Thursday, August 31, 2006
Sugar makes food taste good. When our ancestors were roaming the bush looking for non-poisonous foods, sweet tasting items were usually guaranteed not to be poisonous. Sweet foods also provided them with much needed nourishment because of the carbohydrates.
However, since mankind has developed technology for growing and concentrating refined sugars in unimaginable levels, our sweet tooth has become our enemy within. Like a moth drawn to a flame, that sweet tooth leads us to greater and greater heights of sugar intake. More sugar does not make us healthier, so our taste buds are leading us down the slippery slope of diabetes, heart disease and a host of other ailments.
This is evident in our children, in which we are raising the most obese and sedentary generation in the history of mankind. We reward out kids for sitting around all day playing video games with candy. We encourage them to eat more, do less. At meal time when they might accidentally eat something healthy, we allow them to smother it with ketchup or some other sugar enhanced condiment so the kids’ taste buds are forever tainted. This is very evident when I read an article like this.
In an effort to curb the epidemic of obesity, the federal government mandated healthier lunches in schools but our children’s taste buds are so corrupted they cannot handle eating foods devoid of heavy doses of sugar. These kids will not eat salads, vegetables or fruit because they are “gross”. They even put less sugar in the lunchroom cookies but the kids will not eat them unless they contain dangerous levels of sugar.
This has happened because instead of parents requiring their children to eat healthy, they have allowed children to choose their own food. Now we have a generation of sugar addicts and lazy malcontents, whose only legacy will be to contribute to ever exploding levels of diabetes and other ailments in the future. In today’s household menus, it is evident that vegetables, fibers and fruit are absent from the plate and replaced with a mixture high fat and high sugar. But why?
Are the parents conveniently avoiding arguments early in a child’s development risking long term damage to the child’s health for peace in the home?
“:Eat your veggies, Johnny!”
“No! WWWWAAAAAAA!!”
“Okay……… here………… eat this candy …………just stop crying!”
Are the parents not capable of controlling their own diet so the child takes on the behavior of the parent?
Parent opens the fridge. “What should I make for dinner today? Hot dogs and Ding Dongs sound good to me. What do you think, Johnny?”
Little Johnny nods with a smile on his face.
Not only are the foods we eat very bad for our health but the size of the portions we consume are irregular. After eating the healthier meals which included portions sizes conducive to the child’s age, 149 out of 175 complained they did not get enough food. So not only are the hot dogs and Ding Dongs being consumed but they are being consumed from an elephant’s plate. Again, what is going on with these parents?
After dinner, instead of the parent sending the child outside for some much needed exercise or maybe even a brisk walk, its back to the ass.
“Fire up the video game! Warm up the TV! The ass is getting a vigorous work out tonight!”
I applaud the federal government in their attempt to bring some health to America (and I don’t applaud them for very much these days). But this effort will fail unless the parents are accountable and enforce some basic fundamental rules. You can’t live on hot dogs and Ding Dongs. Doesn’t anybody remember the four food groups anymore?
However, since mankind has developed technology for growing and concentrating refined sugars in unimaginable levels, our sweet tooth has become our enemy within. Like a moth drawn to a flame, that sweet tooth leads us to greater and greater heights of sugar intake. More sugar does not make us healthier, so our taste buds are leading us down the slippery slope of diabetes, heart disease and a host of other ailments.
This is evident in our children, in which we are raising the most obese and sedentary generation in the history of mankind. We reward out kids for sitting around all day playing video games with candy. We encourage them to eat more, do less. At meal time when they might accidentally eat something healthy, we allow them to smother it with ketchup or some other sugar enhanced condiment so the kids’ taste buds are forever tainted. This is very evident when I read an article like this.
In an effort to curb the epidemic of obesity, the federal government mandated healthier lunches in schools but our children’s taste buds are so corrupted they cannot handle eating foods devoid of heavy doses of sugar. These kids will not eat salads, vegetables or fruit because they are “gross”. They even put less sugar in the lunchroom cookies but the kids will not eat them unless they contain dangerous levels of sugar.
This has happened because instead of parents requiring their children to eat healthy, they have allowed children to choose their own food. Now we have a generation of sugar addicts and lazy malcontents, whose only legacy will be to contribute to ever exploding levels of diabetes and other ailments in the future. In today’s household menus, it is evident that vegetables, fibers and fruit are absent from the plate and replaced with a mixture high fat and high sugar. But why?
Are the parents conveniently avoiding arguments early in a child’s development risking long term damage to the child’s health for peace in the home?
“:Eat your veggies, Johnny!”
“No! WWWWAAAAAAA!!”
“Okay……… here………… eat this candy …………just stop crying!”
Are the parents not capable of controlling their own diet so the child takes on the behavior of the parent?
Parent opens the fridge. “What should I make for dinner today? Hot dogs and Ding Dongs sound good to me. What do you think, Johnny?”
Little Johnny nods with a smile on his face.
Not only are the foods we eat very bad for our health but the size of the portions we consume are irregular. After eating the healthier meals which included portions sizes conducive to the child’s age, 149 out of 175 complained they did not get enough food. So not only are the hot dogs and Ding Dongs being consumed but they are being consumed from an elephant’s plate. Again, what is going on with these parents?
After dinner, instead of the parent sending the child outside for some much needed exercise or maybe even a brisk walk, its back to the ass.
“Fire up the video game! Warm up the TV! The ass is getting a vigorous work out tonight!”
I applaud the federal government in their attempt to bring some health to America (and I don’t applaud them for very much these days). But this effort will fail unless the parents are accountable and enforce some basic fundamental rules. You can’t live on hot dogs and Ding Dongs. Doesn’t anybody remember the four food groups anymore?
posted by DarthImmortal at 7:57 AM
5 Comments:
Oh my God. I can't even express how much this irritates me.
Don't people care that their kids are complete porkers??? Doesn't it bother the kids that they are disgusting and ugly??? It almost makes me yearn for the good old days when as an 8-year-old I felt fat at a healthy 60 pounds...
Of course they still feel hungry after their lunches. That's what happens when you first start a diet. They WILL adjust. For now, they need to shut the fuck up and quit whining. If it's too expensive, I'm sure the government will give vouchers to kids who legitimately cannot afford it.
Every time I see a fat kid walking down the street I just want to go up to the parent(s) and shake them and yell "don't you see what you are soing to your child??? You're killing him/her!!"
Law Fairy,
I remember in grade school when we learned the four food groups. I was heavy back then too but not at the size the kids are today. The schools have to teach basic health, including, eating healthy, the nutrition your body needs and what happens when your body is malnourished. It might be too late for the parents but the kids should be taught basic nutrition.
I agree with you regarding wanting to shake the parents and shout, "What is wrong with you?!! Why are you killing your kid?!!!
Didn't they change the four food groups to reflect the ignorence of our society? I think they are now soda, snacks, meat, and candy. Yeah, maybe milk shakes on the side.
Parents are too busy working long hours to deal with raising their own children. I see it with my single friend. She's raising two children by herself. After a 12-hour workday, she basically feeds her kids McDonald's for dinner because she's too tired to cook them a real meal when she gets home. I've suggested things like crock pot cooking but apparently that takes too much time. I don't understand her logic because all she has to do is get a couple of crockpots fill them with meat and let 'em go for 8 to 12 hours then all she'd have to do is open up some frozen veggies and she and her kids would have a healthier meal than Mickey D's.
Just plain laziness in my opinion.
oh hon, here they teach the four food groups even in school and have the commercials..i think the problem, like you said, it's deeper than that...it's a mixture of home and society...the commercials, the ads, the home when there is rush and rush...life is totally wacked...sad..i was coming anyways you know that..but here from Dr. John's.
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