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According to recent reports in Canada, the majority of toddlers in Inuit households in regions like Nunavut are not eating healthy diets, and are not getting an adequate amount of nutrition on a daily basis. Research showed that 56% of Inuit households with young children were considered "child food insecure". The conclusion is based on surveys conducted in 2007 and 2008 in 16 different Nunavut Inuit communities.

The reports also concluded that 7 out of 10 households were "food insecure." These rates are ten times higher than the national average which runs at about 5% of households rated as child food insecure. The study authors hope that the data will prompt efforts to help those households which are food insecure to improve their diets. Factors affecting food insecurity include social assistance, lower education and lower household income.

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According to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, healthy diets in the Middle East and other emerging economies should be maintained and they should avoid copying the Western way of eating to avoid obesity and other health consequences.

These affects are already being seen in the Middle East with a dramatic rise in obesity in recent year. Oliver is famous for his advocacy of healthy diets among UK school children, and he is now turning his attention to the negative effects of fast food and consumerism on residents of India, the Middle East and South America. Oliver notes that many residents in these developing countries are being influenced by propaganda from the west and want to follow in the development footsteps of countries like the US. This includes copying the western diet model which relies heavily on fast food and pre packaged convenience.

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There are more products on the market today which boast zero calories, and so it would seem that incorporating these products into healthy diets would make it much easier to lose weight. Unfortunately, it's not quite that simple because calories are the energy required by our bodies to operate properly.

Depriving yourself of too many calories on a daily basis will result in your metabolism slowing down to keep pace with the lower food intake. For this reason, you don't actually lose as much weight as you might assume when eating a lot of zero calorie foods, but you will feel sluggish and unhealthy. When you literally starve yourself of needed calories, you body slows down to burn fewer calories in response. A healthy diet will incorporate natural zero calorie foods and beverages like water, as well as negative calorie foods that take more energy to digest than they contain like fruits and vegetables.