60 Greatest Playoff Moments, Horry Checks Nash enroute to NBA Championship

[xbocker]

LMFAO watch this funny classical video. 60 greatest playoff moments Horry Checks Steve Nash

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MIYc8kzoy_0

[Walter Craparita]

Bell would have gotten his bell rung had they not been holding back Horry.

[SRJ]

That game could have been one of the greatest wins in Suns history if Amare and Diaw hadn't screwed it all up.

[Kriz-Maxima]

...yeah right.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I still don't see why Kriz-Maxima is enjoying that flag.

[Leetonidas]

Seeing that again makes me realize what a fucking flop that shit was.

[bdictjames]

Yeah, this is a smart one made by a guy who calls himself sportsactionz.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Horry is OG.

[thispego]

goddamnit i was pissed off that night

[Kriz-Maxima]

I still don't see why Kriz-Maxima is enjoying that flag.


Why?

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Why?
Dude move your cursor over it. :spin

[Kriz-Maxima]

Dude move your cursor over it. :spin


If i was an envious suns fan then that would be ok to say, but i actually like the spurs. You could say i am a fan, as long as they dont get in the way of the Pistons.

Pistons are first and foremost though.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Very well then.

[milkyway21]

what is the real story behind Horry's impending return?

It's not really old age, right?
:lmao
---------------------------------

Pop's post-game interview last night:

Robert Horry missed his 15th straight game to start the season for the Spurs after also sitting out the preseason for personal reasons.

Coach Gregg Popovich isn't too worried about Horry being prepared to return.

"I think he deserves to not have me bug him," Popovich said. "When he's ready, he'll tell me." - AP

[Shred]

OverweightTeen.com - San Antonio Obesity (http://www.overweightteen.com/san-antonio-obesity.html)

When “Texas Bigger” is Not Always Better:
San Antonio Is Fattest City in the USA

Sometime ago the American Obesity Association declared San Antonio, Texas, the fattest city in the United States. According to statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 31% of its residents are obese and 65% are overweight: the worst record in the nation.

Every year Men’s Fitness Magazine lists the fattest cities in the United States based on non-scientific factors such as numbers of fast food restaurants, gyms and parks, alcohol use, etc. Every year San Antonio is always near the top of the magazine’s list of fattest cities.

What can be done about San Antonio’s status as one of the fattest cities in the United States?

The answer might be in helping San Antonio’s smallest citizens lose weight.

“Obesity is being programmed between the age of 0 and 3. These are very important formative years,” according to a local pediatrician who specializes in diabetes.

Dr. Robert Trevino is the head of Bienestar, a San Antonio program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes by improving their diets and increasing physical activity.

“If we provide a better environment for children,” Dr. Trevino says, “with more fruit, vegetables and activity and limits on television viewing, we will raise a healthier population in the future.”

There is no doubt that San Antonio’s children, even the very youngest, are too fat. One major study done by the University of Texas Department of Pediatrics looked at 7200 children in San Antonio, ages kindergarten to 12th grade. These children were overweight and obese at levels far above the national norms. Researchers concluded that “measures to prevent, reduce or treat childhood obesity are urgently needed.”

A more recent study of 1976 low-income children in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin under age three years found that 35% were overweight and obese and at risk for diabetes and other health problems. The results of this study, funded by the Robert Wood Health Foundation, appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said this study of three-year-olds points to “the impending disaster we have with diabetes that’s looming all over America.”

“I have now given up being astounded,” he said. “Every time new data comes out, it’s more than I ever would have believed.”

Besides being at risk for diabetes, San Antonio’s overweight children are also developing heart disease.

“Our work shows that the process of hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis begins in some people during the teenage years,” said C. Alex McMahan, a statistician at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His team proved that a child’s weight and cholesterol levels can accurately predict the health of his or her arteries as an adult.

Dr. Henry McGill, a pathologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, said, “Ninety percent of heart attacks can be prevented in adults. But it’s got to start in childhood….It’s going to take physicians to support the idea, and it’s going to take parents to carry it out by setting a good model for their children.”

Dr. McGill said the best way to help children is through healthier diet and more exercise, not prescriptions for cholesterol drugs.

Overweight children are not only developing serious diseases over time, they also suffer psychologically. Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey found that obese females in particular have lower self-esteem by early adolescence, and that all overweight children are “significantly” sadder, lonelier and more nervous than children of normal weights. They also are more likely to drink and smoke as teenagers.

Involving Parents to Help Overweight Kids

Most experts in the field of childhood obesity believe that parents are the key to solving their children’s problems, but many do not want to admit their children have problems.

When Texas legislators wanted to send home “report cards” to parents of overweight children, the measure was shot down as “too much government.”

“The simple fact is that most parents of overweight children do not want to be told that their children are overweight,” believes Professor Daniel Hoffman of the Nutritional Science Department at Rutgers University.

Nutritionist Peggy Visio, a special project coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, believes in working through adults, not children.
“Parents are the ones who buy the groceries,” she said. ”If you just teach the child, it puts all the burden on them, and that’s not fair. You can’t send the child home to teach the family.”

Parents, in an effort to please their children, often buy them junk food and eat it along with their children. A study published in January 2007 from the University of Michigan actually proved parents eat more high fat foods than adults who do not have children. Researchers concluded that parents buy pizza and other high-fat convenience foods for their children but tend to eat these items themselves.

How Can Parents Help Children to Lose Weight?

The first step is often just to admit your child has a problem.

If you are willing to accept that your child has a problem, you are more than halfway to solving it.

The next step is to check with your physician for guidelines to a better diet. A common sense approach, rather than a radical “quick loss” diet, works best with children. Limit snacks. Eliminate junk foods: replace them with fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Enroll your child in a gym or sports program which can provide your child with regular physical exercise. Limit television and computer time.

If such simple measures do not help your child lose weight over time, you may consider enrolling your child in a professional weight-loss program. Make sure your program uses scientifically proven methods of behavior modification, family involvement, nutritional education, and healthy diet. There should be professionally trained and accredited experts on the staff, such as child psychologists and nutritionists. Stay away from old-fashioned, old-style “weight loss camps” that use punishing methods. If you use a weight-loss camp, find one that has a scientifically oriented program with follow-up so that your child’s weight loss becomes a permanent one.



REFERENCES

“Baltimore Surprised by New Title: America’s Fittest,” USA Today, January 6, 2006, posted at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-06-fittest-city_x.htm

Cummings, Jim. “Texas senator proposes ‘obesity reports’”, NBC News, January 31, 2005, posted at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890798/

Lorentzen, Amy. “Parents Eat More Fat than Non-Parents,” January 10, 2007, Associated Press news release, posted at CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/diet.kids.adults.ap/index.html

The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2007, page A18.

Overweight and Obesity in United States Cities, The American Obesity Association Facts and Figures, posted at http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml

Park, MK, Menard, SW and Schoolfield, J. “Prevalence of Overweight in a triethnic pediatric population of San Antonio, Texas.” The International Journal of Obesity, 2001, Volume 25, pg. 409-416.

Rigby, Wendy. “Researchers say preventing heart disease begins with children,” KENS Channel 5 news, December 1, 2006

[Mister Sinister]

OverweightTeen.com - San Antonio Obesity (http://www.overweightteen.com/san-antonio-obesity.html)

When “Texas Bigger” is Not Always Better:
San Antonio Is Fattest City in the USA

Sometime ago the American Obesity Association declared San Antonio, Texas, the fattest city in the United States. According to statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 31% of its residents are obese and 65% are overweight: the worst record in the nation.

Every year Men’s Fitness Magazine lists the fattest cities in the United States based on non-scientific factors such as numbers of fast food restaurants, gyms and parks, alcohol use, etc. Every year San Antonio is always near the top of the magazine’s list of fattest cities.

What can be done about San Antonio’s status as one of the fattest cities in the United States?

The answer might be in helping San Antonio’s smallest citizens lose weight.

“Obesity is being programmed between the age of 0 and 3. These are very important formative years,” according to a local pediatrician who specializes in diabetes.

Dr. Robert Trevino is the head of Bienestar, a San Antonio program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes by improving their diets and increasing physical activity.

“If we provide a better environment for children,” Dr. Trevino says, “with more fruit, vegetables and activity and limits on television viewing, we will raise a healthier population in the future.”

There is no doubt that San Antonio’s children, even the very youngest, are too fat. One major study done by the University of Texas Department of Pediatrics looked at 7200 children in San Antonio, ages kindergarten to 12th grade. These children were overweight and obese at levels far above the national norms. Researchers concluded that “measures to prevent, reduce or treat childhood obesity are urgently needed.”

A more recent study of 1976 low-income children in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin under age three years found that 35% were overweight and obese and at risk for diabetes and other health problems. The results of this study, funded by the Robert Wood Health Foundation, appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said this study of three-year-olds points to “the impending disaster we have with diabetes that’s looming all over America.”

“I have now given up being astounded,” he said. “Every time new data comes out, it’s more than I ever would have believed.”

Besides being at risk for diabetes, San Antonio’s overweight children are also developing heart disease.

“Our work shows that the process of hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis begins in some people during the teenage years,” said C. Alex McMahan, a statistician at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His team proved that a child’s weight and cholesterol levels can accurately predict the health of his or her arteries as an adult.

Dr. Henry McGill, a pathologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, said, “Ninety percent of heart attacks can be prevented in adults. But it’s got to start in childhood….It’s going to take physicians to support the idea, and it’s going to take parents to carry it out by setting a good model for their children.”

Dr. McGill said the best way to help children is through healthier diet and more exercise, not prescriptions for cholesterol drugs.

Overweight children are not only developing serious diseases over time, they also suffer psychologically. Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey found that obese females in particular have lower self-esteem by early adolescence, and that all overweight children are “significantly” sadder, lonelier and more nervous than children of normal weights. They also are more likely to drink and smoke as teenagers.

Involving Parents to Help Overweight Kids

Most experts in the field of childhood obesity believe that parents are the key to solving their children’s problems, but many do not want to admit their children have problems.

When Texas legislators wanted to send home “report cards” to parents of overweight children, the measure was shot down as “too much government.”

“The simple fact is that most parents of overweight children do not want to be told that their children are overweight,” believes Professor Daniel Hoffman of the Nutritional Science Department at Rutgers University.

Nutritionist Peggy Visio, a special project coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, believes in working through adults, not children.
“Parents are the ones who buy the groceries,” she said. ”If you just teach the child, it puts all the burden on them, and that’s not fair. You can’t send the child home to teach the family.”

Parents, in an effort to please their children, often buy them junk food and eat it along with their children. A study published in January 2007 from the University of Michigan actually proved parents eat more high fat foods than adults who do not have children. Researchers concluded that parents buy pizza and other high-fat convenience foods for their children but tend to eat these items themselves.

How Can Parents Help Children to Lose Weight?

The first step is often just to admit your child has a problem.

If you are willing to accept that your child has a problem, you are more than halfway to solving it.

The next step is to check with your physician for guidelines to a better diet. A common sense approach, rather than a radical “quick loss” diet, works best with children. Limit snacks. Eliminate junk foods: replace them with fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Enroll your child in a gym or sports program which can provide your child with regular physical exercise. Limit television and computer time.

If such simple measures do not help your child lose weight over time, you may consider enrolling your child in a professional weight-loss program. Make sure your program uses scientifically proven methods of behavior modification, family involvement, nutritional education, and healthy diet. There should be professionally trained and accredited experts on the staff, such as child psychologists and nutritionists. Stay away from old-fashioned, old-style “weight loss camps” that use punishing methods. If you use a weight-loss camp, find one that has a scientifically oriented program with follow-up so that your child’s weight loss becomes a permanent one.



REFERENCES

“Baltimore Surprised by New Title: America’s Fittest,” USA Today, January 6, 2006, posted at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-06-fittest-city_x.htm

Cummings, Jim. “Texas senator proposes ‘obesity reports’”, NBC News, January 31, 2005, posted at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890798/

Lorentzen, Amy. “Parents Eat More Fat than Non-Parents,” January 10, 2007, Associated Press news release, posted at CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/diet.kids.adults.ap/index.html

The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2007, page A18.

Overweight and Obesity in United States Cities, The American Obesity Association Facts and Figures, posted at http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml

Park, MK, Menard, SW and Schoolfield, J. “Prevalence of Overweight in a triethnic pediatric population of San Antonio, Texas.” The International Journal of Obesity, 2001, Volume 25, pg. 409-416.

Rigby, Wendy. “Researchers say preventing heart disease begins with children,” KENS Channel 5 news, December 1, 2006
That's fascinating. And by fascinating, I mean NOBODY GIVES A SHIT! You seem to be operating under the impresion that there are no Spurs fans outside of San Antonio. That said, I have a question. What's it like to live in a constant, never-ending haze of delusion and stupidity?

[da_suns_fan__]

Awesome post Shred!

Post of the year?

[Kriz-Maxima]

OverweightTeen.com - San Antonio Obesity (http://www.overweightteen.com/san-antonio-obesity.html)

When “Texas Bigger” is Not Always Better:
San Antonio Is Fattest City in the USA

Sometime ago the American Obesity Association declared San Antonio, Texas, the fattest city in the United States. According to statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 31% of its residents are obese and 65% are overweight: the worst record in the nation.

Every year Men’s Fitness Magazine lists the fattest cities in the United States based on non-scientific factors such as numbers of fast food restaurants, gyms and parks, alcohol use, etc. Every year San Antonio is always near the top of the magazine’s list of fattest cities.

What can be done about San Antonio’s status as one of the fattest cities in the United States?

The answer might be in helping San Antonio’s smallest citizens lose weight.

“Obesity is being programmed between the age of 0 and 3. These are very important formative years,” according to a local pediatrician who specializes in diabetes.

Dr. Robert Trevino is the head of Bienestar, a San Antonio program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes by improving their diets and increasing physical activity.

“If we provide a better environment for children,” Dr. Trevino says, “with more fruit, vegetables and activity and limits on television viewing, we will raise a healthier population in the future.”

There is no doubt that San Antonio’s children, even the very youngest, are too fat. One major study done by the University of Texas Department of Pediatrics looked at 7200 children in San Antonio, ages kindergarten to 12th grade. These children were overweight and obese at levels far above the national norms. Researchers concluded that “measures to prevent, reduce or treat childhood obesity are urgently needed.”

A more recent study of 1976 low-income children in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin under age three years found that 35% were overweight and obese and at risk for diabetes and other health problems. The results of this study, funded by the Robert Wood Health Foundation, appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said this study of three-year-olds points to “the impending disaster we have with diabetes that’s looming all over America.”

“I have now given up being astounded,” he said. “Every time new data comes out, it’s more than I ever would have believed.”

Besides being at risk for diabetes, San Antonio’s overweight children are also developing heart disease.

“Our work shows that the process of hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis begins in some people during the teenage years,” said C. Alex McMahan, a statistician at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His team proved that a child’s weight and cholesterol levels can accurately predict the health of his or her arteries as an adult.

Dr. Henry McGill, a pathologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, said, “Ninety percent of heart attacks can be prevented in adults. But it’s got to start in childhood….It’s going to take physicians to support the idea, and it’s going to take parents to carry it out by setting a good model for their children.”

Dr. McGill said the best way to help children is through healthier diet and more exercise, not prescriptions for cholesterol drugs.

Overweight children are not only developing serious diseases over time, they also suffer psychologically. Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey found that obese females in particular have lower self-esteem by early adolescence, and that all overweight children are “significantly” sadder, lonelier and more nervous than children of normal weights. They also are more likely to drink and smoke as teenagers.

Involving Parents to Help Overweight Kids

Most experts in the field of childhood obesity believe that parents are the key to solving their children’s problems, but many do not want to admit their children have problems.

When Texas legislators wanted to send home “report cards” to parents of overweight children, the measure was shot down as “too much government.”

“The simple fact is that most parents of overweight children do not want to be told that their children are overweight,” believes Professor Daniel Hoffman of the Nutritional Science Department at Rutgers University.

Nutritionist Peggy Visio, a special project coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, believes in working through adults, not children.
“Parents are the ones who buy the groceries,” she said. ”If you just teach the child, it puts all the burden on them, and that’s not fair. You can’t send the child home to teach the family.”

Parents, in an effort to please their children, often buy them junk food and eat it along with their children. A study published in January 2007 from the University of Michigan actually proved parents eat more high fat foods than adults who do not have children. Researchers concluded that parents buy pizza and other high-fat convenience foods for their children but tend to eat these items themselves.

How Can Parents Help Children to Lose Weight?

The first step is often just to admit your child has a problem.

If you are willing to accept that your child has a problem, you are more than halfway to solving it.

The next step is to check with your physician for guidelines to a better diet. A common sense approach, rather than a radical “quick loss” diet, works best with children. Limit snacks. Eliminate junk foods: replace them with fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Enroll your child in a gym or sports program which can provide your child with regular physical exercise. Limit television and computer time.

If such simple measures do not help your child lose weight over time, you may consider enrolling your child in a professional weight-loss program. Make sure your program uses scientifically proven methods of behavior modification, family involvement, nutritional education, and healthy diet. There should be professionally trained and accredited experts on the staff, such as child psychologists and nutritionists. Stay away from old-fashioned, old-style “weight loss camps” that use punishing methods. If you use a weight-loss camp, find one that has a scientifically oriented program with follow-up so that your child’s weight loss becomes a permanent one.



REFERENCES

“Baltimore Surprised by New Title: America’s Fittest,” USA Today, January 6, 2006, posted at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-06-fittest-city_x.htm

Cummings, Jim. “Texas senator proposes ‘obesity reports’”, NBC News, January 31, 2005, posted at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890798/

Lorentzen, Amy. “Parents Eat More Fat than Non-Parents,” January 10, 2007, Associated Press news release, posted at CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/diet.kids.adults.ap/index.html

The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2007, page A18.

Overweight and Obesity in United States Cities, The American Obesity Association Facts and Figures, posted at http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml

Park, MK, Menard, SW and Schoolfield, J. “Prevalence of Overweight in a triethnic pediatric population of San Antonio, Texas.” The International Journal of Obesity, 2001, Volume 25, pg. 409-416.

Rigby, Wendy. “Researchers say preventing heart disease begins with children,” KENS Channel 5 news, December 1, 2006


Is this code for " my team sucks against the spurs and they will never beat them so i will take my frustrations out on the city in a feble attemp to self sothe"?

Obesity might be a problem in SA but not being able to win championships is a problem in Phoenix. This is after all a sports forum.

[Shred]

Detroit Most Dangerous City (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870766/)

Also Very, Very Fat (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=56755)

[Walter Craparita]

OverweightTeen.com - San Antonio Obesity (http://www.overweightteen.com/san-antonio-obesity.html)

When “Texas Bigger” is Not Always Better:
San Antonio Is Fattest City in the USA

Sometime ago the American Obesity Association declared San Antonio, Texas, the fattest city in the United States. According to statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 31% of its residents are obese and 65% are overweight: the worst record in the nation.

Every year Men’s Fitness Magazine lists the fattest cities in the United States based on non-scientific factors such as numbers of fast food restaurants, gyms and parks, alcohol use, etc. Every year San Antonio is always near the top of the magazine’s list of fattest cities.

What can be done about San Antonio’s status as one of the fattest cities in the United States?

The answer might be in helping San Antonio’s smallest citizens lose weight.

“Obesity is being programmed between the age of 0 and 3. These are very important formative years,” according to a local pediatrician who specializes in diabetes.

Dr. Robert Trevino is the head of Bienestar, a San Antonio program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes by improving their diets and increasing physical activity.

“If we provide a better environment for children,” Dr. Trevino says, “with more fruit, vegetables and activity and limits on television viewing, we will raise a healthier population in the future.”

There is no doubt that San Antonio’s children, even the very youngest, are too fat. One major study done by the University of Texas Department of Pediatrics looked at 7200 children in San Antonio, ages kindergarten to 12th grade. These children were overweight and obese at levels far above the national norms. Researchers concluded that “measures to prevent, reduce or treat childhood obesity are urgently needed.”

A more recent study of 1976 low-income children in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin under age three years found that 35% were overweight and obese and at risk for diabetes and other health problems. The results of this study, funded by the Robert Wood Health Foundation, appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said this study of three-year-olds points to “the impending disaster we have with diabetes that’s looming all over America.”

“I have now given up being astounded,” he said. “Every time new data comes out, it’s more than I ever would have believed.”

Besides being at risk for diabetes, San Antonio’s overweight children are also developing heart disease.

“Our work shows that the process of hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis begins in some people during the teenage years,” said C. Alex McMahan, a statistician at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His team proved that a child’s weight and cholesterol levels can accurately predict the health of his or her arteries as an adult.

Dr. Henry McGill, a pathologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, said, “Ninety percent of heart attacks can be prevented in adults. But it’s got to start in childhood….It’s going to take physicians to support the idea, and it’s going to take parents to carry it out by setting a good model for their children.”

Dr. McGill said the best way to help children is through healthier diet and more exercise, not prescriptions for cholesterol drugs.

Overweight children are not only developing serious diseases over time, they also suffer psychologically. Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey found that obese females in particular have lower self-esteem by early adolescence, and that all overweight children are “significantly” sadder, lonelier and more nervous than children of normal weights. They also are more likely to drink and smoke as teenagers.

Involving Parents to Help Overweight Kids

Most experts in the field of childhood obesity believe that parents are the key to solving their children’s problems, but many do not want to admit their children have problems.

When Texas legislators wanted to send home “report cards” to parents of overweight children, the measure was shot down as “too much government.”

“The simple fact is that most parents of overweight children do not want to be told that their children are overweight,” believes Professor Daniel Hoffman of the Nutritional Science Department at Rutgers University.

Nutritionist Peggy Visio, a special project coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, believes in working through adults, not children.
“Parents are the ones who buy the groceries,” she said. ”If you just teach the child, it puts all the burden on them, and that’s not fair. You can’t send the child home to teach the family.”

Parents, in an effort to please their children, often buy them junk food and eat it along with their children. A study published in January 2007 from the University of Michigan actually proved parents eat more high fat foods than adults who do not have children. Researchers concluded that parents buy pizza and other high-fat convenience foods for their children but tend to eat these items themselves.

How Can Parents Help Children to Lose Weight?

The first step is often just to admit your child has a problem.

If you are willing to accept that your child has a problem, you are more than halfway to solving it.

The next step is to check with your physician for guidelines to a better diet. A common sense approach, rather than a radical “quick loss” diet, works best with children. Limit snacks. Eliminate junk foods: replace them with fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Enroll your child in a gym or sports program which can provide your child with regular physical exercise. Limit television and computer time.

If such simple measures do not help your child lose weight over time, you may consider enrolling your child in a professional weight-loss program. Make sure your program uses scientifically proven methods of behavior modification, family involvement, nutritional education, and healthy diet. There should be professionally trained and accredited experts on the staff, such as child psychologists and nutritionists. Stay away from old-fashioned, old-style “weight loss camps” that use punishing methods. If you use a weight-loss camp, find one that has a scientifically oriented program with follow-up so that your child’s weight loss becomes a permanent one.



REFERENCES

“Baltimore Surprised by New Title: America’s Fittest,” USA Today, January 6, 2006, posted at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-06-fittest-city_x.htm

Cummings, Jim. “Texas senator proposes ‘obesity reports’”, NBC News, January 31, 2005, posted at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890798/

Lorentzen, Amy. “Parents Eat More Fat than Non-Parents,” January 10, 2007, Associated Press news release, posted at CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/diet.kids.adults.ap/index.html

The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2007, page A18.

Overweight and Obesity in United States Cities, The American Obesity Association Facts and Figures, posted at http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml

Park, MK, Menard, SW and Schoolfield, J. “Prevalence of Overweight in a triethnic pediatric population of San Antonio, Texas.” The International Journal of Obesity, 2001, Volume 25, pg. 409-416.

Rigby, Wendy. “Researchers say preventing heart disease begins with children,” KENS Channel 5 news, December 1, 2006

America is fat.

[Shred]

America is fat.

But Saytown is fattest of them all. There's fat, and then there's FAT.

[Walter Craparita]

lol I'm not going to defend millions of people who can't quit stuffing their face with tacos but...

If that is the only thing you guys have on the "Spurs"...

[phyzik]

But Saytown is fattest of them all. There's fat, and then there's FAT.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/aztalk/forum/articles/1123forum_ladner-livetalk-CR.html

here are some quotes from this fabulous article:

What is the biggest issue in education facing Arizona?

The Nation’s Report Card exam given by the U.S. Department of Education to students in all 50 states shows that 44 percent of Arizona 4th graders score “below basic” in reading, meaning they are functionally illiterate. Taxpayers are providing total revenue per pupil of over $8,000, and yet a huge percentage of our children are not learning how to read in the critical early years. Research shows that children who don’t learn to read in the early elementary grades fall further and further behind grade level with each passing year. By middle school, they literally cannot make heads or tails out of their textbooks. Academically discouraged, they begin to dropout in large numbers in the 9th grade.

I can play the city smack game too.... oh wait, you probably cant read that.

[Dex]

OverweightTeen.com - San Antonio Obesity (http://www.overweightteen.com/san-antonio-obesity.html)

When “Texas Bigger” is Not Always Better:
San Antonio Is Fattest City in the USA

Sometime ago the American Obesity Association declared San Antonio, Texas, the fattest city in the United States. According to statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 31% of its residents are obese and 65% are overweight: the worst record in the nation.

Every year Men’s Fitness Magazine lists the fattest cities in the United States based on non-scientific factors such as numbers of fast food restaurants, gyms and parks, alcohol use, etc. Every year San Antonio is always near the top of the magazine’s list of fattest cities.

What can be done about San Antonio’s status as one of the fattest cities in the United States?

The answer might be in helping San Antonio’s smallest citizens lose weight.

“Obesity is being programmed between the age of 0 and 3. These are very important formative years,” according to a local pediatrician who specializes in diabetes.

Dr. Robert Trevino is the head of Bienestar, a San Antonio program that helps children lose weight and avoid diabetes by improving their diets and increasing physical activity.

“If we provide a better environment for children,” Dr. Trevino says, “with more fruit, vegetables and activity and limits on television viewing, we will raise a healthier population in the future.”

There is no doubt that San Antonio’s children, even the very youngest, are too fat. One major study done by the University of Texas Department of Pediatrics looked at 7200 children in San Antonio, ages kindergarten to 12th grade. These children were overweight and obese at levels far above the national norms. Researchers concluded that “measures to prevent, reduce or treat childhood obesity are urgently needed.”

A more recent study of 1976 low-income children in San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin under age three years found that 35% were overweight and obese and at risk for diabetes and other health problems. The results of this study, funded by the Robert Wood Health Foundation, appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association, said this study of three-year-olds points to “the impending disaster we have with diabetes that’s looming all over America.”

“I have now given up being astounded,” he said. “Every time new data comes out, it’s more than I ever would have believed.”

Besides being at risk for diabetes, San Antonio’s overweight children are also developing heart disease.

“Our work shows that the process of hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis begins in some people during the teenage years,” said C. Alex McMahan, a statistician at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. His team proved that a child’s weight and cholesterol levels can accurately predict the health of his or her arteries as an adult.

Dr. Henry McGill, a pathologist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, said, “Ninety percent of heart attacks can be prevented in adults. But it’s got to start in childhood….It’s going to take physicians to support the idea, and it’s going to take parents to carry it out by setting a good model for their children.”

Dr. McGill said the best way to help children is through healthier diet and more exercise, not prescriptions for cholesterol drugs.

Overweight children are not only developing serious diseases over time, they also suffer psychologically. Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey found that obese females in particular have lower self-esteem by early adolescence, and that all overweight children are “significantly” sadder, lonelier and more nervous than children of normal weights. They also are more likely to drink and smoke as teenagers.

Involving Parents to Help Overweight Kids

Most experts in the field of childhood obesity believe that parents are the key to solving their children’s problems, but many do not want to admit their children have problems.

When Texas legislators wanted to send home “report cards” to parents of overweight children, the measure was shot down as “too much government.”

“The simple fact is that most parents of overweight children do not want to be told that their children are overweight,” believes Professor Daniel Hoffman of the Nutritional Science Department at Rutgers University.

Nutritionist Peggy Visio, a special project coordinator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, believes in working through adults, not children.
“Parents are the ones who buy the groceries,” she said. ”If you just teach the child, it puts all the burden on them, and that’s not fair. You can’t send the child home to teach the family.”

Parents, in an effort to please their children, often buy them junk food and eat it along with their children. A study published in January 2007 from the University of Michigan actually proved parents eat more high fat foods than adults who do not have children. Researchers concluded that parents buy pizza and other high-fat convenience foods for their children but tend to eat these items themselves.

How Can Parents Help Children to Lose Weight?

The first step is often just to admit your child has a problem.

If you are willing to accept that your child has a problem, you are more than halfway to solving it.

The next step is to check with your physician for guidelines to a better diet. A common sense approach, rather than a radical “quick loss” diet, works best with children. Limit snacks. Eliminate junk foods: replace them with fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Enroll your child in a gym or sports program which can provide your child with regular physical exercise. Limit television and computer time.

If such simple measures do not help your child lose weight over time, you may consider enrolling your child in a professional weight-loss program. Make sure your program uses scientifically proven methods of behavior modification, family involvement, nutritional education, and healthy diet. There should be professionally trained and accredited experts on the staff, such as child psychologists and nutritionists. Stay away from old-fashioned, old-style “weight loss camps” that use punishing methods. If you use a weight-loss camp, find one that has a scientifically oriented program with follow-up so that your child’s weight loss becomes a permanent one.



REFERENCES

“Baltimore Surprised by New Title: America’s Fittest,” USA Today, January 6, 2006, posted at http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-01-06-fittest-city_x.htm

Cummings, Jim. “Texas senator proposes ‘obesity reports’”, NBC News, January 31, 2005, posted at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890798/

Lorentzen, Amy. “Parents Eat More Fat than Non-Parents,” January 10, 2007, Associated Press news release, posted at CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/09/diet.kids.adults.ap/index.html

The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2007, page A18.

Overweight and Obesity in United States Cities, The American Obesity Association Facts and Figures, posted at http://www.obesity.org/subs/fastfacts/cities.shtml

Park, MK, Menard, SW and Schoolfield, J. “Prevalence of Overweight in a triethnic pediatric population of San Antonio, Texas.” The International Journal of Obesity, 2001, Volume 25, pg. 409-416.

Rigby, Wendy. “Researchers say preventing heart disease begins with children,” KENS Channel 5 news, December 1, 2006

http://phoenix.about.com/od/phoenixfactsandfiction/a/AZcompares_2.htm

As long as we're abusing internet data, this article basically also says that Arizona's crime rates are too high, education levels are too low, jobs suck, health care sucks, and poverty (especially among children) is worse than pretty much the rest of the country.

Personally, I think Arizona is a lovely state, but I just wanted to show you how any jackass can post a link and think he's making a point.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

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Phoenix: Where "Fat" and "Basketball" mix.

[phyzik]

But Saytown is fattest of them all. There's fat, and then there's FAT.


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[sprrs]

But Saytown is fattest of them all. There's fat, and then there's FAT.

That post just made the past 4 championships meaningless to me. :dramaquee

[phyzik]

I guess Mr. Shred isnt going to respond. Next time keep it basketball related and dont start with the city smack jack ass... I know its hard to do since the weak ass Suns dont have shit on the Spurs but knocking a city is uncool. I got no problem with the city of Phoenix or the state of Arizona, in fact I think its a beautiful city and state, but if you pull shit like that expect to be responded to. If the only problem San Antonio has is being over weight then thats several legs up on most other cities, including yours, in this nation.

in case your wondering, I weigh 164lb, just checked :drunk

[Guajalote]

INDIANA SPURS FANS REPRESENTIN'!!! :hungry:

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity/release.php?StateID=IN


Guess people in Arizona are too busy trying to figure out how to keep their lawns green to sit down and eat, huh?

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity/release.php?StateID=AZ


Don't worry, Texans. Someday, you'll be just like us Hoosiers. :p:

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2005/release.php?StateID=TX


CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?


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[Shred]

San Antonio Is Way Too Fat. (http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA112807.01E.Obesity.20822fa.html)

Is S.A.'s high rate of obesity scaring away businesses?

Web Posted: 11/27/2007 08:56 PM CST

Travis E. Poling
Express-News Business Writer

Is San Antonio's health status — with its residents' propensity for obesity and diabetes — hurting chances of bringing new employers to the city?
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, thinks so, and plans to urge community leaders to make improving the city's health as important as creating an educated work force.

But members of the economic development community and site selection experts say health issues still are down on the list of things companies are looking for when they relocate.

In the end, companies would rather spend money on wellness programs to keep expenses down and get lucrative tax abatements and incentives from state and local governments.

It isn't unusual to see San Antonio cited in various magazine lists for obesity. Forbes magazine was the latest to weigh in last week, naming the home of Tex-Mex cuisine as the third-most obese city in America (behind Memphis, Tenn., at No. 1 and Birmingham, Ala., at No. 2).

The analysis of major market data from the Centers for Disease Control found 31.1 percent of San Antonians had a body mass index over 30, which is the statistical measuring stick for obesity.

Van de Putte said she was told recently by an out-of-state CEO that the city's community health rating was working against it in attracting employers.

"If you're hiring 200-plus people for the long term, obesity and insurance costs are a major issue," Van de Putte said. "That's a huge cost, and he (the CEO) said that's the downer for San Antonio."

Van de Putte didn't reveal the name of the CEO and former site selection manager for a large corporation.

At the recent health-care summit of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Van de Putte encouraged the business community to take health issues seriously as an economic development measure.

"I want the business community to know that health care is not just a social justice or access issue," she said. "I want to visit with the mayor, the (county) judge and the Economic Development Foundation about the issue as it relates to business."

Topic not discussed


Mario Hernandez, president of the private San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, said he never has heard San Antonio's health status or insurance costs come up during the site selection process.

"Anything we can do to improve the community is great, but we need long-term solutions," Hernandez said.

When it comes to improving factors significant to economic growth, he said dealing with school dropout rates and SAT scores are more immediate.

Allison Castle, a spokeswoman for the economic development division of the Texas governor's office, said businesses are concerned about health-care costs, but there's no state data to show they are singling out health for site selection.

Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health based in Washington, said health status isn't looked at as a site selection criterion, but it should be.

"I wish it were. It's far more important than people realize," Darling said.

She recalls helping several companies assess health issues and costs for relocation, but the information ultimately was overlooked in favor of tax rebates offered as incentives by competing states and cities.

"It's million of dollars in hard cash," she said of the tax incentives. "I may look at somebody who is 100 pounds overweight and think, 'That's a ticking time bomb.' The company may look at that same employee and think, 'There's a person who needs to lose weight.'"

Darling said obese workers, on average, cost employers 56 percent more than employees in their ideal weight range. The cost factors include longer recovery times from common illness, days missed because of depression, higher rates of short-term and long-term disability and greater likelihood to have Type 2 diabetes.

"Health, if it's on the list of criteria, it's really far down the list," said Michael Rodriguez, a senior consultant in the Houston office of benefits company Towers Perrin. "If there is a trend, it's very early in that trend."

San Antonio usually is on the low end of health insurance costs for major employers, Rodriguez said. What's more, he finds that clients are looking more at labor, airports, highways and cost of living when they expand into new markets.

"You can't use surveys like fittest or fattest cities as indicators," Rodriguez said. "Companies are looking for people who are willing to work for a reasonable price, and San Antonio has a lot going for it along those lines."

Bill King, chief editor of Expansion Management magazine, said employers could measure what health factors in certain cities could cost them, but for now "it's an academic exercise."

The magazine's annual analysis of health costs by state rated Texas in the middle of the pack. The state ranked fourth in health-care availability and hospital costs and had high rankings for malpractice insurance costs and cost of doctors. But a ranking of 47th among the states for health-care providers and 48th for insurance costs dragged down the overall rating.

Departure influence


There was a time when health insurance costs were a major factor for companies relocating from California to lower health cost states, said James Renzas, head of site selection consulting firm Location Management Services in Mission Viejo, Calif.

Health insurance costs in California since have moderated and no longer play a large role, Renzas said, and have been replaced by access to inexpensive energy as a key relocation factor.

Darling acknowledges that while companies don't take work force health into location consideration, more are getting aggressive about making and keeping workers healthier.

Darling cited Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America and San Antonio-based grocer and retailer H-E-B as great examples of work force wellness programs. USAA also has made wellness a major part of its corporate culture with walking trails, tennis courts, fitness centers, an abundance of healthy food choices on the massive campus and a campuswide smoking ban.



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[phyzik]

20 hours to only come up with another obesity article?

fail. not only fail. 4th grade reading comprehension fail.

[Shred]

20 hours to only come up with another obesity article?

fail. not only fail. 4th grade reading comprehension fail.

I sort of had to wait for this morning's paper to come out, sorry.

[Shred]

INDIANA SPURS FANS REPRESENTIN'!!! :hungry:

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity/release.php?StateID=IN


Guess people in Arizona are too busy trying to figure out how to keep their lawns green to sit down and eat, huh?

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity/release.php?StateID=AZ


Don't worry, Texans. Someday, you'll be just like us Hoosiers. :p:

http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2005/release.php?StateID=TX


CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?


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And those stats have NOTHING whatsoever to do with the huge numbers of fata$$ Midwesterners moving to AZ.... :rolleyes

[Extra Stout]

Will the Suns be raising a banner for their "Our fans are not quite as fat as the Spurs'" championship?

[IceColdBrewski]

Weight smack Shred? Weak sauce. Very weak sauce.

I guess shoe size is next?