Category Archives: 2. Kids & Weight
It’s not the Aspartame we should worry about it’s the 4-MEI
While I wait for someone to find a well-designed study showing risks with Aspartame – because I can’t find one despite years of looking – it does look like there Continue Reading →
The Best Talk on Self-Esteem I Have Come Across
Self-Image: Self-esteem Vs Self-Compassion This TEDx talk by Dr Kristen Neff is perhaps the best talk on the complex area of self-esteem that I have come across. I believe that Continue Reading →
Is your child overweight? 83% of mothers of overweight or obese children thought not!
Following my last post, I looked at a recent Australian study of 324 four-year-olds. While one in five of these youngsters were overweight or obese, 83% of their mothers did Continue Reading →
Is your child overweight? Here are the CDC Charts.
For parents to define if their child is overweight is not simple because weight depends on both age and height and children have this annoying habit of inexorable growth, they Continue Reading →
Defining Love: True Love is a commitment to nurturing personal growth
At a recent workshop I was talking about ‘other-sabotage’. This is when a partner does things like starting to buy chocolates and taking their ‘loved one’ out to their favourite Continue Reading →
Juggling relationships with yourself and others against work
This 30 second speech by Bryan Dyson (CEO of Coca Cola) is worth repeating. “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air – Continue Reading →
1 in 4 kids overweight by age five & 1 in 3 by age eleven!!
Scary stuff! By the time children reach secondary school a third of all children (32.6%) are obese or overweight. While some have suggested the rates are slowing, these figures show Continue Reading →
The Popeye Principle – Who doubts that advertising to children isn’t a powerful factor in childhood obesity?
It was Laura Lovett who described The Popeye Principle in her detailed paper published in 2005 on the First Nutrition Crisis.* In the 1920’s, following the Great War it was Continue Reading →
Weight Loss for Food Lovers arrives for Kindle!
The only problem was that I did not authorise it and have no agreement with them! Amazon appear to be on the case though. The silver lining, was the great Continue Reading →
Weight loss pivots on ‘flexible’ as opposed to ‘rigid’ control
The relationship between dietary restraint and failure to lose weight pivots around the issue of ‘rigid’ as opposed to ‘flexible’ control of eating. If you want to understand why around Continue Reading →