My generation, the Millennium Generation, is the first generation expected to have a shorter life-span than our parents, due to obesity. Statistics show that one in three children born in the US after the year 2000 will develop early onset diabetes. For children from ethnic minority groups, the ratio rises to one in two.
I don't think parents realize what exactly they are feeding their children, but this show will show parents, exactly what they are feeding their children.
Would you ever hand a child a cigarette? I think that is what we are doing to the children in this country. The food we feed children is killing them and causing them to live shorter lives. We continue to do it and our schools continue to do it because its cheaper and faster to feed them these unhealthy, chemical filled processed foods.
The schools have a budget on how much they spend on food, and they say it is to expensive to give students fresh, healthy food. Our government came up with a healthcare reform bill that will be funded by tax payers dollars. Maybe, we wouldn't need this if the tax dollars went towards feeding children in schools a REAL nutritional meal, instead of processed food that is causing obesity in children.
In this country, we fix things by adding something instead of going back and changing what needs to be fixed. We just add, add, and add more to cover up what is being broke.
We will feed our children this food, and they will get diabetes. So, we will make doctors appointments and insulin available to them by making this healthcare reform. To me that just doesn't make any sense.
Another example. The beef industry.
We are going to put cows on these HUGE feed lots and they will be packed in like sardines so that they can't move because it will cause them get fat faster. This will be cheaper creating more profit. They will be standing in their own manure and this will cause ecoli to be in the meat, but that's OK. We will just come up with a filler product, which is the meat normally not used, that is then put through a process of being soaked in ammonia to mix in with the meat that will kill enough of the ecoli that people won't get sick from it.
Jamie Oliver said it all in the show when he said, "Welcome to America."
I think it is time everyone wakes up and realizes that to eat healthy doesn't mean we need to eat a salad 24/7.
Please watch the show it is a GREAT show, I promise.
Leave me comments on what you think about it.
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