An intriguing study from Cornell University found that strategically re-positioning food in school cafeterias is a formidable strategy for encouraging healthier choices.
Healthier, more visible and more "cool" was the idea behind the strategy, which aimed to improve the eating habits of school-aged children.
These findings are the result of six different studies with more than 11,000 middle and high school students.
In one set of schools, the study found sales of fruit increased by 100 percent, when it was moved to a colorful bowl.Salad bar sales tripled when the cart was placed in front of cash registers. In other schools, creating a speedy "healthy express" checkout line for students not buying calorie-dense foods, like desserts and chips, doubled the sales of healthy sandwiches. Ice cream kept in a freezer with a closed, opaque top, significantly reduced the amount of ice cream taken. Moving chocolate milk behind plain milk increased sales of plain milk.
I have to say I really like this idea - not only for schools, but in homes and offices as well. The out-of sight, out-of-mind, out-of-mouth strategy is certainly universally applicable. This study echo's the results of Brian Wansink's 2006 study, which found that office workers ate fewer candies when they were in opaque rather than clear candy jars on their desks. And, even fewer when the opaque jars were six feet away from their desks.This kind of strategy is also far more appealing than the idea of "banning" foods. People still have options, they just have to look for them.
I hope they implement this kind of strategy in schools across the nation. It's certainly a very economical way to guide youth towards making healthier choices. To quote Chris Wallace, food service director for the Corning, N.Y. School District.
It's not nutrition until someone eats it. You need to have foods that kids will eat, or they won't eat -- or they'll eat worse".
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Review of The Diet Solution Program
The Program that Promises Fat Loss along with an incredible amount of Health and Vitality.
The Diet Solution Program promises a complete and comprehensive weight loss program that will not only help you lose body fat, but guarantees you increased energy, health and vitality all at the same time.
With so many weight loss programs out on the market and on the Internet today, what makes this program any different than all the rest?
Before we get to the program, let’s take a look at the expert behind this program. Isabel De Los Rios is a nutrition and exercise specialist with 10 years of experience helping clients reach their ideal weight and tackle conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and high cholesterol. Isabel has a very extensive educational background in nutrition and exercise physiology. Her personal experience with her own weight struggles and her mother’s severe diabetes led her search for the BEST nutrition information available today. The Diet Solution Program is a result of her 15 year study and research.
I’ve also talked to Isabel about her training and education background, and I’ll be honest, it was impressive, unlike other so-called “health experts”, who are just following main stream nutrition programs. Isabel provides her readers with the truth: the facts most people have never taken the time to research, read and decipher. Plus, Isabel has been a nutrition and exercise specialist for the past 10 years and has personally worked with hundreds of clients in her own private facility, overseeing successful weight loss programs. This hands on experience with real people solidified the facts and principles she had learned in books, journals and from other health professionals. The proof was really in the results of real people.
In fact, Isabel’s articles are pretty radical when it comes to her nutrition principles which is why her approach works when main-stream nutrition fails. So if you are looking for the same old nutrition theories taught in every other book and program on the market today, this is not the program for you.
Now one of the biggest questions about the program is simply, “What is The Diet Solution Program?” Well according to Isabel, it is the most comprehensive and detailed nutrition manual available on the market today. Not only does it teach you exactly what principles you need to follow to finally reach your ideal weight, it gives you the meal plans, shopping lists and recipes to do so. It does not push some extreme, unreasonable way to lose weight. It actually teaches you how you can make this healthy way of eating into a lifestyle. And if you have ever attempted to lose weight in the past, you know that the only way to maintain it is to make it a way of life. The best part about Isabel’s program is that this new way of life is not some torturous eating regimen. She really shows you that you can eat delicious food, combined the right way, to lose weight and maintain it.
One of the best side effects of the whole program is the increased health and vitality that every participant experiences. Decreases in blood sugar levels, lowered cholesterol, increased energy, elimination of digestive discomfort and cleared skin conditions are just some of the few benefits other people have already experienced.
Frankly, I’ve used the program myself and recommended to many others. Why? Because I was sick and tired of following nutrition plans that either did not work or made me lose weight but feel terrible. Yes, I want to be at my ideal weight but I also want to maintain a healthy body at the same time and not have to resort to extreme, radical methods. The Diet Solution Program helped me lose weight and feel healthy and energized at the same time.
Now realize that some effort from you will be required, but Isabel has really done all the hard work for you. Included in her program is:
- Step by step action steps telling you exactly how to put the principles in place
- Detailed daily meal plans that make everyday eating easy
- Shopping Lists to make food shopping a snap
- Delicious Recipes to make everyday meals tasty
The Diet Solution Program is not just another weight loss scheme or extreme diet. It is truly the only way to lose weight and enjoy a lifetime of health. The Diet Solution Program is perfect for people who have struggled with their weight their whole life and are sick and tired of programs that just don’t work long term. The DSP is also perfect for people who want to take control of their health and reverse health conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease.
If you’re in the slightest bit curious, I recommend you look closely at Isabel’s program. I was very impressed with all of The Diet Solution Program meal plans, the bonuses, the guarantee, and Isabel’s expertise. For the money, it’s the best deal in the weight loss industry – so much better than diet pills! And remember… Isabel De Los Rios’s The Diet Solution Program is backed by a 60 day money back guarantee. And this is a real guarantee… if you are not completely satisfied, you will receive your money back, no “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts.” So you really have nothing to lose.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
What Can The Right Foods Do For You?
This might seem rudimentary to the point of being ridiculous, but good food does good things for the body.... I know, I know, and water is wet.
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This research caught my attention for the fact that it's a unique "Tweener" so far as studies go - not taking a look at specific nutrients of foods and yet not a tremendously large and convoluted mess, like the Nurses Health Study.
Instead, this study - headed by Inger Bjorck, professor of food-related nutrition at Lund University - looked over the health effects of dieting with multiple foods which are considered to reduce inflammation.
Here are the studies details; Forty-four healthy, overweight people between the ages of 50 and 75 took part in the diet study. For a month they ate foods which are presumed to lessen low-grade inflammation in the body, a condition which triggers metabolic syndrome and thus obesity, type two diabetes and coronary disease. The test diet was full of antioxidants, low-GI foods (i.e. slow release carbohydrates), omega fatty acids, wholegrain products, probiotics and viscous dietary fiber.
The types of foods eaten were oily fish, barley, soy protein, blueberries, almonds, cinnamon, and vinegar along with a certain kind of wholegrain breads. Cholesterol levels were reduced by 33 percent. Blood lipids were reduced by 14 percent. Blood pressure levels were reduced by 8 percent. A risk marker for thrombus by 26 percent. A marker of inflammation in the body seemed to be reduced as well, while memory and cognitive function were improved. The research results make sense as these are healthy, largely unprocessed foods that have been shown to possess many benefits individually. It might be premature to summarize, however that these foods are the optimal way to eat as any dietary change is usually a vast improvement towards the average persons dietary habits.
I would be willing to bet that other dietary patterns might be equally (or at best competitively) as effective as the pattern they chose - so long as consumption of calories remained in check. A control number of some sort will be warranted to provide this study with a little more credibility. One of the highlights of studying clusters of different foods is the fact that it will help take the emphasis from single food "cures" that runs rampant in "superfood" products. I’m curious to determine what type of weight loss the participants experienced.
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Trying To Find A Dietitian / Nutritionist
Today I tried to find a dietitian or nutritionist near me. Silly me, I thought it would be like finding a local dentist. I wouldn't call it a complete failure. But you'd think that in a major metro area there would be plenty of them. Well I found some, but not very close and it wasn't easy.
First off I tried the phone book. If you look up nutritionist or dietitian in the phone book you will see big full color ads for popular diet programs followed by a few other listings in tiny print. How nice.
So I tried typing the word nutritionist into the online yellow pages. What I got ranged from listing for GNC's and other vitamin stores, to listing for centers that supply food to low income mothers, to listings for actual nutritionists. But several of the phone numbers I called didn't work, and those that did were for nutritionist that worked for certain health insurance plans that I wasn't on.
So I called my health insurance provider and asked them can they find me dietitian or nutritionist that is on my plan. The operator asked me "Is this for diabetes?". I said "No this is for weight loss". She said "Ok, dietitians for weight loss isn't covered".
Now this is interesting because the overweight are blamed for raising everyone's premiums and whatever else.... but weight loss isn't covered at least by my company.
But the operator did let me know they have coupons and discounts to Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, gyms, and other services. So I guess that saves face a little.
I did find one place I really liked , but it's a little far just to go to a doctors office. I'd hate to think what would happen if I lived in rural area.
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First off I tried the phone book. If you look up nutritionist or dietitian in the phone book you will see big full color ads for popular diet programs followed by a few other listings in tiny print. How nice.
So I tried typing the word nutritionist into the online yellow pages. What I got ranged from listing for GNC's and other vitamin stores, to listing for centers that supply food to low income mothers, to listings for actual nutritionists. But several of the phone numbers I called didn't work, and those that did were for nutritionist that worked for certain health insurance plans that I wasn't on.
So I called my health insurance provider and asked them can they find me dietitian or nutritionist that is on my plan. The operator asked me "Is this for diabetes?". I said "No this is for weight loss". She said "Ok, dietitians for weight loss isn't covered".
Now this is interesting because the overweight are blamed for raising everyone's premiums and whatever else.... but weight loss isn't covered at least by my company.
But the operator did let me know they have coupons and discounts to Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, gyms, and other services. So I guess that saves face a little.
I did find one place I really liked , but it's a little far just to go to a doctors office. I'd hate to think what would happen if I lived in rural area.
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