New AHA Statement Forces Physicians To Think About Prevention
New AHA obesity statement forces physicians to think about prevention
At last! The American Heart Association has fessed up! A recent statement on obesity has forced the AHA to think about its motives. It’s time we get past the prescription addiction and realized that exercise and diet can achieve the same benefits that many common prescription medications do.
Dr. Shyriki K Kumanyika, lead author on the statement was quoted saying“… we’re not trying to put the food industry out of business—where would we be if we did that?” The truth is that that the government carries much of the blame of how poorly we eat. After all, look at the way they allow marketers to strut their junk foods across the television screen and how they encourage us to drink milk when it has been proven that the protein casein in milk promotes cancer? Or, how they promote foods such as chicken and the “other white meat” to be healthful? These animal foods produce an inflammatory response in our bodies that is the breeding ground for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and the list goes on.
Finally, someone has acknowledged the obvious. Now, we all have to do our part and keep the ball rolling.
About the Author
Peggy Kraus is a clinical exercise physiologist at Southampton Hospital in New York. She received her Masters degree in Professional Physical Education from New York University and after many years in commercial and corporate fitness settings has been in the cardiac and pulmonary rehab setting now for 10 years. Her job duties include educating rehab patients about the link between exercise, nutrition, and good health. Peggy has been published in IDEA’s Fitness Journal and in AFAA’s American Fitness, and her continuing education course, Atherosclerosis: Causes, Consequences, and Treatments, is offered in CEU4U’s nursing course catalog.
