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Center's Healthy Choices program takes aim at obesity

Lelitza Garcia (left) and Healthy Choices coordinator Tatiana Maida (right) talk with Peter Tsitiridis of Pete’s Fruit Market, where they recently gave food demonstrations.

Kristyna Wentz-Graff


The Healthy Choices program helps families learn about cooking, food choices, eating and different ways to work in exercise to improve their health. »Read Full Article

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  1. While I believe healthy choices has the right idea. I believe everyone should read "Wheat Belly" before they start pushing
    more whole's written by a cardiologist here in Milwaukee. It will shock you.
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  3. Also how does it take a trip to the doctor to realize that your 13 year old is 65lbs overweight and obese! Wow ......
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  4. Wheat Belly is not a fad diet. It explains the genetic modifications that are being made in wheat and grains and what it does to the bodies glycemic index that is causing belly fat.
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  5. It has become confusing at best to remain healthy. First, if you have a limited income, unhealthy food is cheaper. Second, food marketed as low fat is many times packed with calories in the form of sugar or high in sodium, both bad for you. It's easy to say, "eat healthy", but not always simple to do. Add in allergies to nuts, shellfish, grains, etc. and it can be very complicated.
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  6. I find it hard to believe that in the United States, THE FATTEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, some people still are shocked that their fellow Americans are eating too much junk food. I mean, does anybody else open their eyes at State Fair and look at people -- actually LOOK at people and what they're shoveling into their mouths? Obesity is a slow-motion national disaster. It has been for years and that's the case among white people too. This is the country where if you listened closely you could actually hear a squeal of horror permeate the skies when they announced Twinkies was going out of business. This program at 16th Street Clinic is actually doing something to attack obesity and seems to be getting good results. Let's support it and build on it.
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  7. @mke....thank you for the link. Certainly thought provoking.
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  8. ok so I found an article dissing the Wheat Belly book. But read all the comments, 417 of them from people that have followed the book and say that it works.
  9. Glad to see this happening in Milwaukee.

    One correction: there's no such thing as "hormone-free" milk.

    Why? Because all milk comes with natural growth hormones. (Think about it: Nature designed cows' milk to grow a baby calf for about a year.)

    In spite of dairy's "wholesome" image (lots of advertising dollars go into that!), science is finding it may not be so smart to put another species' hormones in your body. There's mounting evidence that the hormones in cows' milk can wreak havoc with the human endocrine system. See

    And being "lactose intolerant" past the age of weaning is actually normal. As mammals, we are supposed to wean.

    But what about calcium? Plant sources of calcium are better for you than dairy. Don't take my word for it; ask the Harvard School of Public Health.

    Finally, I'll add this point against dairy: I'm one of those folks who's known for years that veal is cruel. When I found out the truth behind dairy production, I had to ask myself: Should I be doing dairy, if I'm against veal? So I stopped doing dairy, and have never been happier or healthier.
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