I agree that they don’t understand how incredibly bad that stuff is for their health, however, I think everyone knows that it is bad for them by now. My father raised me on junk food and would occasionally criticize how fat I was from it. But he kept buying it because it was easy. I think you’re a little generous with your description of these parents. Junk food and junk entertainment is like a cheap sedative for children. It gives parents a break from parenting. Turn on a movie or give the kid an iPad and you don’t have to worry about the kid for a few hours. I do think that if money was fixed, people would have more time, energy, and wealth to be better parents.
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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