So how can you help your overweight or obese adolescent?
Here are some tips, bearing in mind you can’t always influence the immediate behaviour of older teenagers and young adults, but perhaps their behaviour as adults.
New mice research may help develop a drug that boosts metabolism whilst we over eat.
Hmm….is this going in the right direction? I guess if the world population refuses to eat less then this sort of research will be funded by pharmaceutical companies and maybe it is some peoples dream solution.
An amusing article about exercise, By Craig Harper, Exercise Scientist, “If you are overweight, one advantage is that, when you exercise, you will expend more energy (burn more cals) per unit of time than your annoyingly skinny friend doing the exact same workout”
Australians drink 100 litres of soft drink per year and more than half is consumed in the home. Sugar sweetened beverages are one of the strongest predictors of child hood obesity.
Home is a place where we give identity to food and give it meaning. The most difficult barrier is if you drink soft drink yourself.
Many people don’t consider salt to be a problem but it is associated with significant heart disease. This generation of kids is eating the most salt any aussie gen. has, around 4 times more than they need
Australian researcher Rebecca Byrne asked 276 mums to rank their 12-16 month old as underweight, normal weight or over weight. 27 mums said their child was underweight with only 1 actually being found to be too thin.
Did you know one in three mouthfuls of food we consume is produced with the help of bees? Do you remember the bad news about bees around the world in 2007 with ‘colony collapse disorder’ marked by the disappearance of worker bees?
70% of Australian males are overweight or obese, 80% of middle aged. This translates to 4kg gain and 2cm around the waist since the last Australian Health Survey in 2007-2008.
Check out this user friendly article summarising a couple of recent studies on Television viewing and sitting a lot. Apparently the average adult spends 50-70% of their time sitting (I guess I do). We can’t always help it due to the increasing sedentary nature of many of our jobs. The advice is to do 60 mins less sitting per day – even just standing to do tasks and this is in addition to the 30 mins exercise you are naturally all doing since having a sleeve or band!
Recent neuroscience research on a small number of volunteers has found breakfast skippers eat 20% more at lunch and seek higher calorie foods. I guess we could have told them that, but it is interesting when the obvious is backed up by science. Check out the short article on the link below.
