Hello everyone! Can you believe that its already almost April of 2010??? WOW does time fly by! Hope all are making attempts to achieve their fitness/health goals for this new year! I know that im trying!!! In spite of everything thats trying to get in the way! LOL. I need to lose about 10-15lbs to compete in August but I know that I WILL do it. Patience and consistency is ALWAYS the key!
SO, I was wondering how many people happened to catch the show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution show this past Sunday night? If you did not, and want a recap, it will air again this Friday night. You can click on this link for the details ...
I am always astounded at the amount of JUNK and terrible foods children are eating these days so this show was VERY interesting to me. Listen, if you are an adult and want to be overweight, unhealthy and eat CRAP, then go ahead! You are old enough to make your own decisions and know the consequences of doing so...but children are a different story! They DO NOT know what nutritious food is and will eat what they are given by parents. Why do we continue to feed our children such terrible foods that are setting them up for a lifetime of unhealthy habits and sickness?
So here's my rant.....While i was working my flight this past weekend, my jumpseat happened to be next to a 4 year old girl and her mother. It was 10AM and she was hanging on to a bag of gummy lifesavers! I asked her if that was her breakfast and she proudly stated that " NO, my breakfast was a pop tart but I didnt eat it!"...ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Her breakfast was supposed to be pop tart? Thats NOT food!! Thats a man made chemical cardboard square with sugar on top!!! Why couldnt that mother have given her a banana or grapes or whole grain cereal/ oatmeal instead? Of course, her mother was about 75 lbs overweight also. Im not judging the mother for being overweight but I will say that i seriously doubted her "food" choice for her child. As I looked around on this 10AM flight, I saw another little boy eating a huge bag of potato chips, another child with a gallon size ziploc bag FULL of pure sugar candy, and yet another lap child being fed goldfish! These are the same parents that give their children coke on the flight and wonder why in the world their child cant sit still for a 1 hour flight! Its just amazing! The next generation will be the first generation that does NOT outlive their parents and ppl wonder WHY???? Parents have to get educated and make the time to create good wholesome meals for their children or the children will suffer the consequences later...and probably not too much later in life! SO, please, if you have children, try to set a good example for them by eating nutritious WHOLE foods and not "foods" that come out of a box, bag or can! And teach them to PLAY outside and enjoy physical activity! Take the computer games AWAY! They wont die from you taking them away but they could die if you DONT!
Just food for thought...:)
Hope everyone has a great week and workout hard! Change up your routine, do something different and remember, you can always email me with any questions!
Enjoy!
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