Simple Change Could Reduce Obesity in U.S. by 20 Percent

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MichelleNR — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:36:46 GMT

Anyway- the point of all that.... with an poor economy, joblessness, and childhood diseases like my little one's autism taking over... preach all you want about fast food... when you are stuck between the cracks and either not able to get help or are living on food stamps in times like these.... $1 breakfast every now and then won 't hurt- and it sure beats the $4/ HALF gallon soy milk I buy specially for my son. Try having no money and having to try to afford all of these high end, high price nutritional items because there could be some small chance they could help heal your little one... your choices are live LESS and buy high end or get more for your money and eat CRAP...pastas and breads and processed low grade meats with bone chunks... parents can't win these days...

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MichelleNR — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:30:29 GMT

I think Sonagi needs to take a step back and look around. People with degrees and who are plenty competent, like myself are also floundering right now. I had a child... I was working several jobs to keep myself and our family afloat, his dad disappeared. My options were then work a million jobs while daycare raised my child or work only a 30 hour weekday job and then get a few hours from a second job on the weekend. This job allows me to put my kid on the bus and meet him at the bus after. He is only 3 yrs old. I didn't smoke, drink, do any drugs (before,during or after my pregnancy) but he has autism. I don't how tv could cause autism... but I know that the sickening reality of my overworking left him in the hands of someone who used tv as the babysitter so its very possible since it requires no interaction from them. As I was graduating with my AA and prepared to take on the possibility of a $40,000/yr job the state passed a mandate that you had to have a BA... all that school money down the drain, no job prospects and now a special needs job. These things are not happening because we are not willing and able to take care of our kids...they are happening because society now runs on a less family oriented operative... in order to get AHEAD - you have to leave your family BEHIND. I chose to make less, and I'm suffering, but I get to be the one who puts my kid in the tub- to bed, and play with him. It sucks, and in other countries they actually pay a stipend to reward stay at home moms- but in this country that would be like reinstating welfare so it will never happen- but for those of us suffering- open your eyes... some of choose to live on little to give our kids as much of ourselves as possible. I could choose to work 80 hour weeks- but I wouldn't get to see my child smile and laugh and play or help him and watch him improve with such a devastating diagnosis as autism. You have no idea what it is like to love someone so much who barely realizes what that means.

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Jimmy78 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:27:22 GMT

I don't think it's a good choice to ban these advirtisements, as much as I hate them and fast food. However, where does it go from there? What else will be banned? I think that alcohol ads should be banned before fast food.

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purchaser — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:08:34 GMT

I think the TIVO and DVDs would be an excellent investment for a kid home, along with good nutrition. There are some awesome snacks with good nutrition that you can make for kids. And I think homemade snacks can taste better than junk food. For those parents who restrict the kids TV time but the kids get it at the neighbors' homes, having some fun TV and activities and great snacks would be a way to keep your kids at home and get them to bring their friends. If nothing else, it protects your kids and the neighbor kids get exposed to other options.

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Toni Marie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:11:19 GMT

I have so many responses I want to make to this thread, but I don't have the time. I am only able to read this because my 2 year old is watching Handy Manny right now. :o) By the way, I don't think it would be prudent for me to tell him to go play outside. He's safer in the tv room, thanks.

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kurt_nielsen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:13:15 GMT

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It would be more significant if the Government bans msg as it increases their insulin by 3 times and is highly addictive. Also what's this about corn syrup? -disables an enzyme that makes us feel full? they don't want to stop it! that's the same reason why they put mercury in make up so you buy more products to fix it increasing the economy. there are only a few real businesses that everyone needs and when the population exceeds the workforce for them the gov engineers new problems to create new jobs which in the end turns more profit -the result? you get to live & have a family..Most of the answers to destroy cancer are already here DNA Healing/Repair 528hz sound frequency

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HereIsSomething — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:10:57 GMT

Another thing that would reduce obesity would be to stop water fluoridation.

Fluoride slows down your thyroid which regulates your body weight

Read about that here

www.fluoridealert.org/.../thyroid

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Bob39s Friend — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:44:27 GMT

I agree with almost everything this article had to say, but the idea of banning advertising to children or anyone else is a terrible idea! I don't know if you noticed, but we live in the United States of America! This in not Russia or Iran! We have freedom of speech in this country! That freedom of speech is what allows Mercola.com to get it's message out to people, and it protects the rights of everyone else also! I agree that the advertising targeted to children has terrible effects on their health, but in a free country the battle for the people's attention must be fought in the media and online and as a continuing campaign to make the truth known. The people who really need to know about this problem are the parents who are letting their children watch so much TV. The only way the government should be involved is to provide some funding for and rules that would require that informational messages be run on TV directed to the same viewers as the advertisements and to parents telling how much harm is being done to children by letting them watch so much TV and junk food advertising! Then, if the parents don't do their job of protecting their children, so be it!

Mercola.com is doing a wonderful job of getting vital information out to the public. So more web sites like Mercola.com focused on children and parents will be the way to beat the harmful commercial advertisers at their own game fair and square!

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Bramble.Rose — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:52:30 GMT

The body is intelligent. Just tune in. It will take what it needs and let the rest go. The food we eat will also nourish us better if we changed the way we think about our food. We are so indoctrinated by society to have beliefs about certain foods that while we are eating the so called no-no we are sending a message to our body that the food we are about to eat will make us ill or fat or whatever. In the same instance we are programmed to eat according to set times and not according to the body's desires. We are also programmed to eat everything on the plate. We are programmed to eat certain kinds of foods at different times of the day. We are even portion programmed. What a lot of mental 'control' v.s. just tuning in and trusting our bodies natural ability.

If my body wants a Mc D burger for breakfast it's going to get it. If my kids want breakfast cereal for supper that's fine. And if they don't want to eat a meal at all.. then that's fine too because they are thinking for themselves and tuning into what the body wants.

Release the need to control the body. How programmed are you?

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Debra907 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:23:52 GMT

I say we can't blame the advertising! The kids can't go buy their food! It's Mom and Dad! I find that there is a climate of FEAR in the parents today- I know a bunch of parents who won't let their kids outside to play, to hang out with the other kids, and just be kids. We didn't give our kids TV's... EVER. Not even when they were in High School. What the heck do parents put TVs in the kids' rooms for? Make the kids go out to play. When not outside, make them DO things- some hobbies, puzzles, the homework, crafts. We lived in a TINY house once, with six children, for a few years- I bought a little rebounder, the kids invented running and jumping games with it- played for hours! Yes, it can be noisy- but that is better than TV. "TV- it's the drug of the nation". Kill your TV's.

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silverlininggirl — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:00:51 GMT

Of course the fast food companies will try desperately to keep these ads on the air- almost as much as the other polluter of television breaks- pharmaceutical companies.....Without the fast food ads demanding that we begin our descent into poor health at an early age- there might not be the endless parade of drug ads to then "FIX" all the things that are wrong with us. It makes me sick and I honestly do not watch as much television as I used to (never had cable) because of all of the pharmaceutical ads. These greed mongers are all in it together.....

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flbooks7 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:14:40 GMT

The first step is giving your children healthy food to eat from the time they're babies and learning to cook it in such a way that it tastes good. And then when they're old enough to learn that there's junk out there... tell them what's wrong with it from their earliest childhood and set a good example yourself. There are a lot more productive things for your children to do than to be watching TV as well... like reading books, playing outside, and toys that encourage learning.

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organigirl — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:06:34 GMT

Ban, ban, ban, ban, ban!!! Ban smoking! Ban pit bulls! ban everything! Is this America? The land of the free??? Let's ban corn syrup! Let's ban hidden food additives! Let's ban Hydrogenated oils!!! Let's ban the stuff from being added to what we consume that people know are bad for US!!! Let' ban forced vaccinations and injecting our children with mercury, human fetal lung tissue and God only knows what else!! Why are we banning things we choose to protect us from ourselves, when the government agencies are blatantly trying to kill us by making us think what we are eating and injecting is good for us!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! Thank you.

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Yung Red612 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:34:00 GMT

i grew up mainly being fed so-called "junk fodd" ( burgers,fries, Fried chicken) and also " soul food"( fried chicken, grits, sweet potatoes, "chi'lins"-pig intestines, corn bread etc-real popular in Black households.) and was never over weight Because I excersized!! (and I grew up in the inner city and still watched qwuite a bit of TV) Although now that im in my 30s I try and watch what I eat I eat less grains pretty much and I work out and try and not eat that much sugar > me and my wife occasionally go out to eat with the kids and not 1 of my 3 kids are obese. (my wife is natuarally full-figured and my oldest daughter is kinda full-figure(she's 13), hardly obese and thats maily b-cuz her bones are big). So sometimes its your natuarally llike that its not relate to diet.

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Say No to College — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:10:44 GMT

"On their own, most parents are ill equipped to contend with the nation's largest corporations and their weapons of mass childhood seduction."

They can't TURN OFF THE TV?

Many parents tend to be TV addicts themselves and prefer the company of the TV to the company of their children. They use the TV as a babysitter and pacifer.

My friend, a single mother, does not have TV service. Her daughters watch DVDs.

Someone gave her a rabbit ears antenna and her daughter was watching Saturday morning cartoons.

The cartoon cut to a commercial...her 4 year old then cried out "I wanna watch cartoons!".

She had no concept of commercial interruptions and was very disappointed that the cartoon suddenly ended.