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Thanks to All Volunteers at the Kids Try-Athlon August 20 (Saturday) was the 2011 Kids Try-Athlon, sponsored by the Healthy Weight Kids Coalition. Kids in different age categories competed in the swim-bike-run race at Preston Miller Park. Other fitness activities were demonstrated, including kids from CrossFit Kids. [ RESULTS OF 2011 TRY-ATHLON ] [PHOTOS OF 2011 TRY-ATHLON] NY Times: Sugar is Toxic Gary Taubes (who wrote the book "Good Calories, Bad Calories") has written a very comprehensive article for the NY Times called "Is Sugar Toxic?". He concludes that it is, and supplies compelling arguments to prove it. [ READ THE ARTICLE ] "Super Size Me" Revisited! Dr Voakes was all set to do the "Super Size Me" experiment (eat 3 meals a day at McDonalds) but not drink the huge sodas to show that it's the sugar drinks that made Morgan Spurlock fat. However, a much more entertaining version has been filmed by comedian Tom Naughton called "Fat Head". It's a 90-minute spoof documentary that pokes fun at Morgan Spurlock and all the proponents of the "Lipid Theory", while making some very important observations about how eating carbs, and especially sugar, is making Americans obese and sick. [ READ CRITIQUE AND VIEW THE DOCUMENTARY "FAT HEAD" ] Caveman Diet for Kids Humans evolved while eating a diet of meat, fruits and nuts. Our bodies could be expected to function best on these foods, and other types of foods may be potentially harmful. Dr Voakes has written an article exploring this concept, which was published in our local magazine, SOKY Happenings.
Healthy Weight Kids in
Vermont Best-Practice Guidelines for Physical Activity in Day Care The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently formulated guidelines for daycare centers, recommending the best practices known for optimal fitness of children who attend, in light of the current obesity epidemic. [ LEARN MORE... ]
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| Our Mission We hope to greatly reduce the problem of overweight through preventive measures in the following areas: (1) Work with schools to improve nutrition teaching and to improve the nutritional quality of foods available to children while at school. Increase the opportunities for physical activity in schools. (2) Train physicians to identify and treat overweight in their patients. Provide resources for them to educate their patients about prevention, and treat those who are already affected. (3) Make the public aware of the problem of overweight so that parents can recognize it at an early stage in their own children. Make the public aware of the serious health hazards resulting from overweight, and the options available to treat overweight. (4) Influence the local and state legislatures to bring about laws which favor the reduction of overweight in children, and promote cultural changes that allow children to maintain a healthy weight. (5) We also hope to guide and improve existing overweight treatment facilities within the community, improve access and availability of exercise and fitness resources within the community, and to set an example for treatment facilities everywhere. [Funded in part by a grant from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky]
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In Pediatrics (March 2012), Dr Robert Lustig and Dr Andrew
Bremer published a landmark paper, "Towards a Unifying Hypothesis
for Metabolic Syndrome". This paper re-defines metabolic syndrome to
include the other areas of pathology caused by metabolic
dysfunction, namely cardiovascular disease and fatty liver. This
allows us to see the full spectrum of damage that results from
fructose being converted to triglyceride and LDL in the liver, the
build-up of these damaging fats in the liver and arteries, the
stiffening of the arteries leading to hypertension, occlusion of
arteries leading to heart attacks and strokes, then the
development of insulin resistance which leads to type 2 diabetes.
Obesity is a common symptom of this cascade, but not necessary to
develop all the other pathology. Obesity is the "fever" of metabolic
dysfunction.
Our
logo artists are Bowling Green students Elaina Mueller (Natcher Elementary)