Helping Overweight Children

Helping overweight children can be very difficult. There's a web site that has lots of resources for parents and kids - do check it out. There's also an excellent book written by Dr Robert A Pretlow called Overweight: What Kids Say.

Cancer And Weight

A study published in the British Medical Journal (November 2007) links cancer to body weight.

Researchers examined the effect of body mass index (BMI) on both cancer incidence and death among 1.2 million women aged 50 to 64 over five years for cancer incidence and seven years for cancer mortality. 

An increasing BMI was associated with a significant increase in risk for 10 out of 17 specific types of cancer. Similarly, risk for death also increased with BMI for most types of cancer.

Arm yourself with facts like this to give you yet more reason to lose weight and keep it off.

Breakfast and Weight Loss

Studies have shown over and over again that people who eat breakfast in the morning routinely think more quickly before lunch, have lower stress levels throughout the day, and actually eat less over the course of the day.

Research conducted by Heather Leidy, assistant professor specialising in appetite control at the University of Missouri Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, found that overweight ‘breakfast skipping’ teens who eat a protein-rich breakfast feel fuller longer and are less hungry throughout the day compared to when they skip breakfast or consume a normal breakfast. Even more interesting, she said, are brain scan findings illustrating that eating a protein-rich breakfast reduces the need to snack due to food motivation and food reward urges.