God Bless America!
Let’s see, my Health Canada Food Guide (free government publication they gove you several times to take home during your grade school years) says:
5-12 servings of grain products a day (bagel, Cheerios…)
5-10 servings of fruits and/or vegetables (glass of juice, banana…)
2-4 servings of milk products
2-3 servings of meat or alternatives (filet, 2 eggs)
… Oh, wait here it is:
5-11 servings of crap (Big Mac, fries, shake)
Of course there are people who think McDonald’s is healthy for their kids :rolleyes:
So I guess you haven’t seen this thread yet astro.
I am so sick and tired of parents blaming everyone else for their kids problems! Don’t tell me the kid is fat from only McDonalds!
You would think that after the first hundred or so pounds, that the parents might have suspected that they were feeding the kids wrong.
400lbs. is WAY too much weight to gain to claim ignorance. I mean for godsake, did the person wake up one morning, wobble over the mirror, and say “Heaven’s to Betsy, I’m putt’n on a tidbit of weight!”
gobear’s workin’ this in the Pit: “Help. the clown forcefed me Big Macs!”
Unlike Subway, McDonald’s doesn’t run advertisements saying you can lose weight eating their product…
shudder at the thought of this fat kid whose every bodily cell drives from a MacD horror…
Wow.
I think she should sue the school boards that she attended as a child for raising her to be an ignorant mother, thinking that fried beef and milkshakes were healthy. And is it good for the kid’s well being to be in the papers as that dumb fat kid who didn’t realise that a supersized combo everyday would make him gain weight?
I’d love to know what this kid was eating each day apart from the burger, fries and shake and why Mum didn’t intervene when he reached 11 stone, 12 or 15. Surely she realised her child was grossly obese at some point before he reached 400 pounds.
Just an aside on the dietary recommendations ) which are the same as the ones issue here), my children would be pushing shit uphill trying to consume that much food in a day (hell, the total amount of food comes to about 3 times more than I eat in a day).
The parents are probably suing to get back all the money they’ve wasted there.
Reprise at had the same thought. Then I looked more closely “one serving” is relatively small. One serving of a fruit or vegetable would be “one carrot”, “one slice of bread” would be one serving of grain products. So eat a single sandwich with a slice of cheese, lettuce and tomato and you’ve taken care of quite a lot of servings right there.
So if I ate two slices of toast, two boiled eggs and a glass of milk for breakfast, then ate an orange as a mid-morning snack, I’d have taken care of almost half of my requirements before lunch.
I’m kind of small, so I’d be in the 5ish range when it says 5-10 servings. An adult male who is 6’2" would probably be in the 9-10 serving range – I dated a guy in college who was fit and fairly active when it came to exercise. He would eat an entire honeydew mellon as a snack which probably amounts to 4 “servings” of fruit all at once.
It’s really not that bad. Still intimidating, but if you already have a healthy diet and then compare what you’ve been eating to the “serving” amounts, you’d probably be surprised at how much you’ve got covered.
The people who should be sued are the parents. They allowed their kids to get that way. When I was a kid McDonalds and other such places were a special treat. We would stop after going shopping for new school supplies and the like. Sure we wanted to go more often, but my parents would say no. Unfortunately, parents do not seem to do that anymore. I have family members who seem incapable of saying no to their kids. If you mention it to them, they get defensive. If you subtly mention it, talking about someone you saw at work etc., they agree with you.
As a family, we eat some kind of fast food about once every two months. Individually, the children probably eat chain store fast food between once a week and once a fortnight. The vast majority of “junk food” they consume is purchased at the school canteen.
Well, since they are fat as hogs, let’s BBQ some ribs!
In a Life Science Library book titled The World We Live In (1960), in a chapter titled “The Sea,” it said that a pound of any animal eaten as food is enough to make one-tenth pound of whatever animal eats it. “Therefore it would take 10,000 pounds of diatoms to make 1000 pounds of copepods to make 100 pounds of herring to make ten pounds of squid to make one pound of [sea] bass to make 1/10 pound of man.”