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Can you be fat and healthy?
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sengers,” said Dr. JoAiin
Manson, chief of preventive
medicine at Harvard’s
Brigham and Women’s
Hospital. These substances
can damage blood vessels,
increase the risk of blood clots
and cause insulin resistance
that makes people prone to
diabetes — all without elevat
ing blood pressure or choles
terol, said Manson, who was
not involved in the
Northwestern study
Still, there is a common
misconception that excess
weight is nothing to worry
about until high blood pres
sure and poor cholesterol
develop, and those can then
be treated with medications.
Manson said ‘Tatients say
that all the time, and many
doctors actually will say that
to patients” too, she said.
The study “will help define
obesity as a disease” in itself,
said Dr. Samuel Klein, an obe
sity expert at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Dr. David Katz, an obesity
researcher and director of
Yale University’s Prevention
Research Center, said the
findings help prove obesity is
a real public health crisis.
‘Teople who say obesity has
been hyped are wrong,” Katz
said.
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School cafeteria starts veggie lunch
ATLANTA—Miriam •
Archibong remembers the
food offerings her high school
cafeteria used to serve for
vegetarians; bland salads
and greasy cheese pizza.
But salads are “not sufll-
d.ent to survive,” she says.
“Cheese pizza _
that’s not healthy
because of all that
grease.”
Archibong often
brou^t her own
food, lunching
on applesauce,
carrots and:
water. Finally,
she and other
vegetarians at
Grady High
School demanded
and won _ some
changes two years ago.
Tbday, Grady High has a
separate vegetarian lunch
line with a menu as varied as
veggie eggroUs, pasta salad,
vegetarian pizza and sloppy
joes made of tofu.
“My favorite thing was the
veggie burger. It was so
good,” said Ardiibong, who
graduated in 2005 and now is
pursuing more vegetarian
options at her new school —
Spelman College, an all-girls
and historically black sdhool,
also in Atlanta.
For years, school cafeterias
have tried to please students
with vegetarian offerings.
The American School Food
Service Association says more
than a third of U.S. hi^
schools have meatless itons
that include salads and
cheese pizza.
However, a new trend-- veg
etarian-only lunch lines — has
started in the unlikeliest of
places - the South, home of
the “Stroke Belt,” long known
for its trademark filed and
fatty focxis and hi^er rates of
heart attacks and strokes
than other parts of the coun
try
The urban Atlanta high
school’s vegetarian-only
lunch line is believed to be
one of the first in the country
It’s an odd birthplace for such
a healthy innovation, consid
ering the school is only blocks
fix)m the city’s downtown bas
tions of Southern cuisine.
including the filed chicken
and filed green tomatoes at
the historic Mary Mac’s Tba
Room and the filed peach pies
at the landmark Varsity
restaurant.
Schools in Eugene, Ore.,
and in other ■,
progres-
health-
conscious
cities of the
Pacific
Northwest
are begin
ning to
look to
Atlanta’s
example, said
Tbm Callahan,
senior vice presi
dent of Sodexho Inc., the com
pany that provides Grady’s
food service.
Emphasis in the past was
simply on making sure there
were meatless options,
Callahan said. Last year his
company brought the sepa
rate vegetarian menu to
Ei^ene “and now we’re start
ing to see some momentum
building,” he said.
In the middle of a national
obesity epidemic in which up
to 30 percent of U.S. children
are overweight or obese,
health officials long have been
concerned about what stu
dents eat, or whether they
eat. For example, Atlanta
schools’ cafeterias only serve
meals to about one in five
high schoolers,^ who aren’t
allowed to leave campus for
lunch. School officials worry
that many of the students
either are bringing junk food
for lunch or are not eating at
all.
“There are students who are
coming to us on empty and
leaving on empty We con
stantly have to look at cre
ative ways to engage middle
and high school students,”
said Dr. Marilyn Hughes of
Atlanta Public Schools’ nutri
tion department.
“Tfiat concerns us overall
for the obesity rate and for
our commitment to academic
excellence. We know they
never had the opportunity to
Committee suggests
study of complaints
against police
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NORTH CHARLESTON,
S.C. — North Charleston
should set up an independent
committee to review com
plaints against police officers,
a civil rights leader suggest
ed.
During recent months more
than a dozen black
residents have j
alleged they
were mistreat
ed by police, com
plaining they were
stopped for no
reason, treated
rudely or had
their rights vio
lated
Police appear
unwilling to find fault
with their officers, said Dot
Scott, president of the
Charleston chapter of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People.
“If you can never find any
wrong within your house,
then maybe you might need
someone else to do the look
ing ” said Scott, who lives in
North Charieston.
City leaders have discussed
holding a summit to deal with
relations between blacks and
police. While police deny
there is racism, officials say
they are willing to discuss
residents’ concerns.
“We’ve done that in the
past, and we are always will
ing to come to the
table,” said
Spencer Pryor, a
police department
spokesman “Our
doors are always
open to folks if
they have a
problem.”
Scott said
she would con
sider a summit
but the depart
ment should first look at
itself and “be honest about
what is happening.”
Scott has complained that
last year, police looking for
drugs conducted a cavity
search on her cousin’s son, a
charge police deny
Sixteen other complaints
were compiled by a group
known as the Committee on
Better Racial Assurance.
Police seem quick to dismiss
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reach that if they never had
proper nourishment,” Hughes
said.
But Grady’s vegetarian line
has been a popular cafeteria
draw. Originally designed for
the 30 students in
Archibong’s Vegetarian Club,
meat-eaters also jumped in
line and the cafeteria now
serves vegetarian entrees to
up to 400 of the school’s 1,200
students each day This past
fall, the school district offered
the vegetarian option to other
schools, although so far there
have been no takers.
At Grady, non-vegetarian
students who graze in the
vegetarian line'said they like
having better non-meat choic
es.
“I get the vegetarian meals
because they have a decent
selection you can choose
fix)m,” said ninth-grader
Jessica Fortney, 15.
“Oth^-wise, I would have to
eat the disgusting pizza every
day”
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