I ate horrible for breakfast (latchkey), often pop tarts, but lunch from home was healthier, sandwich and fruit. dinner was home cooked meat and veggies.

Not the healthiest but not the worst. More to do with activity level, was outside working or playing not inside in front of screens.

Teachers like students post sugar crash at school, easier to deal with than those full of energy.

From a 2010 thread on poor nutrition, edited:

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2010/07/02/why_poor_kids_a.html

Boundaries CAN be set.

One can say: "We're not going to the movies tonight because you asked me twice for the same thing after I'd said no."

What's scary is that this has been out of vogue for decades. To quote from a very well-known book on health and sociology: "It's almost impossible to get my kids to eat well with all that advertising on TV for junk foods. If I don't get their favorite sugar-coated cereal, they keep pestering me until I do. Why can't there be more advertising for healthier foods?"

That was circa 1970! Yet, there was no indication that there was anything unusual or wimpy about the mother's attitude.

Then again, TV had only been common for about 15 years when the book was written, so that likely made a big difference in that parents still weren't used to the idea of a much bigger commercial culture that was all the more indifferent to the common good than before. Not to mention that even "doctors" were working in cigarette ads in the 1940s and 1950s, so I'm guessing the average person of that time wasn't that well-versed on nutrition, either.

lenona at July 2, 2010 12:42 PM

To clarify: I meant that even BEFORE TV became widespread, parents didn't necessarily know how to feed their kids right anyway. (And American home cuisine could be pretty bad - thank goodness for Julia Child.) The health-food movement started in the 19th century, true, but it didn't really come into full bloom until the 1960s or later.

Even people advocating for high carb low fat wouldn't want their kid to eat that breakfast.

It's one thing to grab something like that as a treat now and again. Or to grab something junky when you're on the go at a rest stop or the like. But that's supposed to be an every day breakfast?

I had a scandalously unhealthy breakfast today. Worse than that kid's.

Last night I cut up some peaches but they turned out to be no good, season's really over. So I tossed 'em in a pot with some gel-vite sugar and turned them into jelly. I had enough for one pot and a bit left over, which I added rum to and put at the bottom of a jar figuring it'll go fast.

I fried some baguette slices in butter and topped it with the rum peach jam. Then to make matters worse, I made a cappuccino and sweetened it with condensed milk.

I regret nothing!

I have to constantly fight my kids on that. I've given in on the school lunch but there is no way they are eating a school breakfast.

In other news of government competence in matters of human health, the state of Ohio just renewed the medical license of osteopath Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who insists vaccines magnetize people and makes them susceptible to interaction with 5G cell phone towers.

Timely advice

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/heres-how-to-tell-within-5-minutes-if-someone-isnt-as-smart-as-they-think.html

Gog - check this out!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/21/funeral-home-truck-vaccine-charlotte/

By Derek Hawkins
Yesterday at 6:26 p.m. EDT

The black truck turned heads as it looped around Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte during Sunday’s Carolina Panthers game.

“Don’t get vaccinated,” read digital billboards on the vehicle’s side and rear panels. Underneath, the name and website of a business purporting to be a funeral home were spelled out in white lettering, along with a 10-digit phone number.

It turned out to be an elaborate and unorthodox campaign to promote the coronavirus vaccines — one that drew applause from local hospital leaders and social media users as it went viral on Twitter, while leaving some experts in vaccine marketing questioning whether any holdouts would be swayed by the stark message.

The Web address for the nonexistent Wilmore Funeral Home took users to a landing page that said simply: “Get vaccinated now. If not, see you soon.” It linked to the vaccine registration site for StarMed, a health-care provider in the area...

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In other news of government competence in matters of human health, the state of Ohio just renewed the medical license of osteopath Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who insists vaccines magnetize people and makes them susceptible to interaction with 5G cell phone towers. ~ Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at September 22, 2021 9:09 AM

Well, that explains those voices in my head last night trying to renew my vehicle warranty.