Sugar Babies The Rise of ‘Adult Onset’ Diabetes i
Never before in human history have we seen “adult onset” or Type 2 diabetes in children. There has been a more than 1,000 percent increase in Type 2 diabetes in children over the last two decades. (1) Fifteen years ago 3 percent of new cases of diabetes in children were Type 2 diabetes. Now it is 50 percent. (2) Forty percent of children are now overweight and 2 million are morbidly obese, exceeding the 99th percentile for weight. (3)
Scientists say that we have only 3 Windows 7 Activation Key,600 cases of Type 2 diabetes in children. (4) Nonsense. Almost all of those 2 million morbidly-obese kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes or what we should call “diabesity.” In adults, 25 percent of diabetics and 90 percent of pre-diabetics are not diagnosed. In children, most of the cases are missed. (5)
A study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine found that medications don’t work and general lifestyle instruction isn’t much help either to treat Type 2 diabetes in children. And the disease is more rapidly progressive and aggressive in children. Kids who haven’t even learned to swallow a pill are now facing giving themselves daily insulin injections. Poor and minority kids are more heavily afflicted.
Do we really think we can medicate our way out of a bad diet? Can we really overcome the 54 gallons of soda consumed every year by the average American, or the 34 teaspoons of sugar consumed DAILY by the average child in America with a medication or some handouts on eating better? (6) One of the drugs used in the study, Avandia, has been responsible for more than 200,000 deaths from heart attacks since it was introduced in 1999. (7) The Food and Drug Administration has restricted its use. Should we be using this in children? This is pharmageddon.
Putting these little children on insulin sooner doesn’t make any sense either. Starting insulin in diabetics is a slippery slope, leading to a cascade of increasing weight gain, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The sugar comes down, but everything else that kills diabetics gets worse.
Adult diseases are now commonplace in children. I recently spoke at an Emory University conference on childhood Type 2 diabetes.I met a pediatric gastroenterologist and wondered what he was doing at a conference on diabetes. He told me he now has 5-year-old patients with cirrhosis from fatty liver caused by years of drinking soda. There has been a more than 50 percent increase in strokes in children aged 5 to 14. (8) We are now seeing heart attacks in teenagers and 20 year olds needing cardiac bypass surgery because obesity and diabetes clogs their arteries.
This is a disease that is nearly 100 percent preventable and reversible. But it won’t be solved in the doctor’s office, clinic or hospital. It has to be fixed where it begins: in our homes, communities and our society and in our government policies and industry practices. This is a social disease, and we need a social cure.
This study should be a national wake-up call. A siren blaring the insanity of our current medical approach to obesity and Type 2 diabetes for both children and adults.
When a 5-year-old has cirrhosis and an 8-year-old has a stroke this is not about personal choice or better medication. Now that scientists have proven that fast food and sugar are biologically addictive, we can’t blame the individual or the family. Can a heroin addict just cut down?
We need a massive call to action, a national coordinated multi-pronged campaign. We need President Obama and all the Republican candidates to stand before the nation and declare we will end Type 2 diabetes in children by the end of this decade, just like President Kennedy mobilized our nation to get a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
The food industry must be held to account. Simple policy changes could have enormous impact.
The food industry tries to convince us that all calories are the same, that a snack of carrots or Oreos is the same as long as they are 100 calories each. The science proves otherwise. Sugar calories act differently in the body, driving biology toward diabetes. And carrots aren’t addictive Office 2010 Key, but sugar is.
The food industry has hijacked our taste buds, our brain chemistry, our kitchens, our homes, our schools and our communities. When children have nearly unlimited access to sugar and processed food, when we have 600 calories more per day of sugar calories per person than 30 years ago, we have to have an honest accounting of the playing field. (9) The food environment is designed for kids and adults to fail.
The SNAP program (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program), or food stamps Windows 7 oem key, was started to provide “good food to hungry people,” but now provides bad food to the overweight. While it is true that poverty and obesity go hand in hand because sugar calories and processed food are cheap and because government subsidies lower the prices of corn and wheat products, there is no reason that the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) should put $4 billion of taxpayer money into the coffers of soda manufacturers every year by allowing the use of food stamps to buy soda.
That is more than 29 million a day, or 10 billion servings a year of soda that our government feeds the poor in this country. Then the government pays again through Medicare and Medicaid for obesity- and diabetes-related illness. Maybe we should call it the “Supplemental Nutrition Obesity Program.” You can’t buy alcohol, cigarettes or prepared meals with food stamp — why should kids buy soda with them?
We can’t ignore or accept this any longer.
The food industry blames the victim and tells us we are just lazy, it’s about our sedentary lifestyles. Eat whatever you want, we are told, but just exercise more. You would have to run four miles a day for one week to burn off just ONE fast food meal. That strategy won’t work. You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet. Moving is important, but changing the food environment is more important.
We now have a nation where 75 percent of the applicants for military service are unfit to serve because of obesity. (10) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two surgeon generals have called this a national security issue. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes also affects our global economic competitiveness because health disparities lead to an achievement gap. As our kid’s waist sizes grow, their brain power shrinks.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities. Since our government, corporations and health care institutions fail to provide solutions, mothers stand arm-to-arm in front of convenience stores to block kids from entering after school.
But there are things that can be done. We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don’t finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
We may not be able to win the war in Afghanistan, but we can end this. But it will take an approach that works on all the forces that drive obesity and diabetes in children simultaneously — at home, at school, in local neighborhoods and communities, in the media, and in corporate regulation and government policies that foster health rather than disease.
Here are a few initiatives and ideas that may help shift this frightening tide of poverty and disease:
Stop government subsidies for junk food. Stop or reduce subsidies of agriculture products that allow for the glut of cheap, high-calorie, nutrient-poor sugars and fats from corn, wheat and soy into the marketplace.
Tax sugar. We should tax sugar (and maybe even processed junk food with added sugars). A one-cent-per-ounce tax would raise $15 billion a year, while a 10-cent-per-ounce tax could raise $150 billion per year. (11) This could support national food programs and community projects to fight obesity and diabetes and promote health and help cover the hundreds of billions of dollars of health care costs from increasing obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. The food industry has blocked initiatives for this tax in 30 states by pouring millions of dollars into lobbying and donations, such as the $10 million Coca-Cola gave to a hospital in Philadelphia to swing the vote in the legislature. (12)
End junk food marketing to children. We are one of the only countries that allow this. Studies show that the worse the food, the more the marketing. The average 2 year old can recognize and name junk food from their baby carriage in the supermarket. (13)
Fund community-based initiatives. Support healthy eating with community kitchens, gardens, and cooking classes that teach how to make good food cheaply. Children need life skills on how to care for and feed their bodies. We are raising the first generation of Americans who don’t know how to cook. If implemented, the new health care bill and the new Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health provide avenues to support these programs.
Provide incentives for grocery stores and farmer’s markets in food deserts and all communities.
Make school lunches healthy by providing only real food and modeling healthy eating. Food can be both fun for you and good for you. Create national standards based on sound 21st century nutritional science and common sense. Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food. Any government-supported programs should have strict guidelines for what foods may be served. There is no room for junk food or sugar calories in schools.
Change zoning around schools to limit access to fast food and convenience stores. We shouldn’t have to rely on parents blockading junk food stores after school, as a group of parents did in Philadelphia. We shouldn’t make it easy to get bad food!
The FDA should regulate sugar as a drug, not as a “GRAS” or generally recognized as safe substance. It is a known toxin and is deadly when consumed in large quantities.
What are you doing in your home, your family, in your schools and communities to end the attack on our children and our nation’s future? We have the power to take back our health. It starts with small choices, local action and political advocacy. Now more than ever we have the collective power to change this. Let’s do it for our children’s sake.
Now I’d like to hear from you…
Do you have local programs in your schools to encourage healthy meals?
Are there any cooking classes offered to children in your community?
Have your children reduced or eliminated sugar from their diets?
Please leave your thoughts by adding a comment below.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, M.D.
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Farmers forecast better disaster preparation
The Queensland Farmers Federation (QFF) says a federal budget funding boost to the weather bureau will help farmers better prepare for natural disasters.
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Tribeca 2012 Diary Headshot Director Pen-ek Ratan
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I sat down with Ratanaruang at the offices of Headshot’s distributor while he was in New York for the film’s Tribeca debut. The interview is below.
First Round A Radical France
France is radicalizing. The National Front is climbing to dizzying heights, making Nicolas Sarkozy regret heeding the voice of his party that promised him a populist campaign. This was the President’s greatest error. His visceral absence of conviction made him think that he could freely navigate from the center to the extreme right occasionally retreating back to the left causing a deliberate blurring of divisions, a well known trick when you have an essentially self-oriented political vision. The electors have punished his self-centeredness without regard to representing the traditional right. They punish him for having been led more often than leading. His chances are dwindling as the hours go by. Apart from purely political considerations, his departure would do some good if it only put an end to this shameless political spectacle that has been imposed upon us where the personal lives of candidates are delivered to mask what is actually relevant.
The rise of the National Front is worrisome for Marine Le Pen despite her best efforts to make herself presentable. She is far from victory, and it will probably take one or two more generations in the Le Pen dynasty for the party to produce returns other than deeply negative waves. By pandering to Sarkozy’s true nature, it seems that she can only succeed at losing to him. The fact remains that the party maintains a strategy that is more “emetic” than rational. Accordingly, this first round will satisfy the paranoid who see a largely exaggerated enemy as the cause of all their ills.
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We recall Francois Hollande urging the French to choose a normal man as the French head of state. This could happen. Although he yielded to the demagoguery familiar to the left during election cycles, he seems capable of appeasement. But if he wins, he should remember that he owes his victory to the rejection of a man rather than a platform based on unrealistic growth, which allowed him to avoid the real issue of the efforts required. This will be a heavy burden. Because globalization is a peculiar force in that it allows real money to escape from the hands of those who would ignore the temptation to get a hold of it and balance the accounts. We must ensure that Hollande’s mandate Tattooing Machine, if his election really comes to pass, does not become one of those political failures Damascus Steel Tattoo Machines, the victim of uncontrollable economic interests. Because for once, the National Front could become the main right-wing party in France. And the rest is history.
What remains is the choice between the two pillars. Sarkozy intends to shatter Holland. A strange expression, but on that is understandable. Those who have succeeded in capturing Elysee are not likely to leave it gracefully. Things never change.
‘American Idol’ Elimination Recap The Final 3 Rev
There was a whole lot of “meh” during this week’s “American Idol” performance show, and it should’ve been fairly obvious from the start just who the endangered contestant was. But, because the voting public is a fickle and capricious monster, I’m perennially braced for a shocking result. (I really didn’t see Hollie, Elise or Skylar lasting longer than Colton, for example, even though I preferred all three.)
As with all “Idol” results shows, the May 10 episode was packed full of juicy generally mediocre performances from people who are only tenuously still musically relevant — this week, those lucky time-wasters were judge Jennifer Lopez, and lackluster winner of yesteryear, David Cook. But since such diversions are what YouTube and the fast-forward button were invented for, let’s skip to this week’s elimination result.
The next contestant to be going home (and not just for a hometown visit) is …
Hollie Cavanagh.
To which I say Marc Jacobs Dresses sale, “duh.” Hollie has immense raw potential, but she seems unaware of who she is as an artist (something that Jessica also struggles with), and lacks confidence on stage where her fellow contestants have evolved and loosened up over the course of the season. She’ll sound fine on a record, once she’s had some polish and doesn’t have to stand in front of a crowd, but she’s not yet at the point where she could be comfortable on stage in front of a sold out arena.
Hollie most reminds me of young, mousy David Archuleta, who had an incredible range but always seemed gawky and shy on stage, and subsequently lost to the aforementioned David Cook. It doesn’t mean that she can’t have a successful career somewhere down the line, but it does mean that she’s not “Idol” material. She got a lot further than I thought she would, and she’s arguably more talented than Phillip DKNY Clothes sale, vocally, so I hope she leaves with her head held high, despite the judges’ constant barrage of criticism.
Jessica was the first to be pronounced safe, followed by Joshua and Phillip.
Do you think the voters made the right choice? Who do you think will be the next to go home? Weigh in below!
“American Idol” airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
VW microcar gets fast-track to production
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European manufacturers seem to have been taken aback by the recent success of their microcars. Now that consumers have gotten a taste of what life is like when you’re choosing between filling your tank or your stomach, industry insiders are predicting that the microcar category will only pick up steam. Daimler is sitting pretty with its smart brand Tattoo Supplies, BMW is working on a city-spec Isetta revival, Toyota has responded with its diminutive iQ and VW went small with its Up! concept cars. But VeeDub’s got even smaller ideas on its corporate mind, working on an smaller city car to slot below its already dinky Up Tattoo Supplies! model.
Power for the city car will come from either a 1.2L four cylinder or an oil-burning three-pot. That gasoline engine is expected to feature cylinder cutoff technology so it can operate on just half of its allotment of pistons when full power isn’t necessary. All of that adds up to an estimatged 117 miles per gallon. And naturally, an electric drivetrain is also in the works.
Current rumors indicate that the German automaker has given this new model priority status, working to get the car on UK roads by 2011. It all sounds good so far, minus the name: Chico. We’re confident that they can think of something better.
[Source: Autocar]
Audi invites fans to respond to LA billboard war
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[Source: Audi]
Glut of unsold pickups has GM critics fearing retu
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Porsche officially files for takeover bid of VW
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[Source: Reuters]
Background Briefing Watch
Last Thursday, Jan. 22 Fake MB&F Watches for sale, the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News capitalized on a flub by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs to “out” the identity of a background briefer.
As the Morning News’ Todd J. Gillman wrote, the White House press corps assembled at noon Thursday to attend a “background briefing Replica Audemars Piguet Watches,” the topic being President Barack Obama’s executive orders that will close secret prisons and Guantanamo. (see the transcript.) Under the standard rules, no cameras were allowed and comments could be attributed only to senior administration officials.
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Shortly after the backgrounder, press secretary Gibbs convened an on-the-record session with the White House press corps and television cameras, and taking questions about the executive orders, he referred to “Greg” three times. “Intriguing,” wrote Gillman in italic. “Who is this mysterious ‘Greg,’ folks watching on TV might wonder.”
Times reporter Jeff Zeleny was less coy about Greg’s identity. Seeing as Gibbs had invoked the first name repeatedly in a way that “all but identified the mysterious briefer,” Zeleny wrote that the man Gibbs was talking about was the provider of the earlier backgrounder, White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig.
Chafing at all the background subterfuge Where buy best Replica Concord Watches, Zeleny wrote: “Does an administration that has pledged to be the most open and transparent one ever really need to have routine briefings be on background, by an official who can’t be named?”
The quick answer to Zeleny’s question is the same as the long answer. No. Neither journalism nor readers are served by the background briefing conventions. Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank wrote smartly about the evils of White House background briefing in an April 6, 2004, piece (alas, not on the Web).
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The notion of speaking “on background” has been around for decades, allowing reporters to get senior administration officials to speak candidly, and sometimes critically, about their boss’s policies. But somewhere along the line Replica Hamilton Watches, administrations learned to turn background backward. The White House now organizes authorized background briefings almost weekly Replica Tudor Watches, in which officials are cloaked in anonymity. It appears from these sessions that the anonymity is not to protect officials who say something negative—but to shield them from embarrassment for sounding like cheerleaders.
Rampant backgrounder abuse at the Bush White House caused Washington bureau chiefs to petition press secretary Scott McClellan in 2005, begging him to end them. As Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp reported, the chiefs griped about one energy backgrounder given by conference call just before a Bush energy speech. Reporters were denied the identity of the deputy press secretary doing the talking. The chiefs also groaned about the frequency with which officials would speak to print reporters in background briefings and then go on the record for broadcasters.
Officials at the CIA and State Department often defend backgrounders as a way to explain covert operations or complex events coherently for reporters without committing a diplomatic faux pas. But those are a separate case. When White House officials justify backgrounders as necessary because the device wicks the personality or baggage of the giver out of the briefing, leaving only the pure statement of government policy behind, they’re not even fooling themselves. Nobody can play Jedi mind games on their own mind—the speaker always inhabits his own speech. And, besides, anybody who really wants to know the identity of the backgrounder can dig it out. In the case of Greg Craig, his name was in the mass e-mail announcing the briefing sent to the White House press corps. If the White House press corps knows, the press knows, if the press knows, the Hill and lobbyists know.
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