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...childhood obesity are worst among the poor and are a particular challenge in immigrant communities--in part because there's no cheaper dose of assimilation than a trip to Burger King. The New York Times Magazine reported that a couple of years ago, after administrators trimmed fat and sugar from menus at schools in Rio Grande City, Texas, along the Mexican border, students staged lunchroom protests, hanging signs that read NO MORE DIET and WE WANT TO EAT COOL STUFF--PIZZA, NACHOS, BURRITOS...
These days, it’s a piece of (low-calorie) cake to find sugar-free, fat-free, or even carb-free foods. Politic-free foods, on the other hand, are not so easy to come by. If you’re worried about how food industry lobbyists have corrupted the government’s dietary guidelines, fret no more: Harvard has created its own food pyramid! In 2005, the USDA replaced its 1992 food pyramid with a new version, which Walter C. Willett, Frederick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, dubbed “a complete joke...
...released into the mouth and lungs through an inhaler similar to the ones that asthma patients use. In studies of more than 2,500 adults with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, the needle-free insulin was as effective as short-acting insulin shots in controlling blood-sugar levels. ?OBESITY...
...concerted effort, did produce results. It hasn't changed the violence as much as perhaps people had expected. I believe we have the right goal. We have the right strategy. We have worked very hard. We have taken on a very, very difficult challenge. I don't want to sugar-coat that. I know we're in a very difficult neighborhood. Unfortunately important things are often very difficult things to do, and it takes persistence, but it also takes adaptability, being agile, and adjust as required...
...study, and another in the Journal of American Clinical Nutrition, add to the growing literature of the ill effects of soda. “Over the long term, the excess calories [from soda] lead to weight gain and there is evidence that over the last decade caloric intake from sugar-sweetened beverages have gone up,” said Eric B. Rimm, associate professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. “I think that you can’t draw a direct link between the increased rates of obesity in this country...