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Pa. schools weigh parental fast-food ban (Too many fat kids)
AP ^ | 6-8-2006 | None Listed

Posted on 06/09/2006 6:05:22 AM PDT by nckerr

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Very good. It is locla government making the restriction on public school grounds. May actually force parents to quit poisoning their kids with junk that causes diabetes and causes a whole host of medical problems. Did anyone see Dr Phil yesterday about the fat kids of America? If your kid is fat, it is your fault when someone picks on them at school and they are ridden with diseases later in life such as cancer.
1 posted on 06/09/2006 6:05:24 AM PDT by nckerr
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I used to make my daughter's lunch because the school food was so bad. And so unbalanced. It was filled with hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza. To this day, she won't eat a hot dog. It's time to pull kiddies from school if possible.


2 posted on 06/09/2006 6:07:42 AM PDT by twigs
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People may not like government restrictions, but the sad fact is that most people in this world (and this nation) need to be told what to do and when to do it.


3 posted on 06/09/2006 6:11:20 AM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Secular Misanthropist)
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Then maybe they should start with the teachers :)


4 posted on 06/09/2006 6:12:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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You know what, occassionally my daughter likes to eat McDonald's Chicken McNuggetts. Ain't no liberal piece of shiite telling me what I can or cannot feed my child. Why do you side with the libs on this?


5 posted on 06/09/2006 6:13:16 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: nckerr

Or are you being sarcastic. Any food in moderation won't hurt you. If people are too dumb too have common sense it is not Government's job to legislate.


6 posted on 06/09/2006 6:15:17 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: twigs
This may sound weird, but I never had McD's until I was 13 and was taken to one by a friend's mom. My family cooked everything from scratch, not out necessity, but out of love for good food. Meal times were about gathering with family (sometimes extended or the neighbors too) and talking, eating, and enjoying. Not just filling your gut to relieve the hunger. Sure, we went out to dinner sometimes, but it was always to a good restaurant, not some fastfood place.

My parents even made their own tomato sauce every summer (about 50 mason jars worth) and canned vegetables, made jams and jellies, etc..

I also never had ramen, spaghtetti-o's, frozen chicken patties, or anything like that until I was in high school and ate them at various friends' homes.

Both my parents cook well and would have never dreamed of filling me or my sister with sugar, fat, and preservative laden crap.

And before anyone assumes anything, both my parents also worked. They just put more of a value on decent meals over their own rest and convenience.

7 posted on 06/09/2006 6:17:34 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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What ever happened to parents assuming responsibility for their offspring rather than have the government do their parenting?


8 posted on 06/09/2006 6:17:50 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir wölle bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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It's too difficult. They'd rather have the government tell them what their kids can watch, read, listen to, eat....takes the pressure off of them. Don't want them to hurt themselves by thinking.


9 posted on 06/09/2006 6:20:09 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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Did anyone see Dr Phil yesterday about the fat kids of America? If your kid is fat, it is your fault when someone picks on them at school and they are ridden with diseases later in life such as cancer.

Oh, yeah, nothing tyrannical about this. Nothing like telling eveyone how to live their lives and how to raise their children. Why don't we just turn them over to the government from day one, that way they can feed them healthy and brainwash them at the same time for their whole lives, that should do the trick.

I would guess you think you are a conservative, think again. Anyone who applauds the goverment sticking their faces into peoples lives, and who wants to dictate to other people how to raise their kids, is NOT a conservative.

10 posted on 06/09/2006 6:22:47 AM PDT by calex59 (The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
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Parents bought and paid for that school with their hard-earned tax money...it's not a fiefdom! If a parent wants to have lunch with their child on a special occasion, like a birthday, it's none of the school's darn business what they eat! Next they'll be searching lunch bags and throwing out contraband cupcakes!

You can't actually believe that a school has more authority over what a child eats than their own parent! It may be the parent's fault if a child is obese, but that does NOT mean the school gets to take over the rearing of that child.

11 posted on 06/09/2006 6:23:53 AM PDT by Sisku Hanne (Send "Cut-n-Run" Murtha packing. Support Diana Irey for US Congress!)
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People may not like government restrictions, but the sad fact is that most people in this world (and this nation) need to be told what to do and when to do it.

I guess I really need to assume that you forgot the sarcasm tag there.

If not, why do you seem to think that most people in the world need to have someone do their thinking for them? And just who do you propose decides that for us?

12 posted on 06/09/2006 6:24:52 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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Of course, we now have good ole Dr. Phil to advise us! It's so sad that folks sit around on their duffs watching stuff like that, and think they are being informed.

The government should not be responsible for our kids, period. The only exception, of course, is in the case of abuse or neglect.

Overweight children will one day grow up and take responsibility for themselves--and they will decide to be fat or not.

I certainly feel sorry for overweight kids---but I don't want that pity to be turned into more government intrusion in our lives.

13 posted on 06/09/2006 6:29:18 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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No Cocoa Puffs? Or Kaboom? How about Quisp? You poor thing. Man, we grew up on all those dye laden sugar filled cereals. Yummy! Actually, I bought a box of Cookie Crunch not too long ago b/c it used to be so yummy and I was grossed out. I don't want to ruin my childhood memories so I'm not even considering buying Cap'n Cruch Berry ever again.


14 posted on 06/09/2006 6:31:37 AM PDT by synbad600
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My family sounds remarkedly similar. My mother always cooked dinner every night after working every day. And now that I'm married, my husband does the cooking--every night and because he enjoys it. He also makes his own tomato sauces. Well, we just discovered a canned one that is actually as good as homemade, believe it or not, so we switched. He was just diagnosed with diabetes, so cooking no longer holds much enjoyment for him. But we've been surprised at the poor quality of diabetic cookbooks. We've talked about publishing our own--he thinks I'm just teasing. We never canned things, though. That's really a great way to go! And I was also an teen before I ever went to McD's.


15 posted on 06/09/2006 6:31:38 AM PDT by twigs
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May actually force parents to quit poisoning their kids with junk that causes diabetes and causes a whole host of medical problems. Did anyone see Dr Phil yesterday about the fat kids of America?

Have you ever seen what is fed to kids in school cafeterias these days? School food is not improvement over fast food, sometimes the same thing; like when Wed. is *Pizza Hut* day.

The schools are trying to deny the parents the right to do what the schools themselves do. Just whose kids are they anyway and who pays the school taxes? They need to focus more on teaching them to read and write and they can't even get that right, so they have no business telling parents how to feed their kids.

16 posted on 06/09/2006 6:31:57 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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I feel bad for overweight kids because their dumba@@ parents are setting them up for diabetes and all other sort of nasties.

Why is it that parents suddenly do not know how to properly feed their children?

17 posted on 06/09/2006 6:32:32 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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No sugar cereal. My dad, a total sugar junkie, loved the stuff, but only bought it when I was away at summer camp. :-( I know because the boxes would be left in the trash. :-)

Don't get me wrong, we had goodies. My dad makes a killer banana cream pie. The difference is he actually made it from pie crust to filling. No extra crap that you get when buy it pre-made.

18 posted on 06/09/2006 6:34:58 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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I have to tell you, the canning of tomato sauce is not fun. I remember long hot days in the kitchen with my folks and sometimes the grandparents too, churning out jar after jar of the stuff. I was happy for it in the dead of upstate NY winter, but it really, really sucked when we had to make it in August.


19 posted on 06/09/2006 6:37:12 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (http://folding.stanford.edu/ - - - -Folding@home. Free Republic team 36120)
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To: Alien Gunfighter
People may not like government restrictions, but the sad fact is that most people in this world (and this nation) need to be told what to do and when to do it.

If that's your belief, what are you doing on a constitutional conservative website?

20 posted on 06/09/2006 6:38:00 AM PDT by B Knotts
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