I've seen a previous thread on "Supersize Me" here, but hadn't seen the film yet. Just watched it a couple nights ago and had to comment on a suggestion made that parents, if they eat every meal with their children, only eat about 1,000 times a year with their child. While children are inundated with over 10,000 fast/junk food commercials a year, so parents are fighting a losing battle.
Really? Isn't it up to me to decide how much TV my child watches? Ergo, how many fast/junk food commercials he'll actually get to see? So how could I be fighting a losing battle?
I at first was getting into the film until it seems the blame started shifting to the fast food industry for enticing our kids into eating there, making it hard on the parents to combat it. It's not hard. I control how much TV he watches AND eat every meal with him. What's hard about it?
Thankfully, I got healthy before my son came along, so I go in armed with better choices to teach him. I used to do nothing but sit in front a TV daily. Yesterday, we turned on the TV after he was in bed and rented "The Da Vinci Code". And that's all the TV we saw. I've been home all day, and I've seen "The People's Court" while working out on my stair stepper. I doubt he's going to be ruined by a flood of commercials that I can't counterbalance by sitting down to a homecooked meal at the table 3 times today.