Super Size Me/Documentary

[Rosebud2 26]

Do you see the latest someone is selling - spaghetti in a bread bowl. The spaghetti wasn't enough?

[MacMadame 81]

Multi-quote isn't working for me! :confused1:

First of all, I think it's really popular to bash on the current generation but today's kids are better behaved than my generation. They take less drugs, commit less crime, do more volunteer work, etc. Teenage pregnancy rate are down...

As for putting kids on diets ... it didn't work for us so why do we think it will work for kids today? I don't think that's the answer.

I think the answer is to change society. This includes fighting for smaller portions at restaurants, making it less acceptable to go out to dinner so much or snack so much on the one hand, but what we really need to do is throw out that damn food pyramid that is so carbohydrate heavy and get kids into an active life.

Moving more is really the key IMO. You can overcome a lot of bad nutritional advice if you exercise regular and it's just a natural part of your life.

But also, we have to accept that the average worker isn't out tilling the fields or digging stuff up from mines (and, if they are, they have machines to do all the heavy stuff) and so doesn't need a carbohyrate based diet.

And, on a related note, I found this article today and I thought it was appropriate to this thread:

Love your fat child, don't shame them | Marianne Kirby | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Edited June 6, 2009 by MacMadame