Your country has one of the best options for junk food (from a health standpoint), but very few go for it. I’m referring to chili, sold at just about every restaurant/franchise (or deli)…while Berardi’s bodybuilder’s chili is not the same as store bought chili, it’s still nutrient dense and high in protein and fiber. Weird how it never took off.
[quote]UkpairehMombooto wrote:
Your country has one of the best options for junk food (from a health standpoint), but very few go for it. I’m referring to chili, sold at just about every restaurant/franchise (or deli)…while Berardi’s bodybuilder’s chili is not the same as store bought chili, it’s still nutrient dense and high in protein and fiber. Weird how it never took off.[/quote]
Chili rules! I had it for lunch.
You do need to be careful when you purchase it pre-made tho. If the beef ain;t ground fine enough…you’ll have a rough time (pun intended) eating it. Too bad the mexicans didn;t market it the way the italian immigrants pushed pizza onto the then suitably-nourished masses.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
UkpairehMombooto wrote:
Your country has one of the best options for junk food (from a health standpoint), but very few go for it. I’m referring to chili, sold at just about every restaurant/franchise (or deli)…while Berardi’s bodybuilder’s chili is not the same as store bought chili, it’s still nutrient dense and high in protein and fiber. Weird how it never took off.
Chili rules! I had it for lunch.[/quote]
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
and yes… many people seem to be challenged and completely confused when I see what it is that they think is healthy.
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Then they should do some research.
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.
*As far as Subway in schools…better than the shit I saw in the cafeteria. And again - I always brought a lunch. Nothing stopping kids from doing the same.
[quote]UkpairehMombooto wrote:
You do need to be careful when you purchase it pre-made tho. If the beef ain;t ground fine enough…you’ll have a rough time (pun intended) eating it. Too bad the mexicans didn;t market it the way the italian immigrants pushed pizza onto the then suitably-nourished masses.
Zap Branigan wrote:
UkpairehMombooto wrote:
Your country has one of the best options for junk food (from a health standpoint), but very few go for it. I’m referring to chili, sold at just about every restaurant/franchise (or deli)…while Berardi’s bodybuilder’s chili is not the same as store bought chili, it’s still nutrient dense and high in protein and fiber. Weird how it never took off.
Chili rules! I had it for lunch.
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We had pots of it going here at work. Ground beef and sausage. My wife will pay the price tonight when I play Dutch oven.
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
and yes… many people seem to be challenged and completely confused when I see what it is that they think is healthy.
Then they should do some research.
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.
*As far as Subway in schools…better than the shit I saw in the cafeteria. And again - I always brought a lunch. Nothing stopping kids from doing the same.[/quote]
yes, folks should do research.
I also think they shouldn’t sell soda at schools. But from what I understand the schools don’t want to stop selling the junk food, or get rid of junk in the vending machines and the soda machines because they make money off of those machines.
these are children, even in high school they are still children and children don’t make great decisions.
I didn’t mean to advocate big brother needs to dictate what a kid can eat, but I would hope there would be a move towards getting rid of junk food being sold by schools. I also don’t think they should partner with Subway.
I get what you are saying that they can be healthy with the right choices. Kids just don’t always make the right choices.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Kids just don’t always make the right choices.
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My experience with mine has been that he’ll make the wrong ones nearly every time without seriously compelling reasons not to. Lunch is a rare playtime for them, so they race through it with whatever crap they can cram in or skip it altogether. He even occasionally trades down for junk that I’d never give him. While I have to applaud his negotiation ingenuity, I have to razz him for making poor overall choices.
If I had my way, he probably wouldn’t have choice in this situation. I can only talk so many times about how he needs to eat if he wants to be a pitcher (or whatever). It means nothing to him, because he figures he has time to make it up. We were all there once.
Kids have no strategic sense – everything is the tactical now. Sounds like a lot of companies I’ve worked for.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
and yes… many people seem to be challenged and completely confused when I see what it is that they think is healthy.
Then they should do some research.
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.
*As far as Subway in schools…better than the shit I saw in the cafeteria. And again - I always brought a lunch. Nothing stopping kids from doing the same.
yes, folks should do research.
I also think they shouldn’t sell soda at schools. But from what I understand the schools don’t want to stop selling the junk food, or get rid of junk in the vending machines and the soda machines because they make money off of those machines.
these are children, even in high school they are still children and children don’t make great decisions.
I didn’t mean to advocate big brother needs to dictate what a kid can eat, but I would hope there would be a move towards getting rid of junk food being sold by schools. I also don’t think they should partner with Subway.
I get what you are saying that they can be healthy with the right choices. Kids just don’t always make the right choices.
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I think the best solution is the least possible one - parents instilling good habits in their children THROUGH EXAMPLE.
Of course for this to happen, the parents have to actually have good habits and they have to spend more than 5 minutes with their children.
We’re all doomed.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
and yes… many people seem to be challenged and completely confused when I see what it is that they think is healthy.
Then they should do some research.
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.
*As far as Subway in schools…better than the shit I saw in the cafeteria. And again - I always brought a lunch. Nothing stopping kids from doing the same.
yes, folks should do research.
I also think they shouldn’t sell soda at schools. But from what I understand the schools don’t want to stop selling the junk food, or get rid of junk in the vending machines and the soda machines because they make money off of those machines.
these are children, even in high school they are still children and children don’t make great decisions.
I didn’t mean to advocate big brother needs to dictate what a kid can eat, but I would hope there would be a move towards getting rid of junk food being sold by schools. I also don’t think they should partner with Subway.
I get what you are saying that they can be healthy with the right choices. Kids just don’t always make the right choices.
[/quote]
We had soda machines (well, one soda machine and one vending machine) in HS back in the 1980s. It wasn’t a big deal. Our cafeteria sold Hostess products and milkshakes. I used to buy a Honeybun and chocolate shake almost every day at lunch my Freshman year, before they did away with it. I couldn’t crack 125 lbs, regardless of eating like this and lifting weights. It still comes back to level of exercise, imo.
I also think junk food was “healthier” before they tried to make it “healthy”, i.e. lowfat, sugarfree, etc.
DB
[quote]Natural Nate wrote:
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.[/quote]
I think it’s also the same rationale behind buying unhealthy shit from a ‘health store’. They know it’s unhealthy, but think “well this place sells healthy stuff now, it must be good for me” and follow through with a Big Mac (supersized) with extra meat, double cheese etc.
From what I gather, you Americans have it bad, because over here, our Large drink is the equivalent of your Small. I can only imagine how much fries etc. they must give you.
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
We had soda machines (well, one soda machine and one vending machine) in HS back in the 1980s. It wasn’t a big deal. Our cafeteria sold Hostess products and milkshakes. I used to buy a Honeybun and chocolate shake almost every day at lunch my Freshman year, before they did away with it. I couldn’t crack 125 lbs, regardless of eating like this and lifting weights. It still comes back to level of exercise, imo.
I also think junk food was “healthier” before they tried to make it “healthy”, i.e. lowfat, sugarfree, etc.
DB[/quote]
There is that about the activity, but there is also the axiom, “you can’t out-train your diet.”
You can eat healthy and not exercise and you can still maintain a healthy weight and fat level.
If you eat a jillion cals of junk but bust your ass in the gym, you may still look like you are a fatty and have an unhealthy body.
Exercise alone cannot build a healthy body.
and you are so right about the new healthy foods! YUCK! I see folks at work eat a whole package of those freakin Snackwell cookies and they say, “but they are low-fat”.
idiots, maybe that is the master plan. It is a slow and expensive kill off of the stupid people by bad diet and no exercise.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Natural Nate wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
and yes… many people seem to be challenged and completely confused when I see what it is that they think is healthy.
Then they should do some research.
Subway being touted as healthy doesn’t mean shit. Nobody cares.* Last I heard McDonalds is posting excellent profits and they’ve downgraded their “healthy” menu significantly because no one was buying.
Fat idiots will keep stuffing their faces with chips and soda because they like the taste and have low self-esteem. Doesn’t matter whether everyone tells them their habits are healthy or not.
*As far as Subway in schools…better than the shit I saw in the cafeteria. And again - I always brought a lunch. Nothing stopping kids from doing the same.
yes, folks should do research.
I also think they shouldn’t sell soda at schools. But from what I understand the schools don’t want to stop selling the junk food, or get rid of junk in the vending machines and the soda machines because they make money off of those machines.
these are children, even in high school they are still children and children don’t make great decisions.
I didn’t mean to advocate big brother needs to dictate what a kid can eat, but I would hope there would be a move towards getting rid of junk food being sold by schools. I also don’t think they should partner with Subway.
I get what you are saying that they can be healthy with the right choices. Kids just don’t always make the right choices.
[/quote]
I STILL don’t think we need to even go that far. Soda, chips, all that shit is fine.
I’m still blaming the lack of activity. No recess equates to fatasses and poor grades, more fights, you name it. Outside of school, I’ve seen nothing here to sway me from the notion that it’s the parents’ fault for the kid being a fatass. Some people don’t need to be parents.
Conclusion? Bring back recess and teach people how to be a parent that’s worth a damn.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
We had soda machines (well, one soda machine and one vending machine) in HS back in the 1980s. It wasn’t a big deal. Our cafeteria sold Hostess products and milkshakes. I used to buy a Honeybun and chocolate shake almost every day at lunch my Freshman year, before they did away with it. I couldn’t crack 125 lbs, regardless of eating like this and lifting weights. It still comes back to level of exercise, imo.
I also think junk food was “healthier” before they tried to make it “healthy”, i.e. lowfat, sugarfree, etc.
DB
There is that about the activity, but there is also the axiom, “you can’t out-train your diet.”
You can eat healthy and not exercise and you can still maintain a healthy weight and fat level.
If you eat a jillion cals of junk but bust your ass in the gym, you may still look like you are a fatty and have an unhealthy body.
Exercise alone cannot build a healthy body.
and you are so right about the new healthy foods! YUCK! I see folks at work eat a whole package of those freakin Snackwell cookies and they say, “but they are low-fat”.
idiots, maybe that is the master plan. It is a slow and expensive kill off of the stupid people by bad diet and no exercise.
[/quote]
I disagree, because we’re talking about the metabolism of teenagers and kids. You could feed them a shit load of food and have them play hard for an hour, and then play hard for three hours after school. I bet you greatly that they won’t gain weight.
[quote]Fulmen wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
There is that about the activity, but there is also the axiom, “you can’t out-train your diet.”
You can eat healthy and not exercise and you can still maintain a healthy weight and fat level.
If you eat a jillion cals of junk but bust your ass in the gym, you may still look like you are a fatty and have an unhealthy body.
Exercise alone cannot build a healthy body.
and you are so right about the new healthy foods! YUCK! I see folks at work eat a whole package of those freakin Snackwell cookies and they say, “but they are low-fat”.
idiots, maybe that is the master plan. It is a slow and expensive kill off of the stupid people by bad diet and no exercise.
I disagree, because we’re talking about the metabolism of teenagers and kids. You could feed them a shit load of food and have them play hard for an hour, and then play hard for three hours after school. I bet you greatly that they won’t gain weight.[/quote]
That would be great if I were wrong. It sure seems simple enough then to fix the problem.
Hopefully there will be those parents who tell the kids to drop the video game controller and go outside and play.
I hope schools are able to revive recess and P.E. classes.
I want a change for youngens.
their obesity is a danger in a bunch of different ways
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
their obesity is a danger in a bunch of different ways
Do you mind not posting these? I can’t afford to laugh out loud at work and get snapped not actually working.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
their obesity is a danger in a bunch of different ways
That video was perfect on every level.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Hopefully there will be those parents who tell the kids to drop the video game controller and go outside and play.
I hope schools are able to revive recess and P.E. classes.
I want a change for youngens.[/quote]
There will be SOME, but most don’t want to be held accountable for shit. It’s everything else but your fault nowadays, whether it be fat kids or lack of money.
All I know is that my youngens won’t have a problem, and I guess that’s all I should care about.
[quote]Fulmen wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Hopefully there will be those parents who tell the kids to drop the video game controller and go outside and play.
I hope schools are able to revive recess and P.E. classes.
I want a change for youngens.
There will be SOME, but most don’t want to be held accountable for shit. It’s everything else but your fault nowadays, whether it be fat kids or lack of money.
All I know is that my youngens won’t have a problem, and I guess that’s all I should care about.
[/quote]
oh sure! be reasonable.
I had Subway Sunday, chicken parm 12 incher
amazing