Overweight parents giving junk food to kids makes me Angry.

[mbcrump]

I HATE to see overweight parents feeding their children crap food. Their is a McDonalds in the wal-mart where I shop and I see overweight parents giving their child hamburgers w/ french fries w/ mc flurry or whatever that ice cream thing is called. I want to slap those parents for giving their children all that fat/sugar.

Its also the single grown adults. Me and my wife was at the grocery store and I noticed what a overweight woman had in her grocery buggy (2 6-packs of reese' cups, 3 12-packs of dr. pepper, doughnuts, little debbie snack cakes, ice cream, plus lots other) and I couldn't help but think that everything she was buying was trash. And the reason she was so large was because the crap she was eating all the time.

The last story comes from my wife, she works in the medical field and saw a 2 or 3 year old kid weight 60 pounds. The way the mother bribed the kid to let my wife perform the exam was to tell the kid, "If you are good, well goto McDonalds and get you a large french fries".

In the USA (which is where I'm from), Most of the children are starting out overweight because of lazy parents who don't want to cook food and just want a quick fix. And a lot of grown adults think a "krispy kreme doughnut" is breakfast food. I'm sorry but thats not what I classify as a breakfast.

Btw, I am a former fat person, so I do KNOW that these people can change.

 

[mm107]

I HATE to see overweight parents feeding their children crap food. Their is a McDonalds in the wal-mart where I shop and I see overweight parents giving their child hamburgers w/ french fries w/ mc flurry or whatever that ice cream thing is called. I want to slap those parents for giving their children all that fat/sugar.

Its also the single grown adults. Me and my wife was at the grocery store and I noticed what a overweight woman had in her grocery buggy (2 6-packs of reese' cups, 3 12-packs of dr. pepper, doughnuts, little debbie snack cakes, ice cream, plus lots other) and I couldn't help but think that everything she was buying was trash. And the reason she was so large was because the crap she was eating all the time.

The last story comes from my wife, she works in the medical field and saw a 2 or 3 year old kid weight 60 pounds. The way the mother bribed the kid to let my wife perform the exam was to tell the kid, "If you are good, well goto McDonalds and get you a large french fries".

In the USA (which is where I'm from), Most of the children are starting out overweight because of lazy parents who don't want to cook food and just want a quick fix. And a lot of grown adults think a "krispy kreme doughnut" is breakfast food. I'm sorry but thats not what I classify as a breakfast.

Btw, I am a former fat person, so I do KNOW that these people can change.

GREAT fucking post bro! Im a former FATTY myuself too and i know it can be done easily if they fucking tried. Not to hard to replace the 12 pack of Dr. Pepper with a gallon of water right? Some people want to bitch about there weight but dont really want to do shit about it.

 

[cyrex]

MY PARENTS . . .

my parents are both fatasses and eat like shit..
thus up until i started wrestling and had coaches that told me to stop eating fast food, junk, and drinking soda I ate like shit and was pretty fat.

I also started doing research on my own about proper nutrition.

 

[cyrex]

we would always have things like pastries, donuts, cookies, soda (tons), potato chips, dip, doritos, fritos, sugary cereals, etc available in a 'well stocked' kitchen. It was great to make friends cause they were always welcome to whatever they wanted and it was like a fuckin candy store to them.

On the positive side my main vice was soda. I drank a TON of pepsi and dr pepper growning up (12-15 cans/day minimum). Luckily I was not a huge fan of donuts, cookies, cake, pie, or other sweet baked goods. I was more the type of kid who would eat carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli with some ranch dressing rather than sit and eat a couple of brownies which made it very simple (not necessarily easy) for me to adjust my diet. I just had to cut out soda and fast food (my other vice as a child). Who woulda known, all those years growing up in a kitchen full of trash and I actually had some fairly decent eating habits outside of the soda and fast food.

 

[alex2678]

Totally agree. I was one of the two "fat kids" in my grammar school growing up, so it kills me to see parents just feeding their kids anything they want not knowing what's going to happen to them both physically and psychologically. A lot of my family members owned Italian restaurants and bakeries so there was always some high calorie dish or cake sitting around the house. 9th grade I ended up buying a Flex Magazine which started my whole fitness "obsession". Then the wrestling and martial arts came into play. Probably the first time I ever broke a sweat in my entire life at that point.

It's really sad to see kids running through the supermarket with a glazed look on their face like they're in Toys'R'Us for the first time. The parents don't even seem to acknowledge it either. Check out the stats over the last 40 years:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/overfig1.GIF

 

[harbinator]

we would always have things like pastries, donuts, cookies, soda (tons), potato chips, dip, doritos, fritos, sugary cereals, etc available in a 'well stocked' kitchen. It was great to make friends cause they were always welcome to whatever they wanted and it was like a fuckin candy store to them.

On the positive side my main vice was soda. I drank a TON of pepsi and dr pepper growning up (12-15 cans/day minimum). Luckily I was not a huge fan of donuts, cookies, cake, pie, or other sweet baked goods. I was more the type of kid who would eat carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli with some ranch dressing rather than sit and eat a couple of brownies which made it very simple (not necessarily easy) for me to adjust my diet. I just had to cut out soda and fast food (my other vice as a child). Who woulda known, all those years growing up in a kitchen full of trash and I actually had some fairly decent eating habits outside of the soda and fast food.

Same here bro, fast food, soda, and anything with alfredo or cheese in it, those are my vices haha! Sweets never did anything for me

 

[RBtrucking4]

yup i can relate i am a former fatty as well i came down from 380 to 217 and i do blame it alot on my mother she was always to lazy to cook dinner so she would either get mcdonalds or pizza untill i got old enough to know what was going on and i started cooking my own dinner and doing my own food shopping!

 

[jenscats5]

I've also seen a lot of parents use the "excuse" that the child is too picky & they won't eat x, y or z.....as a kid - I ate what was served or I didn't eat.....But not eating 1 meal won't kill the kid and serving a kid McDonald's all the time isn't healthy either....

 

[cyrex]

well I was picky as a child as far as food I didn't like:

Fried chicken
fatty/gristly pork chops
fatty/gristly steak (although I did like it once I picked/cut the fat off)
onions (i still don't like onions)
pie
cake
icecream
....
those were the types of things my mother would cook that i would refuse to eat. However i would eat fruits and vegetables, lean meat (as long as there were no onions), grilled chicken, and things of that nature.

I also had some wheat allergies as a child so that cut out having a lot of breads and things.

 

[Graphite]

hell yeah dude, im a former fatty.. good ole days of eating anything you want. i miss it


every couple of weeks or so i indulge myself but i always go back to my healthy lifestyle.

 

[Mr_Sinister]

oh well, not our job to educate them, not that they would listen anyways. But look at it this way, the more fat people around, the better you look.

 

[rocky_road]

AWw, I know...it is soo sad to see parents act this way. They don't even give the kid a chance to have a healthy childhood.

I don't really care how people eat when they are adults. But, it's soooo wrong for parents to assume that their children wouldn't mind growing up to live by their parents' same pathetic circumstances (having heart problems, being obese, being a hick, or all of the above, among so many others.) Treating their children with absolutely NO respect to their growing bodies is really messed up, and it makes it a lot harder on the person to have a healthy body as an adult.

The kids who don't know any better are the ones who will have to live with the biggest consequences of their eating habits. It sucks so much that parents don't care.

I want to set up some kind of organization to educate parents about their children's nutritional needs....Like, as soon as a woman delivers she should be scheduled a diet analysis or something... like an interview where the woman explains her diet habits (and if she's overweight, the interviewee should analyze her words closely to see if shes lying!) and if she "fails", she should be forced to take classes or something about nutrition. This would help decrease childhood obesity by like, .. SOOOO much, because really, I bet at least 50% of the reason people are overweight is because of they way they have been brought up (ages 0-12)

I hate that most irresponsible people have kids. Their are things we can do about it though. A lot of us used to be fat so we know what its like--we should sympathize with other people to find a way to push for healthier habits in kids. For us, it would be a long gradual movement that would take so much patience. As far as the kids responding, their would be no doubt about it---Monkey see, monkey do.

 

[*Bunny*]

My moms best friend ... this woman's granddaughter knows every item on EVERY drive thru menu there is ... namely Wendy's BK, McD's ... She's 4-5 years old.

 

[Cutiebaby]

I dont like it either..My friend is the same way. She went to a high class cooking colege and every thing yet still almost every night goes to mcdonalds. when she is not at mcdonalds she is getting pizza and stuff....of course that is how she was raised, she is heavy as well as her mother.Her 6 yr old eats all day long....seriously he eats breakfast before school, goes to school and eats breakfast,2 snacks and lunch.gets home and has more snacks then they go out to eat. Dont get me wrong my children have snacks but they get 2 or 3 small ones..I feel bad and speak up about it but she continues to make excuses.It annoys the heck out of me