Health crisis: childhood obesity up 1,000% in 40 years: United States world's highest rate of child obesity (racism, high school)
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You just aren't organized and prepared.
I was like you, too. I'm learning from my mother, the queen of healthy scratch whole food cooking.
Having staples always on hand, buying in bulk, etc...its really amazing. She eats well, all whole food, and no way in F she regularly spends $20 to feed herself, my father, and our family of 4 for just one meal.
I got 2 people eating, if I buy in bulk s**t goes bad before I can use it. Costs about the same to cook a meal for four as it does to cook a meal for 2, and yea where I live it absolutely does run around 15-25 bucks depending on how fancy I get with it.
Ahh a cause to actually worry about instead of gun control...
Want kids to be healthy? Cut the chord to the video games. Buy them bicycles and let them build jumps.
Tease them if they're pudgy to trim it up.
No more double chin burgers from mcdonalds.
No candy chips and soda.
Fruits and veggies and occasional crackers. Cut sodium and carb intake and wham. Pounds will be flying out the window.
Of course I'd catch hell for fat shaming.
Nothing about obesity is cute.
Diabetes is a death sentence. A slow one.
Nothing cute or attractive about self induced or parent enabled weeble wobbles...
There's that whole... neuropathy nerve pain ocular degeneration failing vision heart issues and the whole 9 yards... none of that is cute.
Nationally, this is a big problem. However, in the wealthy suburbs of Northern NJ, we have the opposite problem. Lots of anorexia and bulimia. My daughters both started worrying about what they were eating starting in elementary school, and they didn’t get that from us. It’s peer pressure. My older daughter is a freshman in high school, and from what I have seen, there is only one morbidly obese girl in her class, but I see plenty that I would deem too thin. Malnourished even.
BS. A pound of baby carrots at the grocery is 99 cents. A 15 ounce bag of chips is almost $4.
Not quite ready to swap to the "all baby carrots" diet yet. I suppose it is true that you could find dirt cheap healthy options. Problem is I also like tasty food as well. Throws a bit of a wrench into the works...
Ahh a cause to actually worry about instead of gun control...
Want kids to be healthy? Cut the chord to the video games.
Let em keep it, hook em up to an omnidirectional tread mill and vr headset and toss em into a game like Onward. You would have the healthiest video game nerds around.
Any hope for the future? Is the cost of real food maybe coming down? (produce, meat, etc). Is being obese going to become completely acceptable to the point where it might be weird if you are not obese?
Not quite ready to swap to the "all baby carrots" diet yet.
Fine. But why not a 99 cents 1lb bag of baby carrots for snacks instead of a $4 15 ounce bag of chips?
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