TV Christmas parade serves up junk food & candy (and politics will follow)

[Guest]

It's a reflection of the culture we live in that we celebrate every occasion with lots of processed foods. Then we get angry over out-of-control health care costs and ever rising health care premiums. And we expect poiticians to come up with a plan to solve the problem. But until such time that people come to realize that they themselves are the problem, the solution will remain largely elusive.

I'll take it one step further and call this a culture of selfishness. It's ME, ME, ME, ME! I want to enjoy myself! I want to eat the foods I enjoy! Then when chest pains come, the person might get rushed to the hospital for emergency bypass surgery or angioplasty. The cost: Tens of thousands of dollars. Charge it to: All of us who pay medicare (insurance) premiums. And heart disease is not the only health issue to be affected by overeating processed foods.

Politicians won't solve this problem because: Democrats can't blame the people because they need to see them as victims. Republicans can't blame the people for eating too much junk food because that would be seen as being against the fast-food industry (anti-business).

Where will the leadership come from? Anyone know?

[Guest]

I'm addressing this thread title of yours: "TV Christmas parade serves up junk food & candy (and politics will follow)"

So does this mean that Santa or the Christmas Parade people around the country should hand out celery sticks and lentil chips instead of peppermint candy canes????

And as to "where will the leadership come from?".....Well, it comes from the individual person and parents, to decide what and how much they will eat!

[Guest]

Does the word "Grinch" apply here?

[Guest]

I'm addressing this thread title of yours: "TV Christmas parade serves up junk food & candy (and politics will follow)"

So does this mean that Santa or the Christmas Parade people around the country should hand out celery sticks and lentil chips instead of peppermint candy canes????

In other words, we have to do what we're doing because it's the only way we know to have fun.

And as to "where will the leadership come from?".....Well, it comes from the individual person and parents, to decide what and how much they will eat!

I guess that means we will just have to wait for the 63% of overweight people to suddenly figure out what they haven't been able to figure out all along.

[Guest]

My wife and I invite family and friends over for a meal on those special Holidays to share bread, wine and good conversation and from where I sit there is nothing selfish about that nor is there anything wrong with asking for an extra slice of pie. We prepare all of our meals, eating a balanced diet and follow an exercise program.

[Guest]

are part of the 20% of our food week and on the other 80% days we do our best to eat "healthy". The interesting thing I have found is that the more I practise this, the easier it gets to stay with the "healthy" choices and the less appealing the "other foods" become. However if we go past the 20% it gets easier to stray off and not watch our choices. Funny how that works.

LW888

[Guest]

are part of the 20% of our food week and on the other 80% days we do our best to eat "healthy". The interesting thing I have found is that the more I practise this, the easier it gets to stay with the "healthy" choices and the less appealing the "other foods" become. However if we go past the 20% it gets easier to stray off and not watch our choices. Funny how that works.

LW888

I'm glad to hear that you have a plan that's working for you. Good for you.
I have also found that the more I practise healthy eating, the easier it gets. But here's where I'm a little different. I've got it all the way up to about 99% without feeling deprived. The 1% or 2% when I stray is when I eat out. I wish that more people would give it a try and see how it works, but it's a hard sell.

:)

[Guest]

Yeah, Lets change it to where from now on during the holiday season we just have the Weight disadvantaged mature gentlemen in his seasonal clothing drive to your home in an electric car and ring the doorbell, because chimneys have been outlawed for the pollutants they cause and then ask if it would be alright to leave some organic broccoli and lettuce under the holiday tree, that has been picked by our poor immigrant guest.

Or not!

Just enjoy the holidays and Christmas and then go back to eating right and exercising.
It is only for a couple of weeks.

[Guest]

I wondered how this gravitated to political?
Must be if there is disagreement or counter point or say what one thinks...it goes to political.....I am just trying to be jocular.

Of course giving out candy is just that ....it's CHRISTMAS...take off the special interest glasses and try to enjoy this time of the year like we have for the hundreds of years before we started measuring everything down to the 87th decimal point. Get back up here with the rest of us who live in the real world and enjoy yourself......

MERRY CHRISTmas!!!!! It is that simple.

btk