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According to the Center for Science in Public Interest’s new book Restaurant Confidential, an appetizer of cheese fries packs 3,000 calories, 217 grams of total fat, and 90 grams of artery clogging saturated fat. That 500-1000 calories more than the average person needs for an entire day and enough saturated fat to exceed what is [...] After following 4, 857 US children through adulthood, a first of its kind study determined that being overweight in childhood was the single most powerful predictor of premature death from chronic disease. The children in the top quarter for weight were 230% more likely to die at any earlier age than those in the lowest [...] Of all the radical changes in the modern American diet compared to that consumed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors, our record consumption (3 fold increase since 1970!) of sweetened beverages (soda, sports drinks, etc.) is arguably the most profound and tops my list as one of the most high risk of all our unhealthy habits. Sweetened [...] A landmark, new report confirms something I have strongly suspected for some time, and should have profound implications for our approach to combating the crushing burden the obesity epidemic continues to place on our society. Reporting at the European Congress on Obesity (Amsterdam, May 09), scientists determined that the meteoric uptick in our obesity rates [...] The “viral hypothesis” is provocative but should not serve as a distraction from the forces that have already been scientifically substantiated to be driving the obesity epidemic. This gargantuan public health debacle can be largely attributed to the simple interaction of a toxic and highly permissible food environment (that is completely at odds [...] |
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