New Studies Show Fast Food Makes You Depressed As Well As Fat

April 13, 2012

Natural News

By: J. D. Heyes

You already know that the McLarge burger you’re stuffing in your face isn’t healthy for you. What you may not know, however, is that all that fast food is doing more than just expanding your waistline – it could be giving you a serious case of depression as well.

A study of some 8,964 people found that eating junk and fast food has a negative effect on mental health.

Some of our American favorites – burgers, pizza, hot dogs – are on the list of fast or non-nutritional foods that contribute to a darker mood. In fact, the study found that people who eat those foods often were 51 percent more likely to become depressed, as evidenced by http://www.webmd.com, among other signs and symptoms.

Even small quantities are bad for you

The study also found that those most likely to over-indulge in such unhealthy fare were single, less physically active, smokers and those who worked more than 45 hours per week.

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Sugar Takes On High Fructose Corn Syrup In High Stakes Legal Battle To See Which Is Most Unhealthy

March 28, 2012

Natural News

By Tony Isaacs

“This is pretty funny.  Evil Vs. Evil.  Who will win?  Maybe the judge will rule against both.  One can only hope.”  –KTRN

In what has all the appearances of the pot calling the kettle black, two of the unhealthiest and most widely consumed items in the American diet are headed to court to decide which one is more evil. Big Sugar is taking on Big Corn and their High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in a landmark battle scheduled to go before a Los Angeles federal judge this week.

Sugar producers are accusing their corn industry rivals of false advertising by casting HFCS as “nutritionally the same as table sugar” and claiming that “your body can’t tell the difference.” The sugar group contends that HFCS is far less healthy than table sugar and is demanding that the Corn Refiners Association ads be halted as well as demanding payment of unspecified monetary damages.

Medical research on the metabolic effects of consuming sugar versus high fructose corn syrup has consistently indicated heightened risks from the liquid sweetener, said Michael I. Goran, director of the Child Obesity Research Center at USC’s Keck School of Medicine.

“There’s definitely a difference in metabolic fate and outcome of fructose ingestion relative to glucose,” Goran said, noting that HFCS contains more fructose, as its name implies. “So the more you tip the scale toward fructose, the more those negative effects kick in.”

A battle between unhealthy giants to see which is worse
High fructose corn syrup was invented in 1957. It took another 20 years to develop a low-cost production method for HFCS. After tariffs that drove up the cost of imported cane and beet sugars, and federal subsidies that drove down the cost of corn, HFCS usage quickly exploded. In 1972, the average American consumed about 1.2 pounds of the HFCS. By 1999, average consumption had ballooned to over 63 pounds.

The reason that food makers have flocked to HFCS in recent decades is because it is cheaper to make, helps stabilize foods, allows for better browning of baked goods and provides a more concentrated sweetness than the same amount of sugar.

In the last ten years, HFCS usage has plummeted by more than 20% as consumers have grown increasingly wary of the sweetener which has been blamed for America’s large and expanding obesity epidemic and a wide array of other health problems, including liver damage, diabetes, heart problems and even mercury consumption. About a decade ago, the surgeon general first expressed alarm over the rapid and ubiquitous spread of the sweetener in processed foods and concerns about HFCS have mounted ever since.

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Back to School Health Tips

The school year is upon us! As parents look for ways to help their children live a healthy and happy life, it’s difficult sometimes in this toxic world we live in.

There is a highly respected magazine for kids, once ad-free, now packed with ads for fast food, candy, sugary cereals, snack cakes, and other unhealthy products.

At a time when a nutrition-related health crisis plagues our nation, and especially our youth, it is unconscionable that this magazine has chosen to cram its pages with ads for meals such as fried chicken fingers with french fries, which provides 590 calories and more than half-a-day’s worth of fat and sodium.

Junk food ads are clearly a major source of revenue for this magazine and others. However, they’ve pointed out some really good information about the dangers of what parents are feeding their kids these days.

Click here to find out which foods are increasing your child’s cancer risk and what ingredients to avoid at all cost: http://bit.ly/rhOJvT

Yours in health…
KT

 

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Using Cash Could Lead To Healthier Eating Habits

July 12, 2011

Huffington Post

Using debit and credit cards have become second nature to most people who don’t want to run to the bank every time they’re out of cash, but new research shows that cash could help your eating habits.

Over a six-month spread researchers looked at the register receipts of a random sample of 1,000 loyal shoppers at a Northeastern supermarket chain and analyzed what they bought and how they paid for it, reports MSNBC.

The study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that shoppers were more likely to buy items considered “unhealthy” when they paid with credit or debit cards than if they paid with cash, and that weekend shoppers were more likely to stick to a list.

Researchers say they were surprised to find that debit cards had the same psychological effect as credit cards, since money is deducted from bank accounts immediately, but with any kind of plastic payment seems people are willing to spend more.

But to make sure that the spending patters weren’t more related to penny pinchers versus those who like to live large, the study also analyzed 125 students in a computer simulated shopping task.

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Anglers Banned From Using White Bread As Bait Because It Makes Fish Fat

June 16th, 2011

The Telegraph

By: Andrew Hough

A fishery has become the first in the country to veto white bread amid fears it is unhealthy for the fish.

Instead, fishermen have been urged to cast out pieces of wholemeal and granary bread into lakes.

Experts say white bread lacks the protein that brown slices contain and too much of it leaves fish bloated, lethargic and with bad guts.

Anglers tend to throw bait onto the surface of the water to attract fish like carp to their “peg” on the bank and bread is often a popular choice.

White bread has also been commonly used as a hook-bait for centuries and is even referenced in the fisherman’s Bible The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton in 1653.

But a fishery in Hampshire has become the first in the country to take the unusual step of banning it because of the poor dietary effects it has on the fish.

In some cases, anglers are getting through up to eight loaves in one fishing trip.

The move follows a sporadic trend across the country of members of the public being banned by local authorities from throwing white bread to ducks.

Graham Mabey, whose company FLE Angling own Greenridge Farm Fishery near Romsey, defended the scheme, saying they did not want to “discourage the tactic of using a surface bait”.

“But we found that people were turning up with up to eight loaves of white bread which is an extraordinary amount,” he said.

“People leave whole discarded slices floating on the water as well as on the banks which can attract rats.

“The salt and sugar levels in white and brown loaves are similar but in a typical white sliced loaf there is 3.5 grams of protein per slice compared to the 5.6 grams in brown bread.”

He added: “There is not much nutritional content in the white bread compared to the brown.

“It’s just like people, the fish tend to get lethargic and bloated if they consume too much white bread.

“We have put a note on our website and on our board of rules that no white bread is allowed. We’d rather baits that are better for the fish and will give them a normal healthy gut were used.”

Other fisheries have outlawed other bizarre baits in the past such as cat food.

In his book on angling, Izaak Walton wrote: “As you are fishing chew a little white or brown bread in your mouth and cast it into the pond, about the place where your float swims.

“And yet I shall tell you that the crumbs of white bread and honey made into a paste is a good bait for carp.”

But many anglers expressed doubt that white bread can harm fish.

Malcolm Coller, of the Carp Society, said: “In my experience bait bans are the last refuge of the uninformed.

“Carp have been around since Biblical times so they will probably survive eating white bread.

“But if it is being done because of the quantity of bread being used then I can understand it because too much of one thing isn’t good for anybody.”
Ian Wellby, a fish health scientist, said: “If I were advising a fishery owner I would question the necessity of a ban as white bread is unlikely to do any harm in a fishery.

“Fish are pretty canny and will go looking for something else which means anglers will stop catching on it and switch to another bait.

“If there is a problem such as fish looking unhealthy you would need to start looking at supplementary feeding and instead of a bread ban I would suggest selling bags of coarse fish pellets very cheaply to encourage their use.”

Click here for the full report from The Telegraph

Back to School Health Tips

As parents look for ways to help their children live a healthy and happy life, it’s difficult sometimes in this toxic world we live in.

There is a highly-respected magazine for kids, once ad-free, now packed with ads for fast food, candy, sugary cereals, snack cakes, and other unhealthy products.

At a time when a nutrition-related health crisis plagues our nation, and especially our youth, it is unconscionable that this magazine has chosen to cram its pages with ads for meals such as fried chicken fingers with french fries, which provides 590 calories and more than half-a-day’s worth of fat and sodium.

Junk food ads are clearly a major source of revenue for this magazine and others, in spite of some of the following facts which are NOT getting enough attention:

* Feeding children hot dogs increases their risk of brain cancer by 300%.

* Strawberry yogurt, fruit punch and other red-looking grocery products are often colored with dead, ground-up cochineal beetles. The ingredient, called “carmine,” is made from insects, and is listed on the label of many favorite foods.

* Many Florida oranges are actually dipped in an artificial orange dye in order to make them visually appealing; the same dye that’s been banned for use in foods because of cancer risk.

* Girl Scout cookies are still made with hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids, which are common in foods kids eat, including fried foods like French fries, and in many baked goods (cookies, pastries, crackers, chips, etc.).

* Eating just one serving of processed meat each day increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 67%. Get organic beef.

Don’t let your kids eat the contaminated food from the school cafeteria!

Set a good example and pack their lunches with the nutrients they need to grow into healthy young adults!

Yours In Health,
KT

Top UK Doctor Calls For Urgent Action On Salt And Fats In Food

July 8, 2010

Guardian

By: Denis Campbell

One of Britain’s top doctors has accused the food industry of being “profoundly irresponsible” for adding unhealthy amounts of fat and salt to its products.

Lindsey Davies, the new president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, wants ministers to bring in legal minimum health standards for food if manufacturers do not undertake dramatic action to strip out harmful ingredients such as transfats and excess salt. Both are added during production and have been implicated in causing tens of thousands of deaths a year through strokes and heart attacks.

“The food industry should be about producing food, and food is a basic requirement of a healthy, productive life and wellbeing. Adding things to food that reduce health and wellbeing, such as transfats or too much salt, strikes me as profoundly irresponsible,” said Davies, who represents 3,500 public health doctors in the NHS, local government and academia. “Overall, I think it is profoundly disappointing that the food industry hasn’t taken its responsibilities more seriously.”

The links between unhealthy food and conditions such as heart disease, strokes, obesity and some cancers mean action is urgently needed, Davies added. Drink-driving laws, the ban on smoking in public places and the compulsory wearing of seatbelts show that the government sometimes has to intervene in order to protect people from health harms, she said.

While some supermarkets have made commendable progress in improving product recipes to make them healthier, too many have done too little, Davies said. New laws to ban unhealthily high levels of salt, transfats and saturated fats would be necessary without major progress by industry, she added.

It was “very odd” that there are not already legal health and safety standards for food, she said. “Unhealthy food is a major health problem in this country,” Davies said.

The Food and Drink Federation, which represents major producers and retailers, hit back. Barbara Gallani, its director of food safety and science, said Davies was “out of touch with what the industry has been achieving” in terms of reformulation. For example, transfats have been virtually eliminated and some firms have cut the amount of salt in products such as soups, cereals, biscuits and cakes, in some cases by up to 50%, in the last five years, said Gallani. Such a move would also deny consumers choice in their eating habits, she added.

The Food Standards Agency advises adults not to consume more than 6g of salt a day. Average intake fell from 9.5g to 8.6g between 2000 and 2008, an FSA spokesman said. Intake of transfats – manmade substances used to bulk out food or give it a longer shelf-life – is about 1% of total food energy intake, about half of what the World Health Organisation recommends, he added.

Senior doctors backed Davies’s call. Steve Field, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “Ready meals are a particular problem for both salt and transfats. Manufacturers should look at themselves in the mirror and realise the harms they are doing to other human beings.” Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: “Given that one-third of our children are overweight or obese, tackling our unhealthy food culture is vital. Food advertising should be restricted, planning controls used to limit fast-food premises near places where young people congregate and the price of food examined to find ways to make healthier products more affordable.”

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Food Ads Promote Bad Diet

June 2, 2010

Health.USNews.com

If you let TV ads determine what you eat, you’ll end up with huge amounts of fat and sugar but precious few vegetables and fruits in your diet.

That’s the finding of a new study that analyzes what would happen if a person were to eat 2,000 calories of foods that are advertised on the tube.
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Researchers found that such a diet would include 25 times the recommended servings of sugar and 20 times the recommended servings of fat in a daily diet. But it would include less than half the recommended servings of vegetables, fruit and dairy products.

“The results of this study suggest the foods advertised on television tend to oversupply nutrients associated with chronic illness — e.g., saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium — and undersupply nutrients that help protect against illness — e.g., fiber, Vitamins A, E and D, calcium and potassium,” lead investigator Michael Mink, an assistant professor at Armstrong Atlantic State University, said in a news release.

Researchers came to their conclusions after analyzing the food advertised during 84 hours of prime-time broadcasts and 12 hours of Saturday morning broadcasts during a month in 2004.

The findings appear in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

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FIFA Gives Up A Goal For Advertising Unhealthy Foods

June 1, 2010

BBC News

The World Cancer Research Fund criticised the governing body for partnering with the likes of Coca Cola, McDonald’s and Budweiser.

It said the tournament should be an opportunity to promote active lifestyles.

Advertisers denied the deals would negatively impact children’s diets.

The three companies are partners or official sponsors for the World Cup giving them a visible presence inside the stadiums on advertising hoardings and digital displays.

And the charity believes that with matches being watched by billions of people in more than 200 countries people across the world will be influenced.

Teresa Nightingale, the charity’s general manager, said: “There is no doubt that when it comes to the fight against childhood obesity, football can be a force for good because it is a type of physical activity that is accessible to almost everyone.

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