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Is there a fitness subject that you would like to know more about? If so, email me at cpkarkow@sportswestreno.com and let me know! I'll be happy to find out some info and post it here!
Christine

September 23, 2007

If you see it, you'll eat it!

According to Brian Wansink, head of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, we are helpless before temptation. Read the full article at www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/21/kd.mindless.eating/index.html This article is among many that accompanies the CNN current Series "America's Killer Diet", with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. (For full schedule, go to: www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/siu/shows/fed.up/

I especially like this series because they highlight many of the issues that I have been complaining about for years! For example, you will see on www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/siu/shows/fed.up/ an article about the direct correlation between highly sweetened beverages and obesity. All of those sodas are adding up to make our fellow Americans weigh a lot more than they should! And, last night there was a segment on the lack of availablity of fresh produce in many of America's underpriviliged neighborhoods and how some people are growing their own produce in community gardens. Both the television reports and the CNN website are worth digging into and reading, as they are shedding light on obesity, a growing problem in the US, and, more importantly, the measures we can take to try and stop it!

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