I'm over weight I will admit. But to say that it was fast food that made kids fat is bullshit. What makes kids fat is no longer teaching people what proper portions are to each age group.
And how much movement/exercise should a person do to burn those calories.
They need to be more on not what to eat but how to eat.
very few of which are any better and the few that are better are more expensive in either time or money or both which the average american has neither to spare.
There is plenty of time and money to say "Yeah my kid will have the happy meal 4 nuggets and 1 yogurt and 1 apple slices with white milk to drink with no sauce" instead of "yeah my kid wants the happy meal with 6 nuggets not the 4 and extra fries no yogurt or apples and coke for the drink o and 2 ranch packets."
It is about choices you can easily make. Like did you know some burger kings offer macaroni and cheese it is cheaper and healthier.
For adults try ordering a small fry or even a medium. And if dinning in order a small drink. You have a chance to refill but due to needing to get up to do it you will less likely refill it as much. A large you will feel the need to drink it all.
Simple questions can tell you better options. Wendy's you can have a baked potato I stead of fries. Some even offer a side salad. Same or less price. Pizza what you crave try ording a medium instead of a large. Or save some for later. Me and my family of 3 get KFC and it will last us 2 and half meals.
It is about choices not easy access. The fast food world maybe showing you chocolate cake but they are not force feeding you. It is your own damn fault you don't ask if you can have the bowl of fruit or even just a small piece instead of the whole cake.
That is what they people who want fast food to go away tells you. It all comes down to what you order normally to what you change it to. If you change a large fry a large coke and a big mac to a grilled chicken salad with olive oil as the dressing and a large cup of water you just picked something not only cheaper but healthier.
Like I said it isn't fast food who made kids fat is their parents not knowing how to give their kids proper portions. Little 10 yr old Timmy may be able to eat a whole large fry and large Coke AND 10 peice nuggets but he doesn't need that much food.
@mrscollector Children and uneducated adults with $10 to feed the family do not think like this. We HAVE to ask this multi-billion dollar industry to show compassion to the uneducated society and just produce some food that won't destroy people's metabolism. People don't want fast food to go away, they want responsible people making responsible decisions in creating edible and healthy food. PLEASE don't proliferate this dangerous thinking.
ALSO. ONE "grilled chicken salad" at McDonalds is $5. Know what else a family can get for that? 2 double cheeseburgers, two fries and a large coke. It's simple economics.
You know what else you can get for 5 dollars.
A full meal for 4 cooked at home.
My family of 3 lives on a budget I cook meals for 5 or 6 dollars and less. I even make a casserole that is super good healthy and cheap it comes out to 25 cents a serving.
I can MAKE 4 burgers and homemade French fries for less than 5 bucks.
If you are going to say it is McDonald's fault you have to spend 5 dollars on a salad so you rather pay that same 5 dollars and get 2 burgers 2 fries and 2 cokes than take your ass to the super market take your 5 dollars buy the Ingredients and make it your self with left overs and twice the amount of food.
But than who would you blame for making you and your family fat?
Guess it be on you than.
This whole argument is on the fact to call out a restaurant for not making food healthier is bullshit. They are not busting down your door and shoving that Mcdouble down your throat. You don't have to eat it. They do give healthier options and they do offer smaller sizes.
@mrscollector those are all examples of an ad hominem, strawman, and tu quoque fallacies.
Because you have time, transportation to grocery store, cooking knowledge, electric or gas stove, pots and pans you assume everyone else should too. You know what's on most corners by neighborhoods within easy walking distance? Fast food shops. Meaning mother's working two jobs or just not having all the privileges you have can grab a meal from KFC for their families and then go back to work.
It therefore isn't asking too much to ask McDonalds and Wendy's to make their huge network of restaurants serve real and edible food. Not shut down because people would starve! People just want to eat healthy food that they can afford. This isn't a hard concept.
Asking a fast food restaurant to change just because a group of people want something different is like going to a bakery and complaining they don't serve hot dogs.
And yet again that so called mother with 2 jobs doesn't have to buy her kid that large fry when they are just 10 yrs old. There is a reason they come in small and medium as well. Fast food is not a place you are supposed to eat everyday. It is at the least once to maybe twice a week treat.
If you are working 2 jobs and think your time and money is better spent grabbing fast food for every meal than no wonder you are at 2 jobs. One is for paying for fast food while the other pays the rest of the bills.
It will ALWAYS come down to the facts. It is NOT fast food fault you and your kid is fat it is YOUR FAULT AND YOURS ALONE!
Allowing people to put the blame on other things and not them self is like letting a crack head blame the drug dealer for him being a crack head. The crack was so cheap and it was cheaper than food. It is the crack dealers fault for not selling me better options. How was I supposed to know it make me sick?
Once you realize the real reason you are fat you can fix your problem. My husband's problem was he never ate proper portions. Mine is lack of exercise. But you know what we don't do. We don't hand our kid endless happymeals and watch her balloon up like violet than tell her McDonald's did that to you mama and daddy didn't it was the bad clown.
Pedophilia happens when you're naked. Organ surgery happens when you're naked. It's easier to see fat on a naked person.
Likewise, clothing helps set the scene for the Syrian girl, the school girl playing in the street that was hit by a stray bullet and little Thai sex slaves posing at amusement parks with people that look like their dad.
And how much movement/exercise should a person do to burn those calories.
They need to be more on not what to eat but how to eat.
It is about choices you can easily make. Like did you know some burger kings offer macaroni and cheese it is cheaper and healthier.
For adults try ordering a small fry or even a medium. And if dinning in order a small drink. You have a chance to refill but due to needing to get up to do it you will less likely refill it as much. A large you will feel the need to drink it all.
Simple questions can tell you better options. Wendy's you can have a baked potato I stead of fries. Some even offer a side salad. Same or less price. Pizza what you crave try ording a medium instead of a large. Or save some for later. Me and my family of 3 get KFC and it will last us 2 and half meals.
Like I said it isn't fast food who made kids fat is their parents not knowing how to give their kids proper portions. Little 10 yr old Timmy may be able to eat a whole large fry and large Coke AND 10 peice nuggets but he doesn't need that much food.
A full meal for 4 cooked at home.
My family of 3 lives on a budget I cook meals for 5 or 6 dollars and less. I even make a casserole that is super good healthy and cheap it comes out to 25 cents a serving.
I can MAKE 4 burgers and homemade French fries for less than 5 bucks.
If you are going to say it is McDonald's fault you have to spend 5 dollars on a salad so you rather pay that same 5 dollars and get 2 burgers 2 fries and 2 cokes than take your ass to the super market take your 5 dollars buy the Ingredients and make it your self with left overs and twice the amount of food.
But than who would you blame for making you and your family fat?
Guess it be on you than.
This whole argument is on the fact to call out a restaurant for not making food healthier is bullshit. They are not busting down your door and shoving that Mcdouble down your throat. You don't have to eat it. They do give healthier options and they do offer smaller sizes.
Because you have time, transportation to grocery store, cooking knowledge, electric or gas stove, pots and pans you assume everyone else should too. You know what's on most corners by neighborhoods within easy walking distance? Fast food shops. Meaning mother's working two jobs or just not having all the privileges you have can grab a meal from KFC for their families and then go back to work.
It therefore isn't asking too much to ask McDonalds and Wendy's to make their huge network of restaurants serve real and edible food. Not shut down because people would starve! People just want to eat healthy food that they can afford. This isn't a hard concept.
And yet again that so called mother with 2 jobs doesn't have to buy her kid that large fry when they are just 10 yrs old. There is a reason they come in small and medium as well. Fast food is not a place you are supposed to eat everyday. It is at the least once to maybe twice a week treat.
If you are working 2 jobs and think your time and money is better spent grabbing fast food for every meal than no wonder you are at 2 jobs. One is for paying for fast food while the other pays the rest of the bills.
It will ALWAYS come down to the facts. It is NOT fast food fault you and your kid is fat it is YOUR FAULT AND YOURS ALONE!
Once you realize the real reason you are fat you can fix your problem. My husband's problem was he never ate proper portions. Mine is lack of exercise. But you know what we don't do. We don't hand our kid endless happymeals and watch her balloon up like violet than tell her McDonald's did that to you mama and daddy didn't it was the bad clown.
Likewise, clothing helps set the scene for the Syrian girl, the school girl playing in the street that was hit by a stray bullet and little Thai sex slaves posing at amusement parks with people that look like their dad.