Do you notice this too???

[john937]

I agree there's a problem with fat, but I don't blame the parents.
I don't have kids, but I'm around lots of co-workers who do.
These folks are constantly driving their kids around to soccer, dance class, baseball etc, and the kids are still fat.
They all complain that one the kid gets home they're glued to their computer screens,
so yeah, inactivity is part of it,
But mostly I blame the diet.
Parents today need a way to feed their kids quickly, and must rely on fast food at least part time.
You can't get a tasty healthy meal at a fast food place, can't be done.
Yeah, they sell low fat chicken salads. Ever try to get a kid to eat it?
McDonalds has convinced America that french fried potatoes qualifies as a vegetable!
I say put a tax on unhealthy fast food.
They put a "sin" tax on cigarettes justified by the fact that cigarettes cause public hospitals to care for indegent cancer patients.
Use the same logic to tax unhealthy food, put some pressure on the restraunt industry to offer healthy choices.

 

[fistfullofsteel]

It's quite simple really..

In most schools they pump the kids with drugs and food all damn day long to what seems to me a way to make their jobs easier. Teachers and administrators don't have to do anything but round up the herd, pop a pill, feed often and regularly, shove them in front of a computer screen and then ship them off to their respective buses and/or after school programs.

The parents don't give a shit because they were too selfish in the first place to have a kid but did anyway - most likely to keep the marriage or start one. The parents either can't see beyond their own *cry me a river* dilemmas, so how could one expect them to care for their child like a parent? Most of them are still kids themselves and haven't grown into adults capable of noticing a problem with the growing waistline of their child.

So please explain to me if no one will care and those hired and paid to care don't want to bother because *God forbid they should have exert an effort* to do their jobs. (You know they have their own problems to deal with...)

Damn, you are so sexy when you get like this. I like it when women don't hold back. Let's do lunch, then dinner, then dessert, and then umm.... well you know.

 

[velvett]

These folks are constantly driving their kids around to soccer, dance class, baseball etc, and the kids are still fat. [snip]...But mostly I blame the diet.
Parents today need a way to feed their kids quickly, and must rely on fast food at least part time.
You can't get a tasty healthy meal at a fast food place, can't be done....[snip]...I say put a tax on unhealthy fast food...[snip]..Use the same logic to tax unhealthy food, put some pressure on the restaurant industry to offer healthy choices.

John, I'm sorry but I can't agree with you on this one.
Where does a child learn his or her eating habits?
Either at home or in school.

How long does it take to make a kid a healthy sandwich?
How long does it take to make a tuna, turkey or chicken sandwich?

Now how long does it take to haul that soccer team thru the drive thru at a fast food palace?

I would bet it takes longer to go thru the drive thru!
Why would you feed your kid the crap from a fast food restaurant???
Why?

Because the parent is too lazy to make their kid a meal - a healthy meal. Picky eater? After he/she starves a little he/she will stop being a stubborn little brat and eat what you make for them to eat.

I have seen many parents shove food in a kids face to shut them up. They don't want to deal with them so the shove a burger in their face - hopefully it will make them tired and they will pass out.

Fat kids on the soccer team?
BOO HOO - what is he/she a bench warmer?
Or does he/she have a health problem that their parent have not paid attention to?

Fat parent = fat kid.

A child does not have to be fat, it is his/her parent's responsibility to teach the child good eating habits to grow up to be a healthy adult. If you don't have time, you make time, if you can't make time - why did you make a child in the first place?

Fat kid with poor eating habits = fat adult.


You're going to blame the restaurants???
What they need to curb people from eating like cows?
The restaurant chef has to change his/her recipes because you can't control what you eat and how much you eat?

That ridiculous.

 

[velvett]

Damn, you are so sexy when you get like this. I like it when women don't hold back. Let's do lunch, then dinner, then dessert, and then umm.... well you know.

ROWRRRRRRRRR
I'm a feisty chicky.


HAHAHHA!

 

[fistfullofsteel]

ROWRRRRRRRRR
I'm a feisty chicky.


HAHAHHA!

GROOVY BABY!!!!! REALLY, O BEHAVE!!! OK, DON'T BEHAVE!!!!!

 

[john937]

I live on the south side of town.
I work on the north side of town.
I can't count the number of times I've been away from home
and needed something to eat and the only places around were
fast food places.
I drive up to the menu and everything they offer is fat, fat, fat.
So if I need healthy choices, I can imagine the parents need it even more.
These days both those parents you're blaming are working full time jobs.
Your advise for parents to make their kids a healthy meal was perfect in Victorian America when the woman stayed home.
Today's reality is no matter how the parents have raised their kids,
the kids are on their own when the parents are at work, and
a kid will order cheese nachos over skinnless chicken anyday.
And in most of the fast food around here, it doesn't matter, cause the skinnless chicken isn't on the menu.

 

[velvett]

Your advise for parents to make their kids a healthy meal was perfect in Victorian America when the woman stayed home.
Today's reality is no matter how the parents have raised their kids,
the kids are on their own when the parents are at work, and
a kid will order cheese nachos over skinnless chicken anyday.
And in most of the fast food around here, it doesn't matter, cause the skinnless chicken isn't on the menu.

Then you and the parent that have obese children with poor eating habits needs to get their lazy asses out of bed 10-20 minutes earlier and bring a healthy lunch.

Or find a deli or go to a 7-11 and grab a yogurt & a banana or something - anything but a freaking fast food burger.

I was 19 when I had my first fast food burger. That's bullshit that the only food you can find to eat quickly is fat fast food. PULEASE.

YOU ARE MAKING EXCUSES for people to be lazy.
I don't care if both parents work - get up and make your kid a sandwich or teach your brat kid to get his/her ass out of bed and make their own lunch.

You don't have TEN minutes to make a meal?
You don't want to have ten minutes.

I used to commute 1 hour and 15-25 minutes each way 6 days a week for 3 years and FOUND the time to pack a lunch or purchase a salad with chicken or tuna.


YOU MAKE THE TIME.


And another thing - WOMEN in perfect Victorian America???? What are you delusional? You expect the woman to do everything don't you?

Will the little woman also cut your big mac for you so you don't have to strain your mouth?

 

[velvett]

Oh and while I can be a ranting bitch...


I am nice so...


John - have a Happy Birthday.

 

[RADAR]

AWWW That was a nice touch velvet bab......RADAR

 

[Mdguy]

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The parents don't give a shit because they were too selfish in the first place to have a kid but did anyway -

Most of them are still kids themselves and haven't grown into adults

That's the root of the problem...excellent, intelligent posts Velvett!

I chalk it up to mass ignorance, stupidity, and laziness also.....
Why is health important when in society making money or exhibiting a certain 'status' in life to their cohorts is what most people think IS important rather than the well-being of their children ?
Diet/processed foods and our sedentary livestyles are to blame for the obesity rate, but the underlying causes are what Velvett has alluded to
I don't know how many people I see in parking lots waiting 5 minutes for a spot 30 ft closer to some store when they could just park a little further away and walk in a shorter amount of time-just plain laziness...it almost seems like people avoid any physical exertion like the plague-I guess it's not 'in vogue' right now....