Question by webber: Can anyone help with a fun workshop on obesity?
I gotta do a 15 minute workshop on obesity, need to make it interactive and get my class involved, looking for fun ideas for things to do.
Thanks.

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Answer by Samuel Terrance aka GhoulFather
Nintendo Wii Sports games?

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Cleveland Clinic To Host Obesity Congress; Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., To Deliver Keynote Address

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) September 16, 2006

[Editor’s Note: Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., MPH, will be the event’s keynote speaker. The media is invited.]

Sept. 14, 2006, Cleveland: The Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute will host a national meeting on obesity Oct. 12-14, drawing physicians, surgeons and industry to explore potential solutions to the emerging obesity epidemic.

The 2006 Obesity Congress will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel & MBNA Conference Center Cleveland. Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., MPH, will be the event’s keynote speaker.

“Obesity is fast becoming the most important public health issue we face in the United States and across the globe,” said Philip Schauer, M.D., Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute and President of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery. “The Obesity Congress is an important forum for physicians, and others dedicated to the treatment of obesity, to share information on leading-edge treatments and practices.”

Topics to be covered at the 2006 Obesity Congress include:

    The Role of Corporate America in Combating Obesity

    The Future of Bariatric Surgery

    The Role of Innovation and Increased Awareness of Obesity As a Disease

    Obesity in Children and the Elderly

    Environmental and Genetic Aspects of Obesity

For a brochure about the Obesity Congress, please emai[.

Approximately, two-thirds of U.S. residents are overweight (with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 25), and nearly half of those are obese (a BMI greater than 30), making obesity a major public health issue. Obesity is linked to an increase in other dangerous conditions, including heart disease, several types of cancer, high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, stroke, asthma, sleep apnea, liver disease and a number of orthopaedic problems.

Healthcare costs related to obesity are estimated to exceed $ 102 billion, according to the American Obesity Association.

The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute (BMI) at Cleveland Clinic has been designated a Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. It is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to treating and caring for morbidly obese patients through surgical and medical means and research. The BMI team is comprised of professionals from many disciplines: surgeons, anesthesiologists, physicians, psychologists, specialized nurses, special fellows (bariatric surgeons receiving advanced training), dieticians, coordinators and clerical personnel. For more information, please visit http://cms.clevelandclinic.org/bariatricsurgery/.

Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for-profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation’s best hospitals in its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” survey. Approximately 1,500 full-time salaried physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Florida represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In 2005, there were 2.9 million outpatient visits to Cleveland Clinic. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 80 countries. There were nearly 54,000 hospital admissions to Cleveland Clinic in 2005. Cleveland Clinic’s Web site address is http://www.clevelandclinic.org.

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3 Ways Childhood Obesity Can Be Managed And Treated?

Following your physicians advice and educating yourself by reading up about childhood obesity We have all heard about the weight problem in America.  Between 16 and 33 percent of children and adolescents are obese.  Overweight children are much more likely to become overweight adults unless they adopt and maintain healthier patterns of eating and exercise.  Obesity usually begins in childhood between the ages of 5 and 6, and during adolescence. Studies have shown that a child who is obese between the ages of 10 and 13 has an 80 percent chance of becoming an obese adult.    In some cases certain medical disorders can cause obesity, but less than 1 percent of all obesity is caused by physical problems.  Here are THREE (3) Ways Childhood Obesity can be Managed and Treated:

1.  Make Healthy Eating your first priority-   The aim is to slow or halt weight   gain so the child will grow into his or her body weight over a period of months to years. The only way to lose weight is to reduce the number of calories being eaten and a healthy diet will accelerate the weight loss.   Since obesity often affects more than one family member, making healthy eating and regular exercise a family activity can improve the chances of successful weight control for the child or adolescent.

2.      Exercise and Activity- Involving your child in a formal exercise program or school sponsored sport not only gets them away from the TV/computer/refrigerator but they burn up the excess fat that their body has accumulated.  You may not see a change right away but know that just 50 minutes of exercise three times a week cleans up blood lipid profiles (In laymen terms that’s fats, waxes and phosphatides in the blood) and improves blood pressure.

3.      Work with your physician- take your child in for an annual checkup and go over the diet plan you have come up with. Make sure the diet and exercise  you have planned is correct for your child.  The whole point here is to adjust your  childs weight so they’re in the healthy range. The last thing you want to do is cause damage.

Safe Obesity Surgery At Top Indian Hospitals, Safemedtrip.com Launches Bariatric Services Program

Morbid obesity is a chronic disease. The symptoms build slowly over a period of time and dieting or exercise alone are rarely effective. Safemedtrip.com a company set up by a group of hospital industry professionals and managed by doctors and professional managers with a strong shared vision and ethical values has helped a large number of people suffering from the ill effects of morbid obesity to find a lasting cure at top Indian hospitals.

Bariatric Surgery procedures in particular Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is referred to as the “gold standard” of weight loss surgery (WLS).

Surgical procedures designed to help treat severe obesity are gaining increasing acceptance of the weight loss surgeries available today, gastric bypass and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding are the two procedures recommended by the US National Institutes of Health. The amount of weight each patient loses is relative, but to give you some idea, consider this: A 2006 study published in the journal Obesity Surgery demonstrated that at one year following gastric bypass, 85% of patients had lost 65% of their excess weight.

Gastric bypass surgery has been shown to reverse type 2 diabetes in adults. But with the rising obesity rate and increase in type 2 diabetes in adolescents, gastric bypass is an option to turn around diabetes in obese teens,

Obesity Surgery Procedures

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgery

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding

Sleeve Gastrectomy

The benefits of this surgery are more than skin deep. Bariatric Surgery not only helps the patient   look better; more importantly, with proper post-surgical care, it will helps het feel better and healthier.

Most patients lose at least 50 per cent of excess body weight. Most people with hypertension and/or diabetes no longer need medications.

Safemedtrip.com affiliated India’s top private hospitals offer a truly comprehensive Obesity surgery program. The team consists of a surgeon and his team dedicated to obese patients, dieticians, endocrinologists, psychiatrists and psychologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, anaesthesiologists, sleep medicine experts and support staff.

However India being a developing country, the medical travellers have to prepare for facing some issues. While the hospitals do a great job of medical treatment, simple non medical aspects like arranging for safe airport transfers, hotels and local facilitation can be sometimes challenging. Therefore it’s advisable to take help from a trusted organisation like safemedtrip.com, who can guide you and make your visit to India a successful, rather a memorable medical tourism experience.

Contact Person – Benny Philip, Country Manager

Email – pr@safemedtrip.com

Phone – +91 11 66173980

Where Does Childhood Obesity Begin?

Everywhere you look now days you see children who are over weight and out of shape. It amazes me because it seems like everyone from Richard Simmons to Oprah has an exercise program. There’s a different machine being sold for every muscle in the body. Why are we seeing this weight problem in every school in the nation?   So where does childhood obesity begin?

If you look at what’s going on right now, two-thirds of Americans are obese. Two-thirds!! The stats estimate there are 300 million people in the United States,  that means 200 million of us are taking up too much space.

In 1991 no state in the United States had an obesity rate above twenty per cent. The National average in 1980 was fifteen per cent.

So what’s it look like now?

Adult obesity has gone up in 23 states and has not gone down in any state
Adult obesity rates exceed twenty five per cent in 31 states and exceed twenty per cent in 49 states.
16 states experienced an increase in obesity for the second year in a row.
11 states experienced an increase for a third straight year

Four states Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia and Mississippi are above 30 per cent and Mississippi is the highest at 32.5 per cent for five straight years. 8 of the 10 states with the highest rates are in the south.

Children between 2 and 5 years old that are over weight are four times as likely to be over weight adults. Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity for children between the ages of 10-17 at 44%. The ratio of states that have the biggest weight problem in adults also have the biggest problem in their children.

The answer to our question “Where Does Childhood Obesity Begin?   is at home!  We are teaching our kids how to eat from the day they are born to the day they are on their own.  They are like little computers and if you put garbage into a computer you get garbage out.  So if you teach a kid to eat poorly, then that’s all they know.   Educate yourself first and learn what is healthy.  It takes time and dedication to replace establishes behaviors with new, healthier behaviors.  Find exercises you can fit into your daily schedule and include the other members of the family.  Go to  http://www.squidoo.com/childhoodobesitystartbattle for the tools you will need to be successful.

Obesity Group Slams Carson Kressley’s ‘How to Look Good Naked’

MeMe Roth – FOX News

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 10, 2008

http://www.actionagainstobesity.com — As America’s overweight population is projected to reach 75 percent by 2015, and with more than half of women of child-bearing years overweight and at increased risk for infertility, pregnancy complications and delivering a child with birth defects, Anti-Obesity Advocate MeMe Roth and National Action Against Obesity blast Lifetime Network’s “How to Look Good Naked” reality series, hosted by Carson Kressley.

The new Friday-night weekly series promotes itself as a salve to reduce women’s self-loathing, featuring women critical of their own bodies. Drawing the ire of National Action Against Obesity is “How to Look Good Naked’s” emphasis on “obesity as beautiful” and the dangerous denial of compromised health due to obesity.

“When we observe obesity, we’re seeing the effects of self-abuse. To end self-loathing, one must stop self-induced abuse. It’s a change in behavior, not a change in word choice — like calling the evidence of abuse beautiful. It’s no more logical to compliment the aesthetics of obesity than the beauty of cigarette-stained teeth or track marks on a junkie’s arm,” said NAAO President MeMe Roth. “A dangerous characteristic of obesity is denial. Multiple studies show that individuals are in denial about the extent of their own adiposity — and most tragic — parents are in denial about the degree of their own children’s obesity.”

In its first episode 32-year-old Layla is profiled, who feels she is 40 pounds overweight. She is told her current weight is both “natural” and “healthy.” Layla then participates in a series of events set to improve her body image including confronting a three-way mirror, having her underwear-clad image projected onto a Santa Monica building for passers by to critique, and then having a make-over and posing for an in-the-buff photo shoot. “How to Look Good Naked” also has a complementary web site where you’re asked to “find your body type” amid models showcasing different body types. A severely obese woman is classified as “hippy,” and a slim woman is “boyish.”

NAAO does not doubt the host’s likeable, witty sincerity, yet questions where Carson Kressley will be in the event Layla suffers fertility problems, chronic disease and possibly premature death due to her obesity. Career-wise, at her weight, studies show Layla also can expect lesser pay than counterparts at a healthy weight.

NAAO’s position is that Lifetime Networks, REDBOOK’s Editor-in-Chief Stacy Morrison, (who appears in a promotional tie-in to advise on camouflaging extra weight), and show sponsor Keri Renewal Serum all have an opportunity to help rather than pander to its overweight, at-risk female audience. NAAO urges the series’ producers to enlist experts to intervene on the nutrition, exercise and psychological issues contributing to their participants’ health-threatening weight. ‘”How to Look Good Naked’ is correct when it states, ‘the average American woman is a size 14 or 16.’ That shouldn’t make us feel beautiful, but rather set off alarms,” said Roth.

About NAAO

Look for the upcoming “Obesity Action Hero: America’s Plan to Cut Obesity by 50%”

Through education, legislation and most importantly — parental action — National Action Against Obesity works independently and as a consultancy to reverse the obesity epidemic by eliminating ‘fake foods’ from the food supply, barring junk food from schools and eradicating Secondhand Obesity™, while encouraging exercise across all ages. MeMe Roth, president and founder of NAAO, is host and organizer of the Wedding Gown Challenge, where women enter into marriage at a healthy weight and maintain it for a lifetime. Ms. Roth has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews’ The O’Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, CBS’s The Early Show, The New York Times, The LA Times, BusinessWeek, The New York Post, Playboy Magazine, 106.7 LiteFM, School Administrator, American School Board Journal, BigFatBlog, Nippon TV, The Associated Press and Health Magazine among others. Ms. Roth’s agenda: “Let’s finally recognize obesity as abuse — abuse of our children, abuse of ourselves — and together take action against it.” http://www.actionagainstobesity.com

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Depression and Obesity: How Detox Can Help

There’s nothing as depressing as being overweight or obese. Some say that depression causes obesity, yet others claim that it’s obesity that prompts a depressive state. Even researchers have been puzzled over this chicken-and-egg dilemma over the years. But there’s no question about it – obesity and depression are linked in both adolescents and adults, and no one wants to be stuck in either of these unfortunate situations.

There is no defined one-way link that states which causes which. Depression can cause a person to overeat and gain weight while being obese can cause an individual to get into a depressive state. The two can be co-dependent and feed off each other.

Depression causes obesity: Individuals with symptoms of depression tend to undergo drastic weight-related changes. People experiencing depression have a tendency to make poor food choices. Some tend to lose their appetite and a lot of sleep, while most are likely to overeat in an attempt to ward off the depression. Research has also observed that depression can cause decreased levels of the hormone seratonin. Seratonin acts as the brain’s oil and when we find ourselves in stressful or depressive states, we use more seratonin than is normally replaced. This results to the development of an appetite disorder . We either lose our appetite completely or yearn for sweets and carbohydrates as the brain tries to make more seratonin. Eating becomes a repressed effort to self-medicate and restore seratonin levels to normal.

Obesity causes depression: Overweight or obese people are 25 percent more likely to experience mood disorders such as overwhelming sadness and depression compared to those who are not. A low self-esteem and a tendency to isolate themselves contribute much to the cause of depression among overweight individuals who find themselves ostracized, discriminated against and stereotyped. The extra weight they carry can also result in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, which are known to be linked with conditions of depression.

Either way, depression and obesity are quite difficult states. Both conditions steal the life out of an individual and restricts him or her from fully enjoying the beauty of the world around him. There is help available and one road to take is treating such conditions the natural way. Nature’s supplements have an amazing capacity to heal the body and bring it back to optimum condition so that negative elements cease to take their toll.

Toxins and harmful elements invade our body through the food that we eat and the occasional agitation and turbulence of the daily grind. As a result, metabolism slows down and gives us that “I don’t want to get out of bed” feeling. Metabolic disturbance or disorder is one major cause of weight gain and hormonal imbalance that can cause depression. We need to provide the body with protection so it is able to deal with these conditions effectively.

One effective way to address this is to cleanse the body of all harmful toxins and free radicals so metabolism is restored and the body is able to absorb nutrients properly. The Clean 9 Nutritional Cleansing Program is designed to do just this. It is an thorough cleansing regimen specifically formulated to purge harmful chemicals and toxic build-ups in just 9 days. As it detoxifies, Clean 9 replenishes the body with essential nutrients intended to bring on a remarkable increase in energy, improved metabolism and digestion, enhanced immunity and protection, and increased mental awareness and stability.

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Obesity Solution

The best obesity solution that I can think of is Diet weight control isn’t as easy as it sounds.  People often assume that when they reach their target weight that they can stop their diet and they will remain slim and healthy but obviously that is not the case.  To continue being slim and healthy you must keep the weight of one preferred method is through diet weight control.  

There are a few solutions to obesity available but surgery is maybe the most severe.  If you plan on loosing weight try it the healthy safe way many websites and slimming clubs offer up diet plans as a way of getting you to stick to your targets and goals
Therefore achieving desired weight loss.  When asked what is a perfect weight people say many different things.  Some people think a size 12 is a perfect weight while others think being happy in yourself at your weight is perfect.  Health officials have decided the perfect weight is to measure your BMI which is your size to weight ratio.  
If you are obese then you need to do something about it as being obese contributes to health problems later on in life such as diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD).  

Obesity solutions do not come in the form of quick weight loss diets and these type of diets should be avoided.  Quick fix diets such as the Atkins diet which consists of no carbohydrates and high protein foods is extremely dangerous.  These types of weight loss diets are terrible for the body, not only that once the weight is of it is very hard to keep off.  Although these diets are recommended by stars such as models and singers it is not safe to use them.  

Obesity’s only solution is a healthy diet.  Obesity is on the rise and with obesity comes a lot more health problems, things like arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, poor eyesight, high cholesterol, blocked arteries, and many more.  Many people are loosing out on exercise and children are suffering the most. Everyone should be eating a healthy diet, and when I say diet I don’t mean any snacks, sweets, or cakes. I mean that your diet should be varied and balanced and you should be eating a bit of everything.  Everything is good for you in moderation.

When it comes to solutions for obesity there are several tried and tested methods but none works better than a varied healthy lifestyle which consists of daily exercise and a balanced diet!

Question by Sanrio90: Why do many parents get so defensive and angry when someone thinks child obesity is a problem?
I don’t get it, whenever someone criticizes parents of obese children, more people get upset than not. Sure, logically parents who have obese children would get angry, but surely there aren’t that many obese kids already since the majority of parents here get defensive.

I’m not talking about actual medical problems(which are rare, it’s a common excuse used for obesity), I’m talking about parents who feed their kids more McDonald’s than broccoli.

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Answer by Sara C
I agree with you. I try my hardest to give my daughter the healthiest foods that I can. And if for some reason she doesn’t eat enough veggies that day I feel guilty. I want to do absolutely anything I can to help my baby be the healthiest she can be.
I was at the mall today and I saw a family of obese people in the candy store buying the stuff in bulk, it makes me sick. No one needs to eat that way

What do you think? Answer below!