it.

Los Angeles wants to take bite out of fast food

La-la land's solution.

"In the impoverished neighborhood of South Los Angeles, fast food is the easiest cuisine to find — and that's a problem for elected officials who see it as an unhealthy source of calories and cholesterol.

The City Council was poised to vote Tuesday on a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a swath of the city where a proliferation of such eateries goes hand-in-hand with obesity."

Bull.

There is no cause and effect relationship. There is an association.

And rich people get fat, too.

The problem is not fast-food. The problem is not gradual-food. The problem is not poverty. The problem is not wealth.

The problem is more Calories in than out, no matter the source or income bracket.

"'Our communities have an extreme shortage of quality foods,' City Councilman Bernard Parks said."

The problem is also moron politicians who do not recognize the real problem.

"The aim of the yearlong moratorium, which was approved last week in committee, is to give the city time to try to attract restaurants that serve healthier food."

There are no "healthy" foods, only healthy eating.

But there are idiots in charge.

Secondhand smoke raises spouse's stroke risk: study

Just like secondhand fat.

"Nonsmokers married to smokers have a greatly increased chance of having strokes, according to a U.S. study published on Tuesday showing yet another hazard from secondhand smoke."

We are adversely affected by the overweight/obese in many bad ways.

For example, the rest of us end up paying for it.

Secondhand fat.

See?

Overweight/obesity - are malignant.

And they metastasize from one person to another.

AMA Recommends 4-Stage Approach to Treatment of Childhood Obesity

Advice from IMHO child abusers.

"A 4-stage approach to treatment of childhood obesity is recommended by the American Medical Association (AMA), according to a review for primary care clinicians in the July 1 issue of the American Family Physician. The study authors note that many of these recommendations for treatment and prevention can be carried out by family clinicians."

You can bet that each stage includes a transfer of money to the doc.

Don't fall for it.

"'Childhood obesity has become so severe that diseases that once affected only adults are now appearing in children,' writes Goutham Rao, MD, from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 'The long-term implications of this epidemic are extremely serious. Obese children are much more likely than children of healthy weight to become obese adults.'

The statistics are alarming, with 'overweight' youth (those with age-adjusted and sex-adjusted body mass index [BMI] above the 95th percentile, which is equivalent to the 'obese' classification for adults) consisting of 13.9% of children 2 to 5 years old, 18.8% of children 6 to 11 years old, and 17.4% of adolescents and teenagers 12 to 19 years old.

Although type 2 diabetes in children was rare 2 decades ago, it now accounts for nearly one half of all new cases of diabetes among children in some settings. In adults, correlates of obesity include not only type 2 diabetes but also hypertension, osteoarthritis, gout, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and biliary tract disease as well as cancers of the colon, breast (in postmenopausal women), endometrium, and esophagus.

Recognizing the scarcity of practical strategies available to primary care clinicians to combat the problem of childhood obesity, the AMA recently convened an expert panel to review evidence about how best to manage and prevent obesity and to write a series of reports."

And where have these experts and geniuses been all along that they are now "recognizing the scarcity of practical strategies"?

BTW, their new 4-stage strategy is not so practical and I predict will not work.

It is the stuff of moronity.

Older Treatment May Be More Effective in Preserving Sight for Some Patients with Diabetes

Are you waiting for the next great treatment for your overfatness?

Look at what happened here.

"A promising new drug therapy used to treat abnormal swelling in the eye — a condition called diabetic macular edema — proved less effective than traditional laser treatments in a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study, published online in July in the journal Ophthalmology, demonstrates that laser therapy is not only more effective than corticosteroids in the long term treatment of diabetic macular edema, but also has far fewer side effects."

Keep waiting and waiting and waiting.

Or act.

Your choice.

Rapid rise seen in fatal medication errors at home

Chow down on those fat person diet pills, diabetes pills, high blood pressure pills, cardiac pills, pain pills, etc. pills and see where they get you.

"Deaths from medication mistakes at home, like actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds."

Oops.

"'The amount of medical supervision is going down and the amount of responsibility put on the patient's shoulders is going up,' said lead author David P. Phillips of the University of California, San Diego."

Poor babies have to be responsible for taking their meds properly themselves.

What an unreasonable burden that is.

"'We're sort of drug happy,' said boomer Dr. J. Lyle Bootman, the University of Arizona's pharmacy dean, who was not involved in the research. 'We have this general attitude that drugs can fix everything.'"

Really?

Study: 'Pre-dementia' is rising, especially in men

How cute. Pre-dementia is rising and penises aren't.

"A milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer's disease is alarmingly more common than has been believed, and in men more than women, doctors reported Monday.

Nearly a million older Americans slide from normal memory into mild impairment each year, researchers estimate, based on a Mayo Clinic study of Minnesota residents.

That's on top of the half million Americans who develop full-blown Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia — a problem sure to grow as baby boomers age. The oldest boomers turn 62 this year."

Well at least something remains capable of being fully blown.

Besides the national budget on stupid sick care interventions and meaningless research into overweight/obesity.

BTW, erectile dysfunction is related to overweight/obesity.

Fat friends 'can boost your size'

OMG. Not again.

"People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them - so fat friends can cause someone to put on weight too, researchers suggest.

An international team, including University of Warwick experts, dubbed it 'imitative obesity' - or 'keeping up with the Joneses' on calories."

Fat friends don't "make you fat."

More Calories in than out does.

Nothing else.

"But one expert said the causes for the rise in obesity were much more complex."

Wrong - the usual position of an expert.

It is no more complex than a simple math issue of the calorically irresponsible.

"But Dr David Haslam, clinical director of the National Obesity Forum, said: 'It's a bit cheeky to pin it on sociological influences - there's more to it than that.

'If you are surrounded by people, whether that's friends or within the family home, who are overweight, you are sharing the same environment where there is likely to be an abundance of the wrong kind of foods.'"

And to support their wrongness, they need to invoke the bogeyperson of "wrong kind of food," which does not exist.

Eating more Calories than you burn of the "right kind of foods" will get you fat just as easily as the alleged "wrong kind of foods."

There is a way to eat healthily and it is not the way of the experts.

More bulls**t from the experts.

Surgical errors cost $1.5 billion a year: report

Hey, fatsos, time for your fat person surgery and bonus complications!

"Preventable medical errors during or after surgery cause 10 percent of surgery-related deaths and may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to a U.S. government report released on Monday."

Eat hearty.

Or keep your fat pieholes shut and shed a few pounds, maybe saving your life in the process.

Sweet fruit drinks found to lead to diabetes

Still think they know what a "healthy" food is?

"Sweetened fruit drinks are often marketed as a healthier alternative to non-diet soft drinks but are just as likely to cause weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes, researchers said on Monday.

'The public should be made aware that these drinks are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks with regard to risk of type 2 diabetes,' Julie Palmer and colleagues at Boston University wrote in their report, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, is closely linked to obesity and has become more common worldwide."

It's all about the Calories, morons.

More exercise helps heavy women keep weight off

You ought to be asking yourself, "If exercise is so damned good, why are they still heavy?"

"Results of a study show that overweight women who want to lose weight and keep it off should try to get at least 275 minutes of exercise a week, or about 55 minutes a day for 5 days a week, in addition to limiting calories."

This is insane.

You must be a complete idiot to fall for this crap from these totally stupid researchers.

If you limit Calories, you do not have to burn even more of them to maintain weight loss or lose weight.

If you need to keep burning more and more, it is because you are not limiting Calories.

Before your brain gets so polluted with this s**t, go here and read some sense instead of this nonsense.

This quality of research is a national embarrassment.

Fit and fat: Study shows it's possible

But not this study.

"It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday, for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health...

They found just over 51 percent of those who were overweight, and 31.7 percent of those who were obese, had healthy levels of cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and other measures linked to heart disease.

These measures have been shown in many other studies to predict heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and other heart disease, although this particular study did not look at whether people suffered any of these problems."

Oops.

Seems as if you would want to know if the fat people developed "these problems" before suggesting they are "healthy" or "fit."

(BTW, fitness is different from health. Equating the two is an error.)

And, in fact, according to the study:

"In all weight categories, risk factors for heart problems were generally more common in older people, smokers and inactive people. Among obese people who were 50 to 64, just 20 percent were considered healthy compared with half of younger obese people."

So, with the passage of time, these "risk factors," which were claimed "normal" at a younger age in fat people, became "abnormal" and even more prevalent.

This still puts fat people at a higher risk.

Nor did this study look at other illnesses more highly associated with fat people, e.g., cancer, sleep apnea, etc.

Or the effects on their children, e.g., nutritional child abuse, birth complications, etc.

The research is unfit.

And so are fat people.

Florida Medicaid Healthy Behaviors Incentive Program Has Low Participation, Many Unaware of Program, Study Finds

Tax dollars being wasted.

"Many Florida Medicaid beneficiaries who are eligible for a pilot program that rewards them for healthy behaviors are not participating, according to a study released on Thursday by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Florida Times-Union reports. Under the Enhanced Benefits Account Program, Medicaid beneficiaries in several Florida counties -- Baker, Broward, Clay, Duval and Nassau -- are eligible to receive up to $125 in credits per year for having healthy behaviors. Credits range from $7.50 for following a medication regimen to $25 for a pap test or a child physician's office visit for preventive care. According to the study, beneficiaries have claimed just 10% of the $12.5 million in credits they have earned in the program. Researchers also found that 75% of physicians were unaware of the program."

How insane is that?

Paying people to do what they should be doing to take care of themselves anyway.

Where is my reward? Or yours if you care for yourself and your children? How come social responsibility is not rewarded or, in effect, punished?

You have to be a friggin' idiot to conceive of a program like this, let alone implement it.

"Georgetown University Health Policy Institute researcher Joan Alker said, "I think the program has a laudable goal, but that's a really tough outcome to achieve. There's a question whether this approach will actually work to change people's behavior" (Turner, Florida Times-Union, 7/25)."

Then again, it is the government.

Duh.

Bullies face even more health risks than victims

Well, this will stop them.

"Both bullies and their victims are at risk for problems that threaten their health, safety and education -- but the bullies themselves may be more affected, a new study suggests."

If true, the exception is in weight loss.

In that domain, the bullies, i.e., the experts, make all the victims sicker than they make themselves.

They also make the victims poorer as they enrich themselves.

Dems agree on a health care guarantee for all

Prepare to get really screwed. Place cushions on all the places you sit.

I try to avoid most political commentary except as it pertains to fitness and this post should not be interpreted as an endorsement or criticism of one party over another.

Even though fitness and health are two different things, a certain consequence of nutritional unfitness, i.e., overweight/obesity, is the development of chronic medical problems.

These are the ones that are killing the sick care system, totally within the control of each of us (at least from the managing weight side) and not "curable" by sick care anyway (at statistical best, they may be controllable).

So-called "health care reform" is a boondoggle that will exacerbate the matter.

Since most of our chronic illnesses are not the result of medically amenable known causes, more money and more empty promises will not lead to a solution.

They will only follow the road of continuing failure.

Here is one approach, of which we will hear more, that will persist in draining resources without any benefit:

"Advisers to Obama and Clinton both told the party's platform meeting they were happy with the compromise, adopted without opposition or without explanation as to how health care would be guaranteed...

The party now declares itself 'united behind a commitment that every American man, woman and child be guaranteed to have affordable, comprehensive health care.'"

Of course there is no "explanation as to how health care would be guaranteed."

Because it won't.

The best you can hope for from this "initiative" is government subsidized anesthetic cream/ointment for your butthole.

Obesity Could Be Socially Contagious Say Researchers

Silly. Obvious. Waste.

"Researchers from the UK and Belgium suggested obesity could be a socially contagious phenomenon, after they found that people were influenced by the weight of those around them, such that their view of how overweight they were, and the decisions they made about dieting, depended on how they compared themselves with others of the same age and gender."

Do you think that football watchers support other who watch football?

If you want support to do something, find other people who do it.

A dog-hater will not help support you in raising a dog.

Fatsos will not help you lose weight (unless they, too, are committed to the process).

You want to lose weight, find people who have lost weight, want to lose weight or are in caloric control.

And if you have kids, keep them away from children who are fat.

They can choose better friends.

Boosting Weight Loss By Limiting Fructose

Bull. Don't believe it.

"One of the reasons people on low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly, according to a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center."

The only reason people on any diet lose weight is that they consume fewer Calories than they burn.

The source of the Calories is immaterial.

This is a distraction and thermodynamic lie.

It has also been debunked.

Soyfoods Do Not Impact Sperm Count

Do they or don't they? Only your semen analysis lab knows for sure.

"Headlines claiming 'soy products lower sperm count' do not tell the whole story. The small scale, preliminary study that Dr. Jorge Chavarro, published online in Human Reproduction, is based on recollected intake of soyfoods and not on specific diets containing soyfoods."

BTW, who says they do not?

"Soyfoods Association of North America"

Wonder what their interest is in the matter.

BTW, Soyfoods Association of North America, to be PC, never characterize a study involving men's sexual organs as "small scale."

Take a Dale Carnegie Course.

Study Finds Cranberry Juice Creates Energy Barrier That Keeps Bacteria Away From Cells

Biologic force field research.

"For generations, people have consumed cranberry juice, convinced of its power to ward off urinary tract infections, though the exact mechanism of its action has not been well understood. A new study by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that the juice changes the thermodynamic properties of bacteria in the urinary tract, creating an energy barrier that prevents the microorganisms from getting close enough to latch onto cells and initiate an infection."

Sounds credible.

Just like the WPI antibiotic ray gun.

Iced Tea's Hidden Risk Of Painful Kidney Stones

Pitcher of Lipstone's anyone?

"...Iced tea helped to bring on an excruciating bout of kidney stones that led to surgery at Loyola University Hospital in Maywood, Ill.

'The pain was so bad that once it felt like I was delivering a child made out of razor blades,' said the 46-year-old Mulac. 'I really had no idea that iced tea could lead to that.'

Iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, one of the key chemicals that lead to the formation of kidney stones, a common disorder of the urinary tract that affects about 10 percent of the population in the United States.

'For many people, iced tea is potentially one of the worst things they can drink,' said Dr. John Milner, instructor, department of urology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. 'For people who have a tendency to form kidney stones, it's definitely one of the worst things you can drink.'

Kidney stones are crystals that form in the kidneys or ureters, the small tubes that drain the urine from the kidney to the bladder. Men are four times more likely to develop kidney stones than women, and their risk rises dramatically once they reach their 40s."

Ouch.

Exercise Could Be The Heart's Fountain Of Youth

Wrong...but read on.

"Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a year ended up with metabolically much younger hearts. The researchers also showed that by one metabolic measure, women benefited more than men from the training."

The T-word!

TRAINING!

OMG. Maybe the folks at Wash. U. are finally beginning to understand what they are reading at Fitness Watch.

"The study is described in an article that appeared in advance online publication on June 20, 2008 in the American Journal of Physiology. The participants were six men and six women, ages 60 to 75, who were not obese but who had been living an inactive lifestyle. They were put on an eleven-month program of endurance exercise under the careful guidance of a trainer.

For the first three months, they were required to exercise to about 65 percent of their maximum capacity. After that, the program was stepped up so participants reached about 75 percent of maximum. Soto says the volunteers enjoyed the experience and told him they felt in the best shape they had been in years...

Next, the research team will investigate exercise training in individuals with heart failure. 'In the past heart failure patients were told to limit their activity,' Soto says. 'Now more and more we're seeing there is potentially a benefit to getting them as active as possible. We want to know if heart failure patients will experience the same benefit in heart metabolism with exercise that we saw for older people.'"

We'll see where this leads.

As I have written and said before, cardiac rehab is first and foremost about the malpractice insurer. The patient comes last after the doc's career, his/her creature comfort needs, family expenses, etc.

My fitness program is the cardiac rehab regimen I developed following my open heart surgery (bad anatomy, not clogged vessels) and which was not fully successful, i.e., they could not repair me completely.

These are my results:




You can likely do better since, statistically speaking, you are not saddled with a mechanically/anatomically, leaky, suboptimal heart.

It will be interesting to see how the researchers approach their study subjects.

In any event, improved fitness is and always will be a result of training, not exercise.

To understand how to train properly, go here.

To understand how to eat healthily, go here, here and here.

No-Nose Bicycle Saddles Improve Penile Sensation And Erectile Function In Bicycling Police Officers

Couldn't resist this important research from the "My-dog-has-no-nose. How-does-he-smell? Terrible. Department."

"An innovative study appearing in the August issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine examined, for the first time, if noseless bicycle saddles would be an effective intervention for alleviating deleterious health effects, erectile dysfunction and groin numbness, caused by bicycling on the traditional saddle with a protruding nose extension. Results from this study may be useful for the estimated 5 million recreational cyclists to alleviate perineal discomfort and maintain sexual health.

Ninety bicycling police officers from 5 metropolitan regions in the U.S. (Northwest, Southern, Desert West, Midwest, and Southeast) using traditional saddles were evaluated prior to changing saddles and then again after 6 months of using the noseless bicycle saddle.

The findings show that use of the noseless saddle resulted in a reduction in saddle contact pressure in the perineal region. There was a significant improvement in penile tactile sensation, and the number of men indicating they had not experienced genital numbness while cycling for the preceding 6 months rose from 27 percent to 82 percent using no-nose saddles. Use of the noseless saddle also resulted in significant increases in erectile function as assessed by the initial evaluation, but there were no significant changes noted in Rigiscan® measures, a method used to record penile rigidity while the subject sleeps. With few exceptions, bicycle police officers were able to effectively use no-nose saddles in their police work and 97 percent of officers completing the study continued to use the no-nose saddle afterward.

Dr. Steven Schrader of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Cincinnati, first author of the study and the recent co-recipient along with his research team of a Bullard-Sherwood Research-to-Practice Award in the Interventions Category for "Health Effects of Occupational Cycling" stated, 'No-nose saddles are a useful intervention for bicycling police officers alleviating pressure to the groin and improving penis health. Different saddle designs may require some re-learning of 'how to ride a bicycle,' but the health benefits to having unrestricted vascular flow to and from the penis and less penile numbness is self-evident..'

'For the first time, we have a prospective study of healthy policemen riding bikes on the job, using wider, no-nose bike saddles for 6 months. Not only did their sensation improve, their erectile function also improved. Changing saddles changed physiology. This is a landmark study for our field that that is important for future riders, and modification of lifestyle showing improvement without any active treatment.'"

Here it is...

My bicycle seat has no nose. How does it smell? Dunno. You sniff it.

Bada-bing.

L.A. may force restaurants to post calories on menus

Who knows?

In any event, hopefully LA will be less stupid than NY.

Pre-Diabetes Must Be Treated, Doctors Urge

Okay.

"Diabetes experts created the first recommendations Tuesday for the treatment of people with pre-diabetes in the hopes of curbing the diabetes epidemic. There are now no solid guidelines for diagnosing and managing pre-diabetes, a condition in which a person's blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes.

If physicians do not recognize and treat pre-diabetes, diabetes will continue to inflate at great personal health and financial cost, says Daniel Einhorn, vice president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The group is meeting in Oxon Hill, Md., near Washington, D.C.

In an early release of the new recommendations, members of the endocrinologist group agreed that diagnosing pre-diabetes should be based on more than the results of blood glucose tests, such as history of diabetes during pregnancy and family history of the disease. The group also decided that changes in ways of living, not medication, should be the first line of treatment in staving off diabetes."

Good idea.

And see how well it has worked so far?

This is a form of Hobson's Choice.

The sick care industry, diet gurus and Oprah experts offer you an illusory path to weight loss via an impossible approach.

You will fail because you must fail.

Then they drug or surgerize you.

So there is no choice.

"'This is a call to action to recognize that there are people at special risk and that not doing anything can lead to complications of the eyes, kidneys, nerves,' Einhorn says."

Glad they jumped on this one early.

Not.

Scientists Suspect Omega 3 Fatty Acids Could Slow Acute Wound Healing

Still think they know what is "healthy"?

"A recent study shows that popular fish oil supplements have an effect on the healing process of small, acute wounds in human skin. But whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected, remains a mystery.

The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils are widely considered to benefit cardiovascular health and other diseases related to chronic inflammation because of their anti-inflammatory properties. But insufficient inflammation during the initial stage of wound healing may delay the advancement of later stages."

Wise up.

Amid the slugs, athletes are warned on Chinese medicine

For those of you who long for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and want to treat what ails you with ginseng, moxibustion and cupping, there is this:

"The oldest and biggest Chinese medicine store in Beijing is stocked with traditional ingredients like deer's penis, dried seahorses, fungi, and ginseng...

Chinese Olympic officials have advised athletes not to take traditional remedies during the Aug 8-24 Games when the IOC will conduct 4,500 doping tests, up 25 percent on the Athens Games."

Do these athletes really need to be warned not to cold start eating seahorses and fungi?

Enjoy munching on your deer penises, TCM fans.

Hope they are Olympic-sized.

Internet, alcohol and sleep tied to girls' weight

News flash!

"Girls and young women who devote much time to the Internet, get too little sleep or regularly drink alcohol are more likely than their peers to put on excess weight, a new study suggests.

The researchers, who followed more than 5,000 girls between 14 and 21 years old for 1 year, found that the more spare time girls spent on the Internet, the more their body mass index (BMI) increased."

How can it be that sitting, drinking Calories and staying up all hours sitting and drinking Calories (probably eating, too) can lead to weight gain?

More expensive research is necessary.

Wonder if eating, sitting and drinking 24/7 will result in weight gain in boys?

Or other lazy pigs.

Heart Disease Linked to Impaired Cognition and Later Dementia

Kudos, fatsos.

"Coronary heart disease in midlife is associated with poorer results on cognitive tests, such as reasoning, vocabulary, and verbal fluency, with the effect particularly marked in men, a study found."

And heart disease is linked to overweight/obesity.

Still a chicken or egg issue.

Either way, will the circle be unbroken?

Scientists Define 21 New Genes Associated with Crohn’s Disease

More bad news for the morons awaiting a genetic "cure" for their overfatness.

"A consortium of researchers from the United States, Canada, and Europe has identified 21 new genes for Crohn’s disease, a chronic disease of the large and small intestines. This discovery, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), brings the total number of known genes associated with Crohn’s disease to more than 30..."

As if the likely thousands and thousands or more genes associated with (not "cause and effecting") overweight/obesity will ever all be defined, understood, etc., well enough to "cure" irresponsible behavior.

Or excuse-making.

Never.

Americans want overhaul of health system: survey

A clear "be careful what you wish for" situation.

"More than 80 percent of Americans think the U.S. health system needs either fundamental change or a complete overhaul, according to a survey released on Thursday."

Unfortunately, these clueless persons don't realize that to improve sick care, likely more than 80 percent of Americans have to overhaul themselves.

"Access to care, better coordination between different health providers and better flow of health information were among their chief complaints, the Harris Interactive poll found -- just as another poll found that health insurance costs have doubled for Americans since 1996."

If we did not voluntarily make ourselves sick, especially from caloric overconsumption, much of these complaints would never have been.

"'It's clear that our health care system isn't giving Americans the health care they need and deserve,' said Karen Davis, president of the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, which commissioned the survey."

What is "clear" is that this is s**t.

For sure, the system is not perfect.

Even more sure is that the 2/3 of Americans who are overweight/obese and the 1/3 of the kids who are also overfat from nutritional child abuse, thanks to their parents, are dragging the system under.

Want to improve sick care?

Want to figure out where to start?

Look in the mirror.

U.S. rules on bariatric surgery lead some to Mexico

Do you speak igPay anishSpay, atsoFay?

"At 5-foot-3 and 215 pounds, one thing J. never expected to hear was that she was not obese enough.

For years, the Boulder, Colo., woman dieted — at times shaving calories to almost starvation rations. She ran until her knees begged for mercy. But the weight didn't come off. So she decided to have surgery."

With 100% certainty, this woman did not pursue a reasonable weight loss program but an expert's or expert-like one as she cut Calories "to almost starvation rations" (the sine qua non of an expert's diet = certain weight loss failure) and ran (the sine qua non of an expert's "exercise" recommendations = certain weight loss failure).

Two sure-fire ways to fail at weight loss.

"That's when she learned that, heavy as she was, she wasn't heavy enough to have gastric banding surgery. Nationwide guidelines stipulate that only adults with a body mass index of 40 or greater — 35 for patients with weight-related conditions — qualify for bariatric surgeries."

There is no comfort to the claim that the malpractice known as bariatric surgery is limited - for now.

"There is growing consensus among bariatric surgeons — who admittedly have a stake in the issue — that the requirements for obesity surgery in this country are set too high, and that is driving untold numbers of people to foreign clinics."

No doubt taking money from the medical malpractitioners in this country, the poor, IMHO, crooked docs.

"For J., who asked that her full name not be used, that meant she had to gain 30 or 40 more pounds, or develop diabetes or high cholesterol.

Or, she could go to Mexico."

And good riddance.

Soy-based foods may lower sperm count: study

Finally an answer to the question, "Why Are There So Few Chinese/Japanese?"

"Eating a half serving a day of soy-based foods could be enough to significantly lower a man's sperm count, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday...

Chavarro said the study was not sufficient to suggest that soy intake would have health implications such as inducing infertility. Much bigger studies would be needed to answer that question, he said."

How about Asia? Is that big enough?

Brilliant!

Woman left brain damaged by detox

Is there no justice?

"A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet...

She has been left with 'cognitive deficit' which she says has forced her to give up work as a conference organiser."

Clearly the fact that she went on a detox diet is proof positive that she was already substantially brain damaged.

Johnson Calls For National Movement To Tackle Obesity, UK

Figures it would be a "Johnson" since the population will get screwed.

"Health Secretary Alan Johnson will tonight call for a national movement to tackle the growing problem of obesity. In a major speech on public health the Secretary of State for Health will outline the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and argue that our strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of our society recognises the problem and joins together to takes steps to address it."

If those steps are the same conventional stupidity the Brits and others have been using, they will continue getting fu**ed.

Epilepsy drug linked to birth defects

Still think they know what a safe drug is to treat your overfatness?

"Women who use the epilepsy drug topiramate (Topamax) during pregnancy are at risk for having a baby with a serious birth defect, investigators report in the journal Neurology."

Think again.

Problems with drugs show up years after they are on the market.

Deadly Tolls: Sick Truckers Causing Fatal Wrecks

Not new.

There's this from the article:

"The driver of a 15-passenger 'Tippy Toes' day-care bus traveling 63 mph on Interstate 240 in Memphis, Tenn., in April 2002 crashed into a bridge, killing the driver and four of the six children aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board said the driver, Wesley B. Hudson, 27, fell asleep, 'quite likely due to an undiagnosed sleep disorder.' Investigators said children sometimes had to wake up Hudson, whom the NTSB described as obese and a marijuana user."

One look at the obese Hudson likely would have diagnosed the "sleep disorder."

And these examples from before:

Obesity may drive some truckers to doze

Waking Up to the Problem of OSA: Consequences and Improved Recognition

And you can go here to protect yourself.

NHS fit camp aims to cut obesity

Conceptually flawed.

"The British public is getting fatter. One in five men and a quarter of women are obese and as many as 30,000 people die prematurely every year from obesity-related conditions in the UK.

To combat the problem the government in England is spending more than £200,000 in one area of the country, on getting obese children to special residential fit camps where they'll spend six weeks losing weight and learning how to lead a healthier lifestyle...

The local health authority is spending £6m over the next three years on the fit camp to try to deal with the problem.

Thirty-eight eight to 16-year-olds are on the six-week scheme, which is a last resort after all other ways of losing weight have been exhausted."

Clearly, it is not true that "all other ways of losing weight have been exhausted."

With 100% certainty, eating fewer Calories than are burned long enough to shed the pounds was not tried properly.

But the camp will fail because parents are not held accountable.

Instead, they will "have an input."

This is having actively engaged child abusers render an opinion on how to protect children from actively engaged child abusers.

"The daily routine for the children at the fit camp is demanding.

While most other kids are enjoying their school holidays, these children are up at eight o'clock every morning.

It's then a long day of physical activities like boxercise or basketball sessions.

They'll also learn about nutrition and how to make healthy snacks, like fruit smoothies."

And when camp is over and this unsustainable pace ends?

Kumbaya and "Let's eat!"

Obesity Still Rising Among Americans

Kudos, fatsos.

"Obesity is still rising among Americans, according to figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, where data based on annual nationwide telephone surveys with more than 350,000 adults showed that between 2005 and 2007, the percentage who reported being obese went up from 23.9 to 25.6, a rise of nearly 2 per cent."

So?

"Obesity is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke. These diseases can be very costly for states and the country as a whole.'"

BFD. Not a prob.

"Costly," only if we agree to pay for people's diseases of choice.

Which we should not.

Problem solved.

Here is the full report.

I would say "read it and weep," but more likely people who read it will snack.

Good News For Veggies: Personal Values Deceive Taste Buds

How is it possible that personal choice is a factor in what and how we eat?

"Many heavy meat eaters believe they eat a lot of meat because of the taste. But according to groundbreaking new research in the Journal of Consumer Research, the reason that a beef burger tastes better than a veggie burger to some people has more to do with values than actual taste."

"Groundbreaking?"

Hardly.

Still likely to be right.

Becoming fat is a choice as are the foods chosen to get there.

You want meat? Eat less and get less fat.

You want to change what you eat? Eat something different.

No one is stopping you except yourself.

The problem is that people's "personal values" are so low.

Even lower than the hang of their bellies.

A 540-calorie Big Mac? NY chains post calorie info

Let's see if it will make a difference.

"Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow — like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.

After months of resistance, the city's chain restaurants have begun obeying a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.

McDonald's and Burger King were among the chains that unveiled new menu boards Friday at scores of locations throughout the city, taking calorie information that had long been available on Web sites and tray liners and putting it front-and-center above the cash register.

The new rules are part of an anti-obesity campaign that has also included a recent citywide ban on artificial trans fats in restaurant food. The regulation was first passed in 2006 but was redrafted after a court battle struck down the original version.

The calorie posting rule took effect in May, but legal action delayed enforcement until now. Starting Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to $2,000 per store for not disclosing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price."

My bet...

"Still, some customers grabbing burgers, fries and shakes this week seemed not to notice the new columns of calorie data.

Audrey and Kevin Carroll, visiting from Toronto, didn't see that the box of treats they grabbed for the kids at Cinnabon on their way out of town contained a whopping 850 calories per bun.

'That's why they call it fast food,' said their traveling companion, Cynthia Kaufman, of New York's Long Island. 'It's New York. If it's loud, and noisy, and you're in a hurry, and the kids are crying, who is going to stop and read the calories?'"

Probably not.

Low-fat milk recommended for some toddlers

From the same people who bring you kiddie statins.

"Once weaned from breast-milk or formula, some babies as young as 12 months of age should be given reduced-fat (2 percent) milk instead of whole milk, according to newly revised guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) this month.

Specifically, the new recommendation states that the use of reduced-fat milk "would be appropriate" for children between 12 months and 2 years of age who are at higher-than-normal risk of becoming overweight, or have a family history of high cholesterol, obesity, or heart disease."

Trust them as far as you can throw them.

The final verdict on coffee

Still think they have any idea about what is going on with overweight/obesity?

Whaddarya? Stupid?

They can't even figure out coffee.

"If contradicting research has you wondering if coffee is healthy or harmful, the answer is simple: it depends.

A recent study showed a benefit from drinking java on a population level. But it's difficult to make individual recommendations for safe coffee consumption, said Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, a University of Toronto associate professor funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research who has studied caffeine and health."

Eat fewer Calories and stop waiting and whining.

Mom's diabetes tied to early diabetes in offspring

Kudos, fatsos.

"Babies who are exposed to mom's diabetes and obesity while in the womb are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adolescence, according to new research.

To prevent 'youth-onset' type 2 diabetes, 'we may need to take a life course approach, targeting, in addition to childhood obesity, the increasing number of women with pregnancies complicated by obesity and diabetes,' researchers conclude."

Really?

Hey researchers, check out my Fit To Parent (tm) Program which has been around for years and I believe was the first of its kind.

You all are late to the game.

And while you are at it, get that this is a form of child abuse and report it if you really want to help the kids.

Read up on CAPTA. Then do your duty.

Too much sleep tied to stroke risk in older women

Well, at least they will be thin.

"Regularly getting nine hours or more of sleep per night may increase the risk of stroke in postmenopausal women, according to a study published on Thursday.

Only 5 percent of the 93,000 women in the study, who were 50 to 79 years old and from 40 locations around the United States, reported getting nine hours or more of sleep nightly.

But they had a 60 percent to 70 percent higher risk of stroke compared to women getting seven hours of sleep per night, the most common sleep duration, the researchers wrote in the American Heart Association journal Stroke."

After all, research proves that sleep makes you lose weight.

Not.

More Americans obese, government finds

Oink.

"More than a quarter of all Americans are now obese, the latest U.S. government figures show.

The percentage of U.S. adults who are obese grew by nearly 2 percent between 2005 and 2007, from just under 24 percent to 25.6 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday."

And why are we failing here?

"'We need to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables, engage in more physical activity and reduce the consumption of high calorie foods and sugar sweetened beverages in order to maintain a healthy weight,' Dietz said."

Bad advice.

We only need to control Calories in relative to out and the more "conditions" our experts impose on how to do it, the less likely it will be to succeed.

Baby Boomers Fuel Thriving Health Industry

Kudos, fatsos.

"Americans accustomed in recent months to a daily dose of gloomy economic news may find a silver lining in the health care industry as aging baby boomers fuel demand for drugs, health services and medical supplies, boosting the companies that make them...

But health care, which today makes up 16 percent of gross national product, three times as much as in 1960, according to Kaiser Foundation, is one of a handful of sectors like mining, farming and natural resources to thus weather the economic storm."

What an embarrassment.

Report: Invest $10 a person for better health

Bulls**t.

More unproven clap-trap.

"Investing just $10 per person — roughly the price of a six-pack of beer and some chips — could greatly fuel community programs that get couch potatoes moving, prevent smoking and improve nutrition, researchers say.

How much health does $10 a person buy? Invest that every year, and within five years the nation could cut health care costs by more than $16 billion annually, concludes a new analysis by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health and a team of public-health research groups.

If the big dollars have your eyes glazing, the overall point is simple: Obesity — from poor nutrition and inactivity — and smoking are blamed for much of the heart disease, cancer, diabetes and lung diseases that are the nation's leading public health problems, fueling the $2 trillion annually spent on health care.

Yet small improvements can add up. Research suggests, for example, that walking 30 minutes a day and dropping just 15 pounds can cut in half the risk that someone with pre-diabetes will get the full-blown disease. The question is how to educate and persuade people to take such steps.

'This is pennies when you look at the long-term cost of treating diabetes or high cholesterol,' said Audry Tayse Haynes of the YMCA, which runs programs in more than 64 communities that are the type the report aims to emulate — programs typically begun with one-time government grants of about $40,000.

For example, the YMCA runs various after-school care programs. Rather than just supervise students playing and doing homework, some sites added a program that teaches healthy snacking and physical activity, with games to help kids exercise. Tracking 3,100 children in Texas, the YMCA found the program helped youngsters eat more fruit and less candy, exercise a little more each week and watch less TV.

The California Endowment has started a Healthy Eating, Active Communities program that partners with local government and private businesses to build parks, provide more fresh fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods for area markets, and increase physical activity in schools. Estimated cost: about $7 per person, Thursday's report found.

In Somerville, Mass., federal health officials funded a "Shape Up Somerville" program that slowed weight gain among first- to third-graders and may have had some citywide impact: Steps that started with better school food and a push for safe walking and biking paths to school wound up also touting restaurants that made their menus healthier. Estimated cost: $3 to $4 a person."

And none of it has worked - not educating and persuading people to walk, Somerville only "slowed weight gain" and did not prevent it and it is insane to promote "healthy" foods as they do not exist - only eating healthily does.

And as to saving money:

"Programs that help people slim down and stop smoking clearly make for a healthier population, but whether they save governments money is controversial. A Dutch study published last winter, for instance, found that the obese and smokers die sooner, which makes them cheaper for health systems than thin nonsmokers who live longer."

Uncertain.

This is MSM sensationalism and crappy research/policy-making at their worst.

U.S. still flunks healthcare test, group says

The name of this report is "Why Not The Best?"

The answer is clear - reports like this one.

"The United States fails on most measures of health care quality, with Americans waiting longer to see doctors and more likely to die of preventable or treatable illnesses than people in other industrialized countries, a report released on Thursday said.

Americans squander money on wasteful administrative costs, illnesses caused by medical error and inefficient use of time, the report from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund concluded.

'We lead the world in spending. We should be expecting much more in return,' Commonwealth Fund senior vice president Cathy Schoen told reporters.

The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation, created a 100-point scorecard using 37 indicators such as health outcomes, quality, access and efficiency.

They compare the U.S. average on these to the best performing states, counties or hospitals, and to other countries. The United States scored 65 -- two points lower than in 2006."

For example, in evaluating "Healthy Lives," the report states, "the US as a whole is falling short in promoting healthy, long, and productive lives for everyone."

Promotion is not the problem. The message is.

Fitness, both physical and nutritional, are the only things individuals can realistically do to improve health. This would go a long way to improving the system.

A repair and rescue system is ruled by garbage in, garbage out.

Clearly, I advocate that the weight loss and fitness advice provided the public is crap and harmful.

But just as clearly, the public is in part culpable for its own miseries since it believes fat people who offer diet and fitness advice (e.g., AdipOprah) and the "experts" anointed by fat people to offer that diet and fitness advice.

The assumption of this report appears to be that the consumer is a passive victim without responsibility.

Until individuals are held accountable for their contributions to their own unwellness, there can be no improvement in sick care.

And we the people can overcome many of the failings of the system.

If we just got smart and stopped treating stupid as a renewable resource.

Drug gives couch potato mice benefits of a workout

We'll see.

"Here's a couch potato's dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug — if you happen to be a mouse.

Sedentary mice that took the drug for four weeks burned more calories and had less fat than untreated mice. And when tested on a treadmill, they could run about 44 percent farther and 23 percent longer than untreated mice.

Just how well those results might translate to people is an open question...

But Eric Hoffman of the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., noted that AICAR mimics only aerobic exercise, not the strength training that might be more useful to bedridden people or the elderly, for example. He also cautioned that it's not clear whether the new mouse results can be reproduced in people."

My money is that the future for this drug is both in the way-off distance and much bleaker than the corrupt MSM touts.

Until then, mouse marathons may be more exciting than ever before.

44-pound homeless cat found in New Jersey

Abused pet bites back.

"A 44-pound feline was found waddling around Saturday without a collar in Voorhees, and officials at the Camden County Animal Shelter hope she gets a nice — hopefully, diet-friendly — home.

She’s built like a quarterback,' said Deborah Wright, a shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. 'I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound cat?!'”

You don't.

You get eaten by it.

Children Engage In Less Physical Activity As They Reach Adolescence

Virtually meaningless.

"A progressive decline in levels of physical activity has been documented in children, with less than one third able to meet the recommended physical activity guidelines when they are 15 years old, according to an article released on July 15, 2008 in JAMA.

Physical activity has been associated with obesity and associated illnesses as well as chronic diseases among young people. Expert opinion corroborates studies in suggesting that children maintain a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) each day, but it has not been thoroughly examined how many youth actually meet this standard."

Note, no data to suggest that the alleged one-third who do not meet the criteria are the one-third of kids who are too fat.

Per the article, the recommended amount of daily exercise is 60 minutes.

What this research is saying is that by age 15 where daily exercise minutes were least, because of between 11 and 25 minutes or, on average, 15-minutes per day "too little exercise," we have an epidemic of childhood overweight/obesity.

"It was found that the average minutes of MVPA and the range of minutes spent engaging in MVPA decreased steadily as the children moved into adolescence. Beginning at 9 years, approximately 3 hours were spent in MVPA per day on both weekends and weekdays. Almost all children at this time met the recommended guidelines. However, by the age of 15, the adolescents were spending 49 minutes each weekday and 35 minutes each weekend day in this level of activity. Both the weekday and weekend MVPA thus showed significant decreases between these years, as they dropped 38 and 41 minutes per year respectively."

This is, in a word, insane.

Exercise is and always will be a terribly inefficient way to control weight.

These researchers are all wrong and, sadly, their valueless research will only serve to delay any problem-solving, not help.

Obesity Increasing Among Pregnant Women In U.S., New York Times Reports

More child abuse - really embryocide, feticide and pediacide.

"One in five women who gives birth in the U.S. is obese, and physicians are seeing a greater number of pregnant women who are morbidly obese -- weighing 400, 500 or 600 pounds -- the New York Times reports. According to the Times, excess weight can cause obese women to have riskier pregnancies, because they are more likely to develop hypertension and diabetes, as well as to deliver prematurely."

It's not about when pigs fly.

It is about when pigs injure or kill their young.

Stop the abusers.

General Mills Launches Round Of Grants To Help Kids Eat Healthy And Stay Physically Fit

Doomed to fail from the get-go.

"The General Mills Champions for Healthy Kids Program recently awarded a half-million dollars in grants to 50 community-based organizations across the U.S. with unique programs focused on youth nutrition and fitness.

Each of the non-profits, schools or other organizations received a $10,000 grant for programs that incorporate a fitness and nutrition component, and operate with the guidance of a dietetic professional. Grant recipients this year traveled to General Mills corporate headquarters in Minneapolis for a two-day workshop to share and learn best practices for operating their programs."

The Achilles heel?

"...operate with the guidance of a dietetic professional."

These professionals are the same experts who got us into and keep us in this fat mess.

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Einstein

Think differently.

Think correctly.

Exercise May Be Needed for Weight Loss Maintenance in Overweight Women

Even more from the bulls**tinators.

"In addition to limiting energy intake, overweight and obese women may need to exercise 55 minutes a day, 5 days per week, to sustain a weight loss of 10% during 2 years, according to the results of a study reported in the July 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine."

With 100% certainty, this is trash.

It is a 100% physical impossibility to put on a single gram of weight in the absence of overeating Calories, i.e., eating more Calories than one burns. (Except in the presence of certain rare illnesses which almost no fat people have. So stop lying, fatso.)

If one needs to "exercise" to lose weight or keep weight off, then it means, with 100% certainty, that they are eating more Calories than they burn normally, i.e., without adding "exercise" to their daily activities.

This means, with 100% certainty, that they do not have a handle on caloric intake control.

When one can control caloric intake, then with 100% certainty, one does not have to "exercise" to control their weight.

This crap research will only make matters worse as it sets an even higher bar for weight loss and weight loss maintenance than the already impossible starvation dieting the experts advocate.

This is the sick direct result of pursuing the wrong path and staying on it trying all the while to make it right.

Better to give up and start over doing weight loss properly.

Otherwise the game is the impossible one of catch-up.

If you want to stop the insanity, go here.

If you want to lose weight properly/successfully, go here, here, here and here.

If you want to avoid these morons altogether, go here. There is no other choice. The idiots are ubiquitous.

Einstein on the Weight Loss Industry, Diet Experts, etc.

The following are quotes attributed to Einstein. They are relevant to the morons in the weight loss and nutritional homicide industries, (some of whom are listed after the quotes) and those among us who are calling them on their reign of error:

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

A partial list of IMHO: cons, morons and the nutritionally homicidal, in no particular order:

Oprah
Mehmet Oz
Kelly Brownell
David Katz
Jorge Cruise
David Zinczenko
Bob Greene
Phil McGraw
the Government
the sick care industry

And for those of you with the smarts not to listen to these IMHO killers and the MSM, Einstein has something for you:

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Similar weight loss on 3 different, popular diets

Shocking!

"A long-term study of three very different diets has concluded that all produce similar amounts of modest weight loss..."

Is it possible that what matters are the Calories?

BTW, these are other spins on the story to give it a more sensational and less truthful flavor.

This is one way the MSM scum operate to your detriment.

Maternal Diabetes and Obesity Linked to Type 2 Diabetes in Youth

Kudos, fatsos.

"Intrauterine exposures to maternal diabetes and obesity are strongly associated with type 2 diabetes in youth, according to the results of a case-control study reported in the July issue of Diabetes Care. In addition to childhood obesity, prevention efforts may need to target the increasing number of pregnancies complicated by obesity."

More child abuse.

Step up and stop it.