'Toxic Diets' Fuel Child Obesity

Nutrition
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The increase in childhood obesity is being caused by addiction to “toxic”, sugar-filled manufactured foods, a US researcher has claimed.
Robert Lustig, a University of California San Francisco child health expert said high-sugar, low-fibre diets cause hormone imbalances.

These then mean children overeat, he said in Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism.

The number of overweight and obese children is rising in the US and UK.

One in four children in England are obese, official statistics published earlier this year showed.

And ‘adult’ diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are being seen in children.

Professor Lustig said food manufacturing practices have created a “toxic environment” that “doomed” children to being overweight.

He added too much fructose [fruit sugar] and too little fibre in foods both act to boost insulin levels.

Insulin acts on the brain to encourage eating by blocking signals that travel from the body’s fat stores to the brain and by stimulating a pleasurable dopamine “rush” after eating.

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And this is Dr. Lustigs article in Nature.

http://www.nature.com/ncpendmet/journal/v2/n8/full/ncpendmet0220.html

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I agree with a lot of what he says,however I don’t believe kids are eating “too much fruit sugar”.
Maybe HFCS and corn syrup,but not that much fruit sugar.

If kids were eating an apple for every single time they wanted to go gorge on some trans fat filled junk food, they wouldn’t be obese.
People always want to ask"what causes childhood obesity?"
It’s pretty simple:

Lack of exercise(and watching too much tv)

Their metabolisms are slow and clogged and don’t filter out enough toxins (liver,kidney,colon)
due to the toxic junk food they’ve been sexually abusing

They don’t eat enough nutritious foods

They eat too much junk food and refined sugar

Eating too much

And their obese parents buying them shitty food at the store.
Like a two year old kid needs diet coke and a snickers bar!!!

They’re always hungry because of the ingredients these food companies put in the food to increase your appetite(like MSG)

Hormonal inmabances due to unhealthy lifestyle choices(thyroid,insulin,etc.)

We should have fat police arrest every obese parent that buys shitty junk food for their kids.
I’m not talking about an ice cream or a weekly treat.
I’m talking about nothing but junk.
Then maybe we wouldn’t have such a huge childhood obesity problem like we do in America right now.

Nutrition SHOULD be taught to kids in highschool too.

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[quote]Cthulhu wrote:

Lack of exercise(and watching too much tv)

Their metabolisms are slow and clogged and don’t filter out enough toxins (liver,kidney,colon)
due to the toxic junk food they’ve been sexually abusing

They don’t eat enough nutritious foods

They eat too much junk food and refined sugar

Eating too much

And their obese parents buying them shitty food at the store.
Like a two year old kid needs diet coke and a snickers bar!!![/quote]

I put “lack of exercise” pretty high on the list along with “too many stops at fast food places”. I saw an extremely fat little girl at Golden Corral (a buffet style eating place) yesterday. She caught my attention because she was holding her back while she walked like an old woman. Her stomach was way too big for her frame…but that didn’t stop her from heading back to the buffet with a plate in the other hand.

If you have a kid like that and all she does after you get home is sit on her ass and play video games or eat some more, what do you expect? It isn’t so much that the food is at fault…but what she is doing (or not doing) with it. You can feed your kid balanced meals all day long but if they sit around and don’t do shit, it isn’t like they can’t still get fat.

Current lifestyles are just too easy. Kids get driven everywhere. I don’t even see kids on bikes around where I live except the kids in the house right across the street. They are outside everyday and they stay outside until the sun goes down riding their bikes and climbing the tree in their yard. There are no fat kids at that house. Maybe others should take notes.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t even see kids on bikes around where I live except the kids in the house right across the street. They are outside everyday and they stay outside until the sun goes down riding their bikes and climbing the tree in their yard. There are no fat kids at that house. Maybe others should take notes.[/quote]

People who live near you let their kids go outside and play? With you around?

What kind of world are we living in when even a 300lb black guy doesn’t look threatening anymore?

Damn terrorists…

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Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

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[quote]etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.[/quote]

I completely agree. How is that not a form of child abuse? But, you dare mention that to people outside the fitness world and you’ll be castrated.

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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

I completely agree. How is that not a form of child abuse? But, you dare mention that to people outside the fitness world and you’ll be castrated.[/quote]

Reminds me of that show “Honey, we’re killing the kids.” While the show is a joke, the premise behind it is good. They are telling the people it’s the parent’s fault, but they don’t go as far as saying it’s abuse.

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[quote]etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.[/quote]

Dude Dont ya think thats going a bit Too far

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[quote]Gambles wrote:
etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

Dude Dont ya think thats going a bit Too far

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That can be extreme, but let’s face it. Kids are in no control of what they eat. It comes down to what the parents buy and prepare. Parents become to busy in their lives so they have kids living off processed foods.
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise and increasing in children at an alarming rate. Teenagers have been shown that they have hardening of the arteries.

Something isn’t right, and parents are at the forefront of the problem.

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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Gambles wrote:
etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

Dude Dont ya think thats going a bit Too far

That can be extreme, but let’s face it. Kids are in no control of what they eat. It comes down to what the parents buy and prepare. Parents become to busy in their lives so they have kids living off processed foods.
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise and increasing in children at an alarming rate. Teenagers have been shown that they have hardening of the arteries.

Something isn’t right, and parents are at the forefront of the problem.

[/quote]
Yeha But also you have to factor in Genitic predisposition to obesity & diabetes befor making statements such as All partents of All fat kids are abusive. also there are plenty of kids whom are exteremly Slim despite bad eating & exersiseing habbits

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In a lot of cases it’s more than just food that parents are not disciplining kids about. Food may be another symptom of a bigger problem with many causes. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen kids in the grocery store throwing an absolute apocalyptic fit until they get a candy bar or a bag of fritos shoved in their face.

God only knows what’s happening at home. Many parents nowadays don’t how to conquer that young will early on so the kids will grow up knowing “I’m in charge and you ain’t”. In a lot of cases food is just another way this displays itself. By the time they’re 5 or 6 they refuse to eat anything that doesn’t taste as good as they think it should and the pattern is set.

I don’t know if it’s laziness, busyness, ignorance or more likely a combination of things that lead parents to just not be dilligent in instruction and discipline in general, not just food.

–Tiribulus->

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[quote]Gambles wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
Gambles wrote:
etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

Dude Dont ya think thats going a bit Too far

That can be extreme, but let’s face it. Kids are in no control of what they eat. It comes down to what the parents buy and prepare. Parents become to busy in their lives so they have kids living off processed foods.
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise and increasing in children at an alarming rate. Teenagers have been shown that they have hardening of the arteries.

Something isn’t right, and parents are at the forefront of the problem.

Yeha But also you have to factor in Genitic predisposition to obesity & diabetes befor making statements such as All partents of All fat kids are abusive. also there are plenty of kids whom are exteremly Slim despite eating & exersiseing habbits

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A genetic predisposition to obesity? So, even if they eat less calories than they need, fat just magically appears on their bodies and regardless of the HOURS they spend lifting weights and doing cardio, they just stay obese? My guess is, there are far fewer people out there with true metabolic disorders than people realize.

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I forget the source so I can’t quote but I remember reading that only a couple percent of the population truly has genetic or physical issues that make it impossible to lose or gain weight.

There is a bell curve of course but most of us are in the range where we can modify our body composition with a little dedicated effort (Oooh, the “F” word). Claiming genetics or thyroid problems is a cop-out.

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[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
I agree with a lot of what he says,however I don’t believe kids are eating “too much fruit sugar”.
Maybe HFCS and corn syrup,but not that much fruit sugar.

If kids were eating an apple for every single time they wanted to go gorge on some trans fat filled junk food, they wouldn’t be obese.
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The article mentioned fructose, which is fruit sugar. It didn’t mention fruit. Fruit isn’t low on fiber anyway.

“He added too much fructose [fruit sugar] and too little fibre in foods both act to boost insulin levels.”

Fructose, and other sugars, are added to a lot of foods. The foodconcerns have made their products addictive.

Here’s a link to another article, originally from The Telegraph.

http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/corporations/2003-July/000086.html

“Multinational food companies have known for years of research that suggests many of their products trigger chemical reactions in the brain which lead people to overeat,…”

"…scientists working for the industry have said manufacturers fear
they have created foods that undermine the body’s abilities to control
intake and are battling to find a solution. “We have created a bio-chemical monster,” one said.

The revelation will be seized on by those who allege that the food industry
has been reckless. More than 300 million people worldwide are now deemed
clinically obese, with an estimated 2.5 million dying each year as a result
of being overweight. In Britain, more than one in five adults is obese -
triple the figure of 20 years ago.

Earlier this year America’s leading fast-food chains, including McDonald’s
and Burger King, were warned of possible legal action from obese people
following research on mice and rats suggesting that fast food could trigger
overeating. It is now clear that the industry has known for years of similar
results from research on humans.

One scientist who acts as a consultant to food manufacturers said: “They are
aware that they have been too successful in creating food that some people just can’t say no to. It’s an enormous problem.”

The overeating effect is thought to be triggered by opioids, chemicals which
produce a desire to eat more while reducing the “sated” feeling that
normally kills appetite.

Research being studied by the industry shows that although the effect is
only short-lived, it can have a dramatic effect on food intake. According to a recent review of 20 years of research by scientists at the University of Sussex, when release of opioids was blocked using drugs, intake among human
volunteers fell by 21 per cent. The effect was even larger among obese
people, whose intake fell by 33 per cent."

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[quote]Wreckless wrote:
One scientist who acts as a consultant to food manufacturers said: “They are
aware that they have been too successful in creating food that some people just can’t say no to. It’s an enormous problem.”[/quote]

What the hell? Food you just can’t say no to? What happened to self control? Mc Donald’s is now being blamed for mass hypnosis? I’ve eaten a few delicious tacos before, but I don’t think I’ve ever been struck with something I just could not say no to…at least nothing edible…on a bun…made of bread.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Cthulhu wrote:

Lack of exercise(and watching too much tv)

Their metabolisms are slow and clogged and don’t filter out enough toxins (liver,kidney,colon)
due to the toxic junk food they’ve been sexually abusing

They don’t eat enough nutritious foods

They eat too much junk food and refined sugar

Eating too much

And their obese parents buying them shitty food at the store.
Like a two year old kid needs diet coke and a snickers bar!!!

I put “lack of exercise” pretty high on the list along with “too many stops at fast food places”. I saw an extremely fat little girl at Golden Corral (a buffet style eating place) yesterday. She caught my attention because she was holding her back while she walked like an old woman. Her stomach was way too big for her frame…but that didn’t stop her from heading back to the buffet with a plate in the other hand.

If you have a kid like that and all she does after you get home is sit on her ass and play video games or eat some more, what do you expect? It isn’t so much that the food is at fault…but what she is doing (or not doing) with it. You can feed your kid balanced meals all day long but if they sit around and don’t do shit, it isn’t like they can’t still get fat.

Current lifestyles are just too easy. Kids get driven everywhere. I don’t even see kids on bikes around where I live except the kids in the house right across the street. They are outside everyday and they stay outside until the sun goes down riding their bikes and climbing the tree in their yard. There are no fat kids at that house. Maybe others should take notes.
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Man, I agree with you there. Being a kid in the seventies and eighties there weren’t video games, there were only three channels of TV. and I had to walk to school everyday rain, snow. or shine.

No cell phones to call mom for a ride home either. I had a AMF pedal dirtbike that I rode everywhere. All day Saturday I was gone on my bike either at the park playing football or some sport with friends and at night playing kick the can or hide and go seek.

I would also ride my back two or three miles to the reservoir or river to fish all day or go hiking with my dad on the weekends.If we weren’t hiking I was helping him buck hay bales or build fences for our horses. In high school when we were freshman’s and couldn’t drive yet and wanted to go to a party we were hoofing it there and then home.

I see kids today and due to the media exposure of pedophiles and weirdos like X said, parents drive their kids everywhere. They also have 500 channels of shit to choose from and video games and the internet.

Wow, what a difference or maybe I am just being nostalgic.

D

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Gambles wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
Gambles wrote:
etaco wrote:
Parents of fat kids should be treated as neglectful and abusive. They’re shortening their kids’ lives and lowering the quality through their negligence. Plain and simple.

Dude Dont ya think thats going a bit Too far

That can be extreme, but let’s face it. Kids are in no control of what they eat. It comes down to what the parents buy and prepare. Parents become to busy in their lives so they have kids living off processed foods.
Type 2 diabetes is on the rise and increasing in children at an alarming rate. Teenagers have been shown that they have hardening of the arteries.

Something isn’t right, and parents are at the forefront of the problem.

Yeha But also you have to factor in Genitic predisposition to obesity & diabetes befor making statements such as All partents of All fat kids are abusive. also there are plenty of kids whom are exteremly Slim despite eating & exersiseing habbits

A genetic predisposition to obesity? So, even if they eat less calories than they need, fat just magically appears on their bodies and regardless of the HOURS they spend lifting weights and doing cardio, they just stay obese? My guess is, there are far fewer people out there with true metabolic disorders than people realize. [/quote]
Maby I phrased that wrong what i meant was some kids just look fat no matter what. despite how much they workout its just somthing that happens in a famly just like in other famlys the kids are slim it’s just a genetic thing but however i agree that if you have a 2 yr old that weighs 400 lbs your kid should get taken away regaurdless. sorry about any misunderstandings.

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[quote]Gambles wrote:
Maby I phrased that wrong what i meant was some kids just look fat no matter what. despite how much they workout its just somthing that happens in a famly just like in other famlys the kids are slim it’s just a genetic thing but however i agree that if you have a 2 yr old that weighs 400 lbs your kid should get taken away regaurdless. sorry about any misunderstandings. [/quote]

Being “stocky” is a far cry from being flat out obese like so many kids are today. Looking like a future lineman isn’t the same as looking like you are smuggling honey baked hams under your shirt at the age of 9.

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So the question is. Is the obesity crisis that we face today, on a global scale, not only in the US caused by:

o kids these days have no self-control
o easy availability of unhealthy and addictive foods. In some places it’s simply impossible to find any healthy foods.

If you go with “kids” you’re an ol’ fart.