Posted on 04/30/2012 8:05:05 PM PDT by neverdem
That is so wrong, you probably think they shouldn’t have sex either. Obviously government knows better, these kids need more food stamps.
//sarcasm
That was only part of it though. We ate pretty much what we wanted. But we also lived in a society where when kids got home from school it was safe to go out and play till supper then back outside till dark. We never held back on eating even junk food & the majority of us were well within weight.
But according to the current unrealistic BMI charts I was also overweight 19 year old skinny as can be when I came out of basic training weighing about 180 pounds.
The weight is most likely the result of their insulin not producing energy, so it is used to store fat. Losing weight would certainly help, but it wouldn’t solve the problem, and it is hard for them to lose weight when they don’t have the energy to exercise enough, and even though they are storing fat, their bodies crave more food for energy.
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Then there is this....
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)– Some North Texas researchers believe they have found a way to control obesity by manipulating molecules in the heart.
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have demonstrated, for the first time, that the heart can regulate energy balance.
“We discovered a protein that’s expressed in the heart, it’s a protein called MED 13, and it turns out that this protein regulates metabolism in the whole body,” explained Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Olson said researchers fed mice a high-fat diet, then ‘turned on’ the protein and were genuinely surprised.
“Of course we went back and said ‘wait a minute we better check this again’ and have done it many times,” Olson said, “It was really unexpected. We didn’t go into this looking for a way to treat obesity, it just was a serendipitous observation.”
Of the test Dr. Olson said researchers learned, “We can make them resistant to obesity,” but that wasn’t all, “We can also treat many of the other aspects of abnormal metabolism like the struggle to lower cholesterol and improve glucose handling in these animals.”
Researchers said despite their high-fat diet the mice stayed lean as long as the protein was ‘activated’. When the protein was removed the mice become obese.
Olson said they’re now using the protein to develop an obesity drug that might also be used to combat high cholesterol and Type 2 Diabetes. But researchers say that drug is still a long way from even being tested in humans.
Yup, run around outside, ride bikes, climb stuff after school.
In grade school had recess twice a day (maybe more).
In middle school and high school had an hour of physical ed every day... worked up enough of a sweat that we had to take showers.
I remember just a few really overweight kids, but their parents were that way also, so there was a hereditary effect.
We didn’t have the high fructose corn syrup, wheat, and dairy in EVERYTHING back then either.
Yeah, but back then, we actually had healthy food to eat. Nowadays, if you don't read the label on everything, you are gonna get a LOT of processed garbage (sugar), corn syrup (sugar), and starches (sugar). This is the crap that is killing our kids.
Exercise is good and all, but our bodies weren't designed to handle all this sugary filler that is put into almost everything we buy at a grocery store nowadays.
Dr. Olson said researchers fed mice a high-fat diet, then ‘turned on’ the protein and were genuinely surprised.
It makes sense in that it's been known for a while that that heart can use free fatty acids for energy when blood glucose gets low. The brain can only use glucose.
Thanks for the links.
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