"Super Size Me"
There's been a lot of buzz about this movie lately since it won an award at the Sundance Film Festival. In case you've missed it:
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I actually saw this movie recently and was amazed at how many calories this guy consumed. If I ate 5,000 cals of anything and didn't exercise I would gain weight. I wonder what would have happened had he eaten more salads and exercised?
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I had read about that movie!! Interesting way to prove a point! love2live I think he ate the greasy foods esps for the movie.. Most humans normally don't eat like that
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I'd love to see the movie, but it's currently only at 1 theater in Philadelphia, about 40 miles from the suburban multiplexes surroundings us.
From what I've seen at McDonalds, most of the people in there are eating that way, but I doubt 3 meals a day. Not even having seen the movie, my son has sworn off fast food burgers and fries from reading the article in the paper. Yipee! Mel |
It sounds just too discusting for words... I cannot imagine eating that much McD's food, I'd be sick in less than a week...I should take my kids to see the movie tho. But it hasn't even come close to this town...
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Great Rant Jack!!
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Great rant, Jack. And one that we've ranted about here several times before. Unfortunately, there's a huge divide between corporate and personal responsibility. Corporate responsibility is to bring the maximum profits to an entity's shareholders. Hence the cover-ups at the tobacco companies, the crap in our supermarkets and schools, the alcohol ads targeted an underage wannabe-cools. And on and on. Personal responsibility works fine for rational adults or young children; as a parent, you have more or less total control for a while, but certainly by the time a kid is 12 or so, they can manage to get around just about any parental controls if they try. Even if they've been "indoctrinated" since birth. And they don't have to try very hard, as you've pointed out.
In terms of what's in our schools, I think there has to be a level of social control. The schools here, while wealthy compared to the rest of the state, are 100% dependent on property taxes and taxpayer whims for their funding. Which opens a barn-sized door for corporations such as Pepsi, Coke, and the fast food companies that now stock our cafeterias. "Give us access to your kids and we'll give you computers!" or a new football stadium and track, or band uniforms....All irresistable to school boards that know they'll be voted out if they increase the school taxes. What's the solution? I don't know, because if PA ever went to state-based school funding or the equalizing controls in place in NJ, my local schools would suffer. As a parent, all I can do is attempt to teach my children, write letters to the school board, and vote. Everyday I pack a healthy lunch for my son- and I'm sure that every day he trades some portion of it for junk, or goes and buys a slushie to go along with it. He hates exercise, but is currently blessed with his father's genetics and the metabolism of a 13 yr old who grows an inch a month. With my daughter, it worked. She's a D1 collegiate athlete who instantly sees the effect of what she puts in her body on her performance. So in the end, I guess there's only education and hope. I don't really see much hope for coporate responsibility. End of ramble. |
Here in California, several school districts - including the San Francisco Unified School District - have taken steps towards healthier choices for kids, food-wise. They've stopped accepting funding from fast-food and soda pop companies, and cleaned up their cafeterias.
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What is so bizarre about the food program at my kids school is that if my kids buy the school lunch - which is actually kind of healthy - they are still hungry when they leave the table because the portions are way too small. The school sells chips, sodas, candy, etc. to supplement the lunch, which of course defeats the purpose of the contract with the supplier to provide healthier meals. My kids opt to take their own lunch instead, not for health reasons, but just so they won't starve.
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Tik, just for discussion sake, do you think it's because kids, not just yours but kids in general, are so used to getting "supersized" everything that once they get a regular portion they are not full?
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the difference is also activity-how often are our kids exercising-that is one thing that makes it easier for me to indulge now and then. I think it's definitely important that we as adults are setting good examples for our loved ones too, if we're not than why should they?
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Hi Love2live! I agree as parents we must lead by example! But I used to bike, walk, swim, whatever, with my kids and now that they are teens... I can barely get them off the damn couch to mow the lawn or do the dishes!! :rolleyes: .... I'm just hoping that when they reach 18 or so, that's when the ding-ding bell of health went off in my head, that they will see what I do and ask how to do it or join me to workout...
Tiki - I think I sort of answered my own question about kids and supersizing... When a cafeteria, they ones that I know of in the schools anyways, put out healthy foods such as salads I personaly find that the portion of a salad would barely fill my molar, let alone a young stomach for the rest of the afternoon, they also skimp on the protein... Maybe that's why kids opt for supersizing and junk because it's at least filling for the moment... Just a thought anyways.... |
I can barely get them off the damn couch to mow the lawn or do the dishes!!
LOL-Lanaii! Totally agree! Question though, do you think as parents and as a society we've become too giving to the "me, me, me's" of the teenage and kid realm. I mean, come on-when I was raised in a house where if I didn't eat what we were having for dinner my parents would say "well than, you will go hungry" or you can make yourself a PBJ. I think many of the habits we had when we were younger, splurging now and then-have become a daily ritual. Definitely lots to think about-but I think you're doing a great job-and if we're teaching them about different nutritional options-I think that helps them in the long run a ton. |
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