31-35 Obesity Facts
31. The “Obesity Paradox” states that you are more likely to survive a heart attack if you are obese than if you were a normal healthy adult. – Source
32. Television viewing does not contribute to childhood obesity. Time viewing television advertising is what predicts childhood obesity. – Source
33. The BMI (Body Mass Index) measure is actually severely underestimating the prevalence of obesity. – Source
34. In 2008 Japan passed an anti-obesity law, which requires men and women aged 40-74 to have a strict waistline of 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women. – Source
35. Thermal paper cash register receipts account for high Bisphenol A (BPA) levels in humans. Using a skin care product such as hand sanitizer than touching a receipt can drastically alter the rate of BPA absorption. The rapid absorption rate into our blood can then increase obesity and diabetes. – Source
36-40 Obesity Facts
36. Not only humans are getting fat in the Obesity era. Chimps, for some reason, are doing especially badly: their average body weight had risen 35 per cent per decade. – Source
37. There was a culturally specific strain of anorexia nervosa in Hong Kong where patients complained of bloated stomachs rather than fearing obesity and intentionally dieting. – Source
38. Vegetarians are linked with lower levels of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and certain types of cancers (By the American Dietetic Association). – Source
39. Arthritis, asthma, obesity and cancer have been linked to disruptions in the ratios of bacteria species that live in the human body. – Source
40. Under pressure for nicotine in cigs & foreseeing the obesity epidemic, Philip Morris instructed their subsidiary Kraft to limit the use of salts & fats in products. In response, competitors added more fats to their foods yielding declining sales and the eventual sell-off of Kraft from PM in 2007. – Source
#1 The source say they visit a nutritionist and a doctor to determine their eligibility prior to registration, but doesn’t say if they have follow ups.
My main concern, especially when it pays double for families (including kids), is that people will be on unhealthy diets, starving themselves, and introducing more health concerns that what obesity causes.
Paying people to do things like this to their body can easily turn into nasty things, especially when the poor can be the most directly affected by obesity when they have limited access to healthy food alternatives. And a desperation for money only accelerates that.
#10 It wasn’t mysterious. Miraculin is a great sweetener, and has very little adverse side effects, except when subject to heat. Most, nearly all, food (or mainly, in this case, drink) products that use alternative sweeteners go through some sort of heat process, if just for pasteurization. Heat doesn’t change the food chemistry, but it changes the way we taste sour foods, especially high acidity foods, which will taste sweet, which can trick people into consuming more.
Your source was from “howstuffworks”. Any source that calls anything a “miracle food” is subject to further scrutinization. Since there’s no such thing as a “‘miracle food”.
Permanently ban advertisements on food and you could find a dramatic drop in obesity. Why do you need to know food is out there. I don’t need a constant reminder that food there to be eaten. If I had a eating disorder and/or prone to compulsive behaviors, maybe someone just can’t stop from buying because they see someone enjoying it, I would find myself 200lbs heavier than I am now because of all the food marketed. Have you ever experienced food envy (wishing for someone else’s plate of food at a restaurant), similar to that.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201008/what-does-advertising-do