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	<title>Paging Dr La Puma &#187; Child Obesity</title>
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		<title>Weight Regain: Not Your Fault. It&#8217;s Your Hormones. But Which?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[34 people whittled down from 50 were followed over 16 months after a 10 week crash diet and lots of counseling: they lost 29# on average, and gained back 12#. Their hormones (leptin, peptide YY, cholecystokinin, insulin, ghrelin and gastric inhibitory polypeptide) continued to scream&#8230;eat! And they were hungry, thought about food, and wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Employers Pay for Childhood Obesity Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employers are going to begin being asked to pay for childhood obesity treatment. And it may be in their best interest to do so. The two largest health care costs for employers are employees who are &#8220;heavy users&#8221; (interestingly, the same term is used in the fast food industry for diners who eat-in 14x/week or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Calorie Counts: How Accurate? How Relevant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new JAMA study of calories from Tufts shows that the single serving take-out portions of solid foods (not beverages or buffets) from 14 large-chain quick-service restaurants (e.g, Chipotle, McD&#8217;s, Bob Evans) vary widely but have about the calories their websites claim. Sides, desserts, salads and carb-rich foods, however, often have more. On The Border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the Carbs? Or the Calories? Or Both?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting takes on the new Harvard study in the NEJM that shows that some foods fatten Americans&#8230;and by how many pounds per year. Marion Nestle at Food Politics believes that &#8220;people who eat potato chips and fries also tend to eat too much in general, making these foods markers for a diet leading to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Chef a Doctor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;when asked about all the gouty feet and engorged livers he had left behind him, [Bocuse once said]  &#8220;A chef is not a doctor.&#8221; So writes Josh Osersky, in &#8220;Fine Food and Fat: Are Chefs to Blame for Obesity?&#8221; about Paul Bocuse (famous chef, French Cuisine ambassador, and admired teacher). Au contraire. Actually, a chef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Recognize If Your Child Is Obese: Results from a Pediatrician&#8217;s Office</title>
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		<title>Your Weight, and &#8220;The Burger and Fries Recovery&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it were true that “Americans are still better off spending an extra hour at work and letting someone else do the cooking,” then America’s obesity rate would be going down. But it’s not. Home cooking is one of the few natural defenses Americans have against obesity. The usual complaints, including those in the Zagats’ “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Doctors Should Say to Patients Who Want to Lose Weight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed recently by the American College of Physicians about best practices for physicians who find it uncomfortable to speak with their patients who want to lose weight. The resulting article focused on &#8220;motivational interviewing&#8221;: I just think about it as how to speak with patients. Here is a video on motivational interviewing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Walmart Better-For-You? Yes, Nutritionally.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Marion Nestle points out on NPR&#8217;s piece on Walmart&#8217;s nutrition initiative, farm subsidies are what drives the availability of processed foods over whole, fresh foods. We often don&#8217;t eat and cook healthy because it&#8217;s cheaper not to. And kids too often suffer. But what she missed is the difference between philosophy and practice. Whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Overweight Kids&#8230;With What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Molly Ferguson is a naturopath in Michigan who is courageous enough to discuss treating childhood obesity. Video: Treating Childhood Obesity Putting kids on a diet has long been terrifying to physicians because we are frightened about creating eating disorders (the other way!) But there is good data to show that the suggestions she makes: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Kids Recipes in 25 Minutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month I had the privilege of demo&#8217;ing 4 kids&#8217; recipes in 25 minutes for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara in a fantastic local kitchen and home. But it turned out that the adults liked the recipes and the simple kitchen tips, and thought the recipes were for them! Which they were. I loved Chef [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Kids to Eat Vegetables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avoiding and treating child obesity is not the only reason to get kids to eat vegetables. It&#8217;s helping them start on a lifetime of flavorful eating.  Flavor is the missing ingredients in many good-for-you foods because too many adults lack the simple cooking, shopping and choosing skills to make vegetables taste good. That problem goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Trip to Sacto: Obesity Testimony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;m testifying at a Legislative Informational Hearing on Diabetes and Obesity at the California State Capitol in Sacramento on what works in practice. It&#8217;s not unfamiliar, but still a challenge. I did testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aging about the care near the end of life in the 1990s. Now the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vending Machines in Kids&#8217; Hospitals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most visible food in the hospital is in vending machines. And it isn&#8217;t pretty: see the unedited photo at right. In the U.S., we have 25% more vending machines in each children&#8217;s hospital than does Canada. In fact, U.S. kids&#8217; hospitals average 9.3 vending machines each. What&#8217;s in hospital vending machines? 99 out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention Will Be Cheap. But Fun?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For 43 million Americans on September 23 and probably the rest of the U.S sometime in 2011, preventive services just got cheaper. No co-pays, no deductibles, no direct charges for stuff that works. Now, we must figure out how to make it fun, sexy and easy. For kids and adults.  But doctors getting paid to [...]]]></description>
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