Banning sugary or unhealthy foods for children?
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Re: Banning sugary or unhealthy foods for children?
I've heard about and seen some community gardens, but I always think that there's no way they can provide equally for an entire community. Also, I can imagine people trashing the gardens if they aren't secured at night... There's just an endless cycle of problems, isn't there?afrakes wrote: katiesquilts - you raise an interesting point. Areas where people can't buy proper, nutritious foods are called "food deserts," and they're a very real problem! However, instead of accepting it as is, I have seen and read about communities implementing community food gardens. Through grants, communities can plant enough fruits and vegetables to feed their families for months and, with a little hard work, years. This goes back to the old saying, "Catch a fish for a man and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat all his life." It's a great skill for children, and a great opportunity to provide growing bodies with the proper fuel.
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Yes, there are always inevitable stumbling blocks, but I think it's a step in the right direction. In my experience, community gardens have given many neighborhoods a sense of accomplishment and pride in their work, and little "trashing" has occurred. While trashing will probably inevitably occur, it's not to say convenience stores don't get robbed too! There's sadly no perfect solution.katiesquilts wrote:I've heard about and seen some community gardens, but I always think that there's no way they can provide equally for an entire community. Also, I can imagine people trashing the gardens if they aren't secured at night... There's just an endless cycle of problems, isn't there?afrakes wrote: katiesquilts - you raise an interesting point. Areas where people can't buy proper, nutritious foods are called "food deserts," and they're a very real problem! However, instead of accepting it as is, I have seen and read about communities implementing community food gardens. Through grants, communities can plant enough fruits and vegetables to feed their families for months and, with a little hard work, years. This goes back to the old saying, "Catch a fish for a man and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat all his life." It's a great skill for children, and a great opportunity to provide growing bodies with the proper fuel.
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I mean, many children love fried and sugary foods. Banning them would remove some of the 'fun' in their childhood. In many schools, lots of fried, oily and sugary food are sold and I do remember some of my friends going hyper from drinking too much sugary drinks that they bought at school. Drinking too much sugar would certainly do no good to children, but getting rid of them completely isn't a very good option as well. Keeping everything moderate is probably the best idea. (not saying that you should drink the same number of cans of soda as the amount of food you eat)
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Even though I was raised with home cooked meals nearly every night of my childhood, what little processed food I did have caused me to struggle as an adult. I had to choose not to eat those foods and educate myself on what they really did to my body (not what everyone knows they do, but what most don't know). It makes me wonder, How can a child make such healthy choices?
What are "healthy" eating choices?
I ate "healthily" for years, but I was hypoglycemic. If I didn't have something with sugar in it nearby, then I would get weak, shaky, irritable, panicky and nearly pass out. I hated my mood swings that came with my "health issue". I had to keep soda and candy bars on hand just in case I "went low". It was really messing with my life. I lived my life around my hypoglycemia. If I got upset, I would freak and rush to the nearest store for a soda. If I got overheated, soda. I was told I would have to live like this for the rest of my life, but if I didn't figure out a way to control it, it could flip and become diabetes. My sister has diabetes and it runs her life. I didn't want that, so I started researching. I found out I didn't have a "health issue", I had a sugar dependency. I switched to a fully raw diet and "cured" my "health issue". Going raw taught me a lot about my previous "healthy" eating habits. I changed my son's diet as well and was amazed at the change in his behavior. It took commitment and a lot of time but it was worth it. It also taught me that telling a child not to eat a certain way is not nearly enough. We have show them how to eat, educate them to make truly healthy choices.
They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy eating choices, advertising campaigns that are targeting them, pressuring them to eat a certain way. Instead of trusting the government to make the changes we need for a healthier future for our children and their's, we should be the ones making the changes.
Remove processed foods from our schools, educate ourselves and then our children on the dangers of eating unhealthily, and demand that certain advertising be censored.
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