Trump ends Michelle Obama's effort to fight child hood obesity.

[Bob Blaylock]

Actually, type 2 diabetes is caused by a genetic defect—one that is rampant on my father's side of my family. He had it, all his brothers had it, his father had it, and now, my brother and I have it.

If you don't have the genetic pattern, then you will never develop type 2 diabetes, no matter what you eat or how you otherwise care for yourself or fail to do so.

I would have to disagree with you there. I'm type 2 and we have no diabetes in the family. But for much of my life, I was either thin or built. During the time I discovered it, I was eating well and exercising with weights. My sister has always had weight problems--especially when she was younger, and never had a sugar problem.

I do agree with you that it has little to do with diet though. From what I understand, real diabetes is caused by cells killing off each other in the pancreas. Type 1 can be controlled with weight, but less of diet.

Type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are two very different conditions, that have little to do with one another other than that the end result is that both tend to seriously impair the body's ability to manage the correct level of sugar in one's blood. Type 1, what you are calling “real diabetes”, is caused by an autoimmune disorder, in which one's immune system attacks the pancreas. It's pretty easy to see how it goes from there—a destroyed pancreas means greatly reduced, if not completely absent, natural insulin production.

Type 2 is more complex, and not yet fully understood. Initially, at least, the pancreas is fully functional, producing normal amounts of insulin, but other chemical issues prevent the insulin from doing its thing as effectively as it should.

I'll say this again. Type 2 diabetes is genetic. Perhaps the genetics in your family are different, in such a way as it make it much less common than in mine, but if you didn't have the genetic pattern for it, you would not have developed type 2 diabetes. It shows up on both sides of my family, but is much more pervasive on my father's side than on my mother's.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

School drops Michelle Obama's 'healthy' lunches. Then, bam!


Slade3200

Cool. Here's the flip side with an actual report

Is the Michelle Obama-approved school lunch initiative working?

Most of the article deals with how nutritious the food is. No shit??? But the study was of only six schools. Did those same children have a stock of candy bars in their locker, or head to Burger King as soon as they left the school?

I'm sure some did, so what?

So what is that this is a lot of wasted money and time. Kids are going to eat what they want be it in school or outside of school. Kids and adults alike will eat food they enjoy, not food they hate just because it's good for them.

Several years ago our deer population got out of control, so the county hired professional hunters to thin the herd. Nearby communities were outraged that we would kill those beautiful animals in the park. To try and take some of the sting out of the necessary action, they announced that the venison will be donated to the homeless shelters. Guess what? The homeless refused to eat it. They had to throw all that meat out.

Some people love venison, others hate it. Some people love green beans, others hate it. Some people love big macs, others wouldn't put one in their mouth. But you can't make decisions for people. We all have different tastes.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Actually, type 2 diabetes is caused by a genetic defect—one that is rampant on my father's side of my family. He had it, all his brothers had it, his father had it, and now, my brother and I have it.

If you don't have the genetic pattern, then you will never develop type 2 diabetes, no matter what you eat or how you otherwise care for yourself or fail to do so.

I would have to disagree with you there. I'm type 2 and we have no diabetes in the family. But for much of my life, I was either thin or built. During the time I discovered it, I was eating well and exercising with weights. My sister has always had weight problems--especially when she was younger, and never had a sugar problem.

I do agree with you that it has little to do with diet though. From what I understand, real diabetes is caused by cells killing off each other in the pancreas. Type 1 can be controlled with weight, but less of diet.

Type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are two very different conditions, that have little to do with one another other than that the end result is that both tend to seriously impair the body's ability to manage the correct level of sugar in one's blood. Type 1, what you are calling “real diabetes”, is caused by an autoimmune disorder, in which one's immune system attacks the pancreas. It's pretty easy to see how it goes from there—a destroyed pancreas means greatly reduced, if not completely absent, natural insulin production.

Type 2 is more complex, and not yet fully understood. Initially, at least, the pancreas is fully functional, producing normal amounts of insulin, but other chemical issues prevent the insulin from doing its thing as effectively as it should.

I'll say this again. Type 2 diabetes is genetic. Perhaps the genetics in your family are different, in such a way as it make it much less common than in mine, but if you didn't have the genetic pattern for it, you would not have developed type 2 diabetes. It shows up on both sides of my family, but is much more pervasive on my father's side than on my mother's.

My only point is that it's not always genetic. Nobody in my family has diabetes, and my parents can go back several generations remembering nobody in the family with it. Correct, it is an autoimmune disease which is why I say it's not controlled by what you eat. When I discovered it, I was taking amino acids to help with muscle production in my workouts. Maybe that's what set it off, but there still isn't enough knowledge about the disease to fully understand it.

Now there is an outpatient surgery as a cure. The surgery lasts only a year or two, but supposedly it's no problem to have them repeatedly. They remove cells, do something to them, and put them back in your body. From what I read, you can eat what you want, never bother to check your sugar, and most importantly, never take a shot again. The best part is there are no highs or lows. You can maintain sugar levels as normal people, and that means no deterioration of organs. Last I read, it's still in the experimental stages, but the people they performed the surgery on are all reporting positive results.

 

[BlueGin]

If Americans want healthy children throw the damn play stations out and replace them with
Mitts and base balls
Footballs
Basketballs
Soccer balls
Volley balls
Frisbies
Golf
Karatee
Track
Swimming

Ya got fat kids because they don't move their ass!

Plus they don't walk to and from school anymore (god forbid). Mommy drives them from day one all the way through high school. Lazy little suckers.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

If Americans want healthy children throw the damn play stations out and replace them with
Mitts and base balls
Footballs
Basketballs
Soccer balls
Volley balls
Frisbies
Golf
Karatee
Track
Swimming

Ya got fat kids because they don't move their ass!

Plus they don't walk to and from school anymore (god forbid). Mommy drives them from day one all the way through high school. Lazy little suckers.

I get stuck behind those school busses from time to time. The bus would drop off a child, start moving again, and drop off another child five houses down. I've been behind busses that did this for a two mile stretch.

Now I can understand this when the weather is bad and it's snowing, but they do this all the time. It backs up traffic on two lane roads, makes you late when you need to be somewhere, and of course, the kids get zero exercise.

I don't understand why they don't drop off a group of kids that live in the area, and let them walk the rest of the way home.

 

[BlueGin]

You gotta look at the bright side, as Darkfury suggests and medical health proves, fat people die sooner and fat republicans don't need healthy food. Trump's administration looks at this as a win, less social security to pay, reduces the budget. You all enjoy your fried chicken Darkfury, I hear it's great breakfast lunch dinner and snacking. Gobble up, no need to eat healthy you're a real man.

/--- no fat Democrats ever. No Siri Bobtail.

Explain Rosie O Donnell,Melissa Mcarthy,Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham then.

 

[BlueGin]

If Americans want healthy children throw the damn play stations out and replace them with
Mitts and base balls
Footballs
Basketballs
Soccer balls
Volley balls
Frisbies
Golf
Karatee
Track
Swimming

Ya got fat kids because they don't move their ass!

Plus they don't walk to and from school anymore (god forbid). Mommy drives them from day one all the way through high school. Lazy little suckers.

I get stuck behind those school busses from time to time. The bus would drop off a child, start moving again, and drop off another child five houses down. I've been behind busses that did this for a two mile stretch.

Now I can understand this when the weather is bad and it's snowing, but they do this all the time. It backs up traffic on two lane roads, makes you late when you need to be somewhere, and of course, the kids get zero exercise.

I don't understand why they don't drop off a group of kids that live in the area, and let them walk the rest of the way home.

I get stuck at a stop light right in front of one of the local high schools every morning because the parents block the intersections taking the poopsies to school because the kids are too lazy to a) walk across the street and b) their parents are too good to stop at the light instead of pulling out into the intersection....God forbid they have to wait though an extra light.

 

[BlueGin]

you know when I was a kid I ate bologna on Wonder bread, chips, whole milk, a banana or apple and a couple Oreo cookies every day for school lunch and most kids had some semblance of the same and none of us were fat

We ate Frosted Flakes and Apple Jacks for breakfast with whole milk or even half and half, drank cherry Kool aid and none of us were fat

so tell me what's changed that so many kids are fat these days

and FYI it ain't what they eat for lunch

kids are fat because there is LOTS MORE REALLY DELIGHTFUL
food------all over the place at all times ------FOOD COURTS IN MALLS---
FOOD TRUCKS ------all kinds of food advertisements ----we live in a
FOOD CULTURE-----I watch cooking shows incessantly-----no one got
fat on JULIA CHILD recipes-------no one could reproduce them. Used
to be a big celebration or a LONG sporting event was accompanied by
a three ounce box of cracker jacks------now the snack counter serves
up foot long sausage sandwiches. I used to swim ALL DAY on the strength
of one bag of salty popcorn --two cents. No butter--that was three cents extra

so tell me what 10 year old can get himself to the mall and has unlimited funds to eat at all those places?

and just because things are offered does not mean people have to eat them right?

you have not been around-------lately ----going to the mall and hitting the
"FOOD COURT" is what people do------including mothers pushing
a stroller and schlepping a few kids. Adolescents meet their friends
there-------money in the pocket is a given-------along with cell phones and
electronic devices. --------ten year olds are there with mom-----

I have a feeling that more people don't go to malls than do

Not to mention the food court and fast food have been around for a good 30 years or more.

 

[BlueGin]

This adminstration just doesn't stop, nor does it care. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in this country. Parents should teach their kids good healthy eating habits, but it should also be reinforced in our public schools.

WASHINGTON – After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million children.

Speaking at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday with Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Patricia Montague of the School Nutrition Association, Perdue announced that his department would be slowing the implementation of aggressive standards on sodium, whole grains and sweetened milks that passed under the Obama administration.

“We know meals cannot be nutritious if they’re not consumed, if they’re thrown out,” Perdue told reporters after eating chicken nuggets and salad with a group of fifth graders. “We have to balance sodium and whole grain content with palatability.”

It was the second blow to the Obama administration’s nutritional legacy in less than a week. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration signaled its intent to rewrite long-delayed menu-labeling rules passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee also attached several nutrition-related riders to this week’s appropriations bill, including one that targeted voluntary industry sodium-reductions.

“I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher who helped advise Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. “This progress has contributed to reversing the trend in childhood obesity rates nationwide . . . We want to continue the progress we have made.”

School lunches have seen a radical makeover in the past five years. Since 2012, when the nutrition rules mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect, cafeterias have had to slash the amount of calories, trans-fats, sodium and refined grains in their foods, replacing cafeteria staples like conventional pizza with salt-reduced, whole-grain versions. They are also required to serve fruit, a variety of vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free milk.
Trump ends Michelle Obama’s plan to fight childhood obesity – The Denver Post

Here is what the next generation of kindergardners will look like.

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

 

[oreo]

This adminstration just doesn't stop, nor does it care. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in this country. Parents should teach their kids good healthy eating habits, but it should also be reinforced in our public schools.

WASHINGTON – After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million children.

Speaking at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday with Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Patricia Montague of the School Nutrition Association, Perdue announced that his department would be slowing the implementation of aggressive standards on sodium, whole grains and sweetened milks that passed under the Obama administration.

“We know meals cannot be nutritious if they’re not consumed, if they’re thrown out,” Perdue told reporters after eating chicken nuggets and salad with a group of fifth graders. “We have to balance sodium and whole grain content with palatability.”

It was the second blow to the Obama administration’s nutritional legacy in less than a week. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration signaled its intent to rewrite long-delayed menu-labeling rules passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee also attached several nutrition-related riders to this week’s appropriations bill, including one that targeted voluntary industry sodium-reductions.

“I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher who helped advise Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. “This progress has contributed to reversing the trend in childhood obesity rates nationwide . . . We want to continue the progress we have made.”

School lunches have seen a radical makeover in the past five years. Since 2012, when the nutrition rules mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect, cafeterias have had to slash the amount of calories, trans-fats, sodium and refined grains in their foods, replacing cafeteria staples like conventional pizza with salt-reduced, whole-grain versions. They are also required to serve fruit, a variety of vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free milk.
Trump ends Michelle Obama’s plan to fight childhood obesity – The Denver Post

Here is what the next generation of kindergardners will look like.

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

Coming from a Reich winger that doesn't have any reading comprehension skills, much less the attention span of gnat--your comment is of no surprise.

 

[BlueGin]

This adminstration just doesn't stop, nor does it care. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in this country. Parents should teach their kids good healthy eating habits, but it should also be reinforced in our public schools.

WASHINGTON – After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million children.

Speaking at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday with Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Patricia Montague of the School Nutrition Association, Perdue announced that his department would be slowing the implementation of aggressive standards on sodium, whole grains and sweetened milks that passed under the Obama administration.

“We know meals cannot be nutritious if they’re not consumed, if they’re thrown out,” Perdue told reporters after eating chicken nuggets and salad with a group of fifth graders. “We have to balance sodium and whole grain content with palatability.”

It was the second blow to the Obama administration’s nutritional legacy in less than a week. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration signaled its intent to rewrite long-delayed menu-labeling rules passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee also attached several nutrition-related riders to this week’s appropriations bill, including one that targeted voluntary industry sodium-reductions.

“I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher who helped advise Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. “This progress has contributed to reversing the trend in childhood obesity rates nationwide . . . We want to continue the progress we have made.”

School lunches have seen a radical makeover in the past five years. Since 2012, when the nutrition rules mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect, cafeterias have had to slash the amount of calories, trans-fats, sodium and refined grains in their foods, replacing cafeteria staples like conventional pizza with salt-reduced, whole-grain versions. They are also required to serve fruit, a variety of vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free milk.
Trump ends Michelle Obama’s plan to fight childhood obesity – The Denver Post

Here is what the next generation of kindergardners will look like.

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

Coming from a Reich winger that doesn't have any reading comprehension skills, much less the attention span of gnat--your comment is of no surprise.

Neither are your cut and paste word walls of liberal propaganda.

 

[Markle]

Kids always ate crap. I did when I was a kid. But why obesity today that we didn't have years ago? Because we didn't text our friends, we went over their house. We didn't have group chat, we rode our bikes to the school and had personal chats. We didn't have video games, we played baseball, basketball, and again, you had to walk, run or ride your bike to the places where you enjoyed those games.

True, there is a lot more consumption of fast food these days with both parents working, but the larger problem of obesity is exercise. When I was in school, I had to walk a few miles to catch the bus. More and more, school busses drive right up to the door to pick your kid up and drop them off at the end of the day.

So true! We were walking, riding a bike or playing outside four or five hours a day. I'd have a big dinner and before bed, I'd have a pint of ice cream with a package of frozen strawberries. We had recess during the school day along with PE.

 

[oreo]

This adminstration just doesn't stop, nor does it care. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in this country. Parents should teach their kids good healthy eating habits, but it should also be reinforced in our public schools.

WASHINGTON – After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million children.

Speaking at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday with Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Patricia Montague of the School Nutrition Association, Perdue announced that his department would be slowing the implementation of aggressive standards on sodium, whole grains and sweetened milks that passed under the Obama administration.

“We know meals cannot be nutritious if they’re not consumed, if they’re thrown out,” Perdue told reporters after eating chicken nuggets and salad with a group of fifth graders. “We have to balance sodium and whole grain content with palatability.”

It was the second blow to the Obama administration’s nutritional legacy in less than a week. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration signaled its intent to rewrite long-delayed menu-labeling rules passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee also attached several nutrition-related riders to this week’s appropriations bill, including one that targeted voluntary industry sodium-reductions.

“I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher who helped advise Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. “This progress has contributed to reversing the trend in childhood obesity rates nationwide . . . We want to continue the progress we have made.”

School lunches have seen a radical makeover in the past five years. Since 2012, when the nutrition rules mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect, cafeterias have had to slash the amount of calories, trans-fats, sodium and refined grains in their foods, replacing cafeteria staples like conventional pizza with salt-reduced, whole-grain versions. They are also required to serve fruit, a variety of vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free milk.
Trump ends Michelle Obama’s plan to fight childhood obesity – The Denver Post

Here is what the next generation of kindergardners will look like.

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

Coming from a Reich winger that doesn't have any reading comprehension skills, much less the attention span of gnat--your comment is of no surprise.

Neither are your cut and paste word walls of liberal propaganda.

There is nothing cut and paste about it dumbass--if you would scroll back up this page and look at comments--you might actually learn something today.

 

[BlueGin]

This adminstration just doesn't stop, nor does it care. Childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in this country. Parents should teach their kids good healthy eating habits, but it should also be reinforced in our public schools.

WASHINGTON – After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million children.

Speaking at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg, Virginia, on Monday with Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Patricia Montague of the School Nutrition Association, Perdue announced that his department would be slowing the implementation of aggressive standards on sodium, whole grains and sweetened milks that passed under the Obama administration.

“We know meals cannot be nutritious if they’re not consumed, if they’re thrown out,” Perdue told reporters after eating chicken nuggets and salad with a group of fifth graders. “We have to balance sodium and whole grain content with palatability.”

It was the second blow to the Obama administration’s nutritional legacy in less than a week. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration signaled its intent to rewrite long-delayed menu-labeling rules passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee also attached several nutrition-related riders to this week’s appropriations bill, including one that targeted voluntary industry sodium-reductions.

“I feel that we have made such progress in schools meals over the past five years,” said Miriam Nelson, a public health researcher who helped advise Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiatives. “This progress has contributed to reversing the trend in childhood obesity rates nationwide . . . We want to continue the progress we have made.”

School lunches have seen a radical makeover in the past five years. Since 2012, when the nutrition rules mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act went into effect, cafeterias have had to slash the amount of calories, trans-fats, sodium and refined grains in their foods, replacing cafeteria staples like conventional pizza with salt-reduced, whole-grain versions. They are also required to serve fruit, a variety of vegetables, and low-fat or fat-free milk.
Trump ends Michelle Obama’s plan to fight childhood obesity – The Denver Post

Here is what the next generation of kindergardners will look like.

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

Coming from a Reich winger that doesn't have any reading comprehension skills, much less the attention span of gnat--your comment is of no surprise.

Neither are your cut and paste word walls of liberal propaganda.

There is nothing cut and paste about it dumbass--if you would scroll back up this page and look at comments--you might actually learn something today.

I did. Michelle Obama's food program wasted tax payers money on non edible bilge that she was trying to force down the throats of poor children. And the Libs expect the poor kids to be thankful for the slop.

 

[oreo]

Yea, let's have everyone starve at school, because some parents choose to make their children as fat as possible. Obviously the school lunch is the issue here.

One more sore loser policy defeated, go Trump!

Well yeah...that way the libtards can whine that the children are "starving" and demand more SNAP money.

Coming from a Reich winger that doesn't have any reading comprehension skills, much less the attention span of gnat--your comment is of no surprise.

Neither are your cut and paste word walls of liberal propaganda.

There is nothing cut and paste about it dumbass--if you would scroll back up this page and look at comments--you might actually learn something today.

I did. Michelle Obama's food program wasted tax payers money on non edible bilge that she was trying to force down the throats of poor children. And the Libs expect the poor kids to be thankful for the slop.

You clearly do not understand nutrition. Feeding kids white processed food, such as pizza dough--that they get everyday--will shoot their insulin levels through the roof, and 30 minutes later they'll be fatigued and hungry again. As white processed foods turn into sugar in their bodies and is stored in the fat cells, making them fat.

It doesn't cost any more to use whole grains than white processed food. This Republican Senator from Kansas, who is now head of the agriculture department is much more concerned (as stated in the article) about lunch room profits than he is the kids health.

There are lots of ways to make foods healtier and taste good at the same time without trashing a bill that was actually working to reduce childhood obesity rates in this country.

This is what you can expect from the new generation if attitudes don't change. The below chart is today's stats--imagine what they're going to be in another 18 years.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Kids always ate crap. I did when I was a kid. But why obesity today that we didn't have years ago? Because we didn't text our friends, we went over their house. We didn't have group chat, we rode our bikes to the school and had personal chats. We didn't have video games, we played baseball, basketball, and again, you had to walk, run or ride your bike to the places where you enjoyed those games.

True, there is a lot more consumption of fast food these days with both parents working, but the larger problem of obesity is exercise. When I was in school, I had to walk a few miles to catch the bus. More and more, school busses drive right up to the door to pick your kid up and drop them off at the end of the day.

So true! We were walking, riding a bike or playing outside four or five hours a day. I'd have a big dinner and before bed, I'd have a pint of ice cream with a package of frozen strawberries. We had recess during the school day along with PE.

In the summer time, the only time you spent at home was lunch and dinner. The rest of the time you were out with neighbors and friends playing physical games. In fact, mom had to threaten you to get back in the house come sundown. You didn't want to stop.

Today, a professional baseball player can't understand what's going on in the dugout unless he's fluent in Spanish. It's not an invasion, but our American kids were not raised playing baseball to realize their talents. They played baseball on their video games.

If there is one way I was blessed from God, it's being on earth now to see technology and all it's benefits. However, it's unfortunate to see all it's disadvantages at the same time. Kids don't have to be forced to eat lettuce and broccoli, they need to get outside and burn off more calories than they take in like we used to do.

 

[oreo]

Kids always ate crap. I did when I was a kid. But why obesity today that we didn't have years ago? Because we didn't text our friends, we went over their house. We didn't have group chat, we rode our bikes to the school and had personal chats. We didn't have video games, we played baseball, basketball, and again, you had to walk, run or ride your bike to the places where you enjoyed those games.

True, there is a lot more consumption of fast food these days with both parents working, but the larger problem of obesity is exercise. When I was in school, I had to walk a few miles to catch the bus. More and more, school busses drive right up to the door to pick your kid up and drop them off at the end of the day.

So true! We were walking, riding a bike or playing outside four or five hours a day. I'd have a big dinner and before bed, I'd have a pint of ice cream with a package of frozen strawberries. We had recess during the school day along with PE.

In the summer time, the only time you spent at home was lunch and dinner. The rest of the time you were out with neighbors and friends playing physical games. In fact, mom had to threaten you to get back in the house come sundown. You didn't want to stop.

Today, a professional baseball player can't understand what's going on in the dugout unless he's fluent in Spanish. It's not an invasion, but our American kids were not raised playing baseball to realize their talents. They played baseball on their video games.

If there is one way I was blessed from God, it's being on earth now to see technology and all it's benefits. However, it's unfortunate to see all it's disadvantages at the same time. Kids don't have to be forced to eat lettuce and broccoli, they need to get outside and burn off more calories than they take in like we used to do.

I agree I grew up in the 50's myself. You're entertainment was playing outside. Kids need a lot more exercise than they're getting today. No one is arguing that and Michelle Obama was also promoting more exercise. But we also didn't eat pizza for lunch everyday. Mom cooked, there was no such thing as fast food.

Times have changed and we have to adjust to these times. We need to make certain that kids are getting an education on which foods are heatlhy and which ones are nothing more than empty calories. And actually change school menu's to where they can eat what they're learning.

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing disease in this country today, especially with adults, and now we're seeing it in kids & teens. Ignoring this health crisis is not a solution. The new agriculture Secretary from Kansas is not addressing this issue--he is adding to the problem. As stated in the article he is much more concerned with lunch room profits. They'll make a lot more money if they just give kids donuts, cakes and candy for lunch. The body reaction to white processed foods is exactly the same.

"In type 2 diabetes, once known as "adult-onset" diabetes, the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or doesn't make enough insulin, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Doctors have made major progress in treating type 1 diabetes and preventing complications, Ludwig says. But children who develop type 2 diabetes face serious risks, which are compounded by the fact that most are already obese. Together, obesity and diabetes increase their lifetime risk of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and amputations.

Diabetes affects 25.8 million people of all ages in the USA, or about 8.3% of the population, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health."
Diabetes rates skyrocket in kids and teens

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Kids always ate crap. I did when I was a kid. But why obesity today that we didn't have years ago? Because we didn't text our friends, we went over their house. We didn't have group chat, we rode our bikes to the school and had personal chats. We didn't have video games, we played baseball, basketball, and again, you had to walk, run or ride your bike to the places where you enjoyed those games.

True, there is a lot more consumption of fast food these days with both parents working, but the larger problem of obesity is exercise. When I was in school, I had to walk a few miles to catch the bus. More and more, school busses drive right up to the door to pick your kid up and drop them off at the end of the day.

So true! We were walking, riding a bike or playing outside four or five hours a day. I'd have a big dinner and before bed, I'd have a pint of ice cream with a package of frozen strawberries. We had recess during the school day along with PE.

In the summer time, the only time you spent at home was lunch and dinner. The rest of the time you were out with neighbors and friends playing physical games. In fact, mom had to threaten you to get back in the house come sundown. You didn't want to stop.

Today, a professional baseball player can't understand what's going on in the dugout unless he's fluent in Spanish. It's not an invasion, but our American kids were not raised playing baseball to realize their talents. They played baseball on their video games.

If there is one way I was blessed from God, it's being on earth now to see technology and all it's benefits. However, it's unfortunate to see all it's disadvantages at the same time. Kids don't have to be forced to eat lettuce and broccoli, they need to get outside and burn off more calories than they take in like we used to do.

I agree I grew up in the 50's myself. You're entertainment was playing outside. Kids need a lot more exercise than they're getting today. No one is arguing that and Michelle Obama was also promoting that. But we also didn't eat pizza for lunch everyday. Mom cooked, there was no such thing as fast food.

Times have changed and we have to adjust to these times. We need to make certain that kids are getting an education on which foods are heatlhy and which ones are nothing more than empty calories. And actually change school menu's to where they can eat what they're learning.

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing disease in this country today, especially with adults, and now we're seeing it in kids & teens. Ignoring this health crisis is not a solution. The new agriculture Secretary from Kansas is not addressing this issue--he is adding to problem. As stated in the article he is much more concerned with lunch room profits. They'll make a lot more money if they just give them donuts, cakes and candy for lunch. The body reaction to white processed foods is exactly the same.

"In type 2 diabetes, once known as "adult-onset" diabetes, the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or doesn't make enough insulin, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Doctors have made major progress in treating type 1 diabetes and preventing complications, Ludwig says. But children who develop type 2 diabetes face serious risks, which are compounded by the fact that most are already obese. Together, obesity and diabetes increase their lifetime risk of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and amputations.

Diabetes affects 25.8 million people of all ages in the USA, or about 8.3% of the population, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health."
Diabetes rates skyrocket in kids and teens

If you read the ongoing discussions, you'd realize that diabetes is not directly related to what you eat.

I was raised on home cooked food. Fast food was a treat we had once or twice a year. when I turned 25, I became a victim of diabetes.

You can have sugar problems because of obesity, pregnancy, or age, but that's different than your pancreas breaking down. Food doesn't cause that; at least that we know of.

Kids being forced to eat what they have no desire to eat only amplifies the problem. They will carry candy bars for lunch instead of salads. They will wait until the end of the day to hit McDonald's on the way home with friends. Believe it or not, you can't force people into eating what they don't want to eat.

What kind of food one eats is less the problem than exercise. I'm a landlord and I've seen this first hand. When the weather turns nice in spring, my younger tenants stay inside. They don't open up the windows. They don't go outside to interact with neighbors or my other tenants. Their entertainment is entirely within their four walls.

My older tenants are much different. We gather outside to BS or just enjoy the weather. We wash or vacuum out our cars. My tenants with pets bring them outside and walk them around. Our windows are open and we spend much of our day outside. My younger tenants? The only time you see them is when they walk from their apartment to their cars.

We don't have a food problem--we have an exercise problem.

 

[Cellblock2429]

you know when I was a kid I ate bologna on Wonder bread, chips, whole milk, a banana or apple and a couple Oreo cookies every day for school lunch and most kids had some semblance of the same and none of us were fat

We ate Frosted Flakes and Apple Jacks for breakfast with whole milk or even half and half, drank cherry Kool aid and none of us were fat

so tell me what's changed that so many kids are fat these days

and FYI it ain't what they eat for lunch

kids are fat because there is LOTS MORE REALLY DELIGHTFUL
food------all over the place at all times ------FOOD COURTS IN MALLS---
FOOD TRUCKS ------all kinds of food advertisements ----we live in a
FOOD CULTURE-----I watch cooking shows incessantly-----no one got
fat on JULIA CHILD recipes-------no one could reproduce them. Used
to be a big celebration or a LONG sporting event was accompanied by
a three ounce box of cracker jacks------now the snack counter serves
up foot long sausage sandwiches. I used to swim ALL DAY on the strength
of one bag of salty popcorn --two cents. No butter--that was three cents extra

so tell me what 10 year old can get himself to the mall and has unlimited funds to eat at all those places?

and just because things are offered does not mean people have to eat them right?

/----- Whoah there Cowboy. You mean personal responsibility is a factor in childhood obesity?

 

[oreo]

Kids always ate crap. I did when I was a kid. But why obesity today that we didn't have years ago? Because we didn't text our friends, we went over their house. We didn't have group chat, we rode our bikes to the school and had personal chats. We didn't have video games, we played baseball, basketball, and again, you had to walk, run or ride your bike to the places where you enjoyed those games.

True, there is a lot more consumption of fast food these days with both parents working, but the larger problem of obesity is exercise. When I was in school, I had to walk a few miles to catch the bus. More and more, school busses drive right up to the door to pick your kid up and drop them off at the end of the day.

So true! We were walking, riding a bike or playing outside four or five hours a day. I'd have a big dinner and before bed, I'd have a pint of ice cream with a package of frozen strawberries. We had recess during the school day along with PE.

In the summer time, the only time you spent at home was lunch and dinner. The rest of the time you were out with neighbors and friends playing physical games. In fact, mom had to threaten you to get back in the house come sundown. You didn't want to stop.

Today, a professional baseball player can't understand what's going on in the dugout unless he's fluent in Spanish. It's not an invasion, but our American kids were not raised playing baseball to realize their talents. They played baseball on their video games.

If there is one way I was blessed from God, it's being on earth now to see technology and all it's benefits. However, it's unfortunate to see all it's disadvantages at the same time. Kids don't have to be forced to eat lettuce and broccoli, they need to get outside and burn off more calories than they take in like we used to do.

I agree I grew up in the 50's myself. You're entertainment was playing outside. Kids need a lot more exercise than they're getting today. No one is arguing that and Michelle Obama was also promoting that. But we also didn't eat pizza for lunch everyday. Mom cooked, there was no such thing as fast food.

Times have changed and we have to adjust to these times. We need to make certain that kids are getting an education on which foods are heatlhy and which ones are nothing more than empty calories. And actually change school menu's to where they can eat what they're learning.

Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing disease in this country today, especially with adults, and now we're seeing it in kids & teens. Ignoring this health crisis is not a solution. The new agriculture Secretary from Kansas is not addressing this issue--he is adding to problem. As stated in the article he is much more concerned with lunch room profits. They'll make a lot more money if they just give them donuts, cakes and candy for lunch. The body reaction to white processed foods is exactly the same.

"In type 2 diabetes, once known as "adult-onset" diabetes, the body becomes resistant to the effects of insulin or doesn't make enough insulin, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Doctors have made major progress in treating type 1 diabetes and preventing complications, Ludwig says. But children who develop type 2 diabetes face serious risks, which are compounded by the fact that most are already obese. Together, obesity and diabetes increase their lifetime risk of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and amputations.

Diabetes affects 25.8 million people of all ages in the USA, or about 8.3% of the population, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health."
Diabetes rates skyrocket in kids and teens

If you read the ongoing discussions, you'd realize that diabetes is not directly related to what you eat.

I was raised on home cooked food. Fast food was a treat we had once or twice a year. when I turned 25, I became a victim of diabetes.

You can have sugar problems because of obesity, pregnancy, or age, but that's different than your pancreas breaking down. Food doesn't cause that; at least that we know of.

Kids being forced to eat what they have no desire to eat only amplifies the problem. They will carry candy bars for lunch instead of salads. They will wait until the end of the day to hit McDonald's on the way home with friends. Believe it or not, you can't force people into eating what they don't want to eat.

What kind of food one eats is less the problem than exercise. I'm a landlord and I've seen this first hand. When the weather turns nice in spring, my younger tenants stay inside. They don't open up the windows. They don't go outside to interact with neighbors or my other tenants. Their entertainment is entirely within their four walls.

My older tenants are much different. We gather outside to BS or just enjoy the weather. We wash or vacuum out our cars. My tenants with pets bring them outside and walk them around. Our windows are open and we spend much of our day outside. My younger tenants? The only time you see them is when they walk from their apartment to their cars.

We don't have a food problem--we have an exercise problem.

Type 2 diabetes is DIRECTLY related to obesity. Type 1 diabetes is not. Read the article.
Diabetes rates skyrocket in kids and teens

You do not need to exercise to maintain your weight, or even lose weight. 97% of your weight is related to what you're putting in your mouth. Albeit--that exercise is great, and kids need a lot more than what they're getting today. If you really remember the 1950's adults did not exercise--yet they were thin.

An average 10 year old today is 10-15 pounds heavier than a 10 year old coming out of the 1950's. Which means when they're 20--they're going to be 20-25 pounds heavier that their counterpart from the 1950's, when they're 30 they're going to be 40 -45 pounds heavier than their counterpart in the 1950's etc. etc. etc.

Type 2 diabetes is directly related to blood insulin levels, aka sugar. You get a short burst of energy--then you're fatigued and hungry again--and then you will overeat to satitate the hunger you got from the sugar. A simple can of Coke is 8 teaspoons of sugar, and large Coke at McDonalds is a whopping 33 teaspoons of sugar. Drink one, and it won't be long before you're ordering 2 double bacon cheeseburgers to feed the sugar you just drank. Sugar is stored in our fat cells.

Back in the 1950's you didn't have bakery's in the stores--if you wanted cake you waited until the next birthday party and or you had to make your own. We didn't have all these sugary choices and white processed foods available to us at our fingertips.

It's very simple: What's is going to keep you fuller with longer lasting energy? An 8 oz. top sirloin steak or 8 oz's of sugar.

Michelle Obama was trying to change school menu's to more protein as is found in the steak, and less sugary white processed foods, by substituting the white processed with whole grains and more vegetables. There is nothing wrong with that, and it was a great idea that is now gone--because we have a Senator from Kansas, aka the agriculture secretary that is more concerned about lunch room profits.