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High carbohydrate diets and lack of exercise to blame for obesity epidemic
This story mentions some research on childhood obesity that further confirms the extensive problem now being experienced by the United States and other countries.
We used to hear about obesity striking primarily adults, and then more recently, obesity in teenagers. But now, we are increasingly hearing about obesity in infants and toddlers.
What’s to blame for all this obesity? As this research rightly points out lack of exercise is a major factor: apparently these toddlers are already couch potatoes, spending only 20 to 25 minutes a day engaged in some form of physical activity. But the biggest influences, no doubt, the diets of these toddlers. Many are raison candy and soft drinks from a very young age.
They’re given an access of carbohydrates from their parents, many of whom are, themselves, addicted to sugar and other forms of refined carbohydrates.
What these toddlers need is the same thing their parents need: a low-carb dietary approach that eliminates sugar from their diet and increases the intake of healthy oils such as olive oil, flax oil, and coconut oil. What these people need-both the toddlers and their parents, usually-is a nutritional plan that really works.
Note that the US government is little help in this area, since the USDA-which publishes the food pyramid guide -is essentially the marketing and advertising branch for the US grain industry and therefore heavily promotes the consumption of grains in all its forms: White flower, refined white rice, quick oats, and other foods that are increasingly being tied to metabolic disorders and obesity. As a nation, we are facing nothing less than an epidemic when talking about obesity.
The incidence of obesity continues to rise, and more and more people are interested in losing weight as adults. In fact nearly all the predictions state that the weight-loss industry will continue to expand in the years ahead, just like the waistlines of most Americans.
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