Obliterate Obesity

Hi everyone, I have just read an article in the U.S. Today that concluded your risk of dementia is 3. 6 times higher if you carry excess body fat around your waist. Researchers have already proven that excess weight in belly area will increase your risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. However, this is the first study to reveal that it also increases your chances of getting dementia. This includes Alzheimer’s Disease- an incurable brain disease.

” But even people who’d kept close tabs on overall body weight were at risk if they sported a spare tire: They were 1.8 times more likely to develop dementia compared with people who were lean all over. The study appears in today’s online edition of Neurology.”

You can read more about this is at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-03-26-belly-dementia_n.htm

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Hello everyone…I was just reading an article about the unhealthy foods served to our children in the school cafeterias.

The local farmers in New York are trying to get the school system to hop on board and buy their fresh fruits and vegetables to sell in the school cafeteria. The article states that,

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I just came across this headline in the news yesterday:

“A study by accident researchers in Melbourne (Australia) has found that almost 40 per cent of children who meet the height criteria for booster seats are too heavy to use them. ”

So what are parents doing about it? I would hope that they are taking a serious look at what they are feeding to these youngsters and trying everything that they can to get their weight under control.

However, this is what the researchers have found during their study:

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