Serious About Wanting To Improve Your Family's Healthy Eating Lifestyles?Written by Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer
PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to author, and it appears with included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required. Dr. Christine Wood, M.D, a practicing pediatrician in Encinitas, California, is author of How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It!, offers some sound advice about developing healthy eating lifestyles for your family. Here’s what Dr. Wood has to say. Today almost one out of three children in United States is either overweight or borderline overweight and is likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Furthermore, Dr. Wood warns that these obese children may not live longer than their parents – a depressing thought! What’s causing this trend? Simply stated, Dr. Wood suggested too many calories and too little activity, although it is more complex than that. The mainstream media is marketing fast food and sedentary activities to our children. Consequently, here are some of their unhealthy options: * Easy access to fast food for stressed out parents. * Schools offer sodas and candies in their vending machines. * Children are increasingly exposed to inexpensive, processed food choices. * Since introduction of cable TV and remote controls, Game Boy, home personal computers, among other things, more sedentary options are available than ever before. * Food companies are taking advantage of time children spend in front by marketing directly to them.
| | The Shocking Truth About What’s Preventing Us from Developing Healthy Lifestyle HabitsWritten by Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW
PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to author, and it appears with included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required.The air we breathe, water we drink, and even foods we eat, contain substances that may be damaging to our cells, according to Public Health scientists who have found new evidence of threats that our toxic environment pose on our cellular health. Apparently, any tissue that is exposed to environment, including skin and gastrointestinal passages, is especially vulnerable. While government agencies and industry are taking steps to control additional releases into environment, many toxic substances become concentrated in fatty tissues through a process called bioaccumulation. Animal fats in diet present health problems in other ways. Dr. Myron Wentz, Ph.D., immunologist and microbiologist, hypothesizes that foods with high peroxide values, especially processed, fatty foods, generate “free radicals” that in turn damage healthy cells. Researchers believe that supplementary antioxidants are necessary for combating these free radicals in addition to body’s normal defense systems. In addition to health threats posed by toxic substances today, many nutritional scientists point out that much of our food has been over processed and preservatives have been added for packaging, affecting its vitamin and mineral content. In fact many of us are undernourished because our diet lacks many of important vitamins and minerals necessary for health.
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