Kids Poisoned By Too Much Soda
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kefkat
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Although I have overdone the sweet stuff over the last 12 years (I never ate much sweet stuff until I got into recovery, which is a very common thread) I don't understand why any normal parent wants to give there children pops, sweets and the like.
Mine had it as a treat. Whilst there was less understanding back then of what these drinks did, I always new it was bad for your teeth and wasn't overall good for your health and weight. My youngsters never got 1 glass of pop until they were 2 and then it was a treat, of once a week, the same as sweets once a week.
My Daughter only had coke once at the age of 2 and I stopped it as she went totally hyper for hours after. She was gradually allowed it as a treat when she was older.
3 out of 4 of my children don't have any fillings, which is very rare. My 2nd lad who is bipolar has 1 filling and that is because he can get bad over hygiene and going to the dentist when he is heading or in crisis.
To me all this stuff should be common sense: Clearly it isn't too millions it seems
Mine had it as a treat. Whilst there was less understanding back then of what these drinks did, I always new it was bad for your teeth and wasn't overall good for your health and weight. My youngsters never got 1 glass of pop until they were 2 and then it was a treat, of once a week, the same as sweets once a week.
My Daughter only had coke once at the age of 2 and I stopped it as she went totally hyper for hours after. She was gradually allowed it as a treat when she was older.
3 out of 4 of my children don't have any fillings, which is very rare. My 2nd lad who is bipolar has 1 filling and that is because he can get bad over hygiene and going to the dentist when he is heading or in crisis.
To me all this stuff should be common sense: Clearly it isn't too millions it seems
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Kids are raised thinking of this poison as a treat, so when they have money themselves, they treat themselves, others will still think that it is okay as long as they stick to sugar free, diet or "stevia" when the fact is that they can be worse, we don't need to consume fizzy coloured chemical water, we just don't, non of it, it's junk, then before you know it you reach an age where you can get your hands on fizzy coloured chemical water with added alcohol! Again, just as bad if not worse, add this to the common fast food addictions, and I have a job for life.
I would rather be out of work.
I would rather be out of work.
kefkat
Vital Football Legend
I don't think most youngsters are raised on it as a treat, even though that treat is junk! I think most youngsters are raised on it as part of daily life. None of my youngsters have weight issues, they all eat relatively healthily (everything in moderation) and are all fit.
My Daughter and youngest go running every day, just cos they can, not cos they need too. My 2nd lad does weights and my eldest cycles part of the way to work leaving his bike at the train station for the rest of the journey to the next town
My Daughter and youngest go running every day, just cos they can, not cos they need too. My 2nd lad does weights and my eldest cycles part of the way to work leaving his bike at the train station for the rest of the journey to the next town
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
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The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Said it before but saw a kid in a pushchair with a can of red bull.
Dad and me looked on open mouthed.
I was going to say something but dad suggested not and he was right. I just wanted to let them know how bad that would be but you could see the people pushing the pushchair weren't the receptive sort, sorry to sound judgy!
And it is the problem, these things are entreats, or given when we aren't well to Mar us feel better. It does programme our brains a certain way.
We would never have been allowed pop until we were 5 or so and then it was very limited. Sweets were also rationed, we had a little pot with a few bits of this and that given.
Kids these days seem to have free reign but then, that is what the parents are eating as well.
As said, it is becoming or has become like an epidemic of man made ill health
Dad and me looked on open mouthed.
I was going to say something but dad suggested not and he was right. I just wanted to let them know how bad that would be but you could see the people pushing the pushchair weren't the receptive sort, sorry to sound judgy!
And it is the problem, these things are entreats, or given when we aren't well to Mar us feel better. It does programme our brains a certain way.
We would never have been allowed pop until we were 5 or so and then it was very limited. Sweets were also rationed, we had a little pot with a few bits of this and that given.
Kids these days seem to have free reign but then, that is what the parents are eating as well.
As said, it is becoming or has become like an epidemic of man made ill health
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Fruit juice and fruit juice cordoel and milk is the only real drinks my boys have, they don't like tea but can not believe that kids so young am drinking fizzy pop with today's info out there on what it does, but then again who am i kidding round by me i have seen kids about 8 years old smoking by the shops the ones that there moms and dads kick out on the streets running round until the early hours, the worst thing that even now makes me feel sick is when i asked a lad i knew what these three kids was doing by the shops when i was popping in the shop[ and he told me they am smoking weed and taking ecsatacy feckin 9 years old one was thirteen was also told, today this world has gone to pot.
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
It's a generational thing really, myself, kk and others are of a generation where it was a treat, it was rare, I remember the pop van coming around when I was a kid, supplying the glass bottles of R Whites (returned for deposit) we had a glass once a week on a day that was known as chocolate day, which was Friday, a bar of chocolate and a glass of pop, once a week, that was it (awaits cries of "luxury, of course we had it hard"......) it was something that I carried on with my family, once a week, that was it, but it is so different now, fizzy rubbish is even more addictive and seems to be part of the daily diet of the majority of the population and even though we now live in a world of unlimited information the vast majority still do not seem to register what is good and what is not, despite all the warnings, I clamped down on this at the gym, it was banned, I used to take it off them and tip it down the sink (some of their faces were excellent! : ) I would give them a replacement AND the cost of what I had dumped, as for Fear and the pushchair red bull, I couldn't have stopped myself, and it has caused me the occasional problem, but I have the luxury that most don't seem to want to argue with me.
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I thin our generations am a disgrace compared to the older days gone by generations!
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Watch for the artificial sweeteners, especially Aspartame, and make the fruit juice based drinks as weak as you can get away with, you also need to avoid Fluoride (water supply, toothpastes and mouthwashes, lowers the IQ of kids, harvard study) Milk has also been proven to do the opposite of what it's known for, it actually causes the bones to leach calcium! Milk is no good and should be avoided.
There are many fruit teas out there, make them in a jug with hot water, leave them to go cold, put in the fridge and serve with ice cubes, I'm sure that you'll find some that your kids like, there's hundreds of varieties and different mixes : )
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
It's a different world Clive, although we have apparently advanced in many ways, in others, we have gone backwards, a simple reason for this is work and media, most have to work all the hours available to pay the bills for the lifestyle that the media tells us we should have, this is at the cost of the family unit, people have been bred into a we want it now generation who believe that they have the right to have everything they want, now.
People have become spoilt and are continually hammered by the media telling them that they deserve this and that, you deserve money for nothing, it doesn't matter if you're a clumsy idiot who tripped over your own feet and broke your arm, make some money from it, you're entitled to, apparently.
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Didn't you read the piece in Fear's post?
http://buynongmoseeds.com/wanna-see-what-happens-to-a-5-year-old-girl-whos-already-consumed-1460-sodas-in-her-short-lifetime/
Read that and then tell us it's the food of life.
