Ready-to-eat meat contains few cancerous compounds

If given the choice between eating a hot dog or enjoying some rotisserie chicken, consider the hot dog. That’s because hot dogs, as well as pepperoni and deli meats, are relatively free of carcinogenic compounds, according to Kansas State University research. But it’s a not-so-happy ending for bacon and rotisserie chicken — especially chicken skin — because both have higher levels of cancerous material. Smith’s research was supported by the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service with the USDA, the American Meat Institute Foundation and the National Pork Board Checkoff. It all has to do with the heat used for cooking and grilling, and some prepared and deli meats don't require much.

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$4.5 million grant creates program to train scholars in child obesity prevention

Is this the best use of obesity money--another academic program rather than pure research?

Do you need a PhD to learn that most obesity plans should be "eat less move more;" and for those that are metabolic, even many of those respond to increasing the metabolism through exercise. Do you need a PhD to discover that over regulation and unions have driven many supermarkets from the cities creating "food deserts?"  What next? Gastric by-pass surgery on 10 year olds?  What have they been doing at Illinois with all those nutrition, child care, and family study programs in place for years? Children have gotten heavier as women have entered (or been pushed into) the work force and started the restaurant route for feeding their families.  You can chart it beginning in 1970.

A five-year $4.5 million USDA grant to University of Illinois researchers will establish the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP), an innovative research-based program that will combine a Ph.D. with a master's in public health (MPH) degree focused on child obesity prevention.

$4.5 million grant creates program to train scholars in child obesity prevention

Ohio State University also got part of a $4.5 million grant, but it is for the study of rural children and will focus on 2 communities and is shared with 24 other universities.

OSU Extension's Family and Consumer Sciences program will receive $745,744 for the five-year project, which is being led by Kansas State University and involves an additional five states (Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin).

The Childhood Obesity Prevention Grant was one of 24 funded at the end of April by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The goal of this project is to find ways to help rural communities create a culture of healthy eating and physical activity to prevent childhood obesity in low-income young children, said Karen Bruns, assistant director of OSU Extension in charge of Extension's Family and Consumer Sciences programs. Bruns will serve as Ohio's principal investigator on the project.

Ohio Involved in Project Targeting Childhood Obesity — Ohio State University Extension

And what about all the childhood obesity prevention programs, state and federal, church and non-profit, of the past, many listed in the 2004 guide to financing them? Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Federal Funding Sources and Other Strategies   Read through some of these programs--one was $999 million.  Where is the accountability?  Where are the children now at a normal healthy weight as a result of the nanny state?

If you search "grant obesity in children" in Google, you get about 8 million hits.

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