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"Here's how epigenetics may be partially responsible for the epidemic of childhood obesity. The junk food that fills so many American diets is high in calories and fats, but often very low in nutrients, especially those that are important to a developing embryo. If a newly pregnant mother spends the first weeks of her pregnancy eating a typical junk-food-laden diet, the embryo may receive signals that it's going to be born into a harsh environment where critical types of food are scarce." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Preventing childhood obesity by Reducing Consumption of Carbonated Drinks: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial." British Medical Journal 328 (2004): 1237-41. Jeppesen, Jorgen, Hans Ole Hein, Poul Suadicani, and Finn Gyntelberg. "Triglyceride Concentration and Ischemic Heart Disease: An Eight-Year Follow-Up in the Copenhagen Male Study." Circulation 97(1998): 1029-36. Liu, Simin, et al. "A Prospective Study of Dietary Glycemic Load, Carbohydrate Intake, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in U.S. Women." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 71 (2000): 1455-61. Liu, Simin, JoAnn E." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Thirty percenr of American children are overweight. • childhood obesity has doubled in the last twenty-five years. • Childhood diabetes has increased tenfold since 1985. But Weight! There's More! Okay, so we've spent pages decrying the state of the American diet and you get it: The more one eats, the more one weighs. That's a personal decision, right? Indeed it is, and if one chooses to live with the consequences, whatever they may be, that is certainly their personal prerogative." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Many health professionals believe children in North America watch too much TV and that this is linked to childhood obesity. This makes sense: Children who come home from school and sit on the couch in front of the TV, rather than playing soccer, for example, are simply not as physically active. To make matters worse, most children snack when they watch TV. But many studies on the TV-watching habits of children stopped there: The sedentary nature of TV viewing was determined to be the culprit for kids' weight gain. However, I believe the TV itself is largely to blame." - Brendan Brazier, The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"As for the long-term outcome of these health problems? According to Dr. Landrigan, it couldn't be bleaker: "The current generation of children is probably going to be the first generation in the history of the United States, for as long as we've been keeping national records, who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents." There's no excuse for bad nutrition, not when you consider all the diseases it can cause. To reverse these alarming trends, we should be feeding our children nourishing, delicious whole foods, foods that strengthen their developing bodies." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The fact that these drugs are also a contributing factor to childhood obesity, is something that very few are actually aware of. As you may have noticed, the study reported by Scripts, Inc. was attributing children acquiring diabetes, to their being overweight. We must ask ourselves the obvious question: What in the world could possibly cause children to begin acquiring diabetes, (at double the rate), and do so in only four years' time? And, do you really believe that our children's dietary and exercise habits would have somehow changed that drastically over the past four years? I believe not." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"With the increase in childhood obesity, more and more children are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes all the time. Type 2 diabetes is the most common kind, and it is increasing at an alarming rate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that one in three children under the age of 5 will develop this kind of diabetes during their lifetime. If they are Latino, the odds are that one in two will become diabetic.202 Everyone agrees that diabetes has reached epidemic levels. What is unclear is why. Most experts blame the problem on obesity and inactivity." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"It appears the attempt was to correlate the increase in the rate of diabetes in children, to childhood obesity, which antidepressants just happen to contribute to as well. The elevated blood sugar caused by antidepressants contributes to both diabetes and obesity, (and by far the majority of diabetics are overweight). Not only are the known serious medical complications associated with diabetes such as blindness, limb amputations, and kidney failure, a major concern, (as mentioned in the San Diego Union-Tribune article, but scientists recently uncovered yet another." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"Rates of childhood obesity have risen rapidly in the United States since the early 1980s and are now considered to have reached epidemic proportions. Children cannot be expected to apply personal responsibility at the grocery store, so intervention has to come from adults. The threat of anti-obesity lawsuits has placed food companies on notice that they need to reexamine their product lines and their marketing practices aimed at children. As it happens, I am not the only one who says these things." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Would you have believed even 25 years ago that hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and obesity would one day be as common among children as they are today? childhood obesity increased from 5 percent in 1964 to about 20 percent today—and it is rising. Children spend an average of 5 to 6 hours a day on sedentary activities, including watching television, using the computer, and playing video games. Today's children are bombarded and brainwashed with well-crafted TV ads from fast-food chains and other purveyors of high-fat, high-sugar meals and snacks." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"My files are packed with symposium reports, surveys, and articles from leading professional journals describing inadequacies in infant diets, problems of childhood obesity, and the complications of feeding guidelines—all sponsored by Gerber and all hinting that many nutritional problems can be solved if babies were just fed Gerber baby foods. THE ORGANIC ALTERNATIVES To date, the most effective method for baby-food makers to add value and charge more is to make the foods organic, which is why you can find organic options available in many stores (although by no means all)." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"However, while the results of treatment of overweight children are usually enhanced by strategies to increase physical activity or decrease inactivity, attempts to improve physical activity levels have not been very successful in preventing childhood obesity according to most controlled research.35 Nonetheless, watching television and playing computer or video games contributes to the sedentary lifestyle of many children, and controlled research has shown that weight control is more successful when these activities are controlled and healthier alternatives provided." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"A 2005 report in The New England Journal of Medicine said that the epidemic of childhood obesity is the critical element in a gathering storm that could produce the first modern decline in American life expectancy—dropping life expectancy as much as five years. There's no question that gallons of sugary soda, baskets of fatty fries, and too many hours watching television and playing video games instead of after-school sports is a fattening combo. But new research suggests that may not be the whole story." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"On closer inspection, there are actually several clues as to the cause for this alarming increase in childhood obesity. Let us travel back to 1968 when Dr. Olney was conducting his experiments on mice fed MSG. (Mice are frequently used as test animals because they react most like humans to MSG.) Obsessed with the microscopic changes in the brains of the mice he overlooked something quite dramatic first noticed by his assistant. She pointed out to him that all of the mice were grossly obese." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "Because the FDA has refused to address this issue, we are more likely to see an unchecked increase in childhood obesity and type II diabetes. Also characteristic of MSG exposure is an increase in insulin release from the pancreas. As we have seen, the pancreas contains numerous glutamate type receptors, and glutamate in the diet can induce as much as a threefold increase in insulin release from the pancreas. In addition, experiments in animals have demonstrated that MSG can induce insulin resistance, exactly as we see in type II diabetes in humans." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"There was, for instance, an extreme reaction in Germany in 2004 when a government minister, reporting that childhood obesity had reached near epidemic propordons, called for an initiative to change children's eating and exercise habits. Critics condemned her suggestion as 'reminiscent of regimented youth programmes under the Nazis and Communists' and a political opponent reflected that 'the whole thing raises an eery spectre, especially talk about mandatory PE and intimidating manufacturers into "doing the right thing'"." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"This statement is especially true in children, as studies have demonstrated that childhood obesity is associated more with inactivity than overeating. Strong evidence suggests that more than 86 percent of adult obesity begins in childhood. It could thus be concluded that lack of physical activity is the major cause of obesity in America today. If you are trying to lose weight, you definitely need to exercise as well. When you cut back on your caloric intake, it lowers your basal metabolic rate (BMR)—in other words, your body slows down to compensate." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Stop Watching Television (Okay, Okay, Then Cut Back) I know it seems like heresy to suggest this, but study after study has linked increased television watching with expanding waistlines, not to mention the development of childhood obesity. No one is quite sure exactly why, but it's true nonetheless. Speculation has ranged from the obvious—more TV watching means less activity and more snacking—to the slightly more subtle (the number of overt cues to eat that come with the commercials)." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"If more such people take on healthy eating (or childhood obesity prevention) as their favored cause and then entice their celebrity peers to join in, tremendous change might be possible. These efforts would probably be seen quite favorably by the public, making such celebrities even more valuable in the endorsement marketplace. Help Parents Help Their Children The food industry claims that parents must take more responsibility if children are to develop healthier eating patterns. So fine, what would they suggest be done? Create massive education programs for parents?" - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Because the FDA has refused to address this issue, we are more likely to see an unchecked increase in childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. - Russell Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills But if MSG induces diabetes, how does it actually provoke the disease? What biological mechanism is responsible? As Blaylock explains: Also characteristic of MSG exposure is an increase in insulin release from the pancreas." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"In a double-blind trial, this one involving 60 children under age 15 with childhood obesity, there was a significant reduction in weight in both treated and placebo groups. Further, there was a concommitant significant reduction in alpha-lipoprotein and an increase in triglycerides in the treated group but not in the placebo group. However, in another controlled study of childhood obesity, excess weight and triglycerides were significantly decreased in treated subjects but not in controls." - Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik, PDR for Nutritional Supplements (Get the book.)

"As Chapter 7 explains, there is scientific evidence linking soft drink consumption to childhood obesity. So, did Gov. King dismiss the self-serving lobbyists and use his influence for the state's children? Not exactly. The Governor's spokesperson announced that the "governor listens and understands" the soft drink lobbyists. The Bureau of Health reworked the campaign, with components scheduled to be used later (on increasing physical activity) being moved up. Does the Government Offer Any Protection?" - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "We share your goals of providing important nutrition information to the public and to address the problems of chronic disease and childhood obesity through awareness of good nutrition, exercise and a healthy lifestyle. However, such goals should not be achieved through disinformation, or at the expense of an important natural, simple and low caloric source of carbohydrate. We ask that you be guided by the most current scientific evidence and government statements and that your writings and comments be reflective of them." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "The American Pimas have extremely high rates of childhood obesity and have the highest rate of diabetes in the world.6 A fascinating discovery was made by German researchers who found that lifespan is affected by the month in which a person is born.7 People in Austria and Denmark born in October-December live longer than those born in the spring, presumably because such babies undergo key in utero development in months when their mothers had access to a healthier diet, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables, and may also have been more active. These scientists then did two clever things." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"It would be unrealistic to feel optimistic about the health and well-being of the next generation when there is an unprecedented increase in the average weight of children in this country and record levels of childhood obesity. Most ominous were the results reported by the 1992 Bogalusa Heart Study, which studied autopsies performed on children killed in accidental deaths. The study confirmed the existence of fatty plaques and streaks (the beginning of atherosclerosis) in most children and teenagers!" - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Previously, type 2 diabetes was classified as an adult disease, but with the surge in childhood obesity, doctors are diagnosing patients at every age group with this condition. Through its effect on your blood sugar levels, diabetes has the potential to trigger other seemingly unrelated yet significant medical conditions, including foot ulcers, kidney failure, depressed immune function, eye diseases, permanent nerve damage, circulatory problems, hypertension, and heart disease. Glucose tolerance factor (GTF) has been reported to help regulate blood sugar." - Eric R. Braverman, The Edge Effect: Achieve Total Health and Longevity with the Balanced Brain Advantage (Get the book.)

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