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I think it's sad that young kids (i'd say under the age of 11) are now being classed as obese .

Maybe it's the hectic lifestyle your talking about or the fact that more kids today sit in front of games consoles or computers ( but that could be out of fear of peados or gangs/bullying even).

They are cutting our PE program to every other day next year, the kids need the activities! (that's how they cut 2 teacher's jobs, to save money)

I think processed foods and fear of letting our kids out of sight is what "feeds" the obesity problem in youth. As we get older... how many people have driven to the corner store instead of making the five or ten minute walk?

On the other hand, I see so many women, who look like a normal healthy weight to me, buying PGX, the new "healthy" weight loss pill. I'm really slim - too thin. Always have been. I don't take anything to stay slim, that's just the way I am and I don't recommend it as healthy. I do have a health food diet I take for allergies but I'm as addicted to my wheat products as much as the next.

There are a lot of fat people in a world full of poverty but the current size 0 of the fashion world is sick too.

Jester;834874 wrote:

With all this going on for health, why is it that Americans are increasingly becomeing obese, and then more obese? And whatch out Eurpoeans, I hear your becoming heavier but at a slower rate?

Is this a societal problem? Why did we stray from our previous fittness levels? And why is there a pocket of those that have gone extreme the other way?

Tell me what you think fellow gardners?


I see two sides to it - on the input side there's the increasing tendency to eat out (and restaurant food is *way* higher in calories than home cooked) and ever increasing portion size (I hear that twenty eight ounce steaks are now on the menu) totally blow the calorie count whilst on the output side we see ever declining amounts of exercise - drive everywhere, spectate rather than participate. The less you do the more the body slows down and the less food it needs.

In order to compensate, people try fad diets whose only result is to send the body into starvation mode and a long term reduction in the metabolic level as the body thinks, when next.

Retrain the body to expect realistic portions of good food, up the exercise level and look to lose no more than one to two pounds a week and you'll keep the weight off. Try to lose two stone be next Thursday week and you'll put three on by the end of next month.

Jester;837649 wrote: Exactly... I think we focus on the wrong things, better to eat healthy, get more exercise and change your ways slowly, make small decisions turn into a good habit.

When your hungry and on the go reach for fruit... Drink water with lemon for flavor rather than the sodas, or other sugary concoctions of reconstituted fructose. Take two or three 20-30 minute walks per day, combine it with errands. And regularly do some big muscle exercises to stimulate the metabolism. Eating small portions of meat, and small portions of starches compared to large portions of fruits and veggies, and go light on the breads making sure when you do eat breads its the whole grain type.


It's the bread that does for me. In a hurry, wrap some food in a chunk of bread to be going on with - it's good food but the bread ruins all of the good intentions.

The exercise is improving but starting from such a low base there's a long way to go. Getting a bike has helped and I'm feeling the benefit.

I remember Buttercup and Rapunzel starting with Paul McKenna about a year ago - not a diet but a change of outlook. As you say in the title, it's about changing your body image - do that and the eating pattern should take care of itself.

Jester;838133 wrote: Bryn look into this program, its a complete well balanced change of mind, its helped me tremendously...

My BP is below 120/70 on average, I'm on NO MEDS, and I am nearing 17% bodyfat.

http://www.thegreenlightprogram.com/

You can have your bread, just make it whole grain and eat it with the right kind of food jammed in it.


Well, according to the handy calculator I'm already green

My BMI is 25.1 and my BP is fine - the bottoms a little close to the top but the top is rarely over 125 at rest. Cholesterol was 5.2 last time it was tested.

For comfort I'd still like to lose about a stone and I definitely need to increase the fitness level.