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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Americans are steadily gaining weight?
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U.S. researchers are predicting that at the current pace of weight gain, “75 percent of Americans will be overweight by 2015”. Overweight adults are considered those with a BMI above 25. BMI, which stands for Body Mass Index, is used by the medical community as the measure of a healthy weight. The study also shows that 80% of black women ages 40 and above are overweight, with 50% being obese!
Could this be? These numbers are alarming! With the information that everyone has about heart disease and other nutrition-related diseases, why are these numbers not declining, but on the rise instead? Most people nowadays are more knowledgeable about label reading than finances. Even ”trans fat” is on the fall! I'm curious how they came to this prediction.
Michelle, DTR
Nutrition Specialist
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do”
Labels: Overweight
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Britons Overweight and Malnourished?
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I guess Britons have not received the memo stating that nutrition does not mean eating an abundance of food, but making good choices and practicing portion control.
In a recent a recent article, the British diet was under attack for being high in fat, salt, calories and low in nutrition. As a result, malnutrition is now a problem and affecting over 2 million people in Britain! Like in many countries, Britons are not only eating foods that are poor nutritionally, but they are eating too much of it. This is a big concern since this kind of malnutrition will not cause starvation, but will most likely lead to heart disease instead. Most people are shocked when they hear that a country like Great Britain is dealing with malnutrition, so they don't take research such as this seriously.
So what needs to be done to make Britons and other wealthy nations aware of this possibility? Malnutrition needs to be properly defined as poor nutrition and not just being undernourished.
Michelle, DTR
Nutrition Specialist
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Labels: Overweight
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