Source:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
TED Talks (February 2010) The way we eat in the developed world is causing needless death -- and shortening the lives of the next generation of kids. Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity
project in Huntington, West Virginia, Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. My wish is for you to help a strong sustainable movement to educate every child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people everywhere
to fight obesity. — Jamie Oliver
Overweight & Obese: Studies
Underweight: <= 18.5
Normal weight: 18.5 - 24.9
Overweight: 25 - 29.9
Obesity: >= 30 Healthy Weight for You
...There is strong evidence that the protective action of cruciferous vegetables derives at least in part from isothyiocyanates
(ITCs), a group of phytochemicals with well-known cancer preventive activities. "The bladder is particularly responsive to
this group of natural chemicals," Zhang said. "In our experiments, the broccoli sprout ITCs after oral administration were
selectively delivered to the bladder tissues through urinary excretion."
Other cruciferous vegetables with ITCs include mature broccoli, cabbage, kale, collard greens and others. Broccoli
sprouts have approximately 30 times more ITCs than mature broccoli, and the sprout extract used by the researchers
contains approximately 600 times as much... [Read More]
...Researchers say the amount of protection you get is remarkable, considering how little you have to eat. Just three servings
a month can help keep your bladder healthy, but there's a catch. Scientists say when these same vegetables are cooked,
something in their chemical make up makes them less effective when it comes to bladder cancer.
"When they are eaten raw, they induce a kind of enzyme that may detoxify carcinogens," says James Marshall, PhD at Roswell
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Why am I so fat?
Why do I take so many pills?
Why do they cost so much?
Why does my medical insurance cost so much?
Why don't I feel good?
What's my problem?
PROCESSED PEOPLE features in-depth discussions with leading health experts
detailing why so many of us are sick, and offers solutions to our current
devastating health crisis.
Tragically, many Americans are victims of a "health care" system and way of life
which are devastating to our overall well-being. To those running our system,
the bottom line on the dollars we're able to spend is more important than the
bottom line on our health. We're caught in a perpetual grinding machine, unable
to escape.
It's nearly impossible to be liberated when there's so much confusing,
conflicting information from "the authorities" — be they the government or
industry-controlled organizations like the American Dietetic Association. You
find yourself wondering: Do they really have your best interests at heart?
And the statistics are terrifying.
Two hundred million Americans are overweight.
One hundred million are obese.
More than 75 million Americans have high blood pressure.
Some 24 million are diabetic.
Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death for men and women,
followed by stroke and obesity-related cancers.
Obesity has overtaken tobacco as the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths
in the United States.
Over 50% of bankruptcies are caused by what has become to be known as
"medical debt".
Fast food, fast medicine, fast news, and fast lives have turned many Americans
into sick, uninformed, indebted, "processed" people. PROCESSED PEOPLE examines these topics:
Why are we so fat?
What is health?
Health care or sick care?
Are we what we eat?
Do we need to eat animal products?
What's the role of exercise?
What's a processed person?
Can you "de-process" yourself?
What happens if we don't change?
PROCESSED PEOPLE tells how and why Americans got into this mess, and what we
can do to break the "processed people" cycle. [...] [Read More]
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