Time for some good news

[Pointedstick]

Child obesity rate falls!

ATLANTA -- A new government report is the first evidence of a national decline in childhood obesity, health officials said Tuesday.

In 18 states, there were at least slight declines in obesity for low-income preschoolers.

Previous national statistics show obesity rates have been rising for decades and recently were essentially flat, although some places have reported improvements, like Philadelphia and New York City and the state of Mississippi. But the report from the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention shows signs of a wider-ranging improvement.

"Now, for the first time, we're seeing a significant decrease in childhood obesity" nationally, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/0 ... 14436.html

[MediumTex]

If you simply pulled all of the sweetened drinks out of kids' diets, that would probably take care of a lot of the obesity problem.

[l82start]

If you simply pulled all of the sweetened drinks out of kids' diets, that would probably take care of a lot of the obesity problem.

including fruit juice anything passing it self off as fruit juice that isn't what it claims, and white bread, all three are essentially liquid sugar...

[dualstow]

Greek yogurt is the new junk food. Or at least, the latest facsimile of Greek yogurt.
Parents buy it because it looks healthful. Kids love it because it's so sweet.

[Gumby]

It's actually very difficult to find a commercial foods product that doesn't have sugar/HFCS in it these days. Sugar sells.