[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by modest

I like it, but they should maybe add a layer of encryption or perhaps a cipher to the code. How it stands now, anyone with the key can crack the code and find out what they're eating. That's not very secure

~modest

LOL

lolol

Maybe a Nazi enigma machine LOL.

It is amazing what big pressure groups and corporations can get away with these days as they the only ones with the time and money and prestige and political donations to make their point.

The public just has the blunt tool of the ballot box which is also open to media manipulation. Imagine if one of the big food internationals decided to stop their advertising in press or TV.. We would soon have editorials on how good Enigma Machines were for food-additive labelling.

I notice my supermarket has less and less fresh food. It is all instant eating or instant meals or close to. Buy the spaghetti/pasta here the spaghetti sauce here. So if you can boil water and use a microwave you can cook dinner. That's what a lot of the advertising is about. A recent one is dumb dad cooking dinner being led though the process by his 10 year old daughter Many role stereotypes are still with us.

Nearly every processed food contains sulphur and MSG of some sort.Two ingredients that cause many people problems. Big Food keeps changing the numbers & names just when you think you know what "220" is.

The biggest selling book in Australia last year by miles was "The Four Ingredient Cookbook". (Partly also due to the fact that the authors promoted it themselves- not leaving it to lazy publishers )

[paigetheoracle]

Gardemorg, another diet that might interest you is The Stone Age Diet because it gets rid of wheat and dairy out of meal time. These are new foods to our system, historically speaking and cause some people problems with tolerance and weight gain.

As others have said self esteem could well be a problem for some people who feel they are ugly and overweight simply because they are more focused on their imperfections than just getting on with living their lives (In hiding because they feel inferior, rather than out in the world strutting their stuff, through overconfidence - it's not that they are more handsome/ pretty than those around them, it's just they don't care what other people think (laugh at life rather than take the criticism/ supposed standards of society, seriously).

I don't know if you're overweight, underweight or normal for your age - in Britain we measure in stones not pounds, so the latter measurement means little to me.

Develop your mind, body image will follow.

[Michaelangelica]

some more info first

Skorecki points to metabolic syndrome, the combination of insulin resistance, high cholesterol, abdominal obesity and other factors, as one such disease.
Mitochondria are the energy factories within cells, so one might expect that differences in mitochondrial DNA might be linked to different predispositions to energy-related diseases such as metabolic syndrome, he explained.

Archaeology News Report: Genetics Confirm Oral Traditions Of Druze In Israel

As the obesity gene existed only in the body, so scientists call it "fat gene."
The study found that obesity gene can promote the body to create a transport fat in the blood protein - "APO-D" gene. The gene, the more fat the more fluent of blood transmission, the accumulation of body fat also the more people will be obese.

Below scientists did an interesting experiment: Let a pair of carrying the obesity gene mice mating, the results of each roll and future generations of wandering round melon, which is tantamount to meat ball, and did not allow a mouse obesity gene for mating, birth The less fat in mice, each are very thin.

Genetic scientists in accordance with this model, can also produce the body of fat at 20 to 50 percent of the Feishou different degrees of mice.
Further found that the genetic obesity and the situation is slightly different from rodents, a generational genetic.
That is, people can observe, in a considerable number of families, fat grandmother would not normally be obese gene passed on to their children, but passed on to her grandchildren.

Scientists also found that obesity-related genes more than one.
For example, New York, a Rockefeller University research team recently announced that they After eight years of long study, found that a control appetite and energy metabolism genes.
It is said that this gene to the brain can send a signal to stop eating, so that the masters of the brain weakened appetite timely, in order to avoid excess energy if the gene variation, the owner will be increased appetite, Tanzui eat, and eventually become A big fat man.
Further research revealed that the gene from the 4500 base component, part of which can produce from 167 amino acids of the protein. If this normal protein synthesis, will be sent to the brain's signal to stop eating if the protein coding the amino acid composition of coding the first 105 amino acid residues of the unusual base, the signal will stop eating failure, leading to obesity.

iDNA: Gene therapy

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Obese Patients Have Nearly Five Times Greater Risk Of Hospitalization For Asthma, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds
Obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the condition than non-obese people with asthma, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the September issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 05 Sept 2008
Link Explored Between Obesity And Asthma
In the first asthma study that controls for risk factors such assmoking, medication, gastroesophageal reflux, and demographics,researchers from Kaiser Permanente have found that hospitalization forasthma is about five times as likely for obese people than fornon-obese people. 05 Sept 2008
Eating More Protein In The Morning Helps Dieters Retain Fullness Throughout The Day
A new study published online in the British Journal of Nutrition found that timing of dietary protein intake affects feelings of fullness throughout the day. The study concluded that when people ate high-quality protein foods, from sources such as eggs and lean Canadian bacon, for breakfast they had a greater sense of sustained fullness throughout the day compared to when more protein was eaten at lunch or dinner.

uva health: Medical News Today News Alert

More on Zyprexa

However, beginning in 2000, a number of studies linked Zyprexa to serious health concerns. In 2006, the Times published the first of its reports on the drug, which alleged that Lilly and its officers misrepresented or failed to disclose Zyprexa's link to diabetes, obesity and heightened blood sugar.

Tens of thousands of Zyprexa users, investors and third-party payors filed suits, including: 30,000 personal injury claims; civil and criminal cases filed by attorneys general; a securities class action recently dismissed as time barred by Weinstein; and the present class action, initiated on behalf of tens of thousands of insurers and unions.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424340649

[mynah]

An obsession with diet is not healthy, either. Here is a test to determine whether you are in trouble, or heading that way:

Are you suffering from orthorexia nervosa?

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by mynah

An obsession with diet is not healthy, either. Here is a test to determine whether you are in trouble, or heading that way:

Are you suffering from orthorexia nervosa?

There are a number of social/psychological reasons people THINK they are fat or ARE fat.
These need to be checked out with a competent psychologist (not psychiatrist) first.
. . .

new findings lend understanding about the origins of brown fat, which releases energy, in contrast to conventional white fat, which stores energy.

Alobar Greywalker: Magickal Record (aka Frater PVN, LA-BAJ-AL) - 'Good' Fat is a New Weapon in the Obesity Fight

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This is an excellent article. Surprisingly it comes from Singapore. I never imagine obesity being a problem in Asian countries BUT> > >
5 Surprising Reasons Why You're Gaining Weight
Extracted from the article of the same title by Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD on WebMD.

Here are five factors that can cause the scale to creep up when you least expect it.

• 1. You May Be Gaining Weight Because of Lack of Sleep
• 2. You May Be Gaining Weight Because of Stress
• 3. You May Be Gaining Weight Because of Medications
• 4. You May Be Gaining Weight Because of a Medical Condition
• 5. You May Be Gaining Weight Because of Menopause

Read the VERY intersting reasons why these are obesity factors at
vinee1980.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-surprising-reasons-why-youre-gaining.html

[Michaelangelica]

MIchaelangelica's theory
(thanks to Care2 for the inspiration for this idea)

Pig and chickens factory farmed are routinly/daily fed anti-biotics.
Why?
because it makes them fatter quicker
Fatter== more $

So does that mean that animals (including ourselves) have bacteria that use some of the food that we eat.
What do the free-loaders give us?

Does it mean that we might be able to find a gastric super-bug ( or even a "wee beastie") that eats everything we do and we stay thin?
Move over Roman Orgies and Vomitoriums!

Pollution can make you fat, study claims

Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility. Geoffrey Lean reports
. . .
Experiments have shown that many chemicals fed to pregnant animals cause their offspring to grow up obese. These include organotins, long employed in antifouling paints on ships and now widely found in fish; bisphenol A (BPA), used in baby bottles and to line cans of food, among countless other applications; and phthalates, found in cosmetics, shampoos, plastics to wrap food, and in a host of other everyday products.

These pollutants – dubbed "obesogens" as a result of these findings – are so ubiquitous that almost everyone now has them in their bodies. Ninety-five per cent of Americans excrete BPA in their urine; 90 per cent of babies have been found to be exposed to phthalates in the womb; and every umbilical cord analysed in the new Spanish study was found to contain organchlorine pesticides such as HCB.

Pollution can make you fat, study claims - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa
Mary William Walsh is reporting for the New York Times that [A] federal judge in Brooklyn decided on Friday to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly’s top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, citing “the health of hundreds of thousands of people” and “fundamental questions” about the way drugs are approved for new uses.

BH&F Blog: Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa

“Objective documentation of the link between gastroesophageal reflux disease and obesity”.

Gastroesophageal Reflux | Acid Reflux

Study On Obesity: Fat Cells Are Formed At Or Before Birth

Study On Obesity: Fat Cells Are Formed At Or Before Birth | TopNews US Edition

BPA

It leads to obesity

Living on Earth: War of the Sciences

[Michaelangelica]

MIchaelangelica's theory
(thanks to Care2 for the inspiration for this idea)

Pig and chickens factory farmed are routinely/daily fed anti-biotics.
Why?
Because it makes them fatter, quicker
Fatter== more $ S

So does that mean that animals (including ourselves) have bacteria that use some of the food that we eat?
What do the free-loaders give us?

Does it mean that we might be able to find a gastric super-bug ( or even a "wee beastie") that eats everything we do and we stay thin?
Move over Roman Orgies and Vomitoriums!

Pollution can make you fat, study claims

Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility. Geoffrey Lean reports
. . .
Experiments have shown that many chemicals fed to pregnant animals cause their offspring to grow up obese. These include organotins, long employed in antifouling paints on ships and now widely found in fish; bisphenol A (BPA), used in baby bottles and to line cans of food, among countless other applications; and phthalates, found in cosmetics, shampoos, plastics to wrap food, and in a host of other everyday products.

These pollutants – dubbed "obesogens" as a result of these findings – are so ubiquitous that almost everyone now has them in their bodies. Ninety-five per cent of Americans excrete BPA in their urine; 90 per cent of babies have been found to be exposed to phthalates in the womb; and every umbilical cord analysed in the new Spanish study was found to contain organchlorine pesticides such as HCB.

Pollution can make you fat, study claims - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa
Mary William Walsh is reporting for the New York Times that [A] federal judge in Brooklyn decided on Friday to unseal confidential materials about Eli Lilly’s top-selling antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, citing “the health of hundreds of thousands of people” and “fundamental questions” about the way drugs are approved for new uses.

BH&F Blog: Judge to Unseal Documents on the Eli Lilly Drug Zyprexa

“Objective documentation of the link between gastroesophageal reflux disease and obesity”.

Gastroesophageal Reflux | Acid Reflux

Study On Obesity: Fat Cells Are Formed At Or Before Birth

Study On Obesity: Fat Cells Are Formed At Or Before Birth | TopNews US Edition

BPA

It leads to obesity

Living on Earth: War of the Sciences

[Michaelangelica]

How can diet soda cause weight gain?

Download a PDF of this storyShannon Simmons
September 18, 2008

Question: Can drinking diet soda make me gain weight?
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Answer: There is new research being done that is claiming that drinking diet soda will cause weight gain. How can something without calories cause you to gain weight?

The University of Texas Health Science Center studied 1,550 men and women to see the effect diet soda had on weight.

They found that 57 percent of those who drank two or more cans of diet soda a day became overweight after eight years.

This is compared with 47 percent from the control group who drank regular drinks. What does this mean and how can this occur? The answer isn't in the calories you are drinking but in how that drink might affect your body.

How can diet soda cause weight gain? | StatesmanJournal.com | Statesman Journal

A bit weird, but so was Einstein
The Strangest Factor Yet for Rising Obesity? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

MSG - The Slow Poisoning Of America
MSG Hides Behind 25+ Names, Such As ‘Natural Flavouring’
MSG Is Also In Your Favorite Coffee Shops And Drive-Ups
9-12-5

I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb.

He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and spent years working for the government.

He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called “The Slow Poisoning of America”.

In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates; causing rats (and humans?) to become obese. They even have a title for the fat rodents they create: “MSG-Treated Rats”.

I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the fridge. MSG was in everything: The Campbell’s soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavoured potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings, especially the ‘healthy low fat’ ones.

The items that didn’t have MSG marked on the product label had something called ”Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein”, which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate.

It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide MSG under many different names in order to fool those who carefully read the ingredient list, so they don’t catch on. (Other names for MSG: ‘Accent’ - ‘Aginomoto’ - ‘Natural Meet Tenderizer’, etc) But it didn’t stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG.

Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn’t use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere:

Burger King
McDonalds
Wendy’s
Taco Bell

And every restaurant like: TGIF, Chilis’, Applebees and Denny’s use MSG in abundance.

Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in EVERY chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG.

So, why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat?

Is it a preservative or a vitamin?? Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of the food additive industry called “The Slow Poisoning of America” he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body. http://www.spofamerica.com

Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG at: http://www.msgfactscom/facts/msgfact12.html explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people EAT MORE OF THEIR PRODUCTS.

A study of the elderly showed that people eat more of the foods it is added to.The Glutamate Association lobby group says eating more benefits the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us? ‘Betcha can’t eat just one’, takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight?

The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn’t added.

Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance! Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the pre-packaged meals, soups, snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it’s safe to eat in any amount. How can they claim it safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these? :-

‘The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of exercise in obesity’. GobattoCA, Mello MA, Souza CT, Ribeiro IA.Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002.

‘Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats’. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug.

More at:-
http://esoterickat.wordpress.com/200...f-america-msg/

[Michaelangelica]

We can always live in hope

Chinese tea is more than dependable something to drink. Sounds same a TV commercial but it has passé living on more than billions of Chinese common masses elapsed millions of years. Knowledgeable tea drinkers can find the peerless of the finest in the Land of the Dragon. As a fellow Chinese tea drinker puts it "when I am resort after a busy day, I fabricate myself a cup of tea while sitting slanted on the sofa. It lowers blood pressure, protects the heart, helps to prevent obesity, prevents tooth decay and increases immunity, etc. Chinese green has more varieties than any other tea in China as well as any other country in the star.

food: Its instance for manor made delicious and spicy soups

[Michaelangelica]

Friday, September 26, 2008
Reduce Obesity
Phentermine is a drug used for reducing your hunger and weight. This drug is mainly prescribed by doctors to patient’s who has a high risk of losing their life because of obesity. If you are planning to reduce your weight, then, this Phentermine drug is the best to have. After a number of researches on various other drugs, we came to a conclusion to rate this drug as the best product. You all may ask, how actually it works? To answer this, people consuming this drug has to have it before their food and it is advisable to take it before 3pm as there is a risk of insomnia. Initially my weight was 136Kg, I was really very worried about my obesity problem. So, I decided to consult my doctor and after that he prescribed me to take this drug once a day before having my breakfast. I followed his advice for two months and my weight was reduced to just 80Kg. This was an incredible change. The secret behind this drug is, it suppressed my hunger, so I had a less diet. But, certain direction’s has to be followed strictly before taking up this drug. People having high blood pressure should not take up this drug as it increases the heart beat.

My Road: Reduce Obesity