FROM THE NEW ZCIENTIST A fat tummy shrivels your brain HAVING a larger waistline may shrink your brain. Obesity is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, which is known to be associated with cognitive impairment. So Antonio Convit at the New York University School of Medicine wanted to see what impact obesity had on the physical structure of the brain. He used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of 44 obese individuals with those of 19 lean people of similar age and background. He found that obese individuals had more water in the amygdala - a part of the brain involved in eating behaviour. He also saw smaller orbitofrontal cortices in obese individuals, important for impulse control and also involved in feeding behaviour (Brain Research, in press). "It could mean that there are less neurons, or that those neurons are shrunken," says Convit. Eric Stice at Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, thinks that the findings strengthen the "slippery slope" theory of obesity. "If you overeat, it appears to result in neural changes that increase the risk for future overeating," he says. Obesity is associated with a constant, low-level inflammation, which Convit thinks explains the change in brain size. READ MORE FROM THE TELEGRAPH A study by academics from the University of California and Northwestern University claimed that "the causal link between the consumption of restaurant foods and obesity is minimal at best." It argued that a tax on high-calorie food, as proposed by many health campaigners in the US and Britain, may therefore not be an effective way for governments to tackle the problem. The study analysed data compiled by the US Department of Agriculture on calorie intake around the country. It found that people living closer to restaurants were not significantly more likely to be obese than people living further away, indicating that easy access to restaurants had little effect. It also showed that while restaurant meals typically held more calories than home-produced food, many customers often offset this by eating less throughout the rest of the day. Obese people who ate at restaurants, the study indicated, "also eat more when they eat at home." The US government estimates that about one in three Americans, or 100 million in total, are obese. READ MORE BULLSHIT From The Guardian McDonald's is hardly an ideal dining location for anyone struggling to stay slim. But the fast food chain scored a PR coup today when Weight Watchers agreed to endorse some of its products in New Zealand – a move met with outrage by nutritionists and obesity experts. As part of the deal, which the company says is the first of its kind in the world, McDonald's will use the Weight Watchers logo on its menu boards and Weight Watchers will promote McDonald's to dieters. The link-up is the fast-food chain's latest attempt to improve its reputation by securing endorsements. In January, to the horror of gastronomes, Italy's agriculture minister, Luca Zaia, helped launch the McItaly range of burgers. For a representative of one of the world's greatest culinary nations to do such a thing was "a sign of the moral bankruptcy of Silvio Berlusconi's government", wrote Matthew Fort in the Guardian. Several items on the fast food giant's menu – the Filet-O-Fish, Chicken McNuggets and Sweet Chilli Seared Chicken Wrap – have been approved for the Weight Watchers diet in McDonald's 150 New Zealand restaurants. Each meal is worth 6.5 points on the programme, which assigns points to food items and allows dieters to consume 18 to 40 points each day to achieve their goal weight. McDonald's New Zealand managing director, Mark Hawthorne, said: "We were able to include some of our most popular items because of the many changes we have made over the years. READ MORE "Hey black kids... Eat shit its cool... ok?"
It would seem that every time we as black people take a step forward one of us does the two step back... Pharrell Williams partakes in a failed McDonald's publicity stunt, in cooperation with the Pfizers lipitor, to the cheers of social Darwinists abroad. High production/ low quality hip pop artists have been commissioned to combat any possible beneficial role model effect of having a distinguished black person in the white house (paid to lie to us of course), by encouraging their brethren to stick it to the man by buying his debilitating fast food, shrouding themselves in his oppressive garments made in third world, and celebrating their own destruction yip fucken diddly do!!!! Newsweek published an article attempting to link heart failure in blacks to genetics, which may have some merit. Reverse the trend: Boning your way to freedumb
![]() Tired of letting those unnecessary calories you accumulated through overeating to weather your lifelong depression in the developed world go to waste? Would you like to waste this excess energy to gratify yourself even more? Well corporate media has a solution for you! Distract yourself from the fact that you are getting screwed by people youll never see, by screwing the closest person to you! A new study has shown that an hour long romp can burn as much as 300 calories and have positive effects on our physiology. So eat more, have more sex, but whatever you don't think! And whatever you do, don't stop overeating! A meal to die for ZZZ- mailing ![]() First case of ZZZ-mailing is noted as a woman has been found by University of Toledo researchers to be emailing friends while asleep, inviting them over for coffee and what not. In contrast to other forms of sleep walking and acting this is thought to symbolize just how hardwired the activity of using a computer and email is as it requires finer motor movements and procedures (as author checks in to facebook for 28th time in one day). Gluttony is in your genes!
![]() The US media continues in its campaign which alleges that the reason why people choose fries over apples is not because they have been conditioned to do so by media campaigns which generate billions in revenue for privatized health care, rather there is a gene which determines this. The FTO gene is now being blamed not for higher metabolism but the desire to go for more calorie “enriched” foods. Yeah. And not the fact that peoples taste buds have been trained to react to MSG, preservative laden, nutrient devoid food, and have been told that in order for food to be fast it must also be unhealthy. This is asides the point that 99% of Americans at some point immigrated to the country, or for a significant portion dragged their against their will, thus we shouldnt at all be shocked that this random sample of the global population has the anomalie of being obese. Right. Because Africans are so fat, because the poor pioneers who sought to live off their backs werent agile at all, clearly clearing the western frontier was accomplished by fat indoctrinated fucks who were able to thwart the geurrila warfare efforts of millions of native Americans. Clearly, the reason for American obesity has nothing to do with culture whatsoever and we should all buy the pill that increases metabolism in order to continue exceeding our share of the earths resources. November 23rd 2008 CONSUMER HEALTH AND DEPOPULATION 1) More evidence that fluoridated water makes for a pacified population of American Idol-izing halfwits is revealed. Officially fluoride is added in drinking water and distributed to elementary school children (especially in low income areas) in an attempt to prevent tooth decay… Dr Vyvyan Howard (president for the international society of doctors for the environment) has found that it may negatively effect the growth of the fetus based on the evidence that breast milk contains an agent which naturally combats the fluoride molecule. His research claims to show that it can have a negative impact on the intellectual development of a child… Which may explain the why since the 1940’s (when it was first introduced into North American water supplies) people have been getting progressively dumber and complacent, and of course this… http://www.youtube.com/wat 2) New study claims that Obese people are self-perpetuating. Insists that a high fat diet pregnancy will lead to super-sized children… taking the blame away from fast food chains… McDonald's with the assistance of the CIA set to reveal maternity menu soon… 3) Impoverished Brazilians given free Botox, to reduce the wrinkles gained from the wage disparities in country built on slavery, and promote the idea of self-deception and winning prestige through tricking people into thinking you are younger than you are like their already infantilized northern counterparts. Thus increasing the need for a big brother to baby-sit. 4) Continued outrage over forced abortion in china, as a woman is denied the birthing of 3rd child (one of thousands but somehow this one made US headlies), American McCarthyist pro-lifers infuriated that they are not forced to have the children. 5) Digital music players released for toddlers, to impede the development of their soon to be coerced attention spans, and ruin their eardrums before the age of 6 prepping them for a life in front of the digital care giver, and drowning out the real world. | All News
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