by Ross on October 16, 2008
It’s back! The world’s most authoritative alkaline diet forum is bigger, better, faster and more slick looking than ever before!
After a LOT of issues with spam, we’ve changed provider, redesigned, upped security and are ready to rock and roll once again.
What the forum gives you (i.e. why you should care!):
- The opportunity to learn more about alkalising and natural health
- The chance to ask questions - and get personalised answers from the Energise team
- The feelgood factor of helping others by answering their questions!
- The change to connect with our growing community and chat to likeminded people
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by Ross on August 29, 2006
Recently there has been worldwide press about the problems we face on a global scale with regards to child obesity (UK, Europe, USA, Australia)
Many long term solutions are being discussed, debated and in some cases implemented in order to curb this overall trend at a societal and international level. However, if you are a parent with an overweight child, then the majority of these initiatives are not going to help you here and now.
I have, therefore, put together a list of some of the best, most useful and potentially most effective resource and suggestions that I have discovered during my research of this issue:
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by Ross on August 21, 2006
This morning/evening (depending on where you are) - The Independent has reported on a Government paper, due to be published this week, stating that by 2010 more than 14 million people in the UK (from toddlers to pensioners) will be dangerously overweight.
That is a lot of people (nearly a third of the UK population) and to be quite honest - it’s a bit scary. The report apparently says that it is our own fault because we eat too much crap and do not get off our asses enough and I have to say I agree. While there are always people who have problems which go beyond just food and exercise - this rapid increase in obesity is predominantly lifestyle based. There is just no hiding from that.
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According to new research published this week in The Lancet - children need over an hour and a half of moderate intensity exercise every day to lower their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) - NOT the hour that has been recommended in government guidelines in the UK and the US for the last 10 years.
This could be a problem - because getting kids to exercise for an hour has been proving tricky enough!
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New research from Warwick Uni’s Warwick Medical School has found that sleep deprivation could be responsible for an almost doubled risk of obesity in children.
The study, led by Prof. Francesco Cappuccio reviewed evidence in over 28,000 children and 15,000 adults - finding that in both groups that shorter sleep duration is associated with an almost doubled risk of being obese.
Prof. Cappuccio stated that:
“The “epidemic’” of obesity is paralleled by a ’silent epidemic’ of reduced sleep duration with short sleep duration linked to increased risk of obesity both in adults and in children.These trends are detectable in adults as well as in children as young as 5 years.”
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What is the Body Mass Index?
I have been a little short of resource-based posts lately (partly due to attention shifting to my blogging mission and partly do to spending less time at the computer due to a gruelling workout schedule I am on) – so I thought I would bust right back in here with something topical and something that people frequently ask me about – the Body Mass Index!
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure that is used to define whether individuals are underweight, overweight, healthy or obese. It takes into account your height and weight and is calculated using the following formula:
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As I said yesterday:
any real progress is going to have to involve ruffling some serious feathers in the food and drinks industry and I just do not think that any Government in the UK or USA (maybe in Australia) is going to be brave enough to do this
And less than 24 hours later, the BBC have reported that the National Heart Forum have taken that step and have indeed ruffled some feathers.
In light of the recent (and not so recent) studies and press coverage of the child obesity problem the NHF have prepared to take Ofcom to court over its decision not to consider a pre-watershed ban on junk food advertising.
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As reported in my post about childhood obesity, the various news teams around the world have all at once started to focus on the weight problems of young people in Westernised culture.
I said it then and in the aftermath of the reports I still believe it now - there is never going to be a quick fix for this, but quick fixes are what we are most likely to see as Govt’s focus more on their attractiveness to voters than on actually setting out a long-term plan that will benefit their population. Doing something that will look good to the public and give their statistics a nice boost is the obvious priority to Government, however, there are some pretty influential forces outside of Government that are looking to see more than just a band-aid applied.
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by Ross on April 25, 2006
As reported by the BBC - government figures show that childhood obesity has doubled in the last 10 years. A 2,000 child survey undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre has found that 1-in-4 children is now obese in the UK. This is a shocking statistic, given that 1-in-5 adults is currently obese. It kind of gives a sign of things to come…
It is highly likely that unless something dramatic is done about this, then this growth in obesity is likely to continue. If it only continues at this current rate (i.e. if it doesn’t get any worse), then by 2010:
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