Re: More fat linked to less weight in kids study
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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:44:52 +0900
On 29 Jan 2007 14:22:12 -0800, "TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/ng.asp?n=73727-fat-omega-obesity
More fat linked to less weight in kids study
By staff reporter
29/01/2007 - Higher intake of fats is associated with lower body
weight, says new research from Sweden that offers an alternative side
to the role of fat intake in the rise of obesity.
The research also correlated higher BMI with higher sugar intake.
Researcher Malin Haglund Garemo, a dietician from Gothenburg
University in Sweden, said that more studies are planned to
investigate if obesity was being caused by an early increase in
insulin, and not fat.
"Such results would go against the common perception that fat causes
increased insulin production as a result of insulin resistance," she
said.
The rate of childhood obesity is set to double by the end of the
decade, according to recent forecasts by the International Obesity
Task Force (IOTF). The alarming figures on childhood obesity estimate
that by 2010 almost 287 million kids will be obese, and the overall
obese population could rise to 700 million by 2015.
Garemos dissertation study focussed on 182 healthy four-year-olds in
Gothenburg and examined eating habits and lifestyles. Twenty per cent
of the children were classified as being overweight based on their
body mass index (BMI greater than 25 kg per sq. m and less than 30 kg
sq. m), and two per cent were obese (BMI greater than 3030 kg sq. m).
"Most of the children in our study come from good socioeconomic
backgrounds. If the study had reflected all four-year-olds in Sweden,
more children would probably have been overweight," said Haglund
Garemo.
Diets, socio-economic, lifestyle and health questionnaires were
completed by the parents of the children, and analysis of the
children's body build showed that weight increases was a result of the
body storing more fat, but those who ate the most fat were not the
ones who weighed most. Instead, children who ate less fat had higher
BMIs, reports Haglund Garemo.
Startlingly, a fourth of all energy requirements of the children was
coming from "junk food" (candy, ice cream, cookies, and sweet
beverages), despite the overall energy intakes being in accordance
with Nordic nutrition recommendations (NNR 2004).
"Most children had higher intake of saturated fat and sucrose than NNR
2004, while the intake of polyunsaturated fat - especially omega-3
fatty acids, vitamin D and iron were lower than recommended in most
children," wrote Haglund Garemo.
"Every third child in the study ate far too little unsaturated fat,
above all too little omega-3. These children had significantly higher
body weight. This supports other studies that show that obese children
have shortages of omega-3," she said.
Haglund Garemo also reported that many of the four-year old girls in
the study were already displaying signs of the metabolic syndrome, a
condition characterised by central obesity, hypertension, and
disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism. The syndrome has been linked
to increased risks of both type 2 diabetes and CVD.
Indeed, the research indicated that children with the highest insulin
levels gained the most weight since birth.
"Risk factors for the metabolic syndrome can be identified already in
healthy 4-year olds, especially in girls," she said.
The Swedish Research Council published the research findings.
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TC
This is the same dietician's dissertation as before. Are you so short
of anything that seems to you to back up your meat industry mantra?
You'll get your pay docked if you carry on this sloppiness.
jack
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