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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 7:39:05 GMT
Apparently, Michelle Obama has a lot to answer for!
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Post by htmb on Nov 26, 2012 13:10:17 GMT
 When my sons were teenagers and would bring their friends home after soccer practice, they'd always empty the refrigerator of leftovers. I never had a problem with annoying side dishes left to spoil.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 14:41:40 GMT
I was more intrigued with the advertisement on my screen next to the videos that says "37 Things You Should Hoard Pending the Oncoming Crisis".   Dare I click it on? |
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Post by htmb on Nov 26, 2012 14:45:10 GMT
I was more intrigued with the advertisement on my screen next to the videos that says "37 Things You Should Hoard Pending the Oncoming Crisis". Dare I click it on? I have the same ad. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 14:46:44 GMT
Whereas I have Swarovski!
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Post by htmb on Nov 26, 2012 15:02:40 GMT
Whereas I have Swarovski! Ahhhh, Paris! Lucky you.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 17:51:35 GMT
Well, at least I refrained from clicking it on......I came very close.
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Post by htmb on Nov 26, 2012 20:00:27 GMT
Now I have Pillsbury for one and Hallmark for the other.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 20:04:24 GMT
I have some sort of new Nokia device.
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Post by mossie on Nov 27, 2012 8:16:41 GMT
My adverts are different each time I look at this  Addressing the point, I have to say that most of them could do with losing several pounds, so perhaps some sort of diet isn't a bad thing. ;D I'd better duck there, but 750 calories for lunch is not quite starvation. As I used to say when I cleaned the plates into the waste bin, "you could feed a family of Africans with that for a week". |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 13:06:04 GMT
Anything that can be done to tackle the child obesity epidemic in the US has to be a good thing. It's just awful.
I have a former neighbor, a lovely woman. She is obese, has a lovely daughter whom I hadn't seen in years. I saw them at the PoBoy Festival recently and was appalled, and angry, when I saw that the young girl has become obese as well. I just don't get it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 14:19:46 GMT
Snacking, snacking, snacking... That is probably even worse than the fact that many young people do not even know how to eat a balanced meal -- and neither do their parents.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2012 14:33:44 GMT
Well, you would think that all the issues, health, self esteem, etc. that the mother has had to deal with she would be even more
encouraging of her own daughter to eat helthily. It's selfish and imho borderline if not out and out neglect.
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Post by mossie on Nov 27, 2012 14:34:15 GMT
I was amazed on my first visit to Las Vegas, I went to a casino buffet for lunch. Sat across from me was a mother with a son of about 13. They both had plates piled high, but when the youngster had scoffed his, mum said to him, "Go round and get another". Later I was walking down the Strip and caught up with a woman, admittedly on a fairly narrow section of path, but I couldn't pass her . There was an old song about Mr Five by Five, that was her, easily 5 feet wide ;D ;D |
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Post by htmb on Nov 27, 2012 21:26:39 GMT
Snacking, snacking, snacking... That is probably even worse than the fact that many young people do not even know how to eat a balanced meal -- and neither do their parents. I agree with this statement completely, kerouac. While I know a lot of young people who eat very healthy balanced meals and who snack on healthy choices, there are too many others who eat their main foods out of bags: fast food bags, chip bags, cookie bags. They are basically consuming high calorie, high fat, high sugar "foods," and not getting the healthy nutrients they need to continue to grow strong, active bodies, while their drinks are high calorie, sugar-laden, and lacking in nutritive value as well. It has been my observation that these habits are learned in the home at a very young age. |
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Post by rikita on Nov 28, 2012 8:46:46 GMT
hm, in the first video where they quote this book they say a teenager needs 2000 to 2500 calories per day, and then they say the lunches are 750 to 850 calories - isn't htat just right then? considering you are supposed to eat three meals per day and all that? after all, 850 is a bit over a third of 2500...
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Post by bjd on Nov 28, 2012 9:37:00 GMT
I'm always surprised at how quickly the American population became so fat in such a short time. Looking at photographs from the 1970s or earlier, people in the pictures were normal. Young people at rock concerts were thin.
I admit my reaction to those videos is a bit like Mossie's -- the kid in the blue t-shirt shovelling in the pizza in video 2 does not need more food.
Maybe they are so "tired" because the sugar high doesn't last too long?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2012 11:29:56 GMT
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going to take care of all that.... maybe he'll run for US President and all this will be remedied.  |
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Post by mossie on Nov 28, 2012 14:21:55 GMT
I saw a TV programme recently which blamed the use of soya in the mass fast food market for the obesity problems which we face. The UK is not too far behind America, it does worry me to see people walking down the street stuffing their faces from cardboard boxes filled with junk food. I can't talk, I used to weigh 10½ stone (147 US pounds). Then I gave up smoking and put on another 7 lbs, then I retired and put on another 7. Retirement suited me and I took up red wine with lunch  . That has been worth another 1 or 2 lbs a year . So now I'm 13 stone, 180 odd pounds. Excuse me for feeling guilty ;D ;D |
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When my sons were teenagers and would bring their friends home after soccer practice, they'd always empty the refrigerator of leftovers. I never had a problem with annoying side dishes left to spoil.
