It’s sad and it’s hard all at the same time. I have kids and I try my best to buy “healthy snacks” but everything even organic products are either full of sugar or seed oils. My kids don’t eat perfect but we try our best to avoid the more processed junk foods that most of the kids around my kids eat.
Kid next to me has downed a bag of doritos, 2 pringles cans, 2 cans of coke, and a bag of cookies in the last 30 minutes. Hasn't come up for air once -- constant flow of carbs & sugar down the tube.
I guarantee his mother loves him very much, and wants him to grow up to be happy and healthy...She just has no clue how horrible of a foundation she's enabling him to build in his most crucial years.
Always tough to see these situations unfolding live in public, because the misconceptions are so clearly on display. It's not a lack of parental love problem -- It's a lack of education and financial freedom problem, which creates a default high-time-preference across the entire middle-to-lower class population.
Junk carbs & seed oils are taking hold all across Latinamerica. The people here are marginally healthier than in USA for now, but they're on the exact same track toward mass metabolic crisis, and closing in fast.
If you've been thinking about delving deeper into the rabbit hole of health/diet, and using your platform to spread the message, there's never been a more important time than now.
Future generations across the world need your voice now more than ever. You never know who may be listening when you post.
(P.S. bonus shoutout to people like nostr:npub1dd8vnrczuer7q9zqk3emhkf207hzrcqmd2nvvh3jmw22xcyjyuhqdfuvr6 who are creating high-signal health content in Spanish and other languages. This is a global battle, and these folks are doing incredible work in paving the way for their countries to escape the matrix).
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Yes it's a constant battle in our culture. Church, school, grocery store, bank... Always it's a special treat.
We used to collect the kids candy they brought home from school and buy it back. We would fill up giant gallon pickle jars.
I brought up the topic in the community parent teacher council and they all said they don't see that much candy. 🤦♂️
After we started homeschooling 2 years ago we don't collect nearly as much junk.
The exception is Halloween. We offer to buy back 90+% of the candy. This last year all the kids pooled their candy and we bought them Tears of the Kingdom. They thought it a very worthy trade. It was cheaper than a single cavity filling.
Parents usually don’t see the problem. I see all the time with my kids friends, the lunches on field trips and snacks are usually all processed foods.
I usually allow my kids to pick 1-2 candies or chocolate if they get something from a birthday at school and the rest goes in the garbage. It’s hard when it’s all around them. At home we don’t eat any candy. We make our own ice cream which the kids love.
Definitely easier to keep it away when homeschooling. I definitely applaud you on that, I don’t have the patience to homeschool 😅 we are doing summer work and I’m over it 🤣