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Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," Wheat Belly doctor says - CBS News

(CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain.

Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s," he said on "CBS This Morning." "This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It's not gluten. I'm not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I'm talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year."

Asked if the farming industry could change back to the grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be economically feasible because it yields less per acre. However, Davis said a movement has begun with people turning away from wheat - and dropping substantial weight.

"If three people lost eight pounds, big deal," he said. "But we're seeing hundreds of thousands of people losing 30, 80, 150 pounds. Diabetics become no longer diabetic; people with arthritis having dramatic relief. People losing leg swelling, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, and on and on every day."

To avoid these wheat-oriented products, Davis suggests eating "real food," such as avocados, olives, olive oil, meats, and vegetables. "(It's) the stuff that is least likely to have been changed by agribusiness," he said. "Certainly not grains. When I say grains, of course, over 90 percent of all grains we eat will be wheat, it's not barley... or flax. It's going to be wheat.

"It's really a wheat issue."

Some health resources, such as the Mayo Clinic, advocate a more balanced diet that does include wheat. But Davis said on "CTM" they're just offering a poor alternative.

"All that literature says is to replace something bad, white enriched products with something less bad, whole grains, and there's an apparent health benefit - 'Let's eat a whole bunch of less bad things.' So I take...unfiltered cigarettes and replace with Salem filtered cigarettes, you should smoke the Salems. That's the logic of nutrition, it's a deeply flawed logic. What if I take it to the next level, and we say, 'Let's eliminate all grains,' what happens then?

"That's when you see, not improvements in health, that's when you see transformations in health."







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Why Do Vegetarians Live Longer?

Nearly a decade of extra life -- that's what you get when you move away from eating animal foods and toward a plant-based diet. This is really exciting science for anyone seeking healthy longevity (and who isn't?)!

According to a recent report on the largest study of vegetarians and vegans to date, those eating plant-based diets appear to have a significantly longer life expectancy. Vegetarians live on average almost eight years longer than the general population, which is similar to the gap between smokers and nonsmokers. This is not surprising, given the reasons most of us are dying. In an online video, "Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death," Michael Greger, M.D. explores the role a healthy diet can play in preventing, treating, and even reversing the top 15 killers in the United States. Let's take a closer look at what the good doctor has pulled together...

Heart disease is our leading cause of death. The 35-year follow-up of the Harvard Nurses Health Study was recently published, now the most definitive long-term study on older women's health. Dietary cholesterol intake -- only found in animal foods -- was associated with living a significantly shorter life and fiber intake -- only found in plant foods -- was associated with living a significantly longer life. Consuming the amount of cholesterol found in just a single egg a day may cut a woman's life short as much as smoking five cigarettes daily for 15 years, whereas eating a daily cup of oatmeal's worth of fiber appears to extend a woman's life as much as four hours of jogging a week. (But there's no reason we can't do both!)

What if your cholesterol's normal, though? I hear that a lot. But here's the thing: having a "normal" cholesterol in a society where it's "normal" to drop dead of a heart attack is not necessarily a good thing. According to the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Cardiology, "For the build-up of plaque in our arteries to cease, it appears that the serum total cholesterol needs to be lowered to the 150 area. In other words the serum total cholesterol must be lowered to that of the average pure vegetarian."

More than 20 years ago, Dr. Dean Ornish showed that heart disease could not just be stopped but actually reversed with a vegan diet, arteries opened up without drugs or surgery. Since this lifestyle cure was discovered, hundreds of thousands have died unnecessary deaths. What more does one have to know about a diet that reverses our deadliest disease?

Cancer is killer number two. Ah, the dreaded "C" word -- but look at this hopeful science. According to the largest forward-looking study on diet and cancer so far performed, "the incidence of all cancers combined is lower among vegetarians." The link between meat and cancer is such that even a paper published in the journal Meat Science recently asked, "Should we become vegetarians, or can we make meat safer?" There are a bunch of additives under investigation to suppress the toxic effects the blood-based "heme" iron, for example, which could provide what they called an "acceptable" way to prevent cancer. Why not just reduce meat consumption? The meat science researchers noted that if such public health guidance were adhered to, "Cancer incidence may be reduced, but farmers and [the] meat industry would suffer important economical problems..." Hmmm, so Big Ag chooses profit over health; what a surprise.

After Dr. Ornish's team showed that the bloodstreams of men eating vegan for a year had nearly eight times the cancer-stopping power, a series of elegant experiments showed that women could boost their defenses against breast cancer after just two weeks on a plant-based diet. See the before and after here. If you or anyone you know has ever had a cancer scare, this research will make your heart soar. Because there is real, true hope -- something you can do to stave off "the big C."

So, the top three leading causes of death used to be heart disease, cancer, then stroke, but the latest CDC stats place COPD third -- lung diseases such as emphysema. Surprisingly, COPD can be prevented with the help of a plant-based diet, and can even be treated with plants. Of course, the tobacco industry viewed these landmark findings a little differently. Instead of adding plants to one's diet to prevent emphysema, wouldn't it be simpler to just add them to the cigarettes? Hence the study "Addition of Açaí [Berries] to Cigarettes Has a Protective Effect Against Emphysema in [Smoking] Mice." Seriously.

The meat industry tried the same tack. Putting fruit extracts in burgers was not without its glitches, though. The blackberries "literally dyed burger patties with a distinct purplish color," and though it was possible to improve the nutritional profile of frankfurters with powdered grape seeds, there were complaints that the grape seed "particles became visible" in the final product. And if there's one thing we know about hot dog eaters, it's that they're picky about what goes in their food!

Onward to strokes: The key to preventing strokes may be to eat potassium-rich foods. Though Chiquita may have had a good PR firm, bananas don't even make the top 50 sources. The leading whole food sources include dark green leafy vegetables, beans, and dates. We eat so few plants that 98 percent of Americans don't even reach the recommended minimum daily intake of potassium. And if you look at killer number five -- accidents -- bananas (and their peels) could be downright dangerous!

Alzheimer's disease is now our sixth leading killer. We've known for nearly 20 years now that those who eat meat -- including chicken and fish -- appear three times more likely to become demented compared to long-term vegetarians. Exciting new research suggests one can treat Alzheimer's using natural plant products such as the spice saffron, which beat out placebo and worked as well as a leading Alzheimer's drug.

Diabetes is next on the kick-the-bucket list. Plant-based diets help prevent, treat, and even reverse Type 2 diabetes. Since vegans are, on average, about 30 pounds skinnier than meat-eaters, this comes as no surprise; but researchers found that vegans appear to have just a fraction of the diabetes risk, even after controlling for their slimmer figures.

Kidney failure, our eighth leading cause of death, may also be prevented and treated with a plant-based diet. The three dietary risk factors Harvard researchers found for declining kidney function were animal protein, animal fat, and cholesterol, all of which are only found in animal products.

Leading killer number nine is respiratory infections. With flu shot season upon us, it's good to know that fruit and vegetable consumption can significantly boost one's protective immune response to vaccination. Check out the short video "Kale and the Immune System," and you'll see there's not much kale can't do.

Suicide is number 10. Oh yes, vegan food even has something good to offer on this one! Cross-sectional studies have shown that the moods of those on plant-based diets tend to be superior, but taken in just a snapshot in time one can't tease out cause-and-effect. Maybe happier people end up eating healthier and not the other way around. But this year an interventional trial was published in which all meat, poultry, fish, and eggs were removed from people's diets and a significant improvement in mood scores was found after just two weeks. It can take drugs like Prozac a month or more to take effect. So you may be able to get happier faster by cutting out animal foods than by using drugs.

Drugs can help with the other conditions as well, but instead of taking one drug for cholesterol every day for the rest of your life, maybe a few for high blood pressure or diabetes, the same diet appears to work across the board without the risk of drug side-effects. One study found that prescription medications kill an estimated 106,000 Americans every year. That's not from errors or overdose, but from adverse drug reactions, arguably making doctors the sixth leading cause of death.

Based on a study of 15,000 American vegetarians, those that eat meat have about twice the odds of being on antacids, aspirin, blood pressure medications, insulin, laxatives, painkillers, sleeping pills, and tranquilizers. So plant-based diets are great for those that don't like taking drugs, paying for drugs, or risking adverse side effects.

Imagine if, like President Clinton, our nation embraced a plant-based diet. Imagine if we just significantly cut back on animal products. There is one country that tried. After World War II, Finland joined us in packing on the meat, eggs, and dairy. By the 1970s, the mortality rate from heart disease of Finnish men was the highest in the world, and so they initiated a country-wide program to decrease their saturated fat intake. Farmers were encouraged to switch from dairies to berries. Towns were pitted against each other in friendly cholesterol-lowering competitions. Their efforts resulted in an 80 percent drop in cardiac mortality across the entire country.

Conflicts of interest on the U.S. dietary guidelines committee may have prevented similar action from our own government, but with our health-care crisis deepening, our obesity epidemic widening, and the health of our nation's children in decline, we may need to take it upon our selves, families, and communities to embrace Food Day ideals of healthy, affordable, sustainable foods by moving towards a more plant-centered diet. If we do, we may be afforded added years to enjoy the harvest.


For a plan on how to eat this way, check out The Lean!

For more by Kathy Freston, click here.

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We asked two experts in plant-based eating -- Amy Lanou, Ph.D., an associate professor of health and wellness at the University of North Carolina Asheville, and Vandana Sheth, R.D., C.D.E, a Los Angeles-based dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics -- for their advice for people who are just starting out on a vegan diet.


                                  






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Weight Watchers Winning $61 Billion War On Fat - Forbes

  

If you’re an American, odds are good that you’re overweight or obese. 

That’s bad for your health but good for those who try to help you fight the war on fat.

After all in 2009, direct medical and healthcare costs spent on overweight or obese Americans hit $159 billion — up at a 9.4% annual rate from 2003. 

Any by 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services expects that figure to climb at a 6.5% annual rate to $319 billion.


By the end of 2012, those overweight or obese Americans are expected to spend $61 billion on products and services to help them drop weight, including:

• Diet foods, drinks, and low-calorie sweeteners;
• Health clubs and workout videos;
• Medically supervised and commercial weight loss programs;
• Children’s weight-loss camps;
• Diet books; and
• Appetite suppressants.

It doesn’t take much to start a business that takes a piece of this action. 

So there’s no wonder that there are 24,900 competitors vying for it, according to IBISWorld.

And they try to win based on their program’s recognition, reputation, effectiveness, safety and price.


In this highly fragmented industry, IBISWorld estimates the market shares of four leaders:

• Weight Watchers International (WTW): 3% market share and $1.8 billion in 2012 revenue, 
• Nutrisystem (NTRI): 0.7% and $400 million,
• Medifast (MED): 0.6% and $365 million, and
• Nestle’s Jenny Craig: 0.5% and $319 million.

Then there are privately held rivals like Dr. Dean Ornish’s Preventative Medicine Research Institute (PMRI).


Weight Watchers

As David Burwick, President, North America, explained in an October 10 interview, Weight Watchers has a great founding story — experiencing three major stages in its development.

According to Burwick, “Weight Watchers was started in 1963 by a Queens housewife, Jean Nidetch, who was trying to lose weight.”

Nidetch attended sessions at the obesity clinic run by the New York City Board of Health that advised her “No skipping meals. Fish five times a week. Two pieces of bread and two glasses of skim milk a day. More fruits and vegetables.”

Nidetch lost weight but did not like the way the leader ran things so she started hosting friends in her living room, and eventually the group expanded until “dozens were crowding in.”

In  those meetings, people discussed the challenges of losing weight and shared new strategies to help them reach their goals.

With advice from a pair of people who attended her meetings, Nidetch launched Weight Watchers International in 1963; and went global in 1967 with 102 franchises in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Great Britain and Israel.

In 1979, H.J. Heinz  paid $71 million for Weight Watchers but disgorged it in 1999 to Invus (Invest in the U.S.).

Invus is an investor group founded by the Boston Consulting Group consultants who had advised a Belgian sugar company’s owners to sell their business and use some of the proceeds to  invest in the U.S. — and that included buying Weight Watchers from Heinz. In November 2001, Invus sold shares to the public.  Their value has risen 84% since then.


Weight Watchers offers consumers two services:

• Weight Watchers meetings:  Weight Watchers staff “give members a private and confidential weigh-in, followed by a meeting facilitated by a Leader who also lost weight with the program.  Members receive helpful tools, guides, strategies and tips in a supportive and caring environment, with 24 hour access to mobile and internet resources.  Meeting fees vary with an average of $42.95 per month,” according to Burwick.
• Weight Watchers Online:  Subscribers receive tools to follow the program “completely online at their own pace.  Site are customized for the specific needs of men and women.  Subscribers have access to “more than 40,000 food options, 3,500 recipes, and interactive tools to help manage daily food choices and activity. Prices vary starting at $5.00 per week.”

Burwick credits some of Weight Watchers recent success to its Points Plus program, based on “the latest nutritional science that factors in the way your body processes food.

Foods are assigned a PointsPlus value based on fat, fiber, carbohydrates and protein guiding you to make smarter food choices.”

Burwick pointed out that  “foods laden with sugar and fat would have a higher PointsPlus value than a lean protein.  Plus, all fruits and most vegetables have a zero PointsPlus value.

Members can also earn PointsPlus values for activity above and beyond regular daily activity.”

Burwick also pointed out that Weight Watchers is developing a so-called business-to-business strategy. Weight Watchers provides companies with membership options, including hosting meetings on their premises. This makes it possible for workers to obtain the benefits of the service without needing to leave the office.


Nutrisystem
 
Nutrisystem focuses just on the food. Its weight-management system is priced between $300 and $400 per month — consisting of monthly food packages, which contain a 28-day supply of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts.

But Nutrisystem is struggling thanks to that high sticker price that is costing the company some customers.

In 2011, it introduced price discounts that sliced into profits and may have contributed to the board’s decision not to renew CEO Joe Reding’s contract — though it has yet to hire a replacement.


Medifast

Medifast is doing better. As Medifast Chairman and CEO, Michael MacDonald, explained in an October 19 interview, MacDonald took over in February 2012 from his late brother, Brad MacDonald, Executive Chairman of the Board of Medifast Emeritus.

Brad, who fostered Medifast’s growth and played a key role in building up the company’s highly successful Take Shape For Life division in which “10,800 happy Medifast health coaches provide encouragement, education, and mentoring to clients and guide then as they lose weight on the Medifast 5 & 1 Plan.”

Medifast sells weight-loss products including “meal options that range from bars and shakes to hearty soups.” The Medifast weight loss program requires that clients “choose five of 70 Medifast meals” eat one bar at breakfast, another at lunch, and then consume one meal that they prepare for themselves.

Medifast distributes its products through four channels: Medifast Direct (its e-commerce site), Take Shape for Life, 88 corporate and 32 franchise Weight Control Centers, and medical providers.

Within the next five years, MacDonald forecasts that Medifast will become a billion dollar company. He sees its Take Shape for Life unit growing from its current $200 million; its franchises expanding from 32 amd to open 40 more centers in the next three or four years; and its partnership with MedEx, a Mexican pharmaceutical company that will distribute its products as a way prevent obesity among citizens in Mexico City through 5,000 physicians.


Jenny Craig

Jenny Craig – it offers personalized counseling through 700 retail outlets, over the phone or Internet and sells 80 food items — is struggling.

According to its June 2012 Half Year report, ”Unfortunately, [Jenny Craig] continues to be under pressure in the U.S.  We continue to take corrective actions and it’s taking longer time for us to see some results to materialize.”

But as Jenny Craig CEO, Dana Fiser, explained in an October 26 interview, the company has a huge growth opportunity thanks to its approach to alleviating the growing obesity and epidemic.

According to Fiser, “Projected increases in obesity rates and heart disease by 2030 are shocking.”

Fiser believes that  Jenny Craig meets the need — underscored by this epidemic — for a “more proactive approach to weight loss and weight management.”


PMRI

PMRI is tapping its influence — Bill Clinton is a fan of Ornish’s approach — and reams of medical research to encourage people to make diet and lifestyle changes that can reverse heart disease, cancer, and other diseases.

In an October 10 interview from his Sausalito, Calif.-office, Ornish explained that he set up PMRI in 1993 as a public non-profit research institute to  investigate the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease.

Ornish cited a series of studies published in medical journals indicating that changes to diet and lifestyle could:

• Reverse heart disease,
• Help people lose 16 pounds within a year,
• Slow the growth of prostate cancer, and
• Change the makeup of genes by adding telomerase to them.

He took his program around the U.S. — training health care practitioners from “Nebraska to the Cleveland Clinic.” And he found the program could achieve very good results for other practitioners – “Blue Cross/Blue Shield reduced the cost to treat patients for certain cases by 50% in the first year and 20% in the second and third years.”

Ornish was proud to note that after years of PMRI’s effort, Medicare officials reviewed the medical research necessary to conclude that Medicare should cover patients’ costs for the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, which teaches a plant-based, meatless diet, meditation and regular exercise.

This program costs about $30,000 per patient. In 2010, Medicare officially approved this program as an intensive cardiac rehab program, and the first patients started in May 2011.

But making money is not Ornish’s goal; instead he says, “I should make enough to get by. 

The true measure of my life will be how many lives I changed for the better.”

The opportunity to help Americans fight fat is huge and growing — and in this fragmented market there are plenty of ways to make money off of it. 

Whether any of them permanently reverse the trend remains to be seen.

Weight Watchers Winning $61 Billion War On Fat - Forbes

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Twinkie Factories Closed by Hostess

Hostess products are shown on Nov. 15, 2012, in Chicago. Hostess has warned striking workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that it will move to liquidate the company if plant operations don't return to normal levels by this afternoon. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)







A Hostess Twinkies sign is shown at the Utah Hostess plant in Ogden on Nov. 15, 2012. Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, announced today that it is winding down operations and has filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking permission to close its business and sell its assets, including its iconic brands and facilities. (Rick Bowmer/AP file)

Hostess Brands says it's going out of business after striking workers across the country crippled its ability to make its Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other snacks.

The company had warned employees that it would file a motion with U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday seeking permission to shutter its operations and sell assets if plants didn't resume normal operations by a Thursday evening deadline.

The closing would mean the loss of about 18,500 jobs....

Hostess, founded in 1930, was fighting battles beyond labor costs. Competition is increasing in the snack space and Americans are increasingly conscious about healthy eating. 

Hostess also makes Dolly Madison, Drake's and Nature's Pride snacks.

Hostess had said that production at about a dozen of its plants were seriously affected by the strike. Three plants were closed earlier this week.

 
 


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Annie Leonard on her book "The Story of Stuff" full show - YouTube

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Activist turned filmmaker, Annie Leonard  talks about "The Story of Stuff", her book based on her travels around  the globe, tracking what happens to the stuff we produce, consume and  throw away.

   

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Just one fatty meal can damage arteries, studies say | CTV News

 

 

Perhaps there are no exceptions when it comes to indulging in “just one” fatty meal.

A single junk food meal is all it takes to damage your arteries, according to two Canadian studies, one by researchers at the Montreal Heart Institute’s EPIC Center and another by researchers at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta.

The first study, out of Montreal, reached that conclusion after enlisting the help of 28 non-smoking men and getting them to eat two very different meals.

The first was a Mediterranean-style meal of salmon, almonds and vegetables cooked in olive oil. Just over half the calories in the dish came from fat, mainly monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.

A week later, the men were given a second meal. This time, the dish consisted of a sausage sandwich, an egg, a slice of cheese and three hash browns -- a meal similar to some fast-food breakfasts.

The second meal was loaded with saturated fat, and contained no Omega-3 fats.

The participants received ultrasounds after each meal so researchers could monitor how the foods had affected their vascular endothelium, the inner lining of the blood vessels.


Researchers, led by the University of Montreal’s Dr. Anil Nigam, found that the arteries of the study participants dilated 24 per cent less after the junk food meal.

By comparison, the researchers found that participants’ arteries dilated normally after the Mediterranean-style meal.

“We believe that a Mediterranean-type diet may be particularly beneficial for individuals with high triglyceride levels, such as patients with metabolic syndrome, precisely because it could help keep arteries healthy," Dr. Nigam said in a statement issued Tuesday.

The research has been published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

The second study tested how the blood vessels reacted when a group of non-smoking university students began their day with a 900-calorie breakfast sandwich that had a whopping 50 g of fat.

Two hours after the students ate the sandwiches, the researchers found that their arteries’ ability to increase blood flow under stress had decreased by 15 to 20 per cent.

Lead study author Dr. Todd Anderson said if the arteries’ decreased capacity to increase blood flow under stress becomes a chronic condition, there is an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

“The message is that completely normal individuals with no risk factors, these things can cause problems in the short term,” Anderson told CTV News. “And we should think more about what we put into our bodies.”


The findings were presented Tuesday at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the Bariatric Medical Institute said he supports the underlying message that one high-fat meal can have an impact on the body.

However, he said his biggest concern is how people eat day in and day out.

“My advice to people all the time is, eat at home, make food at home,” Freedhoff told CTV.

“The food we eat when we purchase it outside the home contributes greatly to our weight and chronic disease.”


With a report from CTV’s medical specialist Avis Favaro and producer Elizabeth St. Philip

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/just-one-fatty-meal-can-damage-arteries-studies-say-1.1017405#ixzz2Ar8UKYhj

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Why NFL players are turning to Adderall: Decoder - YouTube

''PEP"  PILL for Narcolepsy, ADHD and M.S. Drug... book writers use to concentrate... students use it to study.........







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Bloomberg's Soda Ban And The Epicenter Of The City's Obesity Crisis

Every morning, thousands of trucks roll out of a giant produce market in the Bronx bearing loads of arugula, chicory, escarole, radicchio and just about every other conceivable ingredient needed to make an amazing salad. The New York City Terminal Market is the largest wholesale produce market in the world. It employs more than 10,000 people, brings in around $2 billion a year and supplies nearly 60 percent of the city's shops and restaurants with fruit and vegetables. But if you live in the neighborhood, you might find yourself crossing an eight-lane expressway to get a tomato.

According to the Department of City Planning, the neighborhood, Hunts Point, is a "food desert" -– one of those enclaves of the industrialized world where healthy, affordable food is hard to find. Most of the neighborhood's 11,000 families get their calories from fast-food restaurants and bodegas, said Maryann Hedaa, the managing director of the Hunts Point Alliance For Children.

In Hunts Point, it's still "the Wonder Bread, Spam, and Twinkie era," she said. "Salad, what's that?"

One person who would not have any trouble answering that question is Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently incurred the derision of GOP lawmakers and a group called the Center for Consumer Freedom with his proposal to bar New York City's restaurants and movie theaters from selling large sugary drinks. "All across the country, people recognize obesity as a growing, serious problem," he said in an interview with the New York Post.

Nowhere in New York is the obesity problem worse than in the South Bronx. So what do the people of Hunts Point have to say about the mayor's latest attempt to get them to eat better?

"I think it's actually a good thing," said a young woman who'd stopped into a Hunts Point McDonalds -- one of the neighborhood's only sit-down restaurants. Unbelievably, the woman's last name was Sweet. Her first name was Daisy, and said she came to McDonald's after dropping off her five-year-old son at school. She looked healthy, even though she'd just emptied 17 packets of sugar (her count) into her extra-large cup of coffee. She said she tried to cook healthy meals for her son, but doing so required "dedication." There used to be a supermarket a few blocks from where she lives, she said, but it burned down.

"I'm really afraid with this," said Luis Perez, stopping for a brief chat outside a Dunkin Donuts across the street. Perez said he works in the neighborhood as a mechanic, and he, too, tries to keep his junk-food intake to a minimum. "But I'm really crazy with the soda," he admitted.

"I believe it is going to affect the economy worse," said Galo Morales, a construction worker from Ecuador, as he stood in a bodega on Hunts Point Avenue. The bodega's owner, Jamie Ovalles, agreed. Soda sales make up five percent of his income, he said, and he sells more 2-liter bottles than any other size. "When you buy big you pay less," he said. "And you know, the kids like the soda."

Hunts Point is one of the most isolated neighborhoods in the city. Water surrounds it on three sides; the remaining border is marked by the Bruckner Expressway. Together with the other neighborhoods of the South Bronx, it sits in the poorest congressional district in the country. Nearly half of all its children live below the poverty line, and many of them are overweight. At of 2006, the most recent year for which data is available, Hunts Point and the nearby neighborhood of Mott Haven had the city's highest rates of obesity, diabetes and death.

A more recent report found that nearly a third of all children enrolled in the area's Head Start programs were obese. These children and their families have little access to the enormous produce market next door, and many residents have been complaining about this for years. Some hope that the city will take these complaints into account as it negotiates a new contract with the market, which has recently entertained proposals to leave the Bronx for New Jersey.

The market "should be thinking about the residents as potential customers more, and the potential impact that they could have on the health of their community," said Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, the director of The Point, a community organization. Instead, it sits behind a series of concrete barriers that look like the bomb-blast walls seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Point is part of a growing "food-justice" movement in the neighborhood. It's one of a number of organizations that have tried to improve the food options in poor neighborhoods around the city by enlisting residents to protest, to lobby, to plant gardens in abandoned lots, to turn kids on to the pleasures of carrots and kale. The Point offers cooking classes to families, and a few years ago it invited a gourmet chef to open a café in its community center. Terry-Sepulveda said the chef, Kelston Bascom, had opened her eyes to new experiences. "I don't know if I'd ever had a relationship with … Oh my god, what's the odd-looking vegetable that looks like mini-cabbages? Maybe Brussels sprouts?"

The concept of the food desert has gained prominence in recent years, thanks in part to the advocacy of Michelle Obama. In too many neighborhoods, she said in October, "if people want to buy a head of lettuce or salad or some fruit for their kid's lunch, they have to take two or three buses, maybe pay for a taxicab, in order to do it."

A pair of recent studies has called this wisdom into question. In March, a report published in the journal Social Science and Medicine revealed that poor neighborhoods had more supermarkets and large grocers per square mile than wealthier ones, and a study published in February in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found no relationship between the types of food people eat and the types available within a mile and a half of their homes.

But in Hunts Point, the only vegetables stocked by most of the grocery stores are the starchy ones that keep well -- potatoes, plantains, cassava. And the eight lanes of the Bruckner Expressway make a mile-and-a-half shopping trip feel much longer.

The produce market does grant some access to the public. For three dollars, people can buy a day pass that gets them through the gates -- if they have cars. In any event, Terry-Sepulveda said this wasn't enough. "Three dollars doesn't sound like a lot," she said, "but for immediate residents, that can seem a little excessive, especially considering it's the poorest congressional district in the country."

Those residents have to put up with the unpleasant facts of life near a food-distribution center, she said, like the 15,000 trucks that come and go each day. So it's only fair that the market use its influence to help them, she argued. "We don't have the lobbying power of a huge produce market," she said.

A spokesman for the market said he thought these complaints were unreasonable, and he insisted that the market was open to everyone. Told that a security officer turned away a reporter who tried to enter the market this morning, he declined to provide an explanation.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this articles incorrectly stated that the proposed soda ban wouldn't affect the sale of large bottles of soda in delis.


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Bloomberg's Soda Ban And The Epicenter Of The City's Obesity Crisis

Michelle Obama Welcomes Disney's 'Game-Changing' Ban On Junk Food Ads

The Huffington Post UK | By Sarah O'Meara Posted: 06/06/2012 11:29 


In a bid to help improve eating habits among America's children, 
The Walt Disney Company will become the first major media company to ban ads for junk food on its television channels, radio stations and websites, reports the Associated Press.
From 2015, all food and drink products advertised, sponsored, or promoted on Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Radio Disney, and Disney-owned online destinations oriented to families with younger children will be required to meet Disney’s nutrition guidelines.

Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years in America, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and First Lady Michelle Obama has called the move a "game changer" for the health of US children.




Disney will align their nutrition guidelines to federal standards, which means that banned advertising will go beyond candy bars and fast-food meals.
 
 
The Children's Food Campaign is calling for advertising regulation to become more comprehensive, in order to prevent children from seeing adverts for foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar.

At the Disney press conference, Michelle Obama said: "As parents, we know that whatever is on TV is what our kids are going to want. "

The First Lady has championed such healthy-living issues since launching the Let’s Move! initiative and specifically called upon the business community to innovate changes in advertising to marketing healthy foods and habits to children.
Michelle Obama said: "Our kids see an estimated $1.6 billion a year worth of food and beverage marketing, and many of those ads are for foods that are high in calories and sugar but low in nutrition."
 



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Michelle Obama Welcomes Disney's 'Game-Changing' Ban On Junk Food Ads