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AlwaysLisa -> RE: Happy Meals under fire (6/24/2010 8:06:36 AM)
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I don't know how any of us survived. We were thrown outside at daybreak and told to be on the porch when the streetlights came on, there was no television, no computer games and fast food was a can of beans. Hard to imagine, for those younger folks, but we weren't text messaging, we were too busy riding bikes, skateboarding or using our imagination to remain amused.
We have turned into a society of "want it now" folks. Have you taken a look at the freezer section at your grocery store? I mean, cmon, you can buy frozen items that take 15 min to prepare fresh and wholesome. How lazy have we become? Those 15 min are precious, we could be spending them online, rather then sweating over a hot stove. The sodium content in those packaged, pre cooked, frozen items is staggering.
Is it any wonder the youth are geared towards fast food? Cooking with healthy ingredients takes time and some thought, why waste both when someone else has done the work for you and packaged it neatly into a plastic box? Just don't question the contents and you'll be fine.
Every few years they come out with something new to blame for obesity, while high blood pressure and diabetic rates skyrocketing upward. Lets not look at ourselves and point the finger, oh no...it's easier to blame someone else. Maybe if those extra minutes spent online were used cooking fresh veggies, there would be no need to hit the drive through window and talk into the clowns mouth.
Lets see, if I have the score correctly...it's the tabacco companies fault people have lung cancer from smoking, if the coffee is served hot (which most coffee is), and someone burns their lip from drinking it too soon, it must be the restaurants fault for having hot coffee in the first place. Now, if your kid gets fat from eating food high in sugar and salt, it must be the fault of someone else, it surely has nothing to do with the fact he sits on his butt all day and consumes mass quantities of garbage? I think I see a trend here... "Not my fault" is the key phrase.
It's ironic, that we have picked up the pace in our daily lives, always trying to shave minutes here and there, but the end result is the same. We are basically rushing through things to die. Take a breath, pick up an ear of corn fresh from the field, remove the cell phone from your kid's hand, toss him outside to play and take responsibility for what goes into his mouth. It's not rocket science.
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