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[Janetplanet]

Saw this guys on the ABC website today and was very impressed.  I recommend it highly.  He goes into a town in WV and tries to revamp the school lunch program (and is met with great resistance.)  I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and will look forward to more.
Janet

[Kimmi]

I watched the first episode and not sure when the next one is.  I want to smack the lunch ladies in the head.  They are so lazy!!  We should not be giving children a choice, especially under the age of 12.  Our kids have too many lunch choices and most of them aren't good. 

[Puffin]

Maybe they oughta  give chloresterol screening in elementary school. That would  certaintly give a better indication of future problems on the health side that No Child Left Behind does on the academic.
Of course that would also give them a "Pre-Existing Condition" tag.
forgetabout it! bad idea. 

[TiFeMb]

Jamie Oliver ROCKS! I'll look for that show, in the meantime, watch anything he does on the FoodTV channel. He can whip up a gourmet meal out of nothing in a junk kitchen in minutes. LOVE Him!
 
btw, we feed our kids before school and send a lunch. After all these years, lunch is still garbage. Our kids eat so healthy that they don't even like most of the lunch items anyway.

[Kimmi]

Maybe they oughta  give chloresterol screening in elementary school. That would  certaintly give a better indication of future problems on the health side that No Child Left Behind does on the academic.
Of course that would also give them a "Pre-Existing Condition" tag.
forgetabout it! bad idea. 

   

Puffin I was recently in the doctor's office and they DO give cholesterol panels to kids starting at age 8.  Sick!

[IC2ITUC]

Maybe they ought  give cholesterol screening in elementary school. That would  certainly give a better indication of future problems on the health side that No Child Left Behind does on the academic.
Of course that would also give them a "Preexisting Condition" tag.
forgetabout it! bad idea. 

   

Puffin I was recently in the doctor's office and they DO give cholesterol panels to kids starting at age 8.  Sick!

 
The powerfull, diabolical, Pharmaceutical Companies are behind this.  They now are targeting OUR CHILDREN to give them these DANGEROUS STATINS.  Someday I hope people wake up.  If you knew the terrible side affects of these statins, and the increasing reports on them not doing what they are perported to do, you would be up in arms.  But alas, sadly, the general population, of the proverbal frogs in the water analogy, won't be aware of the raising water temperature before they are cooked!

[Janetplanet]

I see Jamie Oliver's goal is health through good eating, no mention of statins.

[Puffin]

     
Puffin I was recently in the doctor's office and they DO give cholesterol panels to kids starting at age 8.  Sick!

Sad really Kimmi. Cholesterol really wasn't a topic of discussion when I was growing up. It wasn't until my 40's that I really paid much attention, and not really serious until my early 50's. At what point are the kids down in the Triangle area getting the news in school? Clearly in Huntington the message is not goin out in either the home or school.
 
Anyone who wants to test their body mass index, take this test.
http://www.rd.com/advice-and-know-how/test-your-body-mass-index/article12876.html

[Puffin]

 

The powerfull, diabolical, Pharmaceutical Companies are behind this.  They now are targeting OUR CHILDREN to give them these DANGEROUS STATINS.  Someday I hope people wake up.  If you knew the terrible side affects of these statins, and the increasing reports on them not doing what they are perported to do, you would be up in arms.  But alas, sadly, the general population, of the proverbal frogs in the water analogy, won't be aware of the raising water temperature before they are cooked!

IC, Poor nutrition is the 2nd leading cause of death here. I believe that lifestyle change (eating habits) would be better, but what is the realistic chance of that? Smoking is still the leading cause even  after a lot of years of the health industry and gov't attacks on it.
Should there be a sin tax on choloresterol?
 
 
 

[NightmarePatrol]

But some people livers just manufacture a LOT of cholesterol, period. Taxing it would be about as fair as taxing people with excess blood sugar. I don't know about schools in Meadville any more or elsewhere for that matter, but in my kids elementary schools the lunch staff doesn't cook. They reheat a lot. My son packs a lunch, my daughter eats at the cafe for now.

[TiFeMb]

oh boy...BMI.
 
I have been tested for years and I consistently test as 'overweight' based on the BMI charts. According to thosecharts, my optimal weight at 6'0'' is between 137lbs and 183lbs. If I weigh 184, I am considered overweight.
 
The last Marathon I completed I weighed 195lbs.
The last Ironman Triathlon I completed I weighed 185lbs and was woozy.
 
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN pounds?!?!?!
 
I don't remember ever weighing that little, and trust me, I have NEVER been overweight. Usually, growing up in Meadville in the 70's, I was probably UNDER weight.
 
The BMI is a 2D flawed mathmatical computation that doesn't take into consideration that muscle weighs far more than fat.
 
I recently had a health plan that was going to start basing premiums on, among other things BMI. There were overweight smokers there that had perfect BMI scores.
 
BMI is a crock. Don't even use the charts. Get a good body mass test, where they submerge you in water, take fat and skin fold measurements over your entire body....
 
ANYTHING but the BMI...

[lifefeedsonlife]

When I step on the Wii balance board it goes "Oh!" and then when it measures me it says "That's obese!" Makes my Mii look like a sumo wrestler. Granted - I'm pretty damn pudgy since my bicep tear - but I still have some muscle too.

[Zipper]

     
Puffin I was recently in the doctor's office and they DO give cholesterol panels to kids starting at age 8.  Sick!

Sad really Kimmi. Cholesterol really wasn't a topic of discussion when I was growing up. It wasn't until my 40's that I really paid much attention, and not really serious until my early 50's. At what point are the kids down in the Triangle area getting the news in school? Clearly in Huntington the message is not goin out in either the home or school.
 
Anyone who wants to test their body mass index, take this test.
http://www.rd.com/advice-and-know-how/test-your-body-mass-index/article12876.html

Yes, but sadly people were (still are) having heart attacks in their 40's. My father, for one, who had his first heart attack while in his 40's. He is now in his 70's, and had a bypass a few years ago.

2 of his brothers died from heart attacks in their 40's, and his mother and father both died from heart attacks very young.

Genetics play a big role in everything, including obesity, so it's not always what you eat, but how your body processes the foods. If you go to a restaurant, 9 times out of 10, the person ordering the big chocolate Sundae or huge piece of pie for dessert is a slim person. And everyone knows there are people who can eat anything they want and never gain a pound, while others simply pick at food and gain weight.

Insulin resistance is a serious factor in weight gain, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the amount of food a person eats. Nor is there a cure for it.

And slim people have illnesses, heart attacks... the bottom line is that life kills you.

Targeting obesity for dollars is wrong. We are not all meant to be exactly alike, just as we are not all meant to be blue-eyed or red-haired.

[CindyLouWho]

When I step on the Wii balance board it goes "Oh!" and then when it measures me it says "That's obese!" Makes my Mii look like a sumo wrestler. Granted - I'm pretty damn pudgy since my bicep tear - but I still have some muscle too.

How depressing!  Remind me not to get a Wii balance board!

[Amidala]

CLW, other than that little ... utterance... the Wii Fit stuff is fun! 

IC - please give the nickel version of the side effects of statins. Thanks!