The Food Commission: Cadbury wants children to eat two million kg of fat - to get fit

The Food Commission: Cadbury wants children to eat two million kg of fat - to get fit



   The food industry responds to the obesity crisis .

Health Digest - April 2015 Rudd Center

Health Digest - April 2015 Rudd Center Recent Publications

Weight Bias A new multinational study by the Rudd Center published online April 28 in the International Journal of Obesity found similar levels of weight bias across four Western countries, including the United States. Despite high rates of obesity in each of the countries - Australia, Canada, Iceland and the U.S. - negative biases against individuals with obesity are clearly present, and more often expressed by those who believe obesity reflects poor willpower or lack of personal responsibility, according to the study. "We hope this research can stimulate broader discussions about weight bias and ways to reduce unfair treatment based on body size," said lead author Rebecca Puhl, Deputy Director of the Rudd Center.   TV Food Advertising to Children The Rudd Center has updated its previous reports on food-related TV ads viewed by children and adolescents to include 2014 data. Trends in Television Food Advertising to Young People: 2014 Update shows that categories with more advertising to youth in 2014, compared to 2007, included candy, carbonated beverages, fast-food and other restaurants, and crackers and savory snacks, as well as yogurt and other dairy. Ads for bottled water and fruits and vegetables also increased, but these categories each represented less than two percent of food ads seen by youth. Rudd Center in the News An April 23 article in MultiBriefs: Exclusive, an online international news site, highlighted the Rudd Center's recent study on the emerging evidence showing that energy drinks pose a public health threat to children under 18. A Huffpost Parents piece posted April 16 on The Blog by a dietitian and mother of two included five lessons she vowed to teach her children about weight and body shape - to help "inch away from weight stigma, weight bullying, disordered eating, eating disorders and body dissatisfaction, all of which compromise the mental and physical health of people everywhere." The piece cites Rudd's report, "Weight Bias: A Social Justice Issue." The Plate, a National Geographic feature on food, published an article April 15 on the topic of taxing sugary drinks and junk food, citing the Rudd Center's report finding that sugar-sweetened beverages are a major source of daily calories, especially for kids ages 2-18. If other jurisdictions want to follow the Navajo Nation's success in enacting a "junk food tax," they will need to tap into grassroots power and tout similar taxes as positive, not punitive, measures, according to experts including Renee Gross, coordinator of legal initiatives for the UConn Rudd Center. Gross noted in an April 7 article in Law360 that the Navajo Nation couched its tax within a human rights framework, which gave it a loftier purpose and set it apart from similar initiatives floated by other communities. The Hill carried a piece by a University of Pennsylvania researcher about a study that reinforced our findings that parents can be misled about the healthfulness of beverages they provide to their children. "And with $784 million spent on advertising to promote sugary drinks," the April 6 article noted, "it is no wonder parents are confused." UConn Rudd Center Director Marlene Schwartz was interviewed at length about her study showing that students can eat healthier and waste less with the updated federal school lunch standards. Her interview was the focus of an April 6 Inside School Food radio program, "Reading plate waste."     News to Chew On   Science Daily Childhood obesity: One epidemic, or two? MSN What food porn does to the brain Bloomberg Business Highlighting the obesity-competency bias The Lancet Sugar intake: lowering the bar CNN America: Too Fat to Fight Daily Mail Sugar blamed for obesity epidemic   BloombergBusiness Kind Bars Aren't Healthy Enough for 'Healthy' Tag, FDA Says SF Gate France considers tough action on smoking, obesity and anorexia realbusiness (UK) Obese workers unable to play full role in business, according to UK employers Time Should I Eat Falafel   Epoch Times Fast Food Being Sold in Dozens of US Hospitals Yahoo! Food From Deep Fryers to Fruits and Veggies: How a Visionary Improved School Food in Detroit NPR Is It Time For A Warning Label On Sugar-Loaded Drinks?   What's Simmering with Our Friends   Prominent child and consumer advocacy groups have urged the FTC to investigate Google, citing deceptive advertising targeting children. The complaint letter from groups including Center for Science in the Public Interest and Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood alleges that at least three examples of unfair marketing have been found in the YouTube Kids app. Common Dreams reported on the complaint.   Salud Today featured an article and petition urging Taco Bell to stop selling sugary drinks to its customers. Taco Bell recently added six new sugary drinks to their menu including Manzanita Sol which has 56 grams of sugar in a 16-ounce drink – well over the daily limit recommended for children.    Voices for Healthy Kids publicized an American Heart Association news article on a congressional hearing in which advocates who support healthier school meals urged lawmakers not to retreat from the USDA's new standards.   Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution launched a petition drive to gain support for compulsory practical food education across the world, and obtained more than 600,000 signatures the first week.   Leading public health researchers and scientists announced their support for proposed legislation in New York and California to require warning labels on sugary drinks to alert consumers to health risks related to excessive consumption. The group was organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. CSPI featured an article on the announcement.     Share With A Friend - Sign Up for Our Newsletter Here Facebook Twitter Website YouTube

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Big Soda's Open Letter to San Francisco on the Soda Tax | Nancy Huehnergarth

Big Soda's Open Letter to San Francisco on the Soda Tax | Nancy Huehnergarth

Fort Frances Times Tue, 5 May 2009 "Fighting Obesity, Not The Obese"

Fort Frances Times 

Tue, 5 May 2009

Hi Paul,

Dear editor:

My group is working together to help fight obesity, but we want to expose weight bias stigma and discrimination.

This is the undertow of the obesity crisis.

I am working to create a nation-wide action plan for obesity. Let’s measure fitness using treadmills, blood pressure, and actual devices that can tabulate health.

Fitness comes in all sizes, and we want to shift the focus away from scales.

We are fighting obesity, but we are not fighting obese people. That small change may help to find partners in this process.

Our health care system and the media need an education on weight bias and stigma. Seventy percent of doctors stigmatize the individual, and the media has championed the dieting industry.

When does a diet fail? Diets never fail but people carry the blame. Just dial into the feedback on actress Kirstie Alley, a former diet industry spokesperson.

Kirstie has been vilified in the media and has been banished by the very industry she championed. Is she lazy, unmotivated, unhealthy, and displaying a lack of willpower? This is blame, and it works very well as it isolates the individual.

You can add 2,000 Americans to that list in a single day because 2,000 U.S. citizens will be diagnosed with Type 2 or sugar diabetes each day.

Nine U.S. states are sending children home with BMI scores that many NFL players would not pass. The tragedy is that these children are fighting obesity and the weight bias stigma and discrimination.

Let’s promote a discussion about obesity: fast food advertising, poverty, level of education, urban versus rural perspectives, media influences, and the weight-loss industry. I am eager to find an easy, smart, weight-loss pharma solution, but the real key for me is developing a healthy food marriage.

All foods in balance and as we develop a 20- to 40-point action plan, the key will be to find volunteers to help carry this message: That obesity is a by-product, and we need a real action plan.

I want to welcome all communities and citizens of Northern Ontario to my current Blog:

http://obesitythunderbay4health.blogspot.ca/2015/04/dr-aseem-malholtra-you-cant-outrun-bad.html

Let’s build this action plan together and end our scaling focus.  

Thanks,

Paul Murphy

Thunder Bay, Ont.

Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:59:19 +0000
> From: mail@supportforweightlloss.ning.com
> To: paul_murphy747@hotmail.com
> Subject: On Support for Weight Loss - Uk and Ireland: Please join this group to fight fatism, demand fair treatment and get real help
> 
> A message to all members of Support for Weight Loss - Uk and Ireland
> 
> The following is a copied and pasted message on our site by Paul Murphy. Paul is so excited about this that originally I think that everyone thought he was selling something. But Paul is simply passionate about making a difference. Fatism exists and government directives in health care etc seem to demonise the fat person but yet that same government is happy to prop up the very companies that are making pure muck for us to put in our bodies. This is double standards. Here’s what paul says.
> 
> I want to offer support and some understanding about the current model. The fault based model includes , unhealthy eating ,lack of willpower ,laziness ,lifestyle and personal accountability. I want to move the camera lens to include many factors that are able to slip past.
> I have started a group so that they will join me in reviewing materials .I am tired of seeing others get mistreated due to obesity, and I hope you will join me in this effort to expose this bias. The Rudd Center @ Yale is featured in many videos. They are AGAINST OBESITY ----------- BUT NOT AGAINST OBESE PEOPLE. All over the world people are desperate. Some young girls will swallow a live tape worm ,so as to fight off obesity.
> We need to expand our thinking of the issue and challenge PAID FOR SCIENCE . Lets demand some real disclosure on this issue. 
> 
> Please also join Pauls group as I believe he is spear heading a cause which will not only stop demonising people but also be the foundation upon which real help can be offered. 
> 

Weight Bias Stigma by Rebecca Puhl "Fight Obesity ,Not Obese People"

Uploaded on Apr 8, 2008

Riz Khan discusses obesity discrimination in the US and its hurtful affects.

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NCDFREE presents Kevin & Dunk the Junk

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NCDFREE presents Dunk The Junk, the Maine based
NGO aiming to combat childhood consumption of sugar based beverages,
using a unique mixture of hip hop music, street art and basketball
stars. Kevin Strong, MD, community pediatrician, and the Founder of Dunk
the Junk, explains his passion which drives DTJ to buckle this
concerning trend through their innovative community activities.

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Experts 'Appalled' by Puerto Rican Bill to Fine Parents of Obese Children - ABC News

Experts 'Appalled' by Puerto Rican Bill to Fine Parents of Obese Children - ABC News

Experts 'Appalled' by Puerto Rican Bill to Fine Parents of Obese Children

▶ "Obesity Epedemic May Have Effect on U.S. Military Numbers" September 26, 2014 07:16 AM - YouTube

▶ "Obesity Epedemic May Have Effect on U.S. Military Numbers" September 26, 2014 07:16 AM - YouTube



 

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"TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA)-- We've known for years that Americans are becoming more obese.

Now it appears the obesity epidemic might have an affect on the numbers of those entering the military." http://www.wtva.com/news/local/story/...

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Food CBC The Science of Addictive Food

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The Science of Addictive Food

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Dancing Man ' Fat Shaming Specimen"

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Dancing Man who was shamed by bullies is tracked down and invited to VIP dance party with 2,000 women after Twitter campaign

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Weight Bias Stigma Rebecca Puhl Vid

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Weight Stigma - ASMBS Integrated Health Keynote by Rebecca Puhl, PhD

Myths on Diet and Exercise Part 1

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/myth-exercise-exercise-part-1/

 There is no association between activity and obesity.  Aw Dang.

It is time to bust the myth of physical inactivity and obesity: you cannot outrun a bad diet

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/04/21/bjsports-2015-094911.full
 

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Exercise Not Key in Addressing Obesity Video Dr Malholtra

Dr. Aseem Malhotra Says Sugar & Refined Carbs Are Responsible For Weight Gain Not Lack Of Exercise

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Dr Aseem Malholtra You Can't Outrun a Bad Diet With Exercise

Published on Apr 23, 2015

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  Below are two links that deconstruct the myths related to physical activity and obesity. I, like many others , are working tirelessly to examine  the food environment and health equity. I believe we can do much better  with regard to creating a working plan , or platform, to address this complex multilayered issue.  As an overweight, obese individual I think we will need to conduct a transparent review on the diet and exercise model. 
http://web.archive.org/web/20150424074000/http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/04/21/bjsports-2015-094911.full 
  Special Thanks to one of our readers for this .

"An obese person does not need to do one iota of exercise to lose weight, they just need to eat less

Dr Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist"

 

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/obesity-owes-more-to-bad-diet-than-lack-of-exercise-say-doctors

Exercise is good … but it won't help you lose weight, say doctors 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32417699 

 

Exercise 'not key to obesity fight'

By Nick Triggle

 

Fed Up Feature Film Food Production

Published on May 20, 2014

This is Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives. Fed Up was released in 2002 by Wholesome Goodness Productions. More than a decade later, it still remains relevant. Most of the statistics are worse now and we are starting to see the rise of insect resistance to plants engineered to produce their own pesticides. There is still woefully little research available on long term ingestion of GMO foods and most foods in the US still are not labeled.

Description: Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage (from archive.org) and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED UP! presents an entertaining, informative and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it. FED UP! explores the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the links between government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies.

FED UP! answers many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides through interviews with Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey from the Center for Ethics and Toxics, Peter Rosset and Anuradha Mittal from Food First, Vandana Shiva from the Research Center for Science, Technology and Ecology, Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Martina McGloughlin, Director of UC Davis' Biotechnology Program and many others.FED UP! also introduces us to local Bay Area organic farmers from Purisima Greens Farm and Live Power Community Farm, presenting community supported agriculture and small- scale organic farming as real alternatives to agribusiness and industrial food.