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Originally Posted by kutulu
Yes, your experiences should apply to everyone because 'you and your friends' are a representative sample size. We should all feed our kids processes crap and there is no correlation between increased consumption of processed foods and obesity rates.
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Sarcasm? Bad kid day?
My point is, there's a lot more to a kid's health than making sure the yogurt doesn't have sugar or going ballistic over a french fry. Feeding kids crap then plopping them in front of a tv or computer, don't complain if they're overweight. But a Happy Meal for lunch and a nice afternoon in a playground isn't going to hurt them and will do them more good than that obsessive food-nazi business. I can just see Jr now: "Mommy says I can't have that because the triglycerides may interfere with my cardio-pulmonary development"
All they're doing is raising phobics by being so adamant. There's balance and that ain't it.
For the record, my son had a behavior allergy to sodium nitrate. He understood no hotdogs, no lunchmeat, etc.
I have a nephew who, at 17, is about 6'1" and 350 lbs. His parents thought he had a 'healthy appetite'; instead he has Type 2 diabetes, diagnosed when he was just 15. Do they stop the sodas, the junk food, etc? Nope...Like I said, balance.
And, when you're surrounded by parents with kids the same age as your own on a daily basis, you tend to compare notes, so, yes...that is a basic representative sampling.
