gotbeer
Thu, Jul-24-03, 11:42
The War on Fat's Casualties
By Sandy Szwarc 07/24/2003
link to complete article (http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1051-072403C)
With all of the pressure to be thin, the onslaught of diet messages finds a ready audience. At any given time, up to 80 million American adults are on a diet.
Women and children are the primary victims of this relentless harping. Almost half of all first graders and 90 percent of high school girls are already dieting, even though only 10 to 15 percent of them are over recommended weights. By college, almost all students have dieted, disproportionate to the number with real weight problems, according to multiple studies. One study, led by Lori Clayton Pereyra, M.F.C.S., R.D., C.D.N., and published in a 1997 Journal of the American Dietetic Association, found half of students were currently on a diet even though only 18 percent were outside recommended weights.
[Body of article deleted at the request of the author. Please follow the link above for more. My apologies for the inconvenience. - Gotbeer]
Next week: The War on Obesity becomes Extreme Makeover and Fear Factor rolled into one
By Sandy Szwarc 07/24/2003
link to complete article (http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1051-072403C)
With all of the pressure to be thin, the onslaught of diet messages finds a ready audience. At any given time, up to 80 million American adults are on a diet.
Women and children are the primary victims of this relentless harping. Almost half of all first graders and 90 percent of high school girls are already dieting, even though only 10 to 15 percent of them are over recommended weights. By college, almost all students have dieted, disproportionate to the number with real weight problems, according to multiple studies. One study, led by Lori Clayton Pereyra, M.F.C.S., R.D., C.D.N., and published in a 1997 Journal of the American Dietetic Association, found half of students were currently on a diet even though only 18 percent were outside recommended weights.
[Body of article deleted at the request of the author. Please follow the link above for more. My apologies for the inconvenience. - Gotbeer]
Next week: The War on Obesity becomes Extreme Makeover and Fear Factor rolled into one