On 2010-06-13 08:57, Al Angello wrote:
It is Sunday morning, and I am going to say a prayer for MagicSanta's wife who has endured 30 years of his logic. In spite of Santa's appearance she is a slim attractive woman.

On 2010-06-12 10:23, Skip Way wrote:
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!

On 2010-06-12 13:45, gaddy wrote:

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On 2010-06-12 07:21, kcg5 wrote:
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 rasied, 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.

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?

On 2010-06-13 13:05, LobowolfXXX wrote:
Does anyone here not understand this?

On 2010-06-12 11:46, Tom Cutts wrote:
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.

On 2010-06-13 13:15, Tom Cutts wrote:


So what are you going to do about these fat people in Ohio who train their kids to eat junk?

On 2010-06-13 13:20, LobowolfXXX wrote:
Bad choices don't constitute a public emergency.

On 2010-06-13 13:20, LobowolfXXX wrote:
Why on earth should anyone other than "these fat people in Ohio" do anything about them, let alone at public expense. They have brains. They have friends. They have relatives. In the 21st century in the USA, they have access to all sorts of nutritional and dietary information. Bad choices don't constitute a public emergency.

On 2010-06-13 13:27, Tom Cutts wrote:
The village is providing junk. Jamie Oliver's show shines a light on the possibility for schools to provide healthy more natural foods for less than the processed junk which is easy for them. What needs to happen is both the product and the knowledge need to be changed. New habits need to be formed. New dynamics need to be built. Tear down the Burger King and put in a Farmers Market.

On 2010-06-13 13:15, Tom Cutts wrote:
Kevin: what are you going to do about these fat people in Ohio who train their kids to eat junk?

Skip made a really positive and constructive post. Not surprising but folks would rather complain about stuff instead of fixing it.

It is exactly the same thought process which you are whining about. People would rather eat what is easy and fulfills their psychological needs rather than their dietary needs. Even when presented with the better answer they will choose to eat what they are used to. No surprise it ends up being what they teach their children.

More and more these days people would rather just complain about stuff because it is easy and fulfills their psychological needs. When presented with the more constructive action of something they can do to try and fix the situation, people will display a wonderful array of reasons to not take action or just completely ignore the suggestion. Sometimes they even take shots at those who are trying to fix something.

Actually doing something is not easy, but every time someone opts to just complain they are feeding their mind junk. And their kids learn to feed off that same mind junk, just like kids learn to eat junk food.

L7 baby, take a square action plan, change the world.

In the walmart example-right there in the moment-should I have gone up to the woman and asked her thoughts on her kids weight?

On 2010-06-13 15:40, kcg5 wrote:
I wouldnt actually do it, she raises them how she sees fit... But my focus is why? Are these people stupid? If its whinning, so be it..