Just wondering what respected doctors and scientists say about the Atkins Diet. Please leave proof and references of the quotes.

Complete video at: fora.tv New York City Commissioner of Health Thomas R. Frieden outlines his goals for reducing America’s obesity epidemic. —– Thomas R. Frieden, the commissioner of the New York City Dept. of Health discusses the structure of the US Health Care System and interventions that can be taken to prevent important health issues like tobacco use and obesity. Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, has served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since January 2002. Dr. Frieden has worked as an epidemiologist, administrator, teacher, researcher, clinician, and community organizer. His top priorities are to strengthen systems to accurately monitor the health of New Yorkers and to use this information to work with communities to improve their health. A graduate of Oberlin College, Dr. Frieden received degrees in Medicine and Public Health from Columbia University. He completed specialty training in Internal Medicine at Columbia and subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases at Yale University.

This video was created by my buddy Sam and I to illustrate the dangers of fast food. Eat in moderation people.

My brother’s child is 9 years old and rapidly becoming obese. They have taken him to doctors and have even put him a special diet for a year. What can the parents do to help the situation?
Please help!
Thank you,
Tom

1. Nowadays doctors and health specialists say that children need to be on a good diet and get all the nutrition that they need but as the reports show, the obesity rate increases in children which causes hypertension at early age. Since we really take good care of our children at early age, why is the obesity rate is keep increasing?

Any ideas? I’m doing a presentation for nutrition class on possible solutions or preventions to lower the obesity rate in our country. Here’s what I thought of so far:

Require schools to have nutrition education in order to graduate (childhood obesity is a huge issue right now)

Ban junk food from schools (such as pizza, hamburgers, taco bell, etc) and have more salad bars with a variety of food to teach children how to make healthy choices.

Have more restaurants who offer smaller portion sizes (like TGI Friday’s "right portion, right price")

Have more restaurants consult a Dietitian to help create a menu with healthy options.

Only 5% of Medical schools require their students to take a nutrition class and even then, its usually just a basic class. This is a problem because most people consult their doctors for nutrition advice when they aren’t very qualified. I think all medical schools should require nutrition classes.

I need more ideas please. Thanks!

…and several more health risks, as claimed by doctors and medical researchers? What could be the natural and less expensive way to minimize or prevent all these risks?

Thanks for your helpful ideas! )

It has been explained to me that the SSRIs we have, have helped many to cope with depression. Just like any other disease, this chemical imbalance can also be treated. Someone with diabetes can be treated with insulin-and the same goes here. I agree it is a good thing we have SSRIs. But is it worth giving agains’t all the odds? -And why are doctors more dedicated towards their medicice than helping the individual?

I have social anxiety and when I take prozac it helps enormously. But the down fall is I get very very tired. I sleep almost the whole weekend and have no energy? The risks of sleeping so much are great- obesity, osteoporosis, developing depression on top of the anxiety, etc

But yet somehow my psychiatrist continues to prescribe prozac to me. I guess she too believes SSRIs are such a great asset to society- they must help treat everyone-who cares about the side-effects?

Why do psychiatrists believe so much in SSRIs that they forget to treat patients?
I didn’t write prozac caused obestity. Sleeping all the time could.

I take my 5 year old daughter to school everyday. I’ve noticed that about 85% of the children at the school are overweight, I am not kidding. Especially the girls. Walking down the street you may notice the same thing. Is this because of all the fast and processed foods? Is it because people don’t work how they use to..(farming, hard labor) What is the cause and is there a soloution? I live in Canada. There are doctors in this country that won’t accept a patient that smokes. Aren’t the prolonged effects of obesity going to cause the same problems that a smoker may endure?

I am 30 years old and mother of 17 months old baby. 2 weeks ago I has laproscopic surgery of gall bladder. I had stones in my bile duct, so doctors removed my gall bladder. I know gall bladder helps in breaking down the fats. I just want to know that I will be obese in future or not? and how can I prevent my obesity?My height is 5.3 and my weight is 110 pounds. I know two more ladies who became fat after the gall bladder removal