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Obesity Research Update: SSBs vs. Artificially Sweetened Beverages, Food Availability, Prices, Variety & Palatability, or Eating Frequency - Is One or Are All Making Us Fat?

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Food variety increases binge eating risk, studies show. With the publication of the latest issue of " Advances in Nutrition " came a whole host of studies that may provide novel insights into potential causes of and solutions to the obesity epidemic. Among the things the researchers investigated and presented at the 20th International Congress of Nutrition were also studies on the possible involvement of artificial sweetened beverages, the availability and convenience of food, the effects of food prices on obesity, the effectiveness of changing the eating frequency, the importance of portion sizes in weight control, the impact of eating a highly variable and palatable diet. You can learn more about meal frequency at the SuppVersity Grazin' Bad For the Obese! Breakfast Keeps You Lean?! Frequent Protein Consumption Myth: Few Meals More Bodyfat 8 Meals = Stable, But High Insulin Int. Fasting & Exercise Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially-Sweete...
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Super Bowl, A Question of Life or Cardiovascular Death! ✰ Are Super BOWLs to Blame For the US Obesity Epidemic? ✰ By BMI Standards the Average NFL Player is "Obese"

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Conundrum of the day: Is it really any wonder, that the average American has weight problems if their football stars are obese? After reading the "Cultural Guide to the Super Bowl for People Who Don't Watch Football" ( read it yourself) on Wire.com, I realized that I cannot simply ignore Super Bowl XLVIII and since I have absolutely no idea of how American Football works and how it came about that you, my dear US friends, are going crazy about people carrying a ball that's called FOOT-ball (I mean, it's not "carry-ball") around in your arms, I decided to do what I usually do, when I don't understand things: Look for answers on the science databases on the Internet. I have to admit, I did not really find the answer to my initial question and I still don't know the rules of the game, but I found a couple of "related" stories, you may be interested in: Super-BOWLs to blame for the obesity epidemic (van Kleef. 2012) -- I guess this...
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The "Best Diet" for Obese Kids Has a Low Glycemic Load and Still 40-50% Carbs. Plus: Kids Hate Atkins / Low Carb!

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Image 1: It's the "day of healthy eating", here in Germany... but wait: What exactly is "healthy eating"? I don't know if it was a "happy coincidence", but it was a coincidence that I heard on the radio that today is the "Day of Good Nutrition" (here in Germany, at least). Unfortunately, nobody appears to really know what "good nutrition" means. While the experts are still arguing whether you may or may not eat meat, whether all carbs are created equal etc. the average customer has absolute no idea, what "good nutrition" may be. The one thing he (or she) knows is what the radio moderator mentioned as well "this means you are not allowed to go to the fast-food outlet, today". Now, while for a still astonishingly (or should I say shockingly?) large proportion of the obese population of the western convenience society, fast food remains one of the biggest obstacles to weight loss, Mc Donalds and Co. are prob...
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