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Waffle house's signature = waffle thighs

This is a woman, I promise.

Sometimes, I think that I am being mean. I mean, a friend of this blog once told me that I am "empirically evil" for what I do here. But for the most part, I can live with being empirically evil because really that is simply a point of view. And that is the thing, I realize that different people have differing points of view and I respect that. That is why I am okay with what this blog represents - a point of view that says that health is more than just living better (it is that) - it involves looking better. This blog asks you to OPEN Y0UR EYES, realize what sort of shit tons of calories you are eating, America, and then decide what you are doing to burn those calories.
On an aside - let me tell a little about me. As the chief editor of this blog, I have NEVER struggled with my weight. I have been involved in competitive sports at some level for over 25 years including track, cross-country, basketball, wrestling, and non competitively I have been involved in weight-lifting and power-lifting. I follow the Surgeon General's recommendation that we get at least an hour of real exercise every day by busting my ass in the gym. I believe that health is a lifestyle, not a condition and I practice what I preach. And here is my point: I know that I CANNOT EMPATHIZE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE OVERWEIGHT - and I don't ever want to. It is a problem that leads to more health problems than any other thing in America. I will not be blind to it the way that so many in our society would have us all become and I will not be quiet and "nice" about it. It is a problem that is costing me and everyone else more money than anyone really cares to admit. Cigarettes are taxed because they cost society at large in health expenses - but guess what, all the fat asses out there are costing us all more than the smokers in today's America where one third are already obese and nearly two thirds of women are overweight. And now new taxes are being created that everyone has to pay to stop obesity. This is not like the cigarette taxes that only penalize the users - all your unnaturally fat pork-chop thighs are making my life more and more expensive, not to mention unsightly.
Look back at the pancake eater in the photo above. When your stomach sticks out more than your breasts - you, woman, are way too fat.

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Obesity Prevention in Women Tipping the Scales Towards Health

Read this from the Huffington Post this week (emphasis added):
By Susan Blumenthal, MD and Timothy Dempsey

This Women's Health Week, it is important to remember that until fairly recently in our nation's history, sex differences in health issues like obesity, heart disease and diabetes were neglected at the research bench, in public policy circles and in clinical settings. Although women make 80% of health care decisions for their families, use more health services, and spend more on medications than do men, they suffer greater disability and have poorer health outcomes from some diseases. Additionally, inequalities in the health care system have limited women's access to certain diagnostic procedures and therapies proven to be effective for males. Unfortunately, despite well-recognized differences in the bodies and experiences of men and women most research studies in the past were conducted in men only, as if they were the "generic" humans - but the results were then generalized to guide the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in women. Until 15 years ago, this omission of females as research subjects and as the focus of prevention campaigns has put women's health at risk - as is now seen with the rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases in females in the United States and worldwide.

While recent attention has been focused on reducing obesity in the general population, there has been minimal attention on the specific effects of this public health problem on 51% of the population in America--our nation's women. We need to know much more about whether there are differences in the biology, risk and protective factors, health consequences and interventions for women as compared to men. Alarmingly, the rate of obesity in females has risen at a shocking rate over the past forty years, from 15.8% to 34.0%. The average weight for an American woman has expanded from 140 pounds in 1960 to just over 164 pounds today. More than 64% of women in the United States are now overweight, with even higher rates in low income and minority populations. This dramatic increase in obesity prevalence in American women is due to a number of factors including an increase in daily food intake and larger portion sizes, combined with a decrease in physical activity. Over the past thirty years, the daily calorie consumption of American females has risen at three times the rate of men, while exercise levels have declined.

Obesity has significant health effects on almost every organ system of a woman's body. Overweight women are at an increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, gall bladder disease, birth defects in their babies, mental health problems, and some types of cancer including post-menopausal breast cancer. They also experience more societal discrimination than do overweight men. One study revealed that obese women are 90% more likely than their male counterparts to experience difficulty finding employment.

Furthermore, obesity takes a significant toll on the economy of the United States. In 2008, the total cost of obesity was estimated to be $147 billion. If this trend continues, within the next decade, this number will escalate to $344 billion or 21% of total health care spending in America. Furthermore, 62.7 million physician office visits are linked to overweight and obesity, and the health care costs of overweight people are $1,429 higher annually as compared to normal weight persons. For example, medical costs of pregnancy are 100% higher in obese women as compared to their normal weight counterparts, almost entirely due to complications associated with being overweight.

These statistics underscore the need for the development and implementation of strategies to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity targeted to women's and girl's unique needs. That is what National Women's Health Week is all about--shining a spotlight on critical health issues for women and taking the necessary actions to address them, captured in the theme this year, "It's Your Time."

I am proud to have served as the country's first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health at a time when much needed to be done to redress longstanding inequities in the health care of women and to have provided leadership in writing a new national prescription in the 1990's to ensure that a women's health focus was woven into the fabric of our Federal research, service delivery and prevention programs. Cross-cutting initiatives were developed across the public and private sectors that no one agency or organization could accomplish alone. We emphasized the power of prevention with new programs including establishing the National Centers of Excellence initiative, Federal coordinating committees, educational campaigns and a major conference on nutrition and physical activity in women. Because knowledge is power when it comes to health, I established "one stop shopping" on the web for information about healthy eating and physical activity at nutrition.gov as well as created another internet portal, now known as womenshealth.gov, to serve as a gateway for a broad spectrum of women's health information.

Today, we must increase efforts to address the public health epidemic of obesity and overweight in women. This means that research on the effects of obesity in women and girls must be strengthened and preventive interventions targeted to their unique needs. The science of gender differences has revealed that sex matters...at the molecular, cellular and organ system levels and in the way women and men interact with the environment. Understanding these important differences will help to more effectively fight the obesity epidemic and to develop intervention strategies that work over the long term at the individual, community and national levels.

The recently passed health care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will help women--and men--to access health care services to prevent and treat obesity. One important public health intervention included in the legislation focuses on decreasing calorie consumption by requiring more prominent labeling of the calorie and nutrient content of foods sold by markets, restaurants, movie theatres and other venues. This component of the new law should help to make people more calorie and food content conscious by requiring chain restaurants and food vendors with more than 20 locations to post calorie counts prominently on their menus.

Other public health strategies that have been suggested to reduce obesity include encouraging the establishment of healthy "fast-food" restaurant chains and including more healthful food choices at existing venues; providing messages in the media targeted to women about healthy eating and participation in physical activity; financial incentives such as possible taxes on high-density, calorie-rich foods and sodas; salt restrictions; federal subsidies for healthy items such as fruits and vegetables; and ensuring the nutritional content of school food programs.

While decreasing calorie consumption is one important part of the equation to reduce obesity rates in women, another key ingredient is increasing physical activity. Despite scientific evidence that documents its health benefits, very few American women participate in regular physical activity as a means to offset their increasing daily caloric intake. Currently, as many as 85 percent of U.S. adults report that they do not engage in the amount of physical activity recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and nearly 40% of women between the ages of 18 and 66 report being physically inactive. Several factors have contributed to the decrease in physical activity levels for American women including increased reliance upon technology such as motor vehicles, television and computers, sedentary occupations and reduced amounts of physical education in schools.

To eradicate obesity in America, a number of important initiatives have been established. The 2009 stimulus package (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that invests in prevention and research, the recently passed health care legislation, the Surgeon General's "Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation" and the First Lady's "Let's Move Initiative" have made vital policy, financial and structural down payments to achieve a healthier America by emphasizing the importance of physical activity, nutritious food and emphasizing the power of prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supports many obesity prevention programs. Furthermore, a cross-cutting research initiative is underway at the National Institutes of Health to increase knowledge about the biological, behavioral and environmental factors contributing to obesity and to translate this knowledge into effective interventions. However, to decrease obesity rates in women, it is essential that all of these initiatives include strategies that focus specifically on gender differences and collect and measure outcomes by sex as well as tailor interventions to the specific needs of women and girls.

Obesity is a health, economic and national security concern. If America is to reduce its obesity epidemic, we must mobilize all sectors of society to take action now. Families, schools, health care providers, researchers, businesses and communities all must step up to address this crisis in our country. Women themselves must make their health a top priority and take steps towards eating a well balanced nutritious diet, getting regular physical activity as well as routine checkups and screening exams. And as we commemorate National Women's Health Week, let's ensure that our national initiatives in obesity research, education, prevention and service delivery include a focus on women and girls. Only then will the scales begin to tip towards a healthier future for women in our country and our world.


Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D. (ret.) is the Director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, D.C., a Clinical Professor at Georgetown and Tufts University Schools of Medicine, and Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center. She served for more than 20 years in health leadership positions in the Federal government, including as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women's Health, as a White House Advisor on Health, and as Chief of the Behavioral Medicine and Basic Prevention Research Branch at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Blumenthal has received numerous awards including honorary doctorates and has been decorated with the highest medals of the US Public Health Service for her pioneering leadership and significant contributions to advancing health in the United States and worldwide. She is the recipient of the 2009 Health Leader of the Year Award from the Commissioned Officers Association.

Timothy Dempsey, a Master of Public Health candidate at the Dartmouth Institute and a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, is a Health Policy Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. He will be attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School next year.

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Detroit Free Press - Food industry pledges to cut products' calories

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Food industry pledges to cut products' calories

WASHINGTON -- Several of the nation's largest food companies say they are going on a diet.

A coalition of retailers, food and beverage manufacturers and industry trade associations said this week that they will take 1.5 trillion calories out of their products by 2015 in an effort to reduce childhood obesity. That equals about 12.5 calories per person per day.

The coalition, called the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, pledged to reduce the calories as part of an agreement with a group of nonprofits concerned with childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama said.

"This is precisely the kind of private sector commitment we need," said Obama, who earlier this year launched her own "Let's Move" anti-obesity campaign.

Food companies concerned about national and local efforts to raise food taxes and a rising tide of lawmakers preparing to write anti-obesity measures have publicly endorsed the first lady's message and pledged to make their foods healthier.

The industry foundation said the companies will introduce lower calorie foods, change product recipes and reduce portion sizes to achieve the goal, seeking to reduce 1 trillion of the 1.5 trillion by 2012.

Obama has urged the food industry to speed up efforts to produce healthier foods and reduce marketing of unhealthy foods to children. In a speech to an industry association in March, she urged companies not to find creative ways to market products as healthy -- including reducing fat and replacing it with sugar, or vice versa -- but to increase nutrients as well.

To keep the companies accountable, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonpartisan philanthropic and research organization that works to improve the nation's health, will evaluate how the groups' efforts affect the number of calories consumed by children and adolescents.

"We're confident their commitment to this cause is sincere and measurable -- and thus has real potential for impact," said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

"What remains unknown is what effect it will have on efforts to prevent childhood obesity."

The Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation has more than 80 members, including General Mills, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Hershey.

Website address: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20105200525

Fat, Dementia May Be Linked

Middle-aged people with extra abdominal fat are more likely to suffer from dementia later in life, according to a report from the Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Sudha Seshadri and colleagues reviewed data from the long-term Framingham Heart Study. The review included 733 people with an average age of 60. About 70 percent were women. The team looked at measurments such as body-mass index, waist circumference and brain volume.

They found that people with bigger BMIs -- those who were heavier for their weight -- tended to have smaller brains.

"More importantly, our data suggests a stronger connection between central obesity, particularly the visceral fat component of abdominal obesity, and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease," Seshadri said.

Results of this study were published early online in Annals of Neurology.

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KARE-TV - Twin Cities program fighting childhood obesity

Twin Cities program fighting childhood obesity


MINNEAPOLIS -- Nearly one in three children in the United States is now considered overweight or obese according to government statistics. First Lady Michelle Obama is leading the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity to combat the problem.
One local program has the same goal.

It's called Youth Determined to Succeed (YDS) and its founder, Melvin Anderson, says there's no other program like it in the U.S.

Alfred Hartwell III of Minneapolis is a participant in YDS. He said he has lost 20 pounds during this school year and, "I run faster, quicker."

This ninth grader at Hopkins Junior High North has also lost three inches off his waist.

Hartwell said, "After I figured out I lost all that weight I was like, 'OK. I want to join the track team.' I have more self esteem now."

He credits YDS, which was founded a decade ago by Anderson.

Anderson, a former University of Minnesota football player, said of the kids in his program, "They gain a knowledge and awareness of healthy lifestyles not just from a health aspect but a social and mental health aspect."

YDS is run primarily out of the North Community YMCA in Minneapolis and is for youth in elementary to high school.

Anderson said there's no other program like YDS in the country. He said, "What makes it unique is that we have the continuum of opportunity."

Instead of a twelve-week program that wishes a kid good luck at the end, Anderson said YDS works with kids year round, year after year, and not only on fitness but on leadership skills as well. So not only do the participants do drills, track and field events and even yoga, they also become leaders by holding blood drives, volunteering to bag groceries for those who live in senior high rises and more. That has paid off in other ways.

Anderson said, "Over the last ten years we've had 100% of our kids graduate high school and 90% go to college."

A staff of volunteers helps run the program, including a pediatrician, dieticians and a yoga instructor.

As for the yoga, Hartwell said, "Yea, yoga oh my goodness. We did yoga. It was like so hard. But now I'm more flexible."

Anderson says kids in YDS also increase their cardio capacity 300%.

When it comes to running, Hartwell has improved and said, "We started off five minutes and now I can do 15 minutes of running without stopping."

Anderson said Hartwell's entire family eats healthier meals now because of Alfred's involvement in YDS.

Hartwell has a number of successes to count. He said, "I've been telling a lot of my friends about it. How does it make me feel? Happy!"

Anderson said Youth Determined to Succeed can cost a participant up to four-hundred dollars but that amount can be reduced depending on how much a participant's parent volunteers.

To find out more about YDS, call 612-486-6730 or click on the link above.

Website address: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=851163

Is there anything okay about this?

That woman sitting down has a ten inch apron of fat where her vagina should be. Just saying - not a judgement, just an observation.

Am I at the zoo or the farm?

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Calorie restriction - or just a fancy name for another eating disorder

Check this out from Britain:

Can the world's most extreme diet really help you live to 120? Wheat, sugar, dairy, meat are ALL banned - so is tap water

"... the pretty public relations executive, from South-East London is particularly strict - she limits herself to no more than 800-1,200 calories a day.
That's at least 800 fewer calories than nutritionists recommend.
[...]

"'I have to admit the thought of getting pregnant absolutely terrifies me,' she admits. 'I wouldn't be able to restrict my calories for my baby's sake and I hate the thought of losing control.'

"Health experts warn that Persephone's diet might not be nearly as healthy as she thinks. One of the leading researchers in this field is Dr Dianne Ford from the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Newcastle.

"She says: 'There is research which shows that, in animals, calorie restriction does seem to slow the ageing process.

"'But it can also lead to starvation and malnutrition. I would not recommend CR and would say that it is not safe. To achieve CR and ensure you are taking optimum levels of micronutrients is very difficult. Followers are likely to suffer from deficiencies.'"

Read the whole story at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1274096/Worlds-extreme-120-diet-Can-really-make-live-longer.html#ixzz0neGPMkaF

Now, personally, I think that the concept here is a good one - eat less and eat natural - but it seems like the people discussed in this story are fanatical and carry their calorie restriction to a level approaching some sort of extreme religion. Still, I am going to reserve judgment on this one for now. But I do want to hear what you think. Leave a comment.

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Of course, we disagree with this. In our view of things we are not 'advocating against any individual, group, or organization.' We advocate against obesity and the passive acceptance of obesity within our culture. We don't advocate violence of any kind against anybody. We also don't advocate eating disorders of any kind (including eating more calories than you are using in a week), nor do we advocate making people feel good about being morbid - if you are "MORBID"ly obese, you should feel bad about it and you need to do something about it. So, don't come to us for hugs when you feel sad because you have to look in the mirror if you ever want to see your feet. The "I feel just fine fat" attitude that some people express is not okay in our book.
This blog is new and as it continues to develop, we intend to incorporate more health and wellness related posts into the content as well as posts that point out things that we don't like and don't agree with. For now, thanks for visiting.
Now, get off the computer and do something healthy today.
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Elbow cleavage?!

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Big fat body, little-bitty arms.