A Sad Sight That Ticks Me Off!

Yesterday afternoon when my hubby got home from work we all went strawberry picking. While walking up the small hilly driveway to the fields we see people walking down. The children that were walking down the hill were so obese that they were winded just walking. How could someone let that happen to their child? Seriously?!?! These children were so overweight.... no I can't use that term because it would be incorrect... they were so OBESE that their arms were all rolls, they had cankles for goodness sakes. I feel bad for the children because their parents don't seem to give a crap about their health to feed them the correct foods & make sure they aren't just sitting on the couch doing nothing all day. At least they were going to get some fresh fruit.... But I just wanted to scream at the woman, "STOP FEEDING YOUR KIDS #@*! MC DONALD'S!!!!!!".... but I didn't. I've seen so many children lately that are just so unhealthy and as a parent it pisses me off that people don't take care of their children better. And as someone who got picked on a lot when they were a kid for being overweight it makes me so sad for those little kids. To know what kind of bullying they are going to have to deal with as they grow up.

To those people who let their kids get like that, you can't just sit there with a Mc Donald's Big Mac in one hand & a sugar loaded "super sized" soda in the other and blame the food system for making you & your kids fat. Yeah big business food producers could & should make processed foods better for you and not so much for their bottom line, but you don't have to sit there and eat every gosh-darn high-fat high-calorie treat they make just because you can!! That is your choice to eat processed food that is slowly killing you & clogging your arteries but at the very least think of what it is doing to your children. A burger, fries & a soda are not a nutrition packed meal. How hard is it to grill up a turkey burger, put it on a whole wheat bun, slice up a few potatoes, brush them with a heart healthy olive oil & put them in the oven instead of deep frying them and steam up some vegetables????? Imagine what kind of vitamin deficiencies these children could have and what its doing to their maturing bodies.

I honestly feel that instead of paying for endless wars that don't get us anywhere or expense accounts for government officials that already make too much money, we should start a nationwide nutrition program that will teach people what healthy eating is and how easy it is. Americans just need to wake up & smell the coffee.

Thanks for reading my rant fellow readers.
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