Obesity now affects 17% of all school-age children in the United States—triple the rate from a generation ago! This up-to-date program follows the USDA’s latest Dietary Guidelines and introduces the new MyPlate concept—a brand-new graphic representation of the five food groups which visually helps teens understand the importance of appropriate portion sizes and nutrient-rich food choices. Viewers learn many easy-to-follow strategies for life-long health such as eating less, making at least half of their plate fruits and vegetables, cutting down on salt, drinking more water and making exercise a daily habit. The program emphasizes that a healthy diet should not mean cutting calories, but instead is centered around making the most beneficial food choices while avoiding an excess of salt, sugar and fats.
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here are a few hard facts obesity now
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affects 17 percent of all children and
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adolescents in the United States that’s
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triple the rate in 1980 and if these
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figures are true the health risks are
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also real young people who are
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overweight often lack energy get out of
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breath easily have trouble keeping up
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with their friends and feel
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uncomfortable in their clothes the
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possible long-term effects are even more
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serious people who are overweight in
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their youth are more likely to be
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overweight as adults and study after
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study has shown that this puts them at
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risk for diabetes heart disease high
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blood pressure and other diseases some
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doctors are saying obesity will soon
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rival smoking as a leading cause of
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preventable deaths in our society but
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somehow for many of us such messages
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don’t sink in one reason for this might
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be that we live in what some people
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refer to as a toxic environment toxic
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because of its hazardous effects on our
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health this environment makes exercising
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properly and eating sensible nutritious
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foods more difficult for example drive
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down most major shopping streets or go
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to practically any mall and you’ll see
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many if not most of the major fast-food
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chains they provide an enticing way to
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eat out cheaply and quickly without the
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bother of cooking and cleaning up they
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also provide an unprecedented access to
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a poor diet that lacks a proper balance
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of healthy foods not only do you eat out
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more frequently but when we do eat out
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the portions were served are much larger
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than in the past in 1955 for example
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there was only one size for McDonald’s
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fries 2.3 ounces or 210 calories today a
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large portion of fries weighs 5 point 4
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ounces and equals a whopping 500
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calories and McDonald’s is hardly alone
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in this trend the sizes of everything
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from candy bars to burgers two sodas has
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grown in similar proportions listen to
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nutritionist Elie Krieger one of the big
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problems is that we’re constantly
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confronted with huge portions portions
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that are often double what our parents
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and what our grandparents have had in
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the past and there’s a study that shows
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that when you have a large portion of
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food in front of you you tend to eat
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more if you have a small plate in front
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of you
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you tend to eat less and actually you
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don’t feel more satisfied eating more
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food it’s just simply having that much
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in front of you makes you eat more
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