Tag: Obesity

  • Antibiotics Promote Weight Gain in Animals and Humans

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    By Pagan Kennedy – reposted from the New York Times: IF you walk into a farm-supply store today, you’re likely to find a bag of antibiotic powder that claims to boost the growth of poultry and livestock. That’s because decades of agricultural research has shown that antibiotics seem to flip a switch in young animals’…

  • The Obesity Era

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    This is an exceedingly long but intriguing article by David Berry reposted from aeon: Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have…

  • Weight Loss Improved with High-Calorie Breakfast

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    Caroline Scott-Thomas explains why a high calorie breakfast may help you lose weight more quickly and improve your health: Published in the journal Obesity, the study randomly assigned 93 overweight or obese women to one of two diets, both providing 1,400 calories a day over a 12-week period.  One group consumed a high-calorie breakfast (700…

  • Western-Style Diet Makes Mexicans Sick

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    In Civil Eats, Judy Bankman writes about the nutritional transition that Mexico has made from a healthy natural foods diet to a “western style” diet of high protein, high sugar and highly processed food. On a visit to southern Mexico in 2008, I was shocked to see Coca-Cola billboards dotting rural highways, and roadside tiendas selling bottles of…