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San Antonio 3d Fattest City in America
According to the American Obesity Association, San Antonio is declared the 3rd fattest city in the world. A study by the CDC in 5/2010 found that 31% of our residents are obese and 65% are overweight, the worst record in the Nation.
So what can be done about S.A's status as one of the fattest cities in the U.S.? According to Dr Robert Trevino, the head of Bienstar, a program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, sleep apnea & asthma, we have to improve our children's diets and increase their physical activity.
"If we provide more fruits, vegetables and activity & limit their TV viewing/Video games, we will raise a healthier population in the future" says Dr. Trevino.
Did you know that obesity does not discriminate? This one of the few rare conditions where sex, race, color and age are not factors in developing a condition that can be disabling as well as cause death at any age.
We are pretty familiar with obesity being the number one reason for diabetes in the young and old, but did you know that children and teens are suffering from high cholesterol which causes heart disease? Obesity is also responsible for ......
Asthma- a disease of the lungs in which airways become blocked or narrowed & cause difficulty breathing
Sleep Apnea- a sleep associated breathing disorder that causes cessation (stopping) of breathing during sleep for at least 10 seconds or more. Sleep apnea occurs in about 775 of overweight children.( oxygen levels in the blood fall dramatically)
Social discrimination- obese children & adolescents are targets of early social discrimination, the psychological stress that can occur from social stigmatization can affect academic and social functioning and persist through adulthood.
Becoming healthy isn't just about eating healthy- it includes physical activity, at least 30 minutes a day is what the body requires to balance the calories you take in with food. Children & teenagers should be pysically active for about 60 minutes a day every day or most every day. The bottom line is that to lose weight, its important to reduce calories and increase physical activity. Some of the benefits of exercise:
- strengthening bones
- decreasing blood pressure
- reducing stress, anxiety
- increase self esteem, weight management
Remember San Antonio can be scorching hot, so plan for morning strolls with the kids, evening strolls when Dad can participate and use that time to share things that happened at home, school or with friends. Start a kickball game with kids, their friends, neighbors and get some exercise while having fun at the same time. No time for evening activities? Find an exercise channel on demand and workout for ten minutes at least three times a day and enjoy and feel the results. Use stairs to workout, dance for 15 minutes at least two times a day, ride bikes with the kids or with friends. Have only one bike? Find a school parking lot or bike trail and take turns riding for 10 minutes apiece, make a game out of who rode with less time and try to beat each others record for motivation!
Remember to not only add fruits and vegetables and lean meat to improve your diet ,but make changes when you go out to eat as well. Ex: cheeseburger & fries- instead have: whole wheat bun, no cheese, mustard, extra veggies and a side salad.(whataburger serves whole wheat buns and makes your burger any way you want it!)
Breakfast tacos- substitute corn tortillas for flour, avoid potatoes and refried beans.(potatoes are starch which turns into sugar-result is FAT)
Dinner- Arroz con Poyo- substitute instant brown rice instead of white rice.( white rice is starch) for your vegetables, add fresh tomatoes, peas. Great Taste. Have frijoles a la Charra instead of refried beans.
Cheese Enchiladas- instead of dipping the tortillas in oil, warm them up and than stuff with shredded chicken or Queso Blanco, than pour your sauce on top and bake. ( cheddar/american cheese-FAT)
For help with exchanging recipes high in fat to low fat recipes E-Mail me at Lndrevuelta@gmail.com
Let's take San Antonio off the "Cities fattest" list and help ourselves and our children live longer ,healthier, happy lives.
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Permalink Reply by 99 on
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the problem is a healthy diet, easer said than done
our food has been irradiated and altered we do not know what is good food anymore
the sun is very often obscured and the vitamines are not in the fruit anymore
there are good and bad fats which need to be identified by the consumer
and the water should have a PH of 7 or 8
all these factors and many more play havoc with our bodies
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Permalink Reply by Banyon on
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99, Everything you said may be true, but those are not significant contributors to obesity in the U.S.
The major factors include,
* Frequent dining on high carb/low glycemic index fast foods.
* Frequent dining on high carb/low glycemix index/huge portion meals at all restaurants.
* Dining and snacking on high carb/low glycemix index/huge portion meals at home.
* Large consumption of empty carbs via soft drinks - most are sweetened with HFCS.
* Very low physical activity level instead choosing video games, internet social sites, text messaging.
The recommendations for dietary changes in the article are ineffective. They need to recommend severe reduction of all grains, including rice and corn, and total carb reduction. The recommendation against cheese is silly. I wanted to lose 20 lbs. and eating significant amounts of quality cheese while reducing high-glycemic-index carbs helped me reach my target quickly.
The article recommends whole wheat buns while it is known that almost all "whole wheat" buns on the market are as high in high-glycemic-index empty calories as white buns and have about the same amount of fiber content (very little).
The article also recommends peas, which are a very high-glycemic-index food that should be eaten sparingly. Tomatoes should be part of a good diet, but their use should be restricted because of the fructose content.
Very disappointed in the article. They could have done better by providing some links to good advice.
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what banyon said is correct
Banyon said:99, Everything you said may be true, but those are not significant contributors to obesity in the U.S.
The major factors include,
* Frequent dining on high carb/low glycemic index fast foods.
* Frequent dining on high carb/low glycemix index/huge portion meals at all restaurants.
* Dining and snacking on high carb/low glycemix index/huge portion meals at home.
* Large consumption of empty carbs via soft drinks - most are sweetened with HFCS.
* Very low physical activity level instead choosing video games, internet social sites, text messaging.
The recommendations for dietary changes in the article are ineffective. They need to recommend severe reduction of all grains, including rice and corn, and total carb reduction. The recommendation against cheese is silly. I wanted to lose 20 lbs. and eating significant amounts of quality cheese while reducing high-glycemic-index carbs helped me reach my target quickly.
The article recommends whole wheat buns while it is known that almost all "whole wheat" buns on the market are as high in high-glycemic-index empty calories as white buns and have about the same amount of fiber content (very little).
The article also recommends peas, which are a very high-glycemic-index food that should be eaten sparingly. Tomatoes should be part of a good diet, but their use should be restricted because of the fructose content.
Very disappointed in the article. They could have done better by providing some links to good advice.
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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I know in our school systems around here they have cut the amount of time that kids have gym and / or recess from the lower grades. Partly due to cost factors and trying to get a little more academic time (remember No Child Left Behind?). Yet these kids need the physical exercise that comes from having more PE time and recess.
What is on most school lunch programs? High calorie, fat loaded items including hot dogs, greasy pizza, cheeseburgers (that are referred most often as mystery meat burgers), fries, chips, nachos, chicken fries, etc. None of these items are especially healthy. When a school participates in the school lunch program (to help supplement free and reduced lunches) the government controls what is served basically. I have agrued for a long time that school lunches need to be cut of calories. A few times a year the school will be able to serve "real food" and the kids love it. Yet, the government says that by giving the schools the high calorie foods is what the kids want. I say hogwash!! Give them a healthier diet and they will eat it if given the chance.
Eating habits are established early in life -- we must break the cycle when they are still young -- in my opinion.
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Permalink Reply by Rooster on
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Good point sleepycarol ! Here is something I wrote earlier this year.
"What about the job our governments are doing with school lunches? I have lunch with my sixth-grade mentee every week. He is on a Federal free-lunch program and is eating french fries every single meal and often is eating deep-fried heavily battered chicken fingers and always an obnoxious looking sweet. Yesterday the entree was a thick slab of baked dough covered with what looked like a tablesoon of ketchup and a bit of bad looking cheese. They called it pizza. This is what our governments do for our children."
99, I disagree with you and Banyon on irradiation - it is a good thing and we need to do more of it in the U.S. I will leave the argument details for a rainy day.
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the government demand that you attend school or education and then put the cost at the feet of of all
i have no problem with that because we benefit, people do not realise that shcool is an extention of home and home dicipline and it should be that way. but then school try i be the big i am and wrongly hide things from parents like having an abotion is school hours without the childs parents even knowing about that.
now we come onto food, the food provided is what is easily eaten, should you be at home we are told greens are good for us at school they take the easy option and say we are doing our duty, should they say we are doing our duty i suggest that the first paragraph is reread and that school is an extention of home and not the other way around
people need good live food not denuded of it nuitriants to keep us health. today you can eat an apple and it tastes nice looks and feels fine and it is rotten to the core and you do not even know it because it has been irradiated and that is the case when you purchase apples, unless you know which tree they came from, then there are the pesticides, and the storeing and handlng.
foodshelf life used to be 150 days before consumption, i think we are now down to 59 days shelf life as the world is running out of the proper distrabution of food through bad management, no i am not volanteering myself as i would make a bad job even worse and probaly be done to 5 days because i am no good at that kind of thing.
i think i have said enough for now and will just leave it at that
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