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The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Being overweight is the number one risk factor for developing adult-onset diabetes, and overweight children and teenagers now account for half of all new diagnoses of diabetes. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among children has increased by an estimated fifteen to twenty-five times since 1980. Being overweight also increases the risk of hypertension, heart disease, gallstones, colon cancer, and (in men) stroke.

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For many reasons, some obvious and some not, the increase in overweight children is twice that seen in adults. Other nations are in hot pursuit. Country after country follows the American lead and grows heavier. Overconsumption has replaced malnutrition as the world's top food problem.2 From Banff to Buenos Aires, from Siberia to the Sahara, the world need only look to America to see its future. There are now clinics for obese children in Beijing. Similar to a new virus without natural enemies, our lifestyle of abundant food and inactivity faces little opposition.

Problems with glucose tolerance and insulin resistance place severely overweight children at risk for Type 2 diabetes, a disease once seen only in adults.87 These children risk having diabetic complications, including heart disease, stroke, blindness, limb amputation, and kidney failure, before they reach age thirty. Researchers in France found that early signs of heart disease were much more common in obese than in thin children. Obese children had stiffer carotid arteries and unhealthy changes in the artery lining.

It is sad to witness the humiliation, shame, and pain suffered by overweight children and heartbreaking to think of heart attacks in young people barely out of college. The toxic environment is powerful and acts early Children need our help. A large percentage of young adults ages seventeen through twenty, from whom military recruits are drawn, do not meet U.S. military weight standards. Weights are particularly high among minority youth, who form a disproportionate percentage of those in military service.

In some areas of Africa, overweight children outnumber malnourished children three to one. Obesity is increasing across all segments of society, adults and children, young and old, rich and poor, males and females. Rates are rising in Alaskan Eskimos, the Evenki (reindeer herders in Siberia), and the Walpiri (Australian Aborigines).6 Few pockets in the world are left untouched. Why the Global Crisis? The simple answer is that people are eating more and exercising less. Why this occurs is more complex. "Because they can" is a glib but probably correct answer.

The Inflammation Syndrome: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies, and Asthma Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

Estimates of overweight children range from 13 to 20 percent. These increases in weight result largely from the increased consumption of junk foods consisting chiefly of refined sugars, carbohydrates, and fats. A major source of dietary sugar is soft drinks, which the consumer-oriented Center for Science in the Public Interest has described as "liquid candy." A 64-ounce bottle of any calorically sweetened (in contrast to artificially sweetened) soft drink contains approximately XA cup of sugar! Children have essentially been weaned on soft drinks and calorie-dense fast-food restaurant fare.

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William Dietz of the CDC and Thomas Robinson of Stanford have been leading proponents of decreasing sedentary behavior (particularly watching TV) as a means for helping overweight children.91 Robinson did an important study with third- and fourth-grade students. He studied two elementary schools, one having no change in the curriculum and the other receiving a six-month, eighteen-lesson classroom curriculum to reduce the use of TV, videotapes, and video games. When the program ended, children receiving the special curriculum weighed significantly less than the children in the other school.

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The number of overweight children has more than doubled in the past 30 years. Figures (and waistlines) are similar in the United Kingdom, Germany, and many other affluent countries. A person is considered obese if his or her weight is 20 percent or more than the maximum desirable amount. Over the past decade obesity has increased by 70 percent among people aged 18-29. For those 30-39 years of age it has increased 50 percent. All other age groups have likewise experienced a dramatic increase in weight. Medical problems can escalate the battle of the bulge into a full-scale war.

The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements and Herbs Nicola Reavley See book keywords and concepts

The results showed that, overall, systolic blood pressure was lower in the calcium group, particularly among overweight children.35 Muscle cramps Calcium can be used to control the incidence of leg cramps in pregnant women, possibly by decreasing nerve irritability. It has also been used to reduce the incidence of menstrual cramps and symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome. Pre-eclampsia Use of calcium supplements during pregnancy may lower a woman's risk of pre-eclampsia, a disorder which occurs in one in every 20 pregnant women.

The results showed that, overall, systolic blood pressure was lower in the calcium group, particularly among overweight children.11 The new US RDAs for pregnant and breastfeeding women are no longer greater than those for nonpregnant women. This is partly based on recent studies which suggest that the ability to absorb and retain calcium improves during pregnancy and these changes are enough to meet the extra demands placed on a woman's body by her baby.

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The steep curve depicts a normal reaction of the blood sugar to a single oral dose of 50 grams of dextrose (sugar). In overweight children a much flatter curve indicates that for the same stimulus, more insulin is produced. This overproduction of insulin (hyperinsulinemia) is the primary cause of "carbohydrate disease." If you look at glucose tolerance curves of obese adolescents, you see a very different picture. Figure 4.2 shows what such a curve looks like, and we have added the "normal" curve to this graph to make it stand out.

The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements and Herbs Nicola Reavley See book keywords and concepts

The results showed that, overall, systolic blood pressure was lower in the calcium group, particularly among overweight children.15 Use of calcium supplements during pregnancy may lower a woman's risk of pre-eclampsia, a disorder which occurs in one in every 20 pregnant women. Symptoms of pre-eclampsia are high blood pressure, headache, protein in the urine, blurred vision and anxiety. It can lead to eclampsia, a seizure disorder which can cause complications with pregnancy, and even death. There is some evidence that abnormalities in calcium metabolism are involved in pre-eclampsia.

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The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has increased sixfold since 1958, to a record high of ten million people, which includes a worrisome and growing number of overweight children developing the type of diabetes normally found only in adults. In addition, nearly six million more people have diabetes but don't know it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC). A metabolic disorder in which the body doesn't produce or properly use insulin, diabetes often progresses undetected for years.

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Once a disease of the elderly, type 2 diabetes now appears even in overweight children. If you have this type of diabetes, your body probably makes enough insulin but has "forgotten" how to use it. Your cells have become resistant to insulin so the glucose from the food you eat builds up in your blood instead of nourishing your cells. And high blood-sugar levels can start an avalanche of other medical problems including high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Type 2 diabetics risk blindness, amputations, heart disease, strokes, and nerve damage.

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In a study of overweight children having low levels of zinc, weight loss was retarded until zinc was supplemented in the diet. Therefore, zinc supplements may be indicated for individuals who remain resistant to weight loss after a thorough medical examination and modification of lifestyle and nutritional habits. I suggest 15 to 30 mg of zinc per day.

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