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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
I am spending time with family in Ohio, and as usual it opens eyes... I don't care if you want to eat Bob Evans for 3 meals or hit up White Castle every hour or so, but doing it your kids is not fair. They do not have a choice. I saw a overweight mom in Walmart with her two kids, who were also overweight-cart filled with soda, chips, cookies, microwaveable crap. By feeding her kids like that, she is taking time off their lives, not to mention setting them up for ridicule in school (kids are cruel). I don't want to hear "it's the genes" or "big boned"-if so, put them on a diet. I have also read the excuse, this is how I was raised, or 'My child can have anything he/she wants, it was that like that for me bur I'm proud it is for them'...
I admit, I have never had to struggle with weight, I have always been skinny. So I don't know about extended diets. If this has offended anyone I am sorry. Posted: Jun 12, 2010 7:22am -------------------------------- Yet another reason I like Michelle. Great thing she has chosen as her focus while Barry is in office.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Kevin
This whole country is full of very round children, and 300 lb moms it is sad.
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
I know it's everywhere Al, just that I notice he heft and unhealthyness a lot more when I'm in the Midwest.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
It's all over the continent, I'm afraid. I really notices flying in from Europe. North Americans are simply bigger.
It's not at all clear how we, as a society, can or should deal with this. John (Whose BMI aint what it used to be.)
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts |
Hear that knocking? It's opportunity! No one has mentioned the market potential for a thin or average person in good health to create an educational healthy lifestyle program for the schools, daycares and after-school programs. It could be the next big thing after Anti-Bully. If you're a fitness nut and a gym regular, even better. You become the living example these kids can reach for. Educate the kids to compensate for parental indifference and make a buck or three in the process!
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
Make money? What? Save the kids from their parents wrath.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5926 Posts |
Skip,
Good idea, tap into the school health upgrade craze. I guess it boils down to doing something about it rather than just complaining about it. The country has also become a bunch of whiners who complain about things but don't take action to change them. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
But what action? Does anybody think that a school show can have any impact whatsoever?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
John
Are you saying that there are fewer obese Europeans?
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
So what can I do other than "whine"? Shout from the rooftops? I have no kids, I work with them and do the best I can.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Kevin
I agree with Tom, I'm going to my local convience store right now, and beat up some fat kids. LOL My opinion is that we should all be outraged. I'm 5' 9" and 200 lbs, I would like to loose 20 lbs. My wife is 4' 11" and 90 lbs. If she lost any weight she would loose her great butt.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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Nosher Loyal user 261 Posts |
In some cases, processed snacks are cheaper to buy than say, fresh fruit - which is why people on very tight budgets buy these unhealthy snacks - their kids prefer them to fruit and they're cheaper. It's not a good choice, but there's a reason for it...
A big problem is 'modern' portion sizes. No small. Regular, large, or jumbo. Plates the size of a pizza tray. People drinking giant cups of whatever. I saw an old b&w film a while ago and there was a scene in some type of fair where a guy bought an orange juice for him and his girl - the paper cups seemed so small that they looked like the little paper cups you get in the dentist.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3521 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 07:21, kcg5 wrote: Advertising does this. How can anyone make an informed decision when all of their information is Big Bright Shiny LIES beamed at them for hours upon hours per day through the primary medium of information (TV) in their lives? Its all well-and-good to say that people shouldn't be persuaded by television, but in reality, people are HUGELY influenced by all sorts of advertisements all the time. That's why companies spend millions upon MILLIONS of dollars on them. Also, the generally, inherently bad-for-you ingredients that are used to make processed food-items simply WILL cause people to be unhealthy and obese. There is no longer even any debate over this, and yet, as was pointed out above, these items are also drastically cheaper than the healthy alternative, and are so chocked-full of sugar as to better appeal to the low-income, less developed palate of the modern consumer. It's almost unfair. These people have no defense against this sort of sophisticated advertising in their relatively sheltered lives. The unhealthy products all around them all the time, and the alternatives seem boring, largely unavailable, and overly expensive. Does anyone here not understand this?
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 12:15, Al Angello wrote: Based on my limited experience, absolutely. You see overweight Europeans but I do not recall seeing any extremely obese people who weren't North American tourists. On my recent trip to Southern California, it appeared that there were more XXL people than I've ever encountered before. I also noted that the restaurant portions (which are huge here) were absolutely gigantic beyond my experience. Of course, this is all my observation in the last couple of years. I've certainly not looked carefully all over both continents; so take all this with a grain of salt. John
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Writing without first googling for statistics, but only using my impressions:
There are indeed obese Germans. What strikes me when I go to the States is: 1. something I call "average thickness". You've got your skinny people, your obese people, and then your everyday people seen in public people. The everyday people seem bigger to me in America than in Europe. 2. the number of "MY GOD THAT PERSON IS FAT" people in the States. By "MY GOD THAT PERSON IS FAT" I mean that the first thing you notice about them is not their clothes or weird haircut or anything else OTHER than their size. You see one every now and then where I live. By now and then I mean a couple of times a month, maybe less. In the States you see them every day. 3. as John said, the restaurant portions are unbelievably large in the States. I love it, because I do not have a weight problem and when I go to the States I want to get a good dose of American decadence. But why can't the portions be smaller and the prices cheaper? Does everyone want to literally stuff themselves full every time they eat out? Is that the point of eating out? Sure, I like to pig out a couple of times a year. But not every time I step into a restaurant. And the desserts are always big enough for two people. In general, I've also noticed that the average thickness increases as you go south here in Germany. But that has nothing to do with anything. I've just noticed it. One last thought: I do recall reading statistics that seem to reflect (with the exception of Japan) a distinct correlation between obesity and GNP. JFWIW. |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts |
Yea gaddy I think we all get it. Consumer culture and all that. But this isn't about the ten people who read this. It's a FAT problem. Parents are killing their kids, cheaper food or ads be dammed. Don't watch tv. Don't by stuff that makes it hard to by fruit for kids.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Natural Selection.
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Donald Dunphy Inner circle Victoria, BC, Canada 7563 Posts |
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (the version that aired on ABC... where he went into a U.S. city) had insights about health, weight, eating habits, attitudes, etc.
http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution - Donald
Donald Dunphy is a Victoria Magician, British Columbia, Canada.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3521 Posts |
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On 2010-06-12 16:16, Donald Dunphy wrote: I saw an episode of that one, it was a nice show with a good message overall. It didn't do too well in the ratings if I remember correctly, though. Ah well!
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
From the World Health Organization:
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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