I understand this is a tricky thing, considering healthy eating is quite a subjective thing. We have vegans, vegetarians, no carb diets, no red meat diets, etc. But there has to be some type of standard, right? Maybe not. Maybe this will never be solved.
Perhaps you should go talk to the parents. Tell them they are doing a poor parenting job concerning their child's eating habits. I am sure that will go over as well as a vegan coming to my house and telling me I am doing a poor parenting job concerning my child's eating habits.
Step 1. Don't allow people on government assistance to buy unhealthy food with government money. Around here at the first of the month when the government funds get deposited people go out and buy $500 dollars worth of mountain dew, frozen pizzas, and little Debbie's. I'm not exaggerating. I have seen people pushing shopping carts loaded with nothing but candy and soft drinks. We the tax payers are paying for them to give their kids type 2 diabetes, and we will also be paying their doctors bills. If you want to eat like $417 don't do it on every one else's dime...
That's just it. Who gets to set the standard? In my house we eat a lot of what some may consider unhealthy food. We consider it a very healthy eating lifestyle and our physical health would seem to reflect that.
Yes, I get where you are coming from. But it kills me to just sit there and watch them slowly kill their kids, not only physically, but emotionally.
Same here. When I was young I watched an acoholic destroy his family. I have seen my brother in the hospital all tore up. Fortunately no one else was involved. I have damaged my relationship with my father when I threatened to call the police because he would not stop driving on a suspended license and driving intoxicated. I could go on. I have seen tons of damage caused by alcohol but everyone seems to blow the dangers off because they like it too.
I don't know anymore, lol My point is we do not have to tell them what to eat, but they should have to pay a price for their lifestyle. Currently if caught drunk drivers pay a price. Parents with kids with type 2 diabetes who are obese with insurance pay nothing. It's not costing them any money to be fat.
I don't have all the answers and I know I never will, but this is how I see things regarding obesity in America. 1. Alot of Americans are struggling just to make ends meet, paying the mortgage and other bills is hard for alot of famalies right now. 2. Because of #1 alot of Americans are buying cheaper food. 3. Fast food and cheaper food at grocery stores is bad for you health wise. It's easier to eat the cheaper food and lots of the cheaper food is terrible for your health. Some how we have to find a way to change this.
In all honesty, your right. Its ALL about the almighty dollar. Nothing else really matters in the long run.
I was just gonna say, Siman and I are on the same page. Your exactly right about the $1 cheesebugers. Which one would you pick if money was tight???
It's not all about money, family at my sons game last night has more money than me. Yet when their son finally hit the ball last night. A shot that went 6 feet down the first baseline. Zach ran and got the ball and beat the kid back to first base for an out. Zach was playing first base. This is more about being active IMO.
It's really not the money. You could make bags of apples $1 and bags of chips $6 and people will still buy the chips. I think foodstamps should only go toward basic foods. Meat, veggies, beans, cheese, peanut butter..etc. Not a bag of pizza rolls, ice cream and pop tarts. You want junk food or convience food, buy it yourself. I think we need to finally get the truth about sugar and starches instead of making cholesterol, red meat and fat the boogey foods. I have no idea how to change the mindset of being lazy, staying in climate controlled environments at all times, eat whatever we want and think that some pill will fix whatever health problems result. I definitely oppose making laws about what people can eat or drink.
