#611
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:47:21 -0500
From: Kathy Kater <kathykater@ISD.NET>
Subject: Call for survey respondants - defnining healthy weight
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Dear Hedir List Members,
I am writing to solicit people who are willing to respond to a short survey regarding differences in definitions ascribed to terms such as:
Healthy Body Image
Healthy eating
Fitness
Healthy Weight
Weight control
It would be very useful to have the input of health educators. Anonymous results will be presented in a 3-hour workshop at the 17th Annual Renfrew Center "Exploring Eating Disorders Recovery" Conference in Philadelphia this November.
The survey will include about 15 T/F or multiple choice questions and should take only about 5 minutes to complete. If you are willing to take the survey and return the results to me electronically via fax or mail I will greatly appreciate your help and participation.
Please contact me back-channel by emailing kathykater@isd.net to request the survey.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kathy Kater, LICSW
Psychotherapist, Author, Consultant
2497 7th Avenue East, Suite 109
North St. Paul, MN 55109
651 770 2693
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#611
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:02:41 -0400
From: "Werch, Chad" <cwerch@HHP.UFL.EDU>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 14 Sep 2007 to 16 Sep 2007 (#2007-201)
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If you want to hear directly from Dr. Brownell, you can catch him presenting at the 3rd Symposium on Addictive & Health Behaviors Research at Amelia Island, Florida on Monday, September 24th. His presentation is
titled: "A New and Important Frontier: Food and Addiction." He will also sit at a roundtable session with attendees during lunch on that day. For more information about the other outstanding health behavior researchers presenting at the Symposium, log on to the website:
http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/addictive/ Hope to see some of you there! Best wishes, Chad.
Chudley Chad Werch Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Addictive & Health Behaviors Research Institute Department of Health Education & Behavior University of Florida
Tel: (904)-281-0726
Fax: (904)-296-1153
Email: cwerch@hhp.ufl.edu
Institute link: http://www2.hhp.ufl.edu/hse/Institute/index.html
3rd Symposium on Addictive & Health Behaviors Research:
http://www.doce-conferences.ufl.edu/addictive/
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Lawrence W. Green
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:34 PM
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This article is the contrarian side of a debate that ran all week in the
Times, pitting Taubes, an economist at Univ of Colorado, against Kelly
Brownell, Prof of Psychology and Public Health at Yale, one of the
leading obesity researchers in US. Taubes argues that the obesity
epidemic doesn't exist. --Larry Green
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#612
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:53:52 -0400
From: "Moore, Justin B." <MOOREJ@ECU.EDU>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 14 Sep 2007 to 16 Sep 2007 (#2007-201)
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The main problem with Taubes arguments, which have spanned half a decade =
now, is that he suffers from the same problem that 95% of health =
journalist. The long of it, is that they know just enough of health =
science and public health to be dangerous. The more cynical short of it =
is that he's a charlatan, telling the people what they want to hear to =
make a buck. The major fallacy of his argument all along is that people =
have actually followed the "low carb" diet that has been handed down by =
us public health folks. They haven't. Even as fast food companies have =
"caved in" to us low carb zealots and put salads on the menu, folks are =
ignoring the "healthy options" or at least putting enough "atkins =
friendly" ranch on it to negate the positives. Exhibit 1: the "thick =
burger" (candidate for the atkins hall of fame) is more popular than =
ever.
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While I do not view science or public health to be a members only club, =
I do ask for those who seek to inform the public to have at least a =
small amount of training in the subject and more importantly, ethics. I =
view Taubes as the worse kind of villain. Ignorant and loud. I believe =
that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best:
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and =
conscientious stupidity" - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Regards,
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Justin
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<mailto:elcio@ecu.edu>=20
Justin B. Moore, Ph.D., M.S.=20
Assistant Professor
Division of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Master of Public Health Program - Hardy Building
Brody School of Medicine @ ECU
600 Moye Blvd.
Greenville, NC 27834
Tel: (252) 744-4039
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Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 14 Sep 2007 to 16 Sep 2007 (#2007-201)
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#613
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:32:04 -0500
From: Debra Lafler <DLafler@WEATRUST.COM>
Subject: free self scoring paper health assessment
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HEDIR Listmates,
Does anyone know of a Free, Self-Scoring, Paper-based Health Risk
Assessment/Appraisal, or a simple heart health or mortality assessment? A
colleague is looking for one to have at a health fair table. He does not
have a computer/online access at the health fair, so needs a paper-based
simple health assessment that people could pick up, take and read
themselves. Does anyone know of any?
Debra A. Lafler, MA
Corporate Wellness Coordinator
WEA Trust
45 Nob Hill Rd. Madison WI 53713
608-661-6697 x 2581
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#614
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:03:07 -0500
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: Promoting health by preventing obesity or US imperialism
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One may be able to argue that the obesity epidemic is a myth, but can we argue that US imperialism does not exist. With the US occupation of Iraq being projected to extend to the lengths of occupation of South Korea and US "security" contractors running roughshod over civilians of occupied territories, maybe opposition to US imperialism is of greater value to health and well-being than preventing obesity.
Bill Cissell
Retired health educator
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#615
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:57:37 -0400
From: Maura Proser <mproser@DHMH.STATE.MD.US>
Subject: Re: free self scoring paper health assessment
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The American Heart Association has a web-based risk assessment tool for heart attack at http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3003499. And if you look around they have a bunch of other great tools.
Also, the American Diabetes Association has a web-based and paper-format risk assessment tool for diabetes risk. It's on their website at www.diabetes.org, and I'm sure it has info there about how to get the paper copies.
Maura L. Proser, MPH
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Coordinator
Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Center for Preventive Health Services
201 West Preston Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-2399
410-767-6779 (phone)
410-333-7411 (fax)
http://www.fha.state.md.us/cphs/cdp/html/hdsp.cfm
September is Cholesterol Education Month! Do you know your numbers?
>>> Debra Lafler <DLafler@WEATRUST.COM> 09/21/07 11:32 AM >>>
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HEDIR Listmates,
Does anyone know of a Free, Self-Scoring, Paper-based Health Risk
Assessment/Appraisal, or a simple heart health or mortality assessment? A
colleague is looking for one to have at a health fair table. He does not
have a computer/online access at the health fair, so needs a paper-based
simple health assessment that people could pick up, take and read
themselves. Does anyone know of any?
Debra A. Lafler, MA
Corporate Wellness Coordinator
WEA Trust
45 Nob Hill Rd. Madison WI 53713
608-661-6697 x 2581
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#616
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:48:17 -0500
From: James Teufel <teufel@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Promoting health by preventing obesity or US imperialism
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One could also argue that arguments regarding nationalistic imperialism
should be replaced with arguments regarding transnational corporate
class-ism or status-ism. In the contemporary world, it is more difficult to
point at one person or one country as the sole determinant of this, that, or
the other thing.
Obesity, properly defined, is certainly a physical health condition that has
changed across time and influences physical health. To argue otherwise,
even if it is a confidently positioned argument, is nothing more than proud
and loud ignorance. BMI calculations of the 25 to 30 range do a rather poor
job of predicting physical health outcomes. However, when one looks at BMI
predictions at or above 35 to those say between 20 to 25, one finds clear
differences in physical health. Epidemic is also likely an inappropriate
word to use to describe the changes in the proportions of people classified
as obese. Epidemic implies disease whereas obesity is a condition. Many
health promoters are likely still too immersed in the medical model to
discuss obesity in other terms than epidemic, though it would likely be
functional to change this language.
However, regarding the message of: are their other social problems that are
more important to address than the obesity problem? I would say yes; for
example, the social exclusion or relative poverty. In 10 years from now
obesity will no longer be the trendy topic and will be replaced by something
else. I read an author who once described America as an attention deficit
democracy. I wonder if this same deficit applies to public health. After
911, people became interested in bioterrorism. When clear differences
became apparent to even a lay observer, obesity was labeled an epidemic.
HIV has dropped in constructed rank of importance to a large degree in
recent years. Is there still a problem? Yes. Did funding priorities of
funding mechanisms change? Yes. Did health promoters change their focus?
Yes. I also remember back in the early to mid 1990s messages about other
viruses (e.g., Ebola or virus X) that were supposed to decimate humanity.
What ever happened to these areas?
My personal belief is that there are upstream cultural issues that should be
dealt with. Most of the issues that we see are manifestations of these
cultural issues. Though I agree that science is the best set of principles
that people have developed to date to address hypotheses, science is more
appropriate for answering behavioral questions than social/societal
questions. As a result, we tend to become trapped in social constructionist
arguments in which deduction is an impossible task and because many public
health issues are loaded with emotion, we feign deductive solutions to
inductive problems. We should attempt to become more creative and
proactive, if possible.
James
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Subject: Promoting health by preventing obesity or US imperialism
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One may be able to argue that the obesity epidemic is a myth, but can we
argue that US imperialism does not exist. With the US occupation of Iraq
being projected to extend to the lengths of occupation of South Korea and US
"security" contractors running roughshod over civilians of occupied
territories, maybe opposition to US imperialism is of greater value to
health and well-being than preventing obesity.
Bill Cissell
Retired health educator
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#617
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:13:57 -0500
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: Best Post Award
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If we were to establish a Best Posted Message Award for HEDIR, I would nominate James Teufel for his response to message I posted about opposing US imperialism to promote health and safety. Great job, James!
Bill Cissell
Retired health educator and
Viet Nam era Marine
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#618
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:30:33 -0500
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: Maintaining attention long enough to be effective in promoting health
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James raises an important point in the discussion about there being more important health promotion issues than obesity. The challenge may be in maintaining interest in any systematic approach to promoting health long enough for it to be effect.
James noted that, as bioterrorism and obsesity gained attention, ressources have been shifted to addressing these concerns from other areas of health promotion focus, including HIV and AIDS prevention and care.. Thoughout my career, I observed the tendency for resources to be shifted to a health concern of the season, rather than a consistent distribution of resources for comprehensive programs. While the threats to health and safety are broad and sometimes continual, health promotion policies and their implementation tend to be narrow and short in range.
Bill Cissell
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#619
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:23:34 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Maintaining attention long enough to be effective in promoting health
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I love HEDIR because it shows everything that is positive about the social networking enabled by the Internet. I am glad to be ending the week thought provoked... Bill, when I read your post I thought of a theme issue of Governing Magazine (a trade journal of the Congressional Quarterly Inc) that came out a couple of years ago. It is actually pretty thought provoking about the shell game of moving money piles from one public health crisis to the next.
A Case of Neglect: Why Health Care Is Getting Worse, Even Though Medicine Is Getting Better
http://governing.com/gpp/2004/intro.htm and the sub report on Public Health called the Cost of Complacency http://governing.com/gpp/2004/public.htm
Have a great Weekend.
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