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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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Is your pet obese? New research shows that as many as fifty percent of all cats and dogs are overweight and their owners don't even know it. How can you tell if your pet has a problem- and if it does, what can you do about it? We'll show you. |
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And for people who tend to overeat. we'll look at the new information about trans fats and what you need to know about this stealth |
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And later, sculpting with Granite. |
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But first. Many people struggle daily with dieting and exercising in an effort to help fight the ongoing battle of the buldge. But have you ever been concerned with how much your pet weighs? Well, according to new reports maybe you should be. not only is being overweight bad for your pet's health - but as we found out it - it could be bad for your wallet too. |
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V.O - This is Jesse, an eleven-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever. Cindy - We adopted him from the humane society when he was just about 8 years old and we just love him dearly he's a wonderful family member. V.O - While Jesse enjoys the typical lifestyle of a dog he does have a few indulgences. Cindy - too many Pepperidge farm gold fish way too many Pepperidge farm gold fish. V.O - Jesse is overweight and this puts him in a category that includes nearly half of all cats and dogs. And according to a recent study by the Purina Pet Institute 50% of pet owners don't know that their pet is overweight. These statistics no surprise to Dr. James McKiernan. He's a veterinarian and owner of the Great Bay Animal Hospital in Durham. Dr. Jim - So the majority of the pets we see here or even in the last number of years I've been doing this, overweight many of them are. And obese I would say not so many are obese but many, many are overweight and along with the overweight issue are medical issues. Whether it is orthopedic or one of the many issues that follow. Dr. Jim - There is knee injuries we have coruscate ligament tears, which is a surgical condition in large breed dogs. There's disk issues and that's very hurtful and painful for a dog um…things of that nature. Cats it's quite different it's primarily two things one is a liver issues and two is diabetes and we see that too often. V.O. The pet obesity problem appears to mirror that of America's human population. Studies also show that overweight owners are twice as likely to have an overweight dog. Dr. Jim - I think it's always been around. I think we're seeing a lot on the human side as well. I mean we're seeing type one diabetes in children that we had never seen before. You know I read recently that some of the fast food places for just a burger, fry and a coke is 1300 calories when your daily requirement maybe only 1500. So I think we are seeing more as people so we're recognizing it, we're talking about it even in school systems for kids we're talking about banning stuff for kids and I think it's a great thing and the more the better. V.O - According to animal health expert's overweight pets need plenty of exercise and a reduction in their caloric intake. Dr. Jim - Cats, you know lets face it they enjoy a pretty sedentary lifestyle where the activity of the day may be looking at that sparrow outside. So their exercise is not a whole lot. Do we over feed our cats? yes, I think we do. I think many cats do very well on a high fiber diet it's actually good for them sometimes. Dogs, you know there tends to be a medical reason for obesity as well as again, not so much the exercise in my opinion but that is very important is just I think, that many of us and you know all of us are inclusive in this we share our love for our pets through a treat. The more we give them that treat the more we can say we love you. And over a time we see these pets getting larger and larger. V.O - This was the case with Jesse. Cindy - And I think it's so easy for all of us whether it's with children with ourselves or our pets, food is often love, but you do have to make the change for their sake and I realized that I was jeopardizing his health and I want him to live as long as he can with us and not just exist. I want him to be active and be happy as well as really healthy. Dr. Jim - Every dog has a different metabolism and every diet you know all the diets that we are seeing there are many good ones. …most tend to follow an AFCO standards. And the AFCO standards require that they are very good food, and they will give a dosing of how much we should feed a day. The problem is that in many cases you will follow that right on the nose but on top of that you also giving the treats and your also letting them have table scraps so you think oh yeah well we are giving the 11/2 cups twice a day but we're supplementing when you don't need to. Cindy - I think at one time before we adopted him, and when we did adopt him he was overweight and he had had a very neglectful and sedentary life so when he came to us he certainly wasn't sedentary but we were feeding him too much. And like you said we were feeding him from the amounts listed on the back of the dog food bag said and we were way over feeding him and giving him way too many treats…too many Pepperidge farm gold fish way too many Pepperidge farm gold fish. And low and behold last year in May between the weight that he put on and the fact that he has arthritis in both of his hips he could not get up to greet me one day and that scared me like I can not even tell you. V.O - Dr. McKeirnan says it's pretty straightforward to gauge if your pet is overweight. Dr. Jim - One of the things you want to do is run your hands down the sides and you want to feel the ribs and count them. You don't want to see them but you want to easily feel the ribs and count them. Number two you want to after the 13th rib which is the last rib…we call it the waist line…you're going to want a nice waistline coming in that you'll be able to see. The third thing is that the belly will be tucked up. So if you look at a dog and you look straight down from the top and you see a straight line coming back like a breadbox you've lost your waistline. B-Roll - Dr. Jim examining yellow lab B-Roll - footage of Buddha B-Roll - Dr. Jim examining cat Dr. Jim - A cat… a lot of times a cat is similar. The belly doesn't get tucked up a lot of indoor cats will get that way, they are not overweight but from sitting around their bellies will get that way So in cats it's a little bit different but essentially the same. Feel the ribs, get the waistline and a lot of times you can feel the backbone on the back to make sure you can feel it but it's not that apparent. The last thing, which is really important, too is to make sure you don't see the ribs. If you see a dog that when it turns to the right you can see all it's ribs that's not good it's too thin. So those would be my criteria. V.O - So what can you do when you're starting your pet on a dietary plan for weight loss? Dr. Jim - I think some tips that I would give would be. I like to put the food down for 20 min. and then pull it. I don't like to leave food down all the time. If you leave food down all the time, A: it will create an attitude of perhaps even an aggressive situation later because they think their in charge. And another thing is weight gain. So put your food down for 20 minutes and if they don't finish it then take it. Other ways to avoid obesity, is you know feed the recommended amount, and a lot of the times a veterinarian would be the best person to give that information whether to increase of decrease. Exercise…you know I always say a tired puppy is a good puppy so you know exercise is critical. Even walking every day is great. And our human treats that we eat are okay. so if you are going to use treats use something that is very low cal. Like baby carrots, popcorn without butter, ice cubes, many kinds of vegetables, green beans. That's what I like to use. Cindy - Well first of all face the fact that your pet is overweight. Even though they are getting plenty of exercise which he certainly always has since we've had him you do really need to make a change and it is truly for their own good. Make the effort, make the adjustment…you are saving money on food and they adjust they really do. And carrots are a very good substitute for gold fish. We go through a lot of carrots. V.O - And for Jesse, that lighter diet could mean a longer and happier life…. |
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Now back to us humans. In a few years, our food labels will look a bit different. As you may have heard, the FDA recently announced a requirement to include trans fat content on food labels. Celene Ramadan tells us how these "hidden" fats are not so hard to find. |
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THEY'VE BEEN CALLED "THE STEALTH FATS" AND "THE PHANTOM FATS"… AND WE FIND THEM ALMOST EVERYWHERE. BUT, HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT TRANS FATS? Dr. Sam Smith If you look at the research literature, the dietary literature, there is the pretty strong implication, all though not direct proof that trans-fatty acids, all though an unsaturated fat, behave much more like a super-nasty saturated fat and increase the risk of heart disease and increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and they may do some other things and for years they were thought to contribute to cancer as well. SOUNDS SCARY. BUT TO MAKE THINGS MORE CONFUSING, SCIENTISTS NOW SHOW THAT THERE MAY BE SOME HEALTH BENEFITS TO TRANS FATS… There are a few trans fats that are extremely healthy. We've recently discovered a class of fatty acids we call conjugated Linoleic acid which have a trans bond and a Cis bond in a molecule - these trans fats decrease risks of heart disease and cancer. So, calling all trans "bad" is just the same thing as stereotyping people. We don't all fit into a stereotype - so there are a few fatty acids that may be beneficial. OKAY, SO - GOOD OR BAD - WHERE DO THESE TRANS FATS COME FROM? WELL, THEY COME FROM A PROCESS CALLED HYDROGENATION. When you hydrogenate a vegetable oil, you make it more solid. In food chemsitry terms, you increase the smoke point. Which means you can heat it much much hotter and you can cook things faster. It's also better for pie crusts or for baking. So from the standpoint of culinary cosmetics, as it were, it is better to use a hard hydrogenated shortening - which is why we do it. It also makes a better spread. It's hard to spread oil on toast. Nobody wants oily toast. STANDUP - So, where do we find these trans fats? They exist in most processed foods like cookies, crackers, donuts and pastries in small amounts - but if we consume too much of them, it can add up. So how do we avoid these trans fats if they're not on the label? We already have information on labels that are a pretty good clue. If you see the word hydrogenated, hardened, partially hydrogenated or partially hardened in the list of ingredients then it has trans fats in them and if you don't want them then stay away from those foods. So, it's there - but again, who looks at the little stuff in the fine print on the back side of the package? Most Americans choose the foods they consume by what they like, what the people around them are eating, where they are and what tastes good at the moment. A few of us read labels. But most of us don't read them too often or too seriously - particularly if we're in a crowd or we're out having fun or we're in a hurry. And most of us don't do a lot of our own cooking. The food and drug administration recently announced that beginning in 2006 food manufacturers will be required to include the amount of trans fats on the labels. But experts say the most abundant sources of these trans fats exist in foods without labels. Eating out of the house is a crap shoot. You really don't know what you're getting. -The most significant sources of trans fats are found in prepared, fried foods - fast foods and donuts. -The current amount in the American diet is estimated at about 2% of our calories. When we say what is a large amount we really don't know form a disease prevention standpoint. BEFORE WE START COUNTING TRANS FATS, DR. SAM SMITH ADDS THAT THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT HEART DISEASE IS TO KEEP ALL THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE. Since heart disease is a major killer 900,000 to 1 million people a year - anything that might decrease the risk without hurting us may be a good idea to try. On the other hand, if somebody is smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and they're worried about whether their french fries were made in hydrogenated vegetable oil or beef tallow, that's a big joke. Don't focus strictly on diet - focus on everything and put it together as a full life package. Americans are infatuated with food and diet and we tend to ignore the other factors perhaps because food and diet is so easily controlled. Me: So, what do you say to the person who's tired of the fads? "One day this is bad for me the next day this is bad - I'll just eat burgers for the rest of my life…" What I say is moderation - everything in moderation. The thing we have to remember is - eating is one of the great pleasures in life eating should not be a hassle, it should not be torture, it should be fun. Worrying about what you eat is probably just as bad as what you eat. So, my recommendation would be if you like French fries, one serving of French fries isn't going to kill you every now and then. On the other hand, don't get locked into a diet where you're eating burgers and fries 3 times a day. It's about moderation. Again, why make a business and a torture out of something that should be enjoyable and a social occasion? |
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Now that you know how to figure out if the foods you're eating have trans fats - what kinds of healthy choices can you make for yourself and your children? We got some tips from Dietitian and author Eileen Beehan. |
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Finally, this next story shows us that big is sometimes better. Especially when you're talking about sculpture. Chip Neal introduces to a seacoast artist whose work is so large. her studio is outdoors. |
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Sculpture Hear torch See house and sculptures around lawn See one of the pieces on her lawn See another piece Tony VO "I call it Sweet Festival" See Tony using torch on granite piece. VO The torch cleans it up gets rid of the stains. You can use the torch to carve too but it's expensive. Watch her work more Tony OC - Everyday when I come out - part of creativity isn't the fact that I know how to use the torch or the chisel those are crafts, but when you create something the creative ideas come from being very still Hold on shot of the piece she is currently working on Chip VO as Tony and Chip walk through her work yard. Antoinette Prien Schultze has a varied background in the arts. She studied opera at Juliard and painting at Columbia then she taught herself sculpting. Today her sculptures are in collections all over the country and displayed in public places from Chicago to Manchester. And she and her husband raised 4 children on their dairy farm in Eliot. this piece is started.it will sit up higher on base.Look at other side it has a wonderful lean to it.when they have some curve or lean to it it just makes it feel more human the V is a piece will be filled with this black marble. Balanced in the V like its fallen on an angle caught Why do we have sculpture? It's important to us now. More thanever. People used stones to write on to mark the way to indentify. It was so tangible Nowadays I don't know it's fast sculpture is slow and meditative it involves your mind your whole body your senses something that hopefully will bring people back. Watch her working on a piece called Aurora VO Tony - Plans for this? For me to be an artist is an exploration into myself. When I interact with this stone it reveals who I am… I used to take my piece of marble and carve it into a human figure. Now I have this love for the stone itself so I try to use it together so that we're working together So I'm not taking away from the character of the stone and making it just all mine. Sharing is how I like to think of it. It's just part of my personality. Tony As an artist in order to have work that has genuine meaning it has to reveal who you are otherwise it's phony. So a lot of people won't like my work. Because it doesn't have a connedtion with what they're used to. T explains piece she is wkg on. inspiration came from top marble piece. I found bottom granite on my property. So I got it lifted to Manchester to have bottom and top sawed off. Bought it home. And shaped it. Wanted a certain shape/ You have a rough idea first. But I have to make it all flow It isn't masculine some say my wk is. everything I try to finish it off Little things gives it the beauty. I don't feel my work is masculine. sun should come in and shoots up that hole. It looks like there is a candle in there. It's called Aura… go on other side its different. I don't know which is the front and back yet. I like that the lines don't quite meet a little tension. I will love this piece when its done. she starts work on piece with hand tools. Climbs up ladder. Shots various sounds too 9:00 lkg through hole to her wkg. **** Tony VO you have to step away to look at your wk… like this that's wonderful the way it sits there. *** hopefully when people will come and view my work. Hopefully it will stop them just stop them. you can be silent. See Mill Girl sculpture at Millyard in Manchester Chip VO - one of Antoinette's public sculputes stands in the Amoskeag Millyard in Manchester. It is a 9 foot statue of a "Mill Girl" Tony VO explain Mill Girl. wkd 8 hrs a day for a year. Important to me at the time I tried to put myself into it. walking into mill for first day stops to reflect and looks back. She is looking back to her past and yet she is walking forward. I didn't have any idea of what to do until that came to me. See her working with hand tools on piece Tony - This piece must weigh 20,000 lbs and I weigh 135 Tony Art should stop everybody to feel what it is. just to stop and feel its in the present. It's real. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. The state budget. even with a continuing resolution, many agencies are beginning to feel the pinch. We'll get an update on the negotiations. Join us tonight at 10:00. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/22/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 9:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New research shows that as many as fifty percent of all cats and dogs are overweight and their owners don't even know it. How can you tell if your pet has a problem- and if it does, what can you do about it? We'll show you. And for people who tend to overeat. we'll look at the new information about trans fats and what you need to know about this stealth. And later, sculpting with Granite. But first. Many people struggle daily with dieting and exercising in an effort to help fight the ongoing battle of the buldge. But have you ever been concerned with how much your pet weighs? Well, according to new reports maybe you should be. not only is being overweight bad for your pet's health - but as we found out it - it could be bad for your wallet too. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Laura Fulmer NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Cindy Wolf\Jesse's Owner, James V. McKiernan, D.V.M.\Great Bay Animal Hospital |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/22/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 6:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New research shows that as many as fifty percent of all cats and dogs are overweight and their owners don't even know it. How can you tell if your pet has a problem- and if it does, what can you do about it? We'll show you. And for people who tend to overeat. we'll look at the new information about trans fats and what you need to know about this stealth. And later, sculpting with Granite. Now back to us humans. In a few years, our food labels will look a bit different. As you may have heard, the FDA recently announced a requirement to include trans fat content on food labels. Celene Ramadan tells us how these "hidden" fats are not so hard to find. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Celene Ramadan NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Sam Smith\Prof. of Nutritional Sciences, UNH |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/22/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 3:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New research shows that as many as fifty percent of all cats and dogs are overweight and their owners don't even know it. How can you tell if your pet has a problem- and if it does, what can you do about it? We'll show you. And for people who tend to overeat. we'll look at the new information about trans fats and what you need to know about this stealth. And later, sculpting with Granite. Now that you know how to figure out if the foods you're eating have trans fats - what kinds of healthy choices can you make for yourself and your children? We got some tips from Dietitian and author Eileen Beehan. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Allison McNair NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Eileen Beehan\Registered Dietitian |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 7/22/03 22:00 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 7:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, New research shows that as many as fifty percent of all cats and dogs are overweight and their owners don't even know it. How can you tell if your pet has a problem- and if it does, what can you do about it? We'll show you. And for people who tend to overeat. we'll look at the new information about trans fats and what you need to know about this stealth. And later, sculpting with Granite. Finally, this next story shows us that big is sometimes better. Especially when you're talking about sculpture. Chip Neal introduces to a seacoast artist whose work is so large. her studio is outdoors. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Chip Neal NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Antoinette Prien Schultze\Sculptress |
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