TEDxRyersonU - Julie Rochefort - Shift the Focus
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Lazy. Stupid. Worthless. From news media and magazines to professional conferences and government reports, these are the words often used to describe overweight and obese individuals. The endorsements of such stereotypes often lead to extreme weight loss practices which can induce feelings of guilt and shame. Despite the robust research demons... Read more
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- -: TEDxRyersonU - Julie Rochefort - Shift the Focus
February 15, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Lazy. Stupid. Worthless. From news media and magazines to professional conferences and government reports, these are the words often used to describe overweight and obese individuals. The endorsements of such stereotypes often lead to extreme weight loss practices which can induce feelings of gu...
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- -: TEDxStHilda'sSchool - Professor Lindsay Brown - Food as Medicine
August 16, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lindsay Brown is Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland. His recent research has been in the area of chronic human diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and arthritis where his research group seeks to determine whether anti-inflammatory compounds, eit...
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- -: Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
February 12, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. Jamie Oliver has been drawn to ...
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- -: Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
May 10, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways ...
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- -: Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + hunger = 1 global food issue
July 7, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Co-creator of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30 Project -- a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics....
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- -: James Fowler: Power of Networks
March 17, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Can your social network make you fat? Affect your mood? Political scientist James H. Fowler reveals the dynamics of social networks, the invisible webs that connect each of us to the other. With Nicholas A. Christakis, Fowler recently coauthored, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Netw...
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- -: Dean Ornish: Healthy Connections
March 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)For more than thirty years, Dr. Dean Ornish has demonstrated the power of a healthy lifestyle as the best kind of preventive care. These choices, Ornish reveals, can "turn on disease-preventing genes and turn off genes that promote illness. Dr. Ornish has published a number of best-selling books ...
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- -: Marketing Junk Food to Kids - Marion Nestle
November 19, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/14/Marion_Nestle_What_to_Eat NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children. ----- Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and ...
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- -: Michael Pollan Links Food Reform to Health Insurance
July 9, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/18/Farm_City_Novella_Carpenter_with_Michael_Pollan Michael Pollan discusses a recent Michelle Obama speech on reforming the US food system. He says, "The way we're growing food is a key to the health care crisis on the one side, and climate change and en...
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- -: Can McDonalds Help Promote Global Health? - Don Nutbeam
August 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/12/Health_Sustainability_and_Globalization Don Nutbeam explains that while many oppose the global spread of companies like McDonald's and Coca-Cola, their wide distribution network could be used to improve global health. "Can we as public health activist...
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