CNN: Meet an anti-obesity activist, MeMe Roth

MeMe Roth calls herself a junk food crusader. Extreme measures or smart parenting? Stephanie Elam reports.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• MeMe Roth activist
• MeMe Roth junk food
• 2011
• CNN
• News
• CNN TV

[FiberMania]

Starve a fat kid (or anyone else for that matter) and they will eat whatever is available at the first opportunity! This is not a character defect it is a function of human biology.

[FiberMania]

It's not calories in vs. calories out..... Until the "experts" get off of that horse this epidemic will continue to worsen. Carbohydrate consumption drives fat storage via insulin. See the Adiposity 101 videos here on YouTube. This is not new knowledge. It has been known for decades, yet the establishment particularly here in the US contiunues to embrace failed treatments. So who funds many of the studies for the establishment? The big pharmaceutical companies! Isn't that nice?

[FiberMania]

@DontForgetIran2010 Insulin is the primary hormone that governs fat regulation in the body. High insulin levels in the body are caused primarily by carbohydrate consumption. Diet (calorie restriction) and exercise have an abysmal track record as a treatment for obesity yet the establishment contimues to beat the same drum. Until the "experts" here in the US start paying more attention to fat regulation systems in the body this obesity epidemic will contimue to worsen.

[FiberMania]

@DontForgetIran2010 Actually you are incorrect. For the last thirty years, the health establishment here in the US has been pushing a calorie restricted (semi-starvation) low fat high carbohydrate diet for weight loss. This may work SHORT TERM, but the body will ALWAYS seek to recover lost resources. Short of chaining a person in a cage and keeping them in semi-starvation this is never a permanant solution. The energy balance theory (CALORIES IN vs.CALORIES OUT) is just plain wrong.

[DontForgetIran2010]

Kids feel so restricted during the week that they binge at the candy store??? Hello! Stop giving your kids money if you don't know how they are spending it! It is as simple as that. American kids are being brought up as sissies anyways and that is why they grow up to be some of the most mindless, uneducated, and complacently stagnant people in the world even though they live in a country where everyone wishes to immigrate to.

[DontForgetIran2010]

@FiberMania Most educated people are well aware that excess carbs, especially excess sugar, is to be avoided at all costs. However, I always wonder why obesity is so prevalent in the US and not in other parts of the world.

[FiberMania]

I would recommend anyone dealing with obesity go to the library and read Gary Taubes "Why We Get Fat" or any other work in the area of low carbohydrate treatment for obesity. Atkins did not invent any of this. German scientists were did a tremendous amount of work in this area back before WWII. Much of it was ignored by the American medical establishment ever since the war. Atkins was simply the first to reinvestigate this work back in the 1970s. I believe this is the correct path.

[FiberMania]

@DontForgetIran2010 Fat people overeat BECAUSE their bodies are bigger. Larger cars will consume more fuel. However eating more is not CAUSE of their excess fat accumulation it is the RESULT of it. Bringing insulin levels down with a carbohydrate restricted diet is the best long term strategy to bring down body fat levels. This is not driven by a lack of willpower or self discipline in most cases. Obesity is largely due to metabolic troubles driven by elevated insulin levels in the blood. CARBS!

[FiberMania]

@DontForgetIran2010 The problem is that the medical establishment has embraced a treatment based on faulty science. Energy balance (calories in vs. calories out) theory is completely ineffective for long term loss of body fat because it does not deal with the biological factors that regulate fat storage. High insulin levels are the mechanism that drives fat storage. The "treatment" the medical establishment refuses to let go of is a proven failure.

[DontForgetIran2010]

@FiberMania Good point about the protein, however one should careless how fat people feel about being called FAT, which is what they are.  They need to stop being crybabies and educating themselves on how to lose weight.