Foods To Prevent Obesity?

Puleeze! It is a crying shame at what the food people will do to earn a buck. Lean meat,veggies, and good fat do the satiety trick just fine.

Emmm....maybe they want to produce food filled with bitter aloes....

I think nature has beat the Dutch to this invention. Nature's invention is called "fruit and veggies".

Jeez.

Brian

the industry now feels responsibility to respond to the health situation," Brummer said.

My, isn't that misleading. Since when does industry have any other base line interest other than making money. Consumer health was never the issue. Getting away with what one can and make money at it is the issue.

'Inventing foods'...rubbish.

Fruit and vegetables - are great healthy fillers along with healthy proteins. Add that with no processed foods, moderation and proper chewing of food/eating slowly...and it is difficult to get obese.

(Oh, and of course proper water consumption and at least moderate exercise...but everyone knows that, right? ;>)

@Patricia:
I know it's hard to believe, but industry does not equal evil.
In fact, you being able to post your knee-jerk cliches is made possible by a number of industries.

The next time you're using your computer, your car, your bike, pulling food from your refrigerator, eat your fresh and botulism free food, remember that it was industry who made it possible for you to live in a world of such convenience.

@Everyone:

So what if they want to make a profit? I understand that having a profit motive can go to an extreme, but what civilization have you ever known where an industry thrives without being able to maintain a profit?

If I make XYZ product that enriches peoples lives, provides them a service they like and want, whats the matter with wanting a profit?

And what tangible good spurs people on to do their best? Capital.

And for everyone saying that fruit and vegetables already provide satiety, I agree.

But is that all anyone should ever eat?

Everyone gripes about how the food industry makes junk food that is nutritionally bankrupt and causing people to get fat, and yet when they attempt to do something about it, everyone complains.

Frankly, while I enjoy fruit and vegetables, if someone invented high fiber, low sugar ice cream, I would gladly snack on that.

I guess the bottom line is, folks, that there is nothing wrong with people in this world trying to improve the things that we consume. Even little improvements help.

And yes, the potential profit margin is what enables that research to continue.

And the next time you're in the doctors getting a flu shot, or having surgery, remember it was that same profit motive that is allowing your overall health to benefit.

I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I don't like the way our foods are being tampered with, whether it's to earn a buck or not (and we all know it's to earn many bucks).

I also think there's an issue of personal responsibility here. Do we just turn our self-control over to the food companies when we need to lose weight? It sounds like the Big Brother of food.

I don't want a food company deciding when I've eaten enough. That's my decision.

The Program Director of the Dutch research group wasn't named Clark W. Griswold by any chance, was he?

Nate Cavanaugh said:
I know it's hard to believe, but industry does not equal evil.[...]

Not difficult at all to believe, Nate. Where is your 'problem'? We are speaking here of a particular 'type' and 'kind' of industry and those are the ones I was referring to. Was I too general? Sorry, I should have spelled it out more clearly. :>D

Knee-jerk clichés? LOL...I am certainly not alone in my opinions...and ah...have you noticed I too am allowed to them. No need to get emotional or rude.

And 'improving' the things we consume is...quite hotly debatible as to the definition of 'improvement'. Ooops, was that a cliché there?

On the topic of business, I thought that this story was fascinating:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9104346

It's a good example of the tensions in a business.

I agree with moderation. Every food is a recipe for disaster if not taken in moderation. That's what balanced diet is all about. Following it is a great way to stay healthy

I get so upset and angry when I read how different foods can make you lose weight. I would read the articles and think, "Now I will be thin." What I was looking for was a magic fix that would help me lose weight. Eight years ago, I found my magic fix which is to eliminate sugar and flour from my diet and use portion control. The bottom line is that you lose weight when you have a strong commitment and do anything it takes to make your dream a reality.

Nate Cavanaugh said:
Everyone gripes about how the food industry makes junk food that is nutritionally bankrupt and causing people to get fat, and yet when they attempt to do something about it, everyone complains.[...]

BUT. To me the issue is marketing and spin. Some foods are carefully marketed so as to be something that they are not. That truly annoys me, and that is where certain industries must be challenged and questioned.

Jim said:
BUT. To me the issue is marketing and spin. Some foods are carefully marketed so as to be something that they are not. That truly annoys me, and that is where certain industries must be challenged and questioned.[...]

They may be entitled to produce what they want, but I feel strongly that although there is nothing wrong with making money, there is something wrong in knowingly compromising long term public health - yes, through their spin and clever marketing ;>D

The interesting fact that inspire me is that "25 percent of deaths and serious illness caused by overweight and obesity would be avoided if adults shed 3 kg.". I think we can at least try to lose this amount of weight.

@Patricia:

Patricia (Spain) said:
Not difficult at all to believe, Nate. Where is your 'problem'? We are speaking here of a particular 'type' and 'kind' of industry and those are the ones I was referring to. Was I too general? Sorry, I should have spelled it out more clearly. :>D[...]

You didn't say The industry, you didn't even narrow down what you were saying to a specific industry. You implied all industries. If that's not what you meant,
then sorry if I misconstrued what you said. However, remember that the onus of effort falls upon the person trying to communicate a point, not on everyone else to decipher it.

And yes, they're knee-jerk cliches. Knee-jerk because they're not rational, and are reactionary on an emotional level, and cliches because they've been uttered ad infinitum.

It's almost as if you believe some secret cabal of food industry moguls are all sitting around trying to find a way to screw the public.

The fact is, most of the time, it's just a giant collection of people all doing their job, and trying to keep their mortgages paid.

But I will say this, much of the industry is trying to find food that is safe, healthy, and popularly consumed.

Trust me, if the food industry could find a way to make a product that was healthy, prevented cancer, cleaned your colon, was tasty, and easily and profitably manufactured, they would be packaging it out in droves.

But, much of the time, the food industry is strong armed into making crappy decisions by knee-jerk reactionaries.

For instance, trans fat was made in response to everyone griping about real fat and how "dangerous" it is.

Same thing happened with DDT, which was relatively harmless, and ended up being replaced with something that ended up costing more, and is killing the worlds poor all over.

Anyways, off on a tangent.

@Jim:

I agree with you about questioning marketing and spin. If someone is marketing fat as nutritional (which it can be), or out and out being deceptive, then yes, question away.
Providing clarity is incredibly important.

But with this, it seems like you're questioning just to question.

There's no marketing here, no spin. They're saying they're working on something. What exactly are you questioning? That they want a bigger margin?

They're looking to make foods that provide satiety while providing variety.

It's a noble goal. Now lets wait for the actual results before we judge the product.

(And any person who would claim that the attempt is doomed because it's not a natural food supply is a moron. Just because it's made in a lab doesn't make it bad).

I have been sugarless and butter, fatty of fat for 6years. Haven't made much progress on the butter and the fat, now thats the bad fat not the good fat. What foods have all the above ingrediance without taking away the good fat? I just don't get it. I went from 272lbs to 239lbs but would like to be 225lbs. Where am I going wrong?

We can't escape the fact that humans keep on finding and inventing ways to satisfy. However, they are no longer thinking about satisfaction in this case. It is in the post that we already have food to satisfy and that creating foods to prevent obesity would only mean greed.

Weight loss blog said:
The interesting fact that inspire me is that "25 percent of deaths and serious illness caused by overweight and obesity would be avoided if adults shed 3 kg.". I think we can at least try to lose this amount of weight.[...]

Where are the facts to back that? Cause 3 kg (6.6lb) wouldn't even put a dent on the people most likely to suffer obesity-related health problems's health, and I refuse to believe that someone that is 3 kg over the HWR are going to face health problems because of those kilos. It sounds like a "fat scare" statistic to me.

Certain foods cause obesity (e.g. deep-fried foods, and pretty much any over-processed food), so avoiding that kind of junk food, and replacing it with real, unprocessed food should do the trick.

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Does anyone know how to stop obesity? Are we all dumb here on this earth?