Bonecrusher

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I took my daughter to the doctor today for her Kindergarten check up. The doctor with the bulging belly told me that my daughter was about 3 pounds overwieght for a kid her age. He asked her what she had for breakfast and she of course told him "chocolate milk and Frosty Flakes". He frowned and looked at me and said you know it's summer...she shouldn't be overweight. I wanted to smack him. We're usually outside riding our bikes. (she recently learned how to ride her own without training wheels)

Anyhow it reminded me of a story I'd written a while back for my blog on Myspace. I don't know that you care or even want to see it but it deals with other people telling us how to run our lives and claiming that our generation is the result of kids being fat and lazy. Congress and the Food and Drug Administration were calling for changes to the way cereal is made. I couldn't believe it and got worked up over it when I wrote this blog entry. Here it is. If it bores you to tears I'm sorry.

News source here http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614...dvertising_dc_1

Leave My Cereal Alone!!!

Why does everything have to suck? Why does everything good have to be bad for you? Why the heck do I need somebody telling me what I can eat or what I can feed to my kid?

How the hell is Tony the Tiger ©



or Snap, Crackle, and Pop ©making my kid fat?




It wasn't all that long ago that getting up on Saturday morning meant a bowl or two of Fruity Pebbles ©


and having to decide on whether you should watch The Muppet Babies ©

or The Smurfs©.


As our bellies got full and the morning went on our choices became a little easier as it was a toss up, a can't lose, between Alvin and the Chipmunks© on ©or Bugs Bunny© reruns on ABC©.


I can guarantee you if it had anything to do with the Coyote or Elmer Fudd ©shooting at Daffy Duck© the television was on ABC© in my house.


We'd play outside every night until dark



usually getting in trouble along the way for not coming inside in time for dinner. We'd complain until mom would conceed the fight and allow which ever best friend forever it was we were playing with that night to come in for dinner too. We'd eat a box full of Mac and Cheese or a couple of cans of ravioli and a grilled cheese samich and we'd be right back to playing. We never watched television at night unless it had something to do with a pair of cops on motorcycles,



a pair of cousins in an orange car,



or a team of mercanaries on the run from the military for a crime they didn't commit.



Sure we'd try to catch the occasional Magnum PI©, Simon and Simon©, or MacGyver© with Dad but other than that we were playing and using up every bit of energy we had. We didn't have reality television or the internet to keep our butts glued to a chair.

Unless of course Who's The Boss© was on and there was only one reason we'd be watching that...



she's the girl who's posters were plastered to every kid's wall in America.........all the girls wanted to be "Samantha" and all the guys wanted her....even though at the time we were too naive to know why we "wanted" her so bad....



When mom would take us along shopping we'd usually get to stop at McDonald's© and grab a cheeseburger Happy
Meal©.



It didn't matter that we were 12...because we still looked and acted and thought like a kid



and that's all we needed to eat and all we needed to entertain us...not like these 12 year old going 20 year old kids we have nowadays.

In our Happy Meal© we'd get a super awesome toy that went with a series of many and no one gave a second thought as to whether or not the Happy Meal© or the Coke© we drank with it was making us fat. That's why when we'd beg anyone and everyone to take us back to McDonald's© for the next toy in the series they'd do it.

Before you knew it, it was Saturday again and we were right back to our bowl or two of Fruity Pebbles© unless mom finally broke down at the grocery store and bought every kid's favorite.



What I wouldn't do for a big bowl of that right now.

I guess is what I'm trying to say is that our generation turned out fine. We didn't need a bunch of government beuracrats telling us or our parents what to do and what to eat and all that other life controlling garbage. Most of us never rode in a car seat, we rode on that little arm rest thingy between our parents or on Dad's lap helping him drive home. I don't know that they even had knee pads, helmets, or any of that other crap, and Band Aids© were reserved only for the really really bad scrapes. Cuts and bruises were cool. The resulting scabs and scars were badges of honor that many of us still wear proud today.

We didn't need people telling us how many calories we were eating, we didn't need people telling us when and how much to exercise.

You know why? Because we didn't watch that much television, we didn't have any came system except for the crappy Atari© and eventually the NES© that kept us locked up in our room for days and besides mom hardly ever let us play it anyway, we didn't have the internet....we had toys, bicycles, and real life friends that didn't exist anywhere but the REAL WORLD, our neighborhood! We had a life, an active life. We all strived to be the next group of Goonies ©


And you know what...sure there was a Chunk in every gang..but nobody harped on it or worried about it......he was still our buddy and he was just like every other kid.....except he could do the really awesome jelly belly roll. Nobody was telling that kid he couldn't have an extra scoop of Rocky Road or your left over french fries.

Back in our day everything was better. Life was more simple. I miss it plenty.......and reading the story linked at the top of this page just made me mad because folks are trying to take away one of the simpliest pleasures a kid can have. A good bowl of sugary cereal to kick start their morning.......ever wonder if the sugar is what fueled our active days??

To who ever it is out there on some random committee trying to decide what's best for me or my kid I've got one thing to say.. "BACK OFF" Leave my cereal and the rest of my food alone. Let me decide what's good and what's bad for my kid just like my parents did. If I want to spoon feed them Sugar then I will. If I want to feed them steamed brocoli I will....it's none of your dang business.

AS far as my family goes......so long as we can find it on the shelves we'll still be buying a good old' fashioned bad for you box of cereal to help us celebrate Saturday morning and Saturday Morning Cartoons......or at least what's left of the cartoons....until someone finally decides those are bad for our kids too.

Jabooty_3

Fruity Pebbles FTW

I always went Smurfs into Snorks

YaMon

I love it when they interview some octogenarian and ask them what their secret to longevity is.

Typically they include the fact that they drink or smoke or eat some type of "no no food" like you've listed above. "Yeah, I'm 105 years old and I've had a glass or two of whiskey every day of my life, AND GOD DAMNIT I'M NOT STOPPING NOW!"



A friend of mine in New Orleans has a friend who is a sous chef for Emeril's restaurant NOLA. We were at a crawfish broil and I asked him about a meal I ate there the night before. He was telling me about all the heavy butters and creams there were in it, how many reductions, etc.. Dude was really thin, so I asked him if he just cooks like that, but avoids eating those things to remain thin. He said, "no way". He eats and enjoys all the flavors of rich and fatty foods and hates the hell out of California Cuisine and anything "fat free" or "sugar free" or shit like that. He just eats what he wants in smaller portions and would rather eat a small filet mignon with with potatoes in heavy sauces than any type of low fat big portion meal.

It all boils down to MODERATION. As much as I hate to fucking address that and have to subscribe to it, it's the truth.

I laugh at people on "diets" nowadays. I may not be the thinnest guy around (like I was in my teens and twenties), but I'm probably in the best physical condition ever. I eat pretty much what I want. But I also exercise like a motherfucker every morning. I don't care if I gain or lose weight. My criteria for health now is that if the surf comes in or I go wakeboarding or participate in any physical activity; I'm not sucking wind and I'm doing it with minimal pain and stress.


Bonecrusher, you mentioned that the doctor had a big belly... It's amazing how many "doctors" partake in seriously unhealthy things. Many smoke and a lot of them drink heavily. I guess talking the talk is much easier than walking the walk

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kulotsalot

tl;dr on the blog post but yeah, I wouldn't get too worked up about the occasional chocolate milk shake and pizza breakfast. Like YaMon said, everything in moderation + exercise that doesn't feel like UGH EXERCISE and you will generally turn out ok.

licupssy

I wouldn't recommend it for a 7 day a week diet since I would be concerned that she'd get diabetes from all the sugar. But I'd be more concerned if she was 3 pounds under weight then 3 pounds over. When my daughter was that age my wife worked day work and I took care of her until I dropped her off at the baby sitters when I left to go to work on the second shift. We ate out most of the time since we lived less than 2 miles from a dozen restaurants and fast food joints. I use to try and eat somewhere different every day. I guess the doctor would have crapped in a similar situation when she told him we had McDonald's for breakfast.

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Bonecrusher

Well after the doctor I took her to Chik Fil A because she was so good during the visit.

She barely ate part of her biscuit though because the play room was just way too much fun.

I definitely don't feed her that way everyday...someday's it's bananas, or scrammbled eggs...etc...just so happened today was sugary cereal.

Thanks for all the feedback from everyone.

mstad

You get rep strictly for posting a picture of The Goonies.

Jimi

Don't EVER bad talk the Atari!

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January 2009, the end of an error.

MightyZeus

bonecrusher,
I agree with everything you said
I remember doing a lot of exactly what you mentioned in the post
The best part was being outside, just doing "stuff" with your friends

Zeus

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joerockhead

When I was a kid, I used to eat Frosted Flakes for breakfast with WHOLE Milk, every day, sometimes 2 bowls. I also liked to eat a Hershey bar while drinking a Coca-Cola!

I was scrawny skinny short little boy!

but we change, and grow

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Juan.©amaney

Rewarding a kid with food is a little on the dangerous side according to psychs and the like.



Just keep your kids active, don't feed them refined sugar and teach them the value of fruits and veggies.

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nargil27

i dont know if i would have made it through my childhood without krispies and cookie crisp :( and i completely agree, if they are going to put a limit on cereal, then video games and the internet should be alltogether banned :O its that what makes kids overweight and lazy now, not the bit of sugar they might have had for breakfast :( (and yes, im speaking from experiance video games and the internet are killing me and i know it :P)

joerockhead

What gets me is that the FDA says that All of our meats are safe.

Yet, All Cattle, Chickens, Pigs and farm raised Fish are filled with Steroids!!!

Just because they stop feeding them this crap a couple weeks before slaughter, does not mean is is clean.

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Bonecrusher

The food is definitely not safe. All you have to do is look at teenagers now and compare them to what teenagers looked like 10-20 years ago. All of them are maturing faster in nearly every physical way. Their minds aren't thanks to internet, video games, and television.

It has to be the processed food and steroids in meat. Chickens are hatched one week and butchered the next.