The Daily Peloton, a fantastic online resource for up-to-date cycling news, featured the Tour in a recent article.
I’m really excited about facilitating partnerships between the cycling industry and the field of health promotion. I think that interdisciplinary initiatives have great potential to make substantial progress towards supporting healthier individuals and environments.
A study just published by Circulation – the journal of the American Heart Association – concluded that consumption of added sugars is positively associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents. The survey of 2,157 youth aged 12 to 18 found that increased consumption of caloric sweeteners was significantly related to higher LDL cholesterol and total triglycerides – both known risk factors for heart disease. Additionally, the study found that added sugars made up a whopping 21.4% of daily caloric intake for the participants.
These data make a strong case for limiting the amount of added sugars in our diets. Let’s keep the future generation (and ourselves) healthy by reconsidering the sugar-laden food choices so common today.
Source: Circulation. (2011). Consumption of added sugars and cardiovascular disease risk among US adolescents. In print, doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.972166.
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Ed Bruske over at The Slow Cook wrote an interesting article summarizing the potential effects that a recent IOM Report on Calcium and Vitamin D intake might have on dairy beverages served in schools. Basically, the majority of our population seems to already be consuming adequate amounts of Calcium. This finding negates campaigns that endorse supplying Calcium to kids by any means possible – often in the form of chocolate milk. Will schools relent on their staunch refusal to give up flavored milk ? We’ll have to wait and see…
In the meantime, you can ensure youth eat adequate amounts of calcium by feeding them plenty of dark leafy greens, milk, yogurt, broccoli or fortified cereals (the kind that DOESN’T turn your milk an eerie shade of pink or brown). Source: NIH – Calcium Quickfacts
The School Food Tour 