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Short Details of Organic Packaged Food Market Report Organic packaged foods are certified food products, which are made using raw materials obtained through organic farming. Organic farming is a specialized farming practice that utilizes sustainable farming methods with natural and biological procedures and raw materials. Pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals are not used in the production process.

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This report focuses on the Organic Packaged Food in global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.Private label organic food products having low carbon footprint, unique selling points, of high quality and high nutrition values, that are traceable and contain transparency in the value chain, and that are customized for German consumers will have high growth potential in the market. Consumers prefer to buy private label products as they are deemed to offer high value for money and they are cost-effective compared to branded labels.The worldwide market for Organic Packaged Food is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly xx% over the next five years, will reach xx million US$ in 2023, from xx million US$ in 2017, according to a new study.

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By the product type, the market is primarily split into

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Table of Contents

1 Market Overview

1.1 Organic Packaged Food Introduction

1.2 Market Analysis by Type

1.3 Market Analysis by Applications

1.4 Market Analysis by Regions

1.4.1 North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)

1.4.1.1 United States Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.1.2 Canada Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.1.3 Mexico Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.2 Europe (Germany, France, UK, Russia and Italy)

1.4.2.1 Germany Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.2.2 France Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.2.3 UK Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.2.4 Russia Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.2.5 Italy Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.3 Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia)

1.4.3.1 China Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.3.2 Japan Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.3.3 Korea Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.3.4 India Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.3.5 Southeast Asia Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.4 South America, Middle East and Africa

1.4.4.1 Brazil Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.4.2 Egypt Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.4.3 Saudi Arabia Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.4.4 South Africa Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.4.4.5 Turkey Market States and Outlook (2014-2023)

1.5 Market Dynamics

1.5.1 Market Opportunities

1.5.2 Market Risk

1.5.3 Market Driving Force

2 Manufacturers Profiles

3 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue, Market Share and Competition by Manufacturer (2017-2018)

3.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales and Market Share by Manufacturer (2017-2018)

3.2 Global Organic Packaged Food Revenue and Market Share by Manufacturer (2017-2018)

3.3 Market Concentration Rate

3.3.1 Top 3 Organic Packaged Food Manufacturer Market Share in 2018

3.3.2 Top 6 Organic Packaged Food Manufacturer Market Share in 2018

3.4 Market Competition Trend

4 Global Organic Packaged Food Market Analysis by Regions

4.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Regions

4.1.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales and Market Share by Regions (2014-2019)

4.1.2 Global Organic Packaged Food Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2014-2019)

4.2 North America Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

4.3 Europe Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

4.4 Asia-Pacific Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

4.5 South America Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

4.6 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

5 North America Organic Packaged Food by Country

5.1 North America Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country

5.1.1 North America Organic Packaged Food Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

5.1.2 North America Organic Packaged Food Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

5.2 United States Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

5.3 Canada Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

5.4 Mexico Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

8 South America Organic Packaged Food by Country

8.1 South America Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country

8.1.1 South America Organic Packaged Food Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

8.1.2 South America Organic Packaged Food Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

8.2 Brazil Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

8.3 Argentina Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

8.4 Colombia Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

9 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food by Countries

9.1 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue and Market Share by Country

9.1.1 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food Sales and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

9.1.2 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food Revenue and Market Share by Country (2014-2019)

9.2 Saudi Arabia Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

9.3 Turkey Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

9.4 Egypt Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

9.5 Nigeria Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

9.6 South Africa Organic Packaged Food Sales and Growth Rate (2014-2019)

11 Global Organic Packaged Food Market Segment by Application

11.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales Market Share by Application (2014-2019)

11.2 Home Using Sales Growth (2014-2019)

11.3 Hospital Using Sales Growth (2014-2019)

11.4 Other Sales Growth (2014-2019)

12 Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales, Revenue and Growth Rate (2019-2023)

12.2 Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast by Regions (2019-2023)

12.2.1 North America Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.2.2 Europe Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.2.3 Asia-Pacific Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.2.4 South America Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.2.5 Middle East and Africa Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast (2019-2023)

12.3 Organic Packaged Food Market Forecast by Type (2019-2023)

12.3.1 Global Organic Packaged Food Sales Forecast by Type (2019-2023)

12.3.2 Global Organic Packaged Food Market Share Forecast by Type (2019-2023)

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Chesterfield defender Will Evans had to put the gloves on after an injury to goalkeeeper Luke Coddington when all three subs had been used.

Myles Hippolyte opened the scoring for the visitors after just two minutes when he side-footed the ball past Luke Coddington frominside the area.

Rhys Murphy grabbed his 15thof the season from the penalty spot on 24 minutes after the striker was fouledby Anthony Gerrard.

Curtis Weston thumped in a superbvolley from distance to give Chesterfield a lifeline on the hour mark.

But within minutescaptainEvans hadto put the goalkeepergloves on after Coddingtonwent off with what looked like a serious injury after slipping in the wet conditions when kicking the ball.

Town had already used all their three substitutes, with Matt Tootle stretchered off early in the first-half,and so played more than half an hour with 10-men and their centre-half between the sticks.

Yeovil could not take advantage of their extra men and claimed the three points while the Spireites have now gone seven games without a win and are second bottom of the division.

The match had beenin doubt before kick-off due to heavy rainfallwith two pitch inspections held at 6.30pm and 7pm but referee Thomas Parsons called the game on but with a delayed start of 8pm.

John Sheridan named an unchanged starting line-up and bench from Saturdays defeat to Bromley.

The hostsgot off to the worst possible start when Hippolyte placed a shot into the bottom corner after two minutes.

Town were dealt another blow when Tootle was stretchered off resulting in seven minutes being added on at the end of the first-half. David Buchanan replaced him and went into midfield while Will Evans moved toright-back.

The Blues first sight of goal came when Mike Fondop headed against the crossbar from a Jay Sheridan free-kick but the striker was ruled offside.

The promotion-chasing visitors doubled their lead on 24 minutes from the penalty spot after Gerrard brought downMurphy in the box.

Murphy sentCoddington the wrong wayas boos rang around the Proact from The Bluessupporters, who have now seen their team already lose eight times at home this season.

It could have been more for Yeovil before half-time had it not been for a smart double save from Coddington to deny Hippolyte and Courtney Duffus.

Boss Sheridan brought on Tom Denton and Jermaine McGlashan before the hour mark to try and find a way back into the game.

And the break through came when Weston volleyed in from 25 yards following a corner to give Chesterfield hope.

But before they had chance to mount another attackCoddington slipped when kicking the ball andwas stretchered off after being down for more than five minutes.

Evans went in goal but was not really tested apart from having to punch a cross clear.

Town had one late opportunity through an acrobtaic effort from Jermaine McGlashan in the last minute of nine added on but it would not have been deserved.

Chesterfield: Coddington; Tootle (Buchanan, 9), Evans (c), Gerrard, Hollis, Sheridan; Maguire, Weston, Nepomuceno (McGlashan, 59); Fondop, Boden (Denton, 50).

Subs: Jalal, McGlashan, Denton, Shaw, Buchanan.

Yeovil Town: Nelson, Dath, Murphy, Dagnall,Dickinson, Duffus, Hippolyte, Lee, Osho, Skendi, Williams.

Subs: Tilley, Worthington, Bradbury, Hutton, Whelan.

Referee: Thomas Parsons

Attendance: 3,161 (94 away)

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Hair dye & chemical straighteners may increase risk of breast cancer

Hair products are part of a billion dollar beauty industry and new information reveals that using hair dye and chemical hair straighteners may increase the risk of developing breast cancer.

Some women are opting for nonpermanent hair color and relaxers amid news of a study that found women who use permanent hair dye and chemical straighteners may be at an increased risk of developing breast cancer, but doctors say you might have better success preventing breast cancer through diet and exercise changes.

According to the studyat the National Institutes of Health, higher breast cancer risk was associated with hair dye use, and the effects appeared to be stronger in African American womenparticularly those who are frequent users of the dyes and chemical straighteners.

At Renees Touch salon, Renee Montgomery has been using the CHI hair dye brandwhich does not include harsh chemicals like ammonia--but says she was still concerned when she heard about the new study.

"So many of my clients actually have color and have straighteners or relaxers in their hair, so I was very concerned," said Montgomery.

The study used data from 46,709 women and found that women who regularly used hair dye were 9 percentmore likely to develop breast cancer, but among women who used permanent hair dye every five to eight weeks, that risk increased to 60 percent for black womencompared to eight percent for white women.

"If you look at the number of African Americans in the study, it's very small compared to the number of Caucasians, so I don't know how accurate that would be if you applied it to a bigger population, said Julie R. Nangia, MD, from Baylor College of Medicines cancer center.

Nangia said more studies need to be done before shell recommend drastic haircare changes.

"I don't think I would recommend to my patients for them to stop using hair dye because of this study," said Nangia.

Montgomery said she personally avoids chemical straighteners and opts for a flat iron.

Nangia said if you want to avoid breast cancer, there are other factors to look at. Studies show alcohol use and not exercising have a much higher association with increased breast cancer risk.

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Alison Hammond is an English showbiz presenter who appears on the daytime TV show, This Morning. The bubbly host shot to fame after appearing on the third series of Big Brother and has since taken part on shows including Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and Strictly Come Dancing. Alison has recently slimmed down - did she follow a diet plan?

This week, Alison has been giving This Morning viewers all the latest news from Im A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!.

In a recent post, she shared a snap of her on the set of the This Morning showing off her new slim frame.

The presenter looked trim in a black and white outfit and fans were quick to praise her weight loss.

One wrote: You are an inspiration I can see the results of WW.

READ MORE: Weight loss: One woman lost a remarkable six stone with this plan - what did she eat?

Looking good WW suiting u, another fan added.

In April this year, Alison was announced as an ambassador for Weight Watchers, now WW, and embarked on a fitness journey.

By using the programme, she changed her diet plan and exercise routine which helped her start to slim down.

Speaking of the company, she said: My WW journey is focused on getting healthier for myself. I feel rubbish when I dont eat properly or exercise and WW helps me with what I eat and do.

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"I want my journey to empower others to think about making changes to their lifestyle to become the best version of themselves."

The presenter will often share clips of her working out in the gym as part of her new healthy lifestyle.

In the clips, it appears Alison likes to stay trim by focusing on weight exercises with her personal trainer.

She wrote: Train with Ali. Trainers and clients who train together stay together. Smashing it.

A similar post was captioned: Come train with me and @ellisgatfield , are you ready babes ?

Lets do this . Trainer and client who train together stay together !! #fitness #wellbeing

Alison has struggled with her weight over the years and previously opened up about dieting.

In 2016, she told Bella magazine: Its the one thing in my life that I feel like I cant achieve. When you get really big like me, you dont see any light at the end of the tunnel.

I need to do it in small stages. If I just try and live healthily and drink lots of water, the weight loss will come.

If I lose one or two stone, its not going to be obvious to anybody, but Ill feel better in myself.

Those who follow the WW plan focus on creating healthy habits including weight loss, maintenance, fitness and mindset.

Since joining the programme, fans have been able to see the showbiz host has slimmed down with diet and exercise.

She will regularly share pictures of her working out online showing she has kept up the gym workouts.

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Dan Buettner, a continent-trekking cyclist and storyteller, figured out that the world consisted of at least five "Blue Zones," in the early 2000s. That's when he made the term, which was first coined by the European demographers Michel Poulain and Gianni Pes, a household phrase in a best-selling cover story for National Geographic.

In this handful of hidden corners scattered across the globe, he discovered that people were sailing past the 100-year mark with surprising frequency, and often avoiding dementia.

People residing in these Blue Zones are outliving us because they have figured out what others have not, according to Buettner. They consistently eat a healthful diet, and they also move around about every 20 minutes or so during each day.

But he says it took him years after that initial discovery to figure out exactly why the rest of us are getting the simple diet and exercise formula so wrong.

"People start thinking that the entrance way to a healthier lifestyle for most Americans is through their mouths," he told Insider. "But the core tenant of Blue Zones, and it took me about 10 years to realize what I'm about to tell you, none of them have better discipline, better diets, better individual responsibility, they don't have better genes than us."

Instead, "they live a long time because longevity happens to them," Buettner said.

The homegrown, plant-based diets of the Blue Zones residents are only about half of the longevity equation, Buettner estimates. The rest is about making healthy choices the easiest ones by turning them into instinctual rituals of daily life that people don't have to think about or use willpower to fight for.

Namely, Blue Zones residents found in Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California move consistently through each day, live with purpose, and do it all with a little help from their friends.

Buettner has successfully trialed this holistic approach in cities and towns across the US, with stunning success. In 2009, he piloted his first "Blue Zones Project" in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The goal was to reverse-engineer it into a Midwestern Blue Zone.

"If you want to live longer and be healthier, don't try to change your behaviors, because that never lasts for the long run," he said. "Think about changing your environment."

For Albert Lea, that meant the town of roughly 18,000 people was pushed to do more daily movement, with citywide changes that turned healthful actions into the simplest choices.

The city added 10 miles of sidewalks and bike lanes for its residents, and local businesses made it easier to pick and eat healthy food. People started walking more and creating their own strolling groups that hit the streets together, collectively shedding 4 tons of weight (an average of 2.6 pounds per person). Smoking went down by 4% during the first five years of the program.

"When I started four years ago, I had high cholesterol and high blood pressure," Albert Lea City Council Member Al Brooks told MinnPost in 2015, saying he started walking 2.5 miles a day since the city turned into a Blue Zone. "My cholesterol is lower, my blood pressure is 116/70, and I lost 15 pounds."

Buettner has now consulted with dozens of other "Blue Zone Project" cities around the US that are trying his "ecosystem approach" to health and longevity, and saving millions of dollars in health insurance costs in the process.

The city of Fort Worth, Texas, for example, reduced its smoking rate 6% after partnering with Buettner in 2013. Fort Worth now saves an estimated $268 million annually as a result of that one action alone.That figure doesn't even account for the tens of millions of dollars in other health care costs saved because of Blue Zone-inspired programs in the city.

But making it a habit to ditch smoking and move around throughout the day doesn't mean you should neglect eating the crunchy vegetables, beans, fresh herbs, and oils that are so popular in the Blue Zones. Instead, Buettner's eating advice aligns with what nutrition experts and dietitians consistently recommend.

He suggests formulating your diet around plants, including plenty of complex carbohydrates (like beans and whole grains) and making convenience snack foods, desserts, and trips to fast food joints the exception, not the norm.

"When it comes to longevity, there's no short term fix," Buettner said."There's no pill or supplement or hormone. If you're not going to do something for years or decades, don't even bother with it."

Buettner's new "Blue Zones Kitchen" cookbook is filled with vegetarian recipes from each of the five Blue Zones, but he says you don't have to buy his tome to try out the eating technique. Instead, find "five or 10 recipes that you love." Then make those foods, along with some consistent, regular movement at home, an integral part of your daily routine. You can even get lazy and skip the gym.

"The secret to eating for 100 is to find the plant-based foods, heavy with beans and grains and vegetables, and learn how to like 'em," he said.

Update: A previous version of this story mentioned Belgian professor Michel Poulainas the inventor of the phrase "Blue Zone." His work was done in partnership with Italian biochemist and demographer Gianni Pes, whose name we've now included.

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With a majority of the world obsessing over their body by trying to become the best version of themselves, many diet fads are at their disposal to help them achieve their dream body. Paleolithic diet, ketogenic diet, raw food diet, and liquid diet are all examples of health fads that arose in the wake of health and wellness. And now, another fad called the F-factor diet seems to be making head turns with its new approach to weight loss.

Created by dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot, the F-factor diet is a weight loss plan that focuses on consuming foods high in fiber, lean protein, and complex carbs. It is distinct from other weight loss plans as it allows eating out, drinking alcohol occasionally, eating carbs, and spending less time exercising. The idea of the F-factor diet is to be able to enjoy the small joys of life as it increases the sustainability of the diet and also makes it easier to follow. The main sources of fiber are fruits, vegetables, pulses, and whole grains.

By increasing the quantity of fiber, you are kept satiated for longer, thus preventing the feeling of deprivation. The lean protein helps in maintaining muscle mass without providing too many carbs and fats, and the relatively low carb intake prevents excess calorie storage. The F-factor diet is meant to be followed in three phases. In the first phase (jump starting weight loss), you have to eat fewer than 35 grams of net carbs a day over three servings of carbs. In the second phase (continued weight loss), you have to eat fewer than 75 grams of net carbs a day over six servings of carbs. In the final phase (maintenance eating), you have to eat fewer than 125 grams of net carbs a day over nine servings of carbs.

In the past, research has found a link between a high fiber diet and weight loss to such an extent that fiber has been shown to even prevent obesity and chronic diseases. It is slowly digested, therefore it stays in the body for longer, keeping you full for longer and preventing eating in between meals. A study showed that for people suffering from obesity or excess weight, fiber was the most important dietary requirement regardless of calorie or macronutrient intake. While there isnt much research to prove the caliber of the F-factor diet, previous studies are in favour of it.

The F-factor diet doesnt give as much importance to exercise like other diets to, for it may increase hunger and make you eat more. Exercise is an important factor to aid weight loss, and without it, your efforts might be hindered. Excess fiber can not only cause digestive issues like gas, cramping, and bloating, but it may make you ignore other important nutrients like protein and fat, which also make you lose calories.

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If you have ever been on a diet, you know the pure vulnerability of getting weighed at the doctors office. Standing on that old metal scale with your shoes off, you might avert your eyes, as if that would prevent the nurse from saying the number out loud as they write it down. But what if weight did not play such an active role in determining your health?

On this edition of Embodied host Anita Rao examines 'The Health At Every Size Movement' with Christy Harrison, anti-diet registered dietitian, nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor, Dr. Louise Metz, and Mirna Valerio, former teacher-turned-sponsored athlete.

Some of the research presented in this show challenges a lot of what we have been told about health and our bodies...possibly even what you have heard from your medical provider. We invite you to listen with an open mind. Linked at the end of this page are studies referenced in the show. This conversation is not a substitute for personal medical advice.

On todays episode of our ongoing series Embodied: Sex Relationships and Your Health, we deconstruct diet culture by examining the holes in the science which props it up. The medical field has puzzled over the obesity epidemic for years with little progress. According to a growing field of doctors and health practitioners, weight is not the end-all-be-all indicator of health. Data shows that a higher body weight is correlated with diseases like osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes, but correlation does not imply causation.

History of Diet Culture

Christy Harrison is an anti-diet registered dietitian, nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor. After spending much of her life engaged in disordered eating, she found her way out of diet culture. She calls it The Life Thief and defines it as a system of beliefs that worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue; promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher moral and health status; demonizes certain foods and food groups and ways of eating while elevating others; and oppresses people who don't match up with its supposed picture of health and well-being.

In her forthcoming book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark/2019), she traces diet cultures history as far back as ancient Greece and the societys moralistic arguments against fatness.

This was because of the belief system that ancient Greeks had about balance and moderation and all things being seen as a virtue, she says. So fatness was seen as an imbalance to be, quote unquote, corrected.

Though that perspective fell out of vogue for centuries after the fall of Rome, it began to reemerge in the mid-19th century culture, still long before the medical world propagated weight stigma.

Ideas about the value of different bodies and of different people was really in the foreground and that started to lead to a demonization of fatness, she says. Early evolutionary biologists who are working around [the turn of the 19th century] started to point to fatness as a mark of, quote unquote, evolutionary inferiority because people who had more fat on their bodies were supposedly women and people of color and groups that were being demonized at the time.

Harrison says the societal association of fatness with disenfranchised groups like women and people of color attributed to the convergence of weight stigma and medicine. As patients increasingly demanded to be weighed by their doctors and be put on diets, medical professionals bent to their demands. She also points to the emerging life insurance industry as a factor in medicalizing weight stigma.

The life insurance industry, of course, is geared towards making money and making sure that they're having people in their insurance pool who are going to live the longest. And so they're doing this research to determine who's a bigger risk. And they found from their early research in wealthy, white middle-aged men that it seemed to be the larger-bodied men were dying sooner. And so they started to relay this information to doctors. They started to kind of coalesce behind a campaign of telling people not to be fat and having people lose weight as a way of supposedly reducing health risks. The risks are really it was about reducing monetary risks from the insurance industry.

The Obesity Epidemic

The research these early insurance companies conducted relied on measuring body mass index, or BMI. The scale categorizes people as underweight, normal or healthy weight, overweight or obese. BMI is a persons weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. It was developed in the 1830s by an astronomer as a statistical exercise.

Dr. Louise Metz says it is a problematic way to categorize health. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician specializing in eating disorders and gender-related care. She founded Mosaic Comprehensive Care in Chapel Hill, and it is a weight-inclusive health center.

[BMI] was designed for populations, not for individuals, and was not designed to define health in any way. And then moving on later to the modern age, it was used to begin to define health somewhere in the 1900s, Metz says. And then later on in the late 90s, what we found is that these arbitrary categories for BMI were suddenly changed. So the definitions of obesity and overweight were suddenly decreased and 29 million people suddenly became quote, overweight or obese overnight. And these changes really were not based in any research that shows that there was a direct link between these BMI categories and health.

[BMI] was designed for populations, not for individuals, and was not designed to define health in any way.

The measure is still used today to track changing body weight at a national level. Medical professionals and insurance companies use BMI as a measure of a persons health. Harrison says this contributed to the declaration of an obesity epidemic.

Many other researchers who are in the so-called field of obesity research are financed and funded by the pharmaceutical industry, [and] the pharmaceutical industry [is funded] by the diet industry, Harrison says. Many of them have their own diet plans and programs that they are selling and have this financing that's coming from people with a vested interest in making Americans fear weight gain and think that their body size is a problem.

Weight and Health: Correlation vs. Causation

Still, the CDC links higher body weight to a range of health consequences like high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and osteoarthritis. There is ample evidence that weight and these health consequences are correlated, but Harrison and Metz caution against implicating weight alone.

We don't have proof that it's the body size causing these health conditions. So there are several other mediators of that. So one could be cardiovascular fitness. We have some data to show that that could be a mediator between body size and health, Metz says. There's one study that looked at this and found that in people who have low cardiovascular fitness levels, mortality rates were higher with higher BMIs. But [in] individuals who had higher cardiovascular fitness, we found that the mortality rates evened out across body size and that in fact, people who are quote overweight or obese and were active cardiovascularly had lower mortality rates in those with a normal BMI who were inactive.

For Type 2 diabetes, a disease widely believed to be preventable by avoiding weight gain, Metz says medical professionals are asking the wrong questions.

There are assumptions behind those questions, and that it is likely not the body size that is causing diabetes again, but there may be other mediators like genetics. So someone might be predisposed to have a higher body weight and have diabetes. And someone might be exposed to chronic dieting and weight cycling As well as weight stigma [that] are increasing the risk of conditions like diabetes.

Why Diets Dont Work

Harrison, Metz and any promoter of the Health At Every Size (HAES) movement will tell you that diets do not work. They are not designed to result in long-term weight loss, but instead trap people in cycles of weight fluctuation. This process is called weight-cycling, and there is evidence that it adversely affects health.

Weight-cycling is this repeated cycle of weight loss and regain that people undergo when they try to intentionally lose weight, Harrison says. And we see in the research that up to 98% of the time when people embark on weight loss efforts, they end up regaining all the weight they lost within five years, if not more. In fact, up to two thirds of people who embark on weight loss efforts may regained more weight than they lost.

Up to 98% of the time when people embark on weight loss efforts, they end up regaining all the weight they lost within five years, if not more.

People in larger bodies get started on this weight-cycling sometimes as early as childhood. A lifetime of dieting, HAES practitioners argue, contributes to poor health. Our bodies are not designed to diet, and Harrison has an explanation as to why the vast majority of people gain back the weight they lost and sometimes more.

Our bodies are wired to resist starvation. And they have all kinds of biological mechanisms that kick in in a situation of lack of food, right, because the body perceives that as famine, she explains. And so it will do things like turn down your fullness hormones so that you keep eating longer in the presence of food, ramp up your hunger hormones so that you're more likely to seek out food, turn down your body temperature so that you're not burning as much energy, reduce your reproductive function because that requires energy.

There's a million things, little things that your body does to help you survive in a situation of lack of food.

To counteract this, Metz never recommends intentional weight loss to her patients. From the HAES perspective, it is more important to focus on things like metabolic levels and other vital signs. As part of the weight-inclusive model at Mosaic, patients are not routinely weighed. If deemed necessary, like in adolescent growth or prescribing weight-determined medication, practitioners will privately weigh the patient and turn the face of the scale away if the patient does not wish to know their weight.

Weight change could be a symptom, and Metz acknowledges its importance when patients bring it to her attention. But overall, she references HAES research in justifying the mostly weight-neutral approach at her practice.

[The] study looked at women who were quote overweight or obese and assigned them either to a diet routine/diet plan or a non-diet Health at Every Size approach. And what they found in these two groups [is] that initially, at the six-month follow-up that they did see improvements in blood pressure, high cholesterol and an increase in engaging and exercise behaviors among both groups, she says. And they saw that weight went down in a diet group. But then if you followed them out to two years, we found that the folks in the diet group actually had all of those numbers revert back to their baseline, and they had no sustained health benefits from engaging in the diet. But in the non-diet group, we found that at two years, they had sustained improved health outcomes across the board, but no change in their weight.

Navigating Diet Culture as a Fat Athlete

Not everyone has access to a HAES practitioner. For people in larger bodies, the weight stigma baked into the medical field can prevent their doctors from seeing past their size and addressing underlying issues.

Mirna Valerio has experienced that firsthand. She is a former teacher-turned-sponsored athlete who runs marathons and ultramarathons. She gained some celebrity in the running community as a large black woman and avid trail runner. Even though she has been running regularly for over a decade, some people still question her validity as an athlete. Her book A Beautiful Work In Progress (Grand Harbor Press/2017) traces her rise as an avid marathon and ultramarathon runner.

Please do not ask me to exercise or to lose weight, she writes on her doctors intake forms. I'm a very, very active person. I run marathons and I work out four to six days a week. I know I'm overweight and I've been working at slow and permanent weight loss for the past five years. Please actually read my chart before you start talking about these things. I would highly appreciate it.

It works for her now, she says. Prefacing her appointments with that note will get most doctors to address her health concerns beyond weight. Still, people on the street question her health.

I'm fat. You don't need to tell me. You don't need to tell me with your body language, you don't need to tell me explicitly or implicitly, I already know that. So it doesn't help me to keep pointing that out, whether I'm out on the trail, whether I'm out on the road, whether I'm just trying to sit in and be me and exist in this world as I am.

She has not weighed herself in years, but her body size has stayed about the same since she started running seriously.

Metz says everyone can take this HAES approach to their own doctors, like Valerio did.

If you're going to your doctor, one thing is that you do not have to be weighed. It is your right to decline to be weighed, she says. And another helpful quote that we learned from Raegan Chastain she will say that if the doctor is recommending weight loss for a condition that you have and you don't think it's appropriate, you can ask Well, what would you recommend for someone in a smaller body? What testing or treatment would you recommend for someone who's thin?

On this edition of our recurring series Embodied: Sex, Relationships and Your Health, host Anita Rao talks with Harrison, Metz and Valerio about diet culture and the stigma larger-bodied people face from the examining room to the running trail.

Continued scholarly reading:

Mortality rates by BMI Review articles that summarize the literature Weight and correlation with metabolic profiles Weight bias in healthcare Cardiorespiratory fitness as a mediator of health

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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has one of the most muscular physiques of all of Hollywood. The actor reportedly measures 6'5'' in height and weighs roughly 260 pounds. To stay in peak action star shape, he trains hard, combining intense weight room sessions with cardio and core workouts.

YouTuber Isaiah Photo, known for pulling stunts like hugging 1,000 trees to plant 20,000,000 more and storming Area 51, decided to try out the Rock's workout routine for 30 days. Isaiah, to be clear, isn't a fitness YouTuber, and describes himself as having a classic "dad bod" before the challenge begins. Don't try this yourselfand if you do, make sure to work with a coach or trainer to start to make sure you're using proper form for each exercise.

The YouTuber doesn't explain exactly where he got The Rock's workout split, which changes according to the role the actor is prepping for and other factors. Isiah could've followed this leg day routine from Johnson's strength coach, Dave Rienzi or this recent arm day workout posted to Instagram, for examplebut overall, the video follows a relatively normal plan. Mondays and Thursdays are back and bicep days, where he does deadlifts, pull ups, seated cable rows, face pulls, hammer curls, and dumbbell curls.

Tuesday and Fridays focused on the chest, triceps, and shoulders with bench presses, overhead presses, incline dumbbell presses, tricep pushdowns, overhead tricep extensions, and lateral raises.

Wednesday is his leg day, where he kills his quads, hamstrings and glutes with squats, Romanian deadlifts, leg presses, leg curls, and calf raises.

In addition to working out like The Rock, Isaiah also attempted to eat like him, which meant cutting out carbs, fats, and sugars, increasing protein intake, and eating 3,500 calories daily. Directly after every workout, he drank a protein shake, with another protein bar later in the day.

Initially, Isaiah planned to only work out like The Rock for a month, but after seeing so much improvement in his physique, the YouTuber decided to continue the challenge for another month, totaling 60 days.

Isaiah noted that the first 30 days he may have killed in in the gym, but was a little sloppy with his diet, drinking on the weekends and cheating with ice cream periodically, but for days 30 to 60 he promised to be perfect with his diet.

On day 39 Isaiah said, "Not having sugar in literally anything is so hard. It's in literally everything we eat." He continued, "I'm getting so sick of tuna and hardboiled eggs, and just want to throw up at the thought of it."

Still, Isaiah got through it, and by day 48, he noticed that his workout routine and diet had became the norm, making his drastic lifestyle changes significantly easier towards the end of the challenge.

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THURSDAY at noon on "The Source" An estimated14%of Bexar County's population lives with Type 2 diabetes. This preventable disease typically presents later in life, but is being contracted by anincreasingnumber of young adults who are then at risk for severe health complications earlier in life.

Of the more than30 millionAmerican adults with diabetes, approximately90%live with Type 2, which is managed with diet, exercise and insulin.Approximately half a million Texans are still undiagnosed.

Risk factors include poor diet, obesity, sedentary lifestyle and prediabetes. Children diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes often have a family history with the disease.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1 in 5 adolescents are living with prediabetes, defined as having blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet at the threshold for an official Type 2 diabetes diagnosis.

Is there a public health strategy to combat the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in Bexar County? Who is most at risk and what's being done to break the cycle?

What are the potential short and long term effects of Type 2 diabetes? Can it be reversed with healthier living? What does responsible treatment entail and how do individuals without health insurance manage?

What is to blame for the rising rates of Type 2 and prediabetes in young people? Could earlier identification and treatment help mitigate the disease?

The Texas Diabetes Institute is recruiting for diabetes-related clinical trials. Interested listeners can call 210-358-7200 for more information.

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