Tag: obesity
Greek yogurt. Bacon. Eggs. Sausages.
All typical breakfast foods for me. Not altogether. Ick. Although I suppose if you threw it all into a burrito with some salsa, it’d work together tastily (I sub yogurt for sour cream all the time, after all).
Hmm.
On second thought: yum.
In any case, they are all good foods for the first meal of the day according to some new research. A study has found that a protein-rich breakfast (and those foods boast protein) helps reduce snacking on junky high-fat, high-sugar foods at night. So catch up on Scandal sans bag of potato chips, fancy that. They don’t have to go hand in hand.
(Greek yogurt with berries, toasted oats and pecans, Eat Like a Girl
April 3, 2013
Move over, BMI, there’s a new measurement in town.
A better predictor than BMI (that’s body-mass index, of course) of certain health risks is WtHR aka waist-to-height ratio. The findings, which are being presented at the 19th European Congress for Obesity, show that WtHR is better at detecting risk factors for conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, abnormal body fat levels and metabolic syndrome.
This suggests WtHR could be used as a screening tool for determining health risks, and the research shows that:
Your waist circumference should be less than half your height.
(Did that ratio make you pause? I know my gut reaction was to question it — but with our super-size-me lifestyles the world over, it’s not uncommon for one’s waist circumference to be greater than half one’s height).
Just another handy health tool your standard tape measure can be used for.
Although I kinda prefer a tape like the one above.
(Measuring tape mantra print, Modern Girl Blitz)
May 15, 2012
…and they also don’t know the nutritional content of what they eat?
In a new study published in the British Food Journal, researchers found that Americans tend to know more about the fat content in their foods compared to the French (with Canadians falling in between the two).
Which is interesting, considering the obesity issue in the U.S.
Quick — what’s the fat content of whole milk?
55 percent of French respondents didn’t know, compared to 5 percent of Canadians and 4 percent of Americans. (I got the answer wrong, btw, I guessed three percent…oops!).
(As an aside — I love how the writeup refers to the French, the Americans, and the Quebecers…did Quebec become a country when I wasn’t paying attention?)
(Image: Glass of Milk digital print, Meredith Myers)
March 30, 2012
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