Obese women’s exercise woes all in their heads

Obese women create more mental roadblocks to fitness than other people do, setting themselves up for failure by thinking they lack self discipline, not wanting to try because of fear of failure and thinking that exercise is too difficult, thus making them less physically active than people who don’t think such thoughts. Other discouraging thoughts include being self-conscious about how they look exercising, being afraid of injury or feeling too heavy to exercise. Overweight women who had such thoughts were less likely to be physically active 12 months after an in-home exercise promotion program than women who didn’t have such mental roadblocks.

FDA issues rundown of melamine recalls

As problems with melamine in food products from China continue to spread, the Food and Drug Administration has published a list of recalled items, which at this point includes candy, coffee drinks and other flavored beverages. The FDA also has a recall alerts page that you can use to find more tainted products or those that have been recalled for allergens or other reasons.

Court rejects appeal from obese man

An Ohio killer who said that using lethal injection on him would be cruel and unusual punishment because he is obese is scheduled to die Tuesday after the Supreme Court in Ohio said he could be executed. Richard W. Cooey II killed two University of Akron students in 1987 and weighs 267 pounds at five foot seven. He argued that the execution team would have problems finding a vein, making his execution more complicated and potentially more painful than normal. Cooey says prison food and lack of exercise contributed to his large size.

Marketing healthy food with characters

It’s no news that famous cartoon characters and celebrities that kids love have been used to market junk food for years, but some companies are starting to use famous faces to sell kids on healthier food. Marketing company Milk Media found that milk consumption went up as much as 34 percent in schools where milk cartons featuring the Disney character Doug were used, and since then SpongeBob has been used to promote produce and Shrek had touted healthier choices at McDonalds. Advocates of such promotions hope that they can help kids see that eating healthy is also cool.

Majority of Americans deal with acid reflux

Finally, whether it’s thanks to more obesity, eating less real food or a combination, more and more Americans have to deal with acid reflux on a daily or regular basis. About 60 percent of us have reflux problems occasionally, and 25 percent have to deal with it every day. A 2007 study suggests that prevalence of acid reflux grows by 5 percent a year, and three million people were hospitalized because of complications of the disorder in 2005. Some experts say medication may be contributing to the problem because people keep eating the foods that cause the problem rather than avoiding those things, and the medicine, altogether.

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

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