Club of Diet' s addicts

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One of the things I have given up during my diet is icecream

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I gave up chocolate in the new Year

My diet was going very well

Then I discovered Apple Pies

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BBC News Health

Overweight seen as the norm, says chief medical officer



Being overweight is increasingly seen as the norm, England's chief medical officer says.

In her annual report on the state of health, Dame Sally Davies said this was concerning, pointing out many people did not recognise they had a problem.

Parents of overweight children were also failing to spot the signs too, she said.

Dame Sally blamed the way weight was being portrayed by the media and clothes industry.

"I have long been concerned that being underweight is often portrayed as the ideal weight, particularly in the fashion industry.

"Yet I am increasingly concerned that society may be normalising being overweight.

"Larger mannequins are being introduced into clothes shops and "size inflation" means that clothes with the same size label have become larger in recent decades.

"And news stories about weight often feature pictures of severely obese people, which are unrepresentative of the majority of overweight people."

Sugar tax

Dame Sally also reiterated her belief that a sugar tax may be necessary to combat obesity.

At the start of March she told the Health Select Committee it may be needed, although she hoped not.

This caused some controversy as the government's approach has been characterised by working with industry to get them to make food and drink products healthier.

Recognising obesity

75% adults obese or overweight

33% children obese or overweight

52% of overweight men think they are ‘about the right weight’

30% of overweight women think they are ‘about the right weight’

77% of parents of overweight children do not recognise it

Source: CMO report

In her report she says this should continue, but if it fails to deliver a tax should be "considered".

She said children and adults of all ages are consuming too much sugar.

Nearly two thirds of adults and a third of children are overweight or obese - classed as a body mass index of above 25. This is about double the numbers in the early 1990s.

But research shows that half of men, a third of women and over three quarters of parents do not recognise weight problems.

Professor Kevin Fenton, of Public Health England, said he agreed with Dame Sally's comments.

"We share her concerns. Overweight and obesity costs the NHS over £5bn each year and is entirely preventable."

But Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said he would have liked Dame Sally to take a tougher approach to sugar.

"The report lets the food and beverage industries off the hook. It gives industry no deadline by which to show improvement with the likely result that her words will be quite ignored. How distressing."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26765078

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1935 advert

I wonder if I should try using a rolling-pin

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This is what people used to use to help them look thinner



Not only did adults wear these horrors but they inflected them on children



And just look at the sexy man below



But this has to be my favourite advert



Do you think that men used to wear fezs in the hopes that their hair would grow - perhaps they actually wore these hats beneath their fezs

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I think I prefer Lent

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I have red that BMI means nothing concerning the healthy mensurations, and the waist size alone is not enough. The relevant calculation is to divide one's waist size in cm by the height. The result should not be more than 0.6, the ideal is 0.5.

In another terms, the ideal waist size should be the half of the height.

Abstract
OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:
To analyse data from the nationally representative National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) collected in 2000/2001 and to investigate how the BMI and two proxy indicators of central fat distribution, namely the waist circumference and the waist to height ratio (WHtR), are associated with each other and with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.
RESULTS:
Screening health risk by BMI alone would 'miss' 35% of men and 14% of women who are within the normal BMI range (18.5-25 kg/m(2)) but have central fat distribution, defined by WHtR > 0.5. In the total population this equates to 17% of all men and 6% of all women who would be inadequately screened by BMI alone. Compared to BMI, WHtR was more closely associated with CVD risk factors among both men and women. Furthermore, in a combined analysis of men and women, central fat distribution with a normal BMI was associated with higher levels of CVD risk factors than being overweight without central fat distribution.
CONCLUSION:
WHtR is a simple and effective, non-invasive screening tool for CVD risk factors. Our proposed boundary value of 0.5 translates into a simple public health message: 'Keep your waist circumference to less than half your height'.
2009 S. Karger AG, Basel.

Now I got 0. 52 with 86 cm for my waist size. I should reach 82 cm. Surely, 61 kg is a good objective

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In another terms, the ideal waist size should be the half of the height.

OOPS !

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A hearty breakfast for those not on a diet

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Brought eggs and rabbits in chocolate to the Institute, for my muslims colleagues

But mire than chocolate, the taste of the Brie cheese this morning was soooo good.

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Brought eggs and rabbits in chocolate to the Institute, for my muslims colleagues

But mire than chocolate, the taste of the Brie cheese this morning was soooo good.

I expect you enjoying being able to eat again

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World's fattest woman vows to slim down from 765lb so she can 'dance all night' at her wedding... but needs $5,000 to travel to the only hospital willing to give her a gastric band

Charity Pierce has lymphedema which has caused her leg to swell, and had to have 40lb lump cut off after being attacked by flesh-eating bacteria

38-year-old single mom wants to lose weight for her dream wedding to 22-year-old boyfriend

Doctors in Iowa won't operate unless she is 500lb so Pierce is trying to get to a Houston hospital for life-saving operation

Mom hopes to appear on My 600lb Life after surgery to get more help

An Iowa mother who weighs 765lb is trying to get on a reality TV show because she believes it is the only way to save her life.

Charity Pierce finds moving around so difficult that she is almost house bound, but doctors near her Cedar Rapids home say she must slim down to 500lb before they can give her a gastric band.

The 38-year-old has been shortlisted to appear on TLC's My 600lb Life and a hospital in Houston is willing to operate, but only if she can get to Texas for an appointment by the end of April.



Because Ms Pierce, who is the fattest woman in the world, has developed a medical condition called lymphedema, which has caused a huge swelling on her left leg, she no longer fits easily into a regular car.

To make the 1,000 mile trip to Texas the single mother would need to hire a private ambulance, and she is currently trying to raise $5,000 to pay for it.

'A doctor in Texas willing to do patients over 600lb [is] my only hope,' she wrote on her Go Fund Me page, which is still a few thousand dollars below her target.

'The one thing that's going to save my life is gastric bypass. But I'm a single mother on disability with no one to count on besides myself,' she added.

She hopes to be able to lose enough weight to be able to watch her daughter grow up, and also so she can have a dream wedding to her 22-year-old boyfriend, Tony Sauer.

'I'm determined not to have to get married at home. I want to be able to walk up the aisle,' Ms Pierce told Best magazine.

'I plan to wear a wedding dress, cowboy boots and a cowgirl hat ... I want to dance all night.'

Ms Pierce says she has always been on the larger size, but her weight problem became worse after developing lymphedema, which blocks the lymphatic system and causes swelling.

'The lymphedema feels like another whole person. It feels like cinder blocks hanging off you all the time,' Ms Pierce told ABC9.

The swelling that protrudes out the side of her leg makes exercise and walking difficult and has made her almost entirely house bound as she struggles to fit inside cars.

She first turned to TV show doctors for help in 2012, when she released a video on YouTube pleading for someone to get her case to Dr Phil.

She explained that she developed lymphedema in 2001 after falling down a flight of stairs, and then had to fight off Necrotizing Facitis, the flesh eating bacteria, in her abdomen.

'They had to cut out 40lb of dead muscle and tissue. My left side looks as though a shark took a big bite out of it,' Ms Pierce said.

The single mom said she is determined to lose weight so she can live to see her daughter, Charly, graduate and get married.



'I'm not going to make it if I don't have a gastric bypass,' she said.

Charly added: 'She's doing really well about trying to keep her mobility, but I feel like if she doesn't get help soon that's not going to be an option. She's just not going to last much longer.'

Ms Pierce is trying to lose weight and is on a limited 1,200-calorie a day diet and does physical therapy twice a day.

She hopes that if the consultant in Texas agrees to fit a gastric band she will be able to appear on My 600lb Life and receive further help in getting back in shape.

'It's a very long road, but I'm going to get there,' Ms Pierce said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... erate.html

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The article states that Charity Pierce needs a 'gastric band'

Gastric bands are used to limit someones food intake.

One look at her and we see that she is hardly likely to have been going to the supermarket herself - some sick minded person has been feeding her up - whoever it is deserves to be imprisoned for cruelty