Well, your Food Fodder reporter is back after an excessively busy time in the real world. Coming up for air, I wanted to see what was timely and new in nutrition news. Sadly, it seems like the answer is "not so much".
Recent headlines "Severely obese fastest-growing U.S. overweight group".
Not so different from April of last year, now is it?
We're still eating too much and moving too little. Many experts agree that this is only a very small part of the equation of obesity in affluent nations. Food and health are intimately intertwined with socioeconomic status, environment, and culture. Add on top of that a layer of genetic and evolutionary imperatives, and new research suggesting that you're worse off after dieting and failing than if you never tried to diet at all, it's amazing any of us can fit in an airplane seat without seatbelt extenders.
On PBS this week, there is a marvelous documentary on what it's like to be obese in America, what some of the underlying causes are, and the myriad of ways to lose weight, not to mention how truly difficult it is to keep weight off. The show is called: Fat: What no one is telling you. Check your local listings, or you can follow the link and watch it online.