A Healthier Parent

Healthier children live with healthier parents. If you lose fat, manage your weight and eat low glycemic foods - your children will have a super example.

Watch the silly video and then go to: http://lynndorman.blogspot.com to see the special offer for USA residents. Look for weight management products as well as products for children.

Get 2009 off to a healthy start!!

Obesity and Thyroid Damage

Saw this article the other day and it's scary...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081203/hl_nm/us_obesity_children_3

Obese children may be damaging their thyroids, creating a vicious cycle of metabolism and overweight, Italian researchers reported on Wednesday.

Obesity may cause inflammation that damages the thyroid, which secretes hormones to regulate metabolism and other important functions, Dr. Giorgio Radetti of the Regional Hospital of Bolzano in Italy and colleagues said.

They evaluated 186 overweight and obese children for about three years, testing thyroid hormone levels and thyroid antibodies and imaging the thyroid gland using ultrasound.

"Our study shows that alterations in thyroid function and structure are common in obese children and we may have uncovered the link," Radetti said in a statement.

Why scary? I developed a thyroid problem when in my 40's and ultimately had to have my thyroid nuked. Before that solution I would go from hyper to hypothyroid at different times so I know first hand what both sets of symptoms do to you and your body! and it's scary.

I take a synthetic thyroid hormone daily and even with that there are occasional problems. At my age, I am tuned into my body and can wait it out to see if it's temporary or if I need to get tested and get a different dosage. Not sure I could have done that as a young child.

Mine was not set off by obesity but something else...but I do know that managing my weight has been an on again off again issue for me until now. Why now? I take a whey product that works - and I have lost inches of fat - that belly at that is so dangerous for us. [disclaimer - I also market the product.]

Please parents - if you or your children are obese do something about it...Obesity is life threatening and related to nothing good.

If you'd like more info about the fat loss product I use please contact me - go to full profile and you can email me from there.

Melamine - a reason to get back to this blog

I have been so busy with my other blogs I had to let some go without posting....

But saw that I need to get back to this one as I read this news clip:

WASHINGTON – Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.

Food and Drug Administration officials set a threshold of 1 part per million of melamine in formula so long as a related chemical isn't also present. They said they are continuing to analyze the results of tests on 87 samples of infant formula, but of the 74 samples analyzed so far, one had traces of melamine below the new threshold and another had traces of cyanuric acid, a related contaminant. None had both contaminants.

That's key because studies so far show dangerous health effects only when both chemicals are present, said Dr. Stephen Sundlof, FDA's director of food safety.

Full article: here

I'm sorry - but why we "allow" a certain amount of something like melamine in baby food [or adult food] is beyond me. In China lots of it went into food and we were unhappy - but when it's in food produced here - we don't see so much yelling...because in the name of greed and profit - we "allow" melamine and contaminants in the food our babies eat...


I hope come January 20th we have new policies concerning food safety - especially infant food safety!