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A research team that included Michigan State University staff reports that:
The more a child is familiar with logos and other images from fast-food restaurants, sodas and not-so-healthy snack food brands, the more likely the child is to be overweight or obese.
And, unfortunately, studies have shown that people who are overweight at a young age, tend to stay that way.
The children ages 3 to 5 were tested by being given pictures of unhealthy food-related logos. They then were given pictures of food items, packaging and cartoon characters and asked to match the items with their corresponding brand logos.
Doing the study twice, the research team found that among one group exercise tended to offset the negative effects of too much familiarity with unhealthy food. However, that finding could not be duplicated in the second group.
"The inconsistency across studies tells us that physical activity should not be seen as a cure-all in fixing childhood obesity," McAlister said. "Of course we want kids to be active, but the results from these studies suggest that physical activity is not the only answer. The consistent relationship between brand knowledge and BMI suggests that limiting advertising exposure might be a step in the right direction too."
Because kids get most of their food messages from television, the question is what causes more harm the sedentary lifestyle brought on by too much time in front of the TV or the unhealthy food messages kids are bombarded with?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @06:27PM
the motto should really be "EAT! EAT EAT!"
this is a most honest way of supporting the economy; that is people that actually
DO something ... like farmers!
I don't think buying any more stocks and options and futures and whatnot is really helping a
economy is any meaningful real way.
also what seems to be a "taboo" in "healthy eating" circles is that fact that eating
even slightly "non-fresh" food is actually bad for you and fixing this would lead to more
"wasted" food.. don't get me started on all the "wasted" food in the forest like mushroom
and berries that go to "waste" because nobody is eating them ...
So out with the old and in with the new!!!
(Score: 1) by soylentsandor on Monday June 30 2014, @07:11PM
Considering that producing a single calorie of food requires 7 to 10 calories of input (pdf) [nyu.edu], likely largely from fossil fuels, I can understand the concern with wasting food.
Contrast this with your berries and mushrooms growing naturally in the woods. They don't need any fertilizer or pesticides nor are they harvested, transported, packaged or refrigerated, saving all of the energy input.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday July 01 2014, @08:46AM
> Contrast this with your berries and mushrooms growing naturally in the woods. They don't need any fertilizer or pesticides nor are they harvested, transported, packaged or refrigerated, saving all of the energy input.
On top of that, they do get eaten anyway - they will be devoured by animals, birds, bugs and bacteria, all of whom have a contribution to make to the ecosystem that supports us all. The nutrients of the "wasted" berries will ultimately, one way or another, be reinvested in the soil, somewhere.