OT: sugary-drinks-tied-obesity-among-preschoolers

I think it is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons I do not have TV is that I have found that commercials for the kinds of drinks mentioned in the article would very much tend me toward obtaining the product. As well I have noticed that if you consume over eight ounces of such a drink in a give day you will hunger for the product for several days. I wonder if they qualify as addictive?

http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-drinks-tie ... 44027.html

The above site tested safe at: https://safeweb.norton.com/

A big fat sigh! Of course, no one is advocating that preschoolers drink alot of soda but to blame one factor for obesity is really a bit much.

And your evidence for consuming a product in one day causing a hunger for it over several days?

49er

Todzo wrote:I think it is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons I do not have TV is that I have found that commercials for the kinds of drinks mentioned in the article would very much tend me toward obtaining the product. As well I have noticed that if you consume over eight ounces of such a drink in a give day you will hunger for the product for several days. I wonder if they qualify as addictive?

http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-drinks-tie ... 44027.html

The above site tested safe at: https://safeweb.norton.com/

I am simply relating my own experiance, if you read what I wrote.

49er wrote:A big fat sigh! Of course, no one is advocating that preschoolers drink alot of soda but to blame one factor for obesity is really a bit much.

And your evidence for consuming a product in one day causing a hunger for it over several days?

49er

Todzo wrote:I think it is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons I do not have TV is that I have found that commercials for the kinds of drinks mentioned in the article would very much tend me toward obtaining the product. As well I have noticed that if you consume over eight ounces of such a drink in a give day you will hunger for the product for several days. I wonder if they qualify as addictive?

http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-drinks-tie ... 44027.html

The above site tested safe at: https://safeweb.norton.com/

You did, my apologies.

49er

Todzo wrote:I am simply relating my own experiance, if you read what I wrote.

49er wrote:A big fat sigh! Of course, no one is advocating that preschoolers drink alot of soda but to blame one factor for obesity is really a bit much.

And your evidence for consuming a product in one day causing a hunger for it over several days?

49er

Todzo wrote:I think it is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons I do not have TV is that I have found that commercials for the kinds of drinks mentioned in the article would very much tend me toward obtaining the product. As well I have noticed that if you consume over eight ounces of such a drink in a give day you will hunger for the product for several days. I wonder if they qualify as addictive?

http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-drinks-tie ... 44027.html

The above site tested safe at: https://safeweb.norton.com/

Thank you 49er - accepted.

This post I made hoping to highlight - somewhat distantly (looking to the future of the readers) how our farm policies and advertisement policies are stealing our future. A bit of seed information.

I do hope we all do end up having a future!!

49er wrote:You did, my apologies.

49er

Todzo wrote:I am simply relating my own experience, if you read what I wrote.

49er wrote:A big fat sigh! Of course, no one is advocating that preschoolers drink alot of soda but to blame one factor for obesity is really a bit much.

And your evidence for consuming a product in one day causing a hunger for it over several days?

49er

Todzo wrote:I think it is also worth mentioning that one of the reasons I do not have TV is that I have found that commercials for the kinds of drinks mentioned in the article would very much tend me toward obtaining the product. As well I have noticed that if you consume over eight ounces of such a drink in a give day you will hunger for the product for several days. I wonder if they qualify as addictive?

http://news.yahoo.com/sugary-drinks-tie ... 44027.html

The above site tested safe at: https://safeweb.norton.com/

Add to that, using the T.V. and Video Games as your baby sitter, so you don't have to be bothered raising your kids. Jim

Couch Potatoes are best harvested before they mature!

Goofproof wrote:Add to that, using the T.V. and Video Games as your baby sitter, so you don't have to be bothered raising your kids. Jim

Couch Potatoes are best harvested before they mature!

I think our potential future couch potatoes could use a good example. So I do not have TV. So, since I replaced my well used pedometer mid april I have been running above 80% of my 10,000 steps a day active lifestyle goal reaching 93% for July.

Perhaps instead of showing us your "not good looking" bottom you would do better to move it. Perhaps then you would have what it takes to post a pleasent profile picture.

The seeds of insulin resistance and future obesity start there--even if it doesn't show up for many years. A few generations ago, kids did not have easy access to sugary drinks throughout the day like they do now. Fat Phobic parents may give juice instead of milk for breakfast, and then sugary drinks every few hours as the kid is hungry and tired. I know because we did this before we understood what we were doing. We thought we were great because we forbade sodas and we watered down the juice 1 part juice to 2 parts water, but it was still more sugar than our kids needed and they had the blood sugar highs and lows to prove it.

We have changed our diet dramatically. Yesterday was telling. We went to the county fair where I saw parents buying endless snow cones, cotton candy, kettle corn, ice cream, sodas, sugary lemonades and candy for their kids. I know it's a special treat, but I saw kids with a sugary drink in one hand and an enormous cotton candy or other sweet treat in the other. Some people bought doughnut burgers for their kids (hamburger with doughnuts instead of buns!). Interestingly, almost none of these kids looked very happy.

My kids, in contrast, wanted nothing until a late lunch time, where we all had various things from the Greek Gyro's booth. One kid had a chicken gyro, one kid had a veggie gyro, my husband had a lamb and beef gyro, and I had a Greek Salad which was enormous so I shared with everyone. The kids shared one cup of lemonade. That was IT for the entire day. Nobody was hungry or asked for a treat--we just don't eat that junk anymore and it wasn't appealing to any of us. And we all had a great time. At 7 p.m. My husband asked if we wanted to eat dinner at the fair and none of us were excited about it. My kids chose a local place where they could get veggie filled crepes and salad. To quote my little one "lettuce, tomato, and onions on my gyro is not enough veggies for the day!"

My husband was remarking about the fact that we had all been "cheap dates" at the fair. But none of us wanted anything different, the junky food and drink no longer appeals. Sure wish we'd started this 20 years ago!

Todzo wrote: Perhaps instead of showing us your "not good looking" bottom you would do better to move it. Perhaps then you would have what it takes to post a pleasent profile picture.

While I commend you for being able to walk to get fit, my heart only allows me 30 steps before it gives up, I'd glady trade places.

Despite your fixation with my profile picture, (which is a graphic not a picture) that denotes computer building and repair, one of my current hobbies.

You must not get out much those steps they must be inplace. In Wal-Mart and malls the crack in the grapic is considered puritanical.

However despite your obsession with mt graphic, my buttcrack is off-limits! Find another, I don't roll that way. Jim

When I was growing up, pop was what you had at parties only. Otherwise you drank water or juice.

We did the same with my youngest until she got to middle school where the school cafeteria pushed pop and pizza.

It isn't necessarily just sugary soft drinks, it could be more that the parents that give their kids that junk probably give them other junk as well? Like fast food, chips, and other over-processed, convenience-related junk food.

I find myself a bit irritated when I see the common special at the grocery store - 1L pop for 99 cents! The thing is I know my tax dollars made that low price possible. Time to write a letter to our congressmen I think!!

I love the smells of flowers in the summer time as I do my steps. I started with a few and am near active lifestyle levels. It is a great way to get to know your city and great for insuln resistnce.

Later today I will walk to the movie theater, I usually get a small popcorn and small pop. I mix half sugar and half diet. By the time I circle back and climb the hill to home I will have about 15,000 steps. If I recall I burn about 400 calories a day walking.

Sadly daughter and son grew up without a good example in the carbs area of life. Daughter has become an example to me and I give her full credit for that. Son, well, I can tell you that he is affected by the now good examples of sister and father.

When I see one of the many junk food posts on my FB I start plotting my own healthy food post. We really do need to fight back if we want our health. And our health is worth the fighting for.

Goofproof wrote: While I commend you for being able to walk to get fit, my heart only allows me 30 steps before it gives up, I'd glady trade places.

When I started counting steps it was perhaps 2000 steps a day and has taken nearly five years to get to the 93% of 10,000 steps a day level.

You start from where you are!!

If you started with two sets of 15 steps a day, then did one set of 15 and one set of 20, then did two sets of 20, then when both reached 30 added another set - and simply increased your steps five steps a day each day you would reach 10,000 steps a day in about five and one half years.

My guess is that your doctor would love this idea. You should talk it over with him.

Take care,

Todzo

Todzo wrote:

Goofproof wrote: While I commend you for being able to walk to get fit, my heart only allows me 30 steps before it gives up, I'd glady trade places.

When I started counting steps it was perhaps 2000 steps a day and has taken nearly five years to get to the 93% of 10,000 steps a day level.

You start from where you are!!

If you started with two sets of 15 steps a day, then did one set of 15 and one set of 20, then did two sets of 20, then when both reached 30 added another set - and simply increased your steps five steps a day each day you would reach 10,000 steps a day in about five and one half years.

My guess is that your doctor would love this idea. You should talk it over with him.

Take care,

Todzo

Where I are is 30 steps or one flight of stairs. When I see my heart doctor he's truly suprized to see me. With a heart function of 35%, the odd's aren't very high. After the stents, before the quad I got up to a mile before giving out. After the quad 30 feet sit or pass out, added to that a defib with defective leads installed one year later. It's now been almost 8 years since the quad, i'm past my expireation date, they took me off the milk carton. Jim

If a little more each day was possiable to work, i'd push it, been there done that, lately it's been worse, so I am cutting back on food intake to loose weight. It's not fun being unable to get your breath, even my O2 pump doesn't provide relief, yet my O2 levels show 90 to 92.

Todzo, with all due respect, having people count out steps in exercising can seem like a royal pain in the neck to folks who find the thought of exercising overwhelming. Many times, I have found it alot easier to simply incorporate exercise whenever I can such as parking further from stories and taking the stairs at metro and my apartment building. Over time, that makes a big difference.

And I also move my body when I feel the need to. For example, if I am sitting at the computer for too long, I will start dancing rigorously for as long as I can do it until I am out of breath.

As far as advertisements for junk food, personally, that issue isn't at the top of my list. I am more concerned about the psych meds that kids 5 and under are getting when the diagnosis of mental illness is questionable. And by the way, that is a huge contributor to obesity. But of course, no one want to blame the meds.

49er