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Tackling childhood obesity has come to light, with the suggestion of banned TV adverts for food aimed at children. For example, MacDonalds and their cute cartoony campaigns, or pop stars and famous people advertising for example, Walkers crisps....
So Ok... the point of the thread...
Do you think TV advertising encourages kids to want to live off sweets and fatty "food" from places like Burger King? Should they be banned? or should the parents be more responsible in feeding their children healthy food.
Is it me, or does it seem cheaper to buy unhealthy food anyway?
What about a 'fat tax' put on foods?
Why is it kids are getting fatter?
So Ok... the point of the thread...
Do you think TV advertising encourages kids to want to live off sweets and fatty "food" from places like Burger King? Should they be banned? or should the parents be more responsible in feeding their children healthy food.
Is it me, or does it seem cheaper to buy unhealthy food anyway?
What about a 'fat tax' put on foods?
Why is it kids are getting fatter?
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Having said that, these days some parents are reluctant to encourage their kids to play out because of fear for their safety. Shame really. Also parents these days seem to have less time on their hands, people work full time and look to ready meals and fast food to feed their kids, the same way they look to The Fimbles to entertain their kids. Perhaps it all boils down to good parenting?
As for those companies, they're just trying to make money which is the aim of all businesses. More socially aware firms are trying to encourage healthy eating. Even McDonalds has a salad range (although I've read the calorie and fat contents are just as high than the rest of their food)
Also, the way people talk about obesity in young people it is as if a huge percentage of people are obese/overweight…I don’t know anybody my age (I’m 16) who is obese, I know some people who are a little fat perhaps but I don’t know many obese kids…I think the media exaggerates this obesity thing…or maybe it varies between different areas.
this snack culture ...we are not grazing animals but thats what snacking turns you into ...a grazer ...happily mucnching away the time between meals.
there realy is no need to consume the ammount of food that modern people consume.
you never saw fat people coming out of a concentration camp ...turns out they all had the same size bones after all!
I think the parents need to be more responsible though, as they do not worry about giving their kids healthy food, they have to encourage this from an early age so the children grow to like the food, rather than preferring Burger King to say, a salad sandwhich and a drink of orange juice.
we ate the same type of crap when i was a kid. only we burnt it off cause we couldn't afford such hi-tech stuff as consoles and TVs, so we went out and played, and ran and climbed trees and burnt off some calories instead of sitting on our arses all day.
kids always want what is bad for them. the kids of today are no different. they're just really inactive.
I agree. Although kids sitting in all day eating carrott sticks would probably be alot thinner than those eating crisps, the real problem is the lack of activity. Kids are most likely to be sat indoors with their tv's and ps2's, 10 years ago they just didn't do that.
Kids are encouraged to grow up so fast, the amount of homework given to an 11 year old is ridicolous. When I was 11 homework was near to unheard of, bar a weekly spelling test, and that weren't all that long ago.
The homework is a major fact in that kids will be sat indoors working, and when taking breaks or when they've finished it's much easier to turn on the tv or just too late to play outside.
Junk food isn't the problem in obesity, only in general overall health. The government needs to encourage kids to get off their asse's and playing as they used too, not stop a companies rights to advertise.
I'm not sure I agree. 15 years ago there was still TV and Sega Megadrives to occupy kids, but it was just that they were actively encouraged to go out more. I think it has a lot to do with consumer culture defining who you are - kids these days have to have the lastest everything to be 'cool' which is sad.
compared with when i was a kid ...the eating habits of today are disgusting ...it's child abuse in a way.
killing through kindness ...
It's not a widely-reported statistic, but people are eating 750kCal (approx) per day LESS than in 1955. They are burning off 1100kCal (approx) less than in 1955, however.
That indicates one thing: lack of exercise. Kids are getting fat because they get driven to and from school, and when they get home they have 46 hours of homework to get through. Then they go and play on a football console game instead of playing football.
And, of course, the local council has sold off the playing fields to build executive housing, so there is nowhere to play football anyway. That is assuming that the mother doesn't have the child on a three-foot-long leash, just to protect him from paedophiles.
And PE at school is down to one hour a week, and unless you are David Beckham the PE teachers don't want to encourage you to play because they can't be arsed to make you any good. So you just walk around because it's easier than getting laughed at by the teacher because you can't kick a ball straight.
It's very easy to blame McDonald's for kids getting fat, but one McDonald's every week is not going to do you any harm. The reason why kids are getting fat is because they won't do any exercise, and they aren't made to anymore, and aren't encouraged to anymore.
Go and look at how much fat is in a Roast Dinner. It's surprisingly high.
Make fresh fruit and vegatables the same price as crisps and chocolate and chips and people will buy it. The fact is that it is cheaper to buy a box of value fish fingers, a can of value beans and a bag of value chips, and if money is tight that is what you will do. People don't need education on hjow to eat "healthily", they need tio be able to afford to do so.
They do need to be taught how to cook though. Home Economics lessons now are about making vegan carrot cake and a five-course meal for a diabetic, which is all very noble in itself but not much use to somebody who doesn't know how to prepare a meal so that the meat and veg is ready at the same time. And that's assuming your school even teaches home ec- most don't.
If people don't know how to cook they are reliant on frozen food and ready meals, which are laden with salt and fat. It is possible to eat healthily and cheaply if you know what you are doing (although even then its still cheaper to eat crap), but unless you know how to fillet your own fish, for instance, then you can't.
Definitely. When we have a roast it's the only meal we'll have all day.
But it's certainly not healthy:)
yeah, there were, but our family couldn't afford anything other than the one family TV. which my parents used to watch crap programs we weren't interested in. so we went out.
these days it's all so cheap, and interest free credit, and the kids have a TV in every room.
also there was more of a culture of playing out. most of the friends i had when i was little, i never even went inside their house. we played out in the garden, or if they were posh and lived in a cul-de-sac, we played out in the street. if we were really lucky, a parent might drive us to the swimming baths.
you don't get that as much these days. although, it does still happen.
ready meals are a result of that
fresh food can be cheap but you have to buy the actual veg looking rough, and use it once so it dont go bad, so it means cooking for fmaily, but lots of families these days are pushed for time due to parents both working etc so they cant be bothered to cook, and children dont know how to cook
result - nasty ready food, i cant even eat the stuff now, even though ym mum expects me to eat it so i buy my own food
not once did i have to make an entire meal
when i was about 8 ...a family crisis was happening of some sort ...hospitals etc etc ...i was starving and decided to cook for me and my sisters ...i made an ommelette but had never seen one before. i was convinced for a couple of years that i had invented the thing ...
peeling and using the oven ...i can't remember anyone teaching me anything remotely like that apart from cubs and cadets.
cooking and eating is a joy ...for us slim people that is ...
To say fresh fruit and veg is cheap is wrong in many cases. A pound of potatoes at Tesco costs almost double what a pound of value frying chips costs, a huge bar of value choloiate is about 40p. You can get about 2 apples for that.
Education does play a big role in making people eat more healthily, of course it does. But a lot of fresh healthy food is expensive- fresh fish is expensive compared to fish fingers, say.
...and you get TWO of them!
*sigh*
Anyways they showed the family all the crap that they ate in a week and it was unbeleivable. They talked about their poos as well.........apparently it says a lot about your diet............sorry lol.
So anyways the 3 of us were sat there and our Becks whose 8 was realy engrossed, so I says thats it, from now on we are eating healthy foods. She kinda looked at me as if to say 'SHIT'. We normally eat healthy foods but we do also have not so healthy foods i.e fry ups cos we like them. For the last 4 days or so i think we have done pretty well and eating healthy foods doesent always mean expense. I bought a fresh chicken, we had chicken, new potatoes, cauli and carrots for tea and there was enough chicken left to have a sandwich later on.........the chicken only cost me approx 2.50 cos they were on offer so if you shop about it doesent have to be expensive. Also salads are a cheap meal so thats what we are doing but having the odd treat here and there as you have to have a little bit of junk food.
Ive also invested in a health grill, well it aint arrived yet but hopefully next week it will be here so hopefully in a few weeks time we will feel the benefit of eating healthily
Everyone should eat healthy, its good for yoy lol
thats cause theres probably fish offal in the fish fingers instead of proper fish meat
They think that because there has been a clampdown on anti-social behaviour we're going to turn out and tell a bunch of 8 year olds, who are quite rightly enjoying their childhood to leave and play somewhere else.
Never.
Whenever I see them I just stop and have a chat, warn them to be careful of cars and then walk off, as do the rest of us.
I then stick 2 fingers up at the old bat who called us (nah I don't.)
But it's busy bodies like that who are not helping.
As a positive thing, since we got the authorisation to disperse groups from the field near the precinct it's now filled up with kids playing and having a good time.
Many of them will be outside till late just playing around. I think more people should be encouraged to do that.
my mum was very light though, from the age of 8 as long as i told her where i was going and when ill be back and who i was with, i could go park
Yes, but that's not the point.
that bothers me as well.
and also when groups of kids on skateboards and bikes are in the paper under headlines like: 'skate menance kids in granny fally-over death'. fair enough if they're causing havoc, but 9 times out of ten, a gang of kids on skateboards are just hanging round, having a laugh, and god forbid, getting some exercise and fresh air.
the latest one in my area is the council going spare over mountain biking kids in the local woods. like pardon them. would they prefer they were out robbing cars and assaulting old people? i didn't think so.
PS To Kermit. To teach kids eating vegan carrot cakes? OMG! It’s soooo disgusting! I’d rather swallow an alive toad.