Weight Loss Science
Stuff Worth Noting
January 26, 2010 @ 09:10 am
As I read and study up on obesity and learn all I can to enrich my weight loss journey, I find a few key things I want to remember. Every so often I'll post them up here to share and remember down the line.News & Science
Eating Junk Food Will Spoil Your Mood (Diet Blog) Writing in The British Journal of Psychiatry, experts found that consuming a lot of processed food--such as desserts, fried food, refined grains, processed meat, and high-fat dairy--actually raised the likelihood of depression. It's more than sugar highs and lows or crashing - it's the chemicals that go into the processing of food, turning it from something wholesome and fresh to something preserved. I'm not sure we really know what we're doing to ourselves.
Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains At School (NYT)
Schools that rearrange recess to be before lunch see marked increase in attention, better eating habits. Could this be another tool to systematically beat back child obesity?
Obesity System Influence Diagram
Just in case you thought obesity was a simple matter of being too lazy. An attempt to chart the various influences and feedback loops that trap so many in this plight.
After a Year of Learning, the First Lady Seeks Out A Legacy (NYT)
And that legacy will be child obesity prevention and reduction. Finally some attention from the White House on a major issue affecting the health care issues they value so highly.
American Obesity Rates have Plateaued (NYT)
Likely because we've hit the limit of those genetically predisposed to obesity, not because of any good effort to educate and improve health.
Tips & Tricks
Super Slow Weight Training (MizFit)MizFit discovers strength training very slowly (10 seconds up, 10 seconds down) makes her workouts faster and more effective. Because her muscles mutiny sooner.
Inspiration
Kepa & Mary went bungee jumping! Hoooly crap. I don't even do ladders well - I don't think there's any chance of getting me to jump off a perfectly good platform, no matter how skinny I am. But seriously you two, rock on.Weight Loss Success Story: Max Fargotstein
Dieting here, exercising there, but never simultaneously, nor with any results, Fargotstein had all but thrown in the towel. While celebrating the Super Bowl last year, a friend's father showed up minus his spare tire ... That was enough to inspire him to give it another shot, this time combining new eating habits with regular exercise at the gym twice a week.