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Greater
Fall River Partners Executive Director Dr. David Weed was invited to
present "Fed
Up on the South Coast" based on the documentary
film, Fed Up, produced by ABC's
Katie Couric and "Inconvenient Truth's" Laurie
David, to participants in the February 5, 2015 Allies
for Health and Wellness meeting. Held at the Southeast
Regional Health Office of the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health saw a portion of the video produced in 2013 to educate the public
on the USDA
policy recommending lowering dietary fat that led to increases in
sugars and other carbohydrates that raised
levels of overweight and obesity over the past forty years. "We
thought it was the fat that caused weight gain when all along it was the
carbs," stated Dr. Weed in the twenty-minute video. Weed went on to
talk about the poor research described in Nina
Teicholz's book, The
Big Fat Surprise, that supported the erroneous low fat
recommendations of organizations such as the American Heart Association
and the American Diabetes Association, and pointed to a new
coalition that is working to change the national dietary
policies. Click
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(Top two rows) Allies for Health and Wellness Chairperson Barbara Acksen opens the meeting and introduces Dr. Weed who briefly describes the video before showing the first few minutes of "Fed Up on the South Coast". (Rows three and four) Following the video, Dr. Weed engages the group in a discussion of how the policies of the USDA help to fuel the current "obesity crisis" and the resulting doubling of diabetes rates and high rates of heart disease. (Bottom row) Participants Deirdre Healy of UMass-Dartmouth LeDuc Center for Civic Engagement, Partners School Wellness Coordinator Marcia Picard, left, and Southcoast Health Community Benefits Manager Kerry Mello, right, react to the issues raised by the video.. |
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