Yep, especially children's. I just wanna smack all the fruit snacks and juice boxes out of kid's hands and give them real fruit.
Fat People's View on Skinny
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Yep, especially children's. I just wanna smack all the fruit snacks and juice boxes out of kid's hands and give them real fruit.
I nearly got into a fight with my mother over my niece's diet. "She doesn't have to eat her peas because she ate a lot of popsicles and they have added vitamins." She takes the niece two days in a row to McD's because food is love in this house. Niece isn't fat, so she shrugs it off as okay.
Have started writing rules in advance for when I have a kid that visits Mom.
Truer words have never been spoken, but when you have that with an apathy/lethargy/lazy epidemic, nothing will get done about that obesity problem.
The person who finds a way for an obese person to permanently speed up their metabolism will be a wealthy individual.
I don't even have children and I have to agree with you there.Oh hell no!!!!I'm stuttering here. What an you say to that?
A popsicle for a meal? WTF?
Yes. I understand she wants to indulge her. This child screams when you put corn on her plate though. I'm a terrible aunt who makes you taste one bite of everything. You probably saw me on America's Most Wanted last week.
Tnerb, it's hyperbole.
My mother used to do that and I hated her for it. "Just eat some peas, some lima beans" I hated those things and would not eat them, so they would I would starve until they were no longer safe to eat and she had to throw them away. I think it's okay to settle for letting your kids eat what they like and then give them vitamins for the stuff they aren't getting. Working with kids I've found that you can them to eat just about anything as long as it's fun to eat. Dipping carrots in ranch, and peanut butter on celery or apples ( most kids don't even like celery, but they'll eat it if you put peanut butter on it). Make your own popsicles with real fruit, (most adults think they are gross and taste like water, but the kids just like to suck on stuff).
See, I think TRYING something is necessary. Try a single pea and spit it out if you don't like it, but TRY it. My niece WILL NOT eat chicken that isn't processed. It drives me batty. I don't think a kid should be made to eat something they don't like, but they should try a single bite, once.
When we go grocery shopping, if there is a new fruit/veggie we haven't tried yet, we buy it. The kids help cook it. Involving them in the process helps a lot.
There's no putting it on the plate and them saying "oh gross! What is it?"
I think that's very wise.
Agreed. There's a whole world of produce out there. Then again, think about the kids who don't even get fresh fruit.
Hahaha what the fuck no.
I see people getting a perfectly healthy salad and completely drenching the thing with ranch and cheese and bacon bits and basically turning it into a heart attack bomb all the time. And they actually think that they're eating healthy because there's a little bit of lettuce underneath all that crap.
Fuck that. That is not healthy eating, you might as well just eat a twinkie.
Fuck vitamin supplements. Nothing can replace a proper balanced diet. I used to dislike carrots and onions when I was little, but I liked brocolli and beets and other things. There are just too many flavors and textures out there for a child to just hate every vegetable. A mother that continues to force vegetables on a child which she refuses to eat instead of trying another one of the thousands available is just doing it wrong.
I guess growing up in a tropical country where fruits of all kinds abound and can be purchased for cents a pound was a privilege the first world kids don't get.
No amount of fat pride posturing is going to change the facts of the matter. Fat people are gross. They're unhealthy. The lot of you who are trying to make fatness out as being good: get your heads rewired. The reason Hollywood favors thin people in their films is due to them being more attractive than fat people. It's a simple formula that helps prove all this very well. Portray whatever image appeals the strongest to the most people at a given time. Obviously, we the people of the USA have spoken loud and clear in that regard: we love slim people. Slim people are the most beautiful. If that were not true, then we would not continually demand those depictions of slim people with our dollars.
If we wanted to see real life, then we'd be going down to the mall and watching all the chunky chicks hanging out at Wendy's. If you're going to defend fatness, then that is because you yourself are a fatty. Of course you are going to say skinny or fat means nothing to you, because if it did, you wouldn't be able to stand thinking about yourself in those terms. That's common behavior for anyone suffering self-image crises: pretend it doesn't matter to them, to mask the pain.
If we wanted to see real life, then we'd be going down to the mall and watching all the chunky chicks hanging out at Wendy's. If you're going to defend fatness, then that is because you yourself are a fatty. Of course you are going to say skinny or fat means nothing to you, because if it did, you wouldn't be able to stand thinking about yourself in those terms. That's common behavior for anyone suffering self-image crises: pretend it doesn't matter to them, to mask the pain.
Eating a 100% balanced diet is impossible. Like my grandfather used to say when he mixed strange foods together. "It all goes to the same place anyway". Just because you dip your carrots in ranch does not take the nutrients away from the carrot. I think it's better than no carrot at all. You can't force your kids to eat what they don't want to, so why not make them want to eat it? I don't think there is anything wrong with making food fun. Just last night we had the kids make vegetable animals gave them a small cup of ranch dressing and/or vinegar and they ate them; carrots, celery, peppers, cucumbers, cabbage, olives. You can say what you want but, I think that's a much healthier snack than twinkies.