OT-You know why so many people are out of shape and overweight? I blame the schools.

[Journeyman]

For the life of me I cannot figure out why educating children on how to eat right, isn't one of the MOST important school subjects ...

Its no wonder 75% of population has a weight problem.

90% of us eat poorly atleast half the time (mysef included).

Why doesn't the school curriculum include a class EVERY year in health and eating?

Math
English
Science
Social Studies
Gym
Art
Music


Where the hell is eating on the list? We all need to eat above everything else.

This should be the #1 subject annually from 6th grade to 12th grade!

I guarantee you if we all had 6 years of learning how to eat and what foods do what to us, a very good percentage of the overweight and undernourished would be much much better off.

I will be the first to admit I will eat just about anything I see....I don't have a weight problem but certainly would have wished to have been educated on what exactly some of this crap I eat could be doing to me.

End of rant.:thumbsup2:

 

[Boxslayer]

1. McDonalds and all of that shit is on every street corner. Its everywhere.

2. They are now the only places open lat at night. Try getting a fresh chicken breast and a banana at 3am.

3. When you go to the supermarkets, the cookies and potato chips are always 2 for 1. Cheez it's. 2 for 1. Oreos 2 for 1. Specials on Coke. 2 for 1.

4. The shitty food is cheapest. 6 bucks can feed your whole family at mickey d's. Never gonna get a good fresh meal paying that though.

5. No education in schools. Plus, they put little debbies out for these kids and everything. WHen i was young, i never liked the cafeteria food. So i would get a bag of chips, a swiss cake roll and a choclate chip cookie ice cream sandwich. Good thing for me, my metabolism was sweet back then. Then people think they can get away with that forever.

6. Laziness. There are no drive thru helath places. Everything is time in america. Information now. Food now. High speed internet. Wait for nothing. It takes time to prepare a good meal. And there are no healthy fast food places.

7. Gym memberships are expensive for the average person. $30 a month. $40 a month, $50 a month. Personal trainer? Hell no.

 

[Journeyman]

1. McDonalds and all of that shit is on every street corner. Its everywhere.

2. They are now the only places open lat at night. Try getting a fresh chicken breast and a banana at 3am.

3. When you go to the supermarkets, the cookies and potato chips are always 2 for 1. Cheez it's. 2 for 1. Oreos 2 for 1. Specials on Coke. 2 for 1.

4. The shitty food is cheapest. 6 bucks can feed your whole family at mickey d's. Never gonna get a good fresh meal paying that though.

5. No education in schools. Plus, they put little debbies out for these kids and everything. WHen i was young, i never liked the cafeteria food. So i would get a bag of chips, a swiss cake roll and a choclate chip cookie ice cream sandwich. Good thing for me, my metabolism was sweet back then. Then people think they can get away with that forever.

6. Laziness. There are no drive thru helath places. Everything is time in america. Information now. Food now. High speed internet. Wait for nothing. It takes time to prepare a good meal. And there are no healthy fast food places.

7. Gym memberships are expensive for the average person. $30 a month. $40 a month, $50 a month. Personal trainer? Hell no.

Box- you make great points, I disagree though about fast food being cheaper...I don't eat fast food besides pizza (which I eat a lot of )

#6 is exactly on the money, time and now now now...

I find myself falling into the same trap of wanting everything all at once...we're all in 'a hurry to go nowhere' we speed home, we eat fast food, we are all in a huge hurry for some reason lol...

I may eat a fish filet at McD's once or twice a year and I always feel like crap 2 minutes after I am done, and swear I will never go back....sometimes I will ride around looking for a decent place to find a good meal and it just isn't out there, unless you go to a fancy restaurant.

I think it all goes back to lack of education though.

 

[WCBias]

The top 2 reasons america is fat

1. Television
2. Corporate america wants them to be

 

[Journeyman]

5. No education in schools. Plus, they put little debbies out for these kids and everything. WHen i was young, i never liked the cafeteria food. So i would get a bag of chips, a swiss cake roll and a choclate chip cookie ice cream sandwich. Good thing for me, my metabolism was sweet back then. Then people think they can get away with that forever.

uppy: I can soo relate to that...I would use my dollar to buy ice cream, very rarely would I eat the actual lunch, unless it was pizza.

The more I think about it, I'm not sure if we had this class in school I would have paid enough attention.


:nopityA: excuse me while I get my dinner from the microwave.