The Five Worst Supposedly “Healthy” Fast-Food Items

A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Spring 2011: As a growing number of consumers look for nutritious quick-service dining options, fast-food companies are hawking salads, oatmeal, and other seemingly healthful choices. But many of these items are actually far from nutritious.

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In the recipes section of Slender For Life™ you will find about 15,000 healthy and great tasting recipes. And if its fast food that you want, be sure to check out Jeff Novick and his My Simple Recipes. You can learn hypnosis and make the lifestyle changes that will support you with weight loss and healthy living. You can lose weight the healthy way with self-hypnosis. Choose to eat healthy today.

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Overweight kids risk having high blood pressure now – not just later on in life, but now. Being overweight, not just obese, can cause damage to the heart, blood vessels and kidneys. Childhood obesity is for the most part preventable and from my perspective it is unconscionable that in 2011 we are feeding our kids high fat, high sugar, processed food and beverages. As a nation we cannot afford the rising healthcare costs. Our children today have a shorter life expectancy than my generation. To me, that is wrong – even criminal. We must have healthcare reform. We cannot continue eating at fast food restaurants or eating mac n’ cheese at home. Putting an end to childhood obesity has to be a family affair. Set an example for your children by being physically active with them and by eating healthy plant-based meals.  At Slender For Life™ I offer real weight loss hypnosis solutions that work. Please, don’t wait any longer to do something about your health and the health of your children.

Overweight Kids Risk High Blood Pressure

WebMD Health News, October 3, 2011: Children who are overweight compared to their peers are nearly three times more likely to have high blood pressure, a new study shows.

The study also found that extra pounds are especially dangerous for kids who are already big. For an overweight and obese child, if you increase your BMI [body mass index] percentile a little bit, that would increase your blood pressure strongly. In the same way, for just a little bit of weight loss you could benefit greatly in terms of blood pressure.

Pediatricians say the study is wake-up call. We’ve tended to look at the overweight category as a lower-risk category. This suggests that we really need to worry about kids who are in that overweight category. Other experts say the findings are concerning because having high blood pressure has been shown to set kids up for health complications.

Not only are children with high blood pressure much more likely to turn into adults who have high blood pressure, but newer studies have shown that kids can get the same kinds of organ damage — to the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys — that doctors once thought was only a problem for adults with the condition.

One study even found that kids with high blood pressure have subtle changes in the brain area that controls attention, problem solving, and working memory. So it’s not going to be a risk that’s going to be in the future. It’s a risk that’s now. It jacks up the concern about preventing childhood obesity and also not waiting until they are obese.

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Kids are naturals at hypnosis and as I have said previously, I think self-hypnosis should be taught to children in preschool and throughout their school years. If you have children who are overweight, show them that you love them by making weight loss a family affair and setting an example of health. As parents, you must eat healthy plant-based food and exercise. Involve your children in preparing healthy meals and be physically active together. Weight loss hypnosis can make the difference for you and for your children.

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Shopping with Jeff Novick & Fast Food DVD

Take Jeff’s advice and learn which basic ingredients to keep in stock: canned no-salt-added beans and tomatoes, plenty of frozen veggies and fruit, and lots of potatoes and brown rice. Then eat all you want, get to your ideal weight, and stay happy and satisfied at your goal weight.

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Food should taste good. It should be sensuous, flavorful and full of wonderful textures and aromas. Food should be a delight. The problem is that too many people eat too much food too fast (and often the wrong food) and miss out on the real pleasure that healthy eating can offer. Fast food can be healthy and affordable.

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Did you see Jamie Oliver make that ice cream sundae on his Food Revolution? Pretty gross, huh? What is sad is that so many people depend on inexpensive, convenient fast food and have similar health issues as does Sophia’s family. Dino is right – we have a choice. I keep saying that we must vote with our wallet and stop buying food that makes us sick. If we were to stop buying food that has crazy words for ingredients and stop eating greasy fried food in fast food restaurants, healthier choices would become available at affordable prices. At Slender For Life™ we focus on eating real food, plant-based food that really does look like God made it. Are you ready to make the change and eat food that looks like it was dug out of the earth, picked off of plant or a bush or out of a tree? If you are ready, self-hypnosis can make the change easier for you. Learn hypnosis with Slender For Life™.

When I watched this episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution I was really grossed out when Jamie made the sundae. He showed shiny candy and Saturday night I ate one of those candy hot tamales in a Mexican Restaurant. I had no idea about the shellac. Do your kids know where their food comes from? How about you? – Do you really know what’s in the food that you eat? Let’s get the crazy words our of our food.

My book, Becoming Slender For Life offers a different way to think about weight release and management. I  encourage an emphasis on low-fat, high-starch eating. I also recommend reinventing yourself as a flexitarian—someone who is not overly rigid about food choices, and allows for occasional indulgences on holidays, birthdays and so on. And, of course, there is no avoiding the importance of exercise, though I do offer some unconventional ideas about adding more movement to your life.

What really separates this diet book from the rest, is the addition of self-hypnosis techniques, which are absolutely safe and easy to learn. Using an innovative one-minute exercise, anyone can make time for this powerful component several times a day. Mastering these techniques empowers you to reinforce your healthy new lifestyle habits for the rest of your life, plus you can use these same techniques to makes changes in any other area of your life. You can get free chapters of Becoming Slender For Life by clicking here. How about you? Are you ready to learn hypnosis and make healthy changes in your life?

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McDonald’s shareholders have chosen to continue offering kids meals that are high in fat, sugar and sodium, all in the name of “choice and the demographic process.” Can you believe it? Dr. John McDougall says that “The pain and suffering inflicted on children by the American diet is so brutal that if it were administered with a stick, parents would be put in jail.” I am a firm believer in choice so I say let’s vote with our wallets and choose to not go to McDonald’s or other fast food chains offering food that makes America sick. Remember, healthcare reform begins with each of us taking responsibility for our own health. Will you join me in doing so by choosing to eat plant-based foods that you prepare at home? You can make healthy meals simply, quickly and affordable that taste great.

McDonald’s Stockholders Reject Obesity Proposal

Reuters, May 19, 2011: McDonald’s Corp spurned calls to assess the impact of its food on childhood obesity, and said its trademark clown Ronald McDonald would be hawking Happy Meals to kids for years to come. “This is about choice and we believe in the democratic process,” Chief Executive Jim Skinner told a packed room at its shareholders’ meeting, to an enthusiastic wave of applause. “This is about the personal and individual right to choose.”

Shareholders of the world’s largest fast-food chain resoundingly rejected a proposal that would have required it to issue a report outlining its role in the childhood obesity epidemic, saying customers were free to make their own dietary choices. “Ronald McDonald is an ambassador to McDonald’s and he is an ambassador for good. Ronald McDonald is going nowhere,” Skinner said firmly, prompting more cheers from shareholders.

Among the dissenters at the meeting was Dr. Donald Zeigler, director of Prevention and Health Lifestyles at the American Medical Association, who asked when the burger chain will stop marketing to children using Ronald McDonald. Zeigler, who is also visiting assistant professor at Rush University Medical Center, was one of 550 healthcare professionals who had signed an open letter to McDonald’s pleading that it “stop making the next generation sick.”

Some 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Being overweight during childhood raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension and a host of other diseases.

The restaurant chain has added healthier options to its menu, including salads and oatmeal, but critics argue there is still too much fat, salt and sugar in its meals. Even the oatmeal, one critic noted, contains about as much sugar as a Snickers candy bar.

Skinner defended McDonald’s strategy, which has resulted in hefty sales and earnings for shareholders. McDonald’s shares have gained nearly 12 percent in the last four months and rallied to a record high of $82.63 on Thursday.

But as experts point out, obese children often grow into obese adults, overburdening the entire healthcare system.
Ironically, Miles White, chairman and chief executive of diversified healthcare company Abbott Laboratories, has been a director of the McDonald’s board since 2009. Abbott makes a broad range of drugs, including cholesterol-lowering statins, and medical devices, such as heart stents used on patients with clogged arteries.

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I hope that everyone reads in the last paragraph that the chairman and chief executive officer of Abbott Laboratories has been a director of the McDonald’s board since 2009. How ironic – the CEO of a company that makes drugs to counteract the results of obesity would vote to sell products that make people obese!

Have you had enough? Are you ready to join with me and vote with your wallet? If enough of us stop buying processed food that makes us sick, companies like McDonald’s will start serving real food. In the mean time, you can easily make healthy plant-based meals and snacks at home that are quick, simple, affordable and that taste great.

Did you read yesterday’s post My Simple Recipes ~ Jeff Novick, MS, RD?

Hypnosis for weight loss can help you and your family change your eating habits.

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My Simple Recipes

Examples of some of my favorite simple recipes. Most all of them can be made in about 5 minutes, have less then 5 ingredients and cost much less than 5 dollars.

These meals are very low in calorie density and very high in nutrient density so you can eat all you want till you are comfortably full without having to worry about portions size or going hungry.

They are all based on my lecture, Calorie Density: How To Eat more, Weigh Less & Live Longer! ~ Jeff Novick

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My book Becoming Slender For Life can support you in ending your cravings for fat, salt and sugar and can help motivate you to get off the couch to move your body and stimulate an interest in preparing your own meals. Take a look at Jeff Novick’s FAST FOOD and be sure to visit the Recipes at Slender For Life™. Note that there are 7 recipe site links in the green box and some of our favorite recipes listed below the green box.

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