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Sans Tache
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posted 07 September 2006 02:29 PM      Profile for Sans Tache        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Peramble:
I was inspired to investigate the subject of obesity when the Ontario government came up with the 20 minute workout plan last year. Although it is a (good) start, this program falls far short of where we need to be regarding physical health and obesity within your youth population. I believe physical education should be mandatory for all three levels of publicly funded education system. English and Mathematics are now mandatory and so should Phys-Ed/Health. I think the only way for students to take their health seriously is to have them tested, marked and graded. Who knows, it might even reduce smoking (try running a Km. with a smoker’s cough) amongst our teens.

Subject:
Obesity could be caused by the adenovirus-36 (Ad-36). Proper nutrition and vigorous physical activity seem to be the only known cures for this virus. The Ad-36 is from the common cold family.

Postamble:
Poverty and disease are linked. I haven't read anything else on obesity and poverty but it seems reasonable to link these conditions as well. Read posting from Nic_Sey, http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=21&t=001650


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Boarsbreath
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posted 13 September 2006 06:52 PM      Profile for Boarsbreath   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Just a note on the tache you've set yourself there, ST. (ha! pun not intended)

If you're young enough, running even many kilometres while being a smoker is not necessarily hard at all. I smoked from the age of 16 and ran, beginning with a marathon in 1983 (because a girl I knew not well enough was running it), from the age of 24, and unless I'd smoked in the preceding hours it was never a problem. (Now I've sort of quit and only sort of run...)


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Sans Tache
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posted 29 December 2006 10:12 AM      Profile for Sans Tache        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
New evidence - Obesity and Poverty in the USA.

One solution I have heard of is to revisit the school breakfast and lunch programs.

Forbes.com - Low-Income Preschoolers Prone to Obesity - 12.28.06, 12:00 AM ET

quote:
THURSDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. obesity epidemic begins with kids barely out of diapers -- at least in poor, urban families, a new study suggests.
A review of nearly 2,000 3-year-old, low-income children and their mothers found that one-third of white and black children were overweight or obese, while a stunning 44 percent of Latino children fell into those categories.
"The message is that we're seeing overweight and obesity at younger ages than we thought possible," said study author Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, a health and society scholar at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "It's a particular problem in lower-income communities, and it's something we need to keep an eye on and prevent as much as possible."

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Frustrated Mess
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posted 29 December 2006 10:22 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What happens when processed food is removed from the equation?
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Sans Tache
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posted 29 December 2006 12:17 PM      Profile for Sans Tache        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Frustrated Mess:
What happens when processed food is removed from the equation?

A very good question....

I remember the term; Garbologists. I don't know it they are still out there but I do remember when they suggested that lower income people ate better than higher income people and were thus better nourished. Maybe the 99 KD Recipes for Dummies is not such a good book after all. But in all seriousness, I still think the children of lower income circumstances are more susceptible to disease and how some of these microbes may cause obesity.

Here are a few links that suggest this theory; Vaccine may target obesity in the future: researchers, Microbe Obesity? Or How Bad Bacteria May Make You Fat!, Infectobesity: chicken virus link to obesity, Obesity Alters Digestive-Tract Bacteria.


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