Posted on 10/02/2008 7:51:03 AM PDT by batter
Tony the Tiger, and Snap, Crackle and Pop have been branded "cartoon villains" by a U.K. consumer watchdog called Which? for failing to promote healthy eating in children.
Other well-loved characters under fire include Coco the Coco Pops monkey and Quicky the Nesquik Bunny.
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In related news: Who, What, and I Don't Know either Today or Tomorrow will issue a statement. Why? Because!
Quicky the Bunny was my favorite playmate. ;)
Geez, That’s GER - RATE!
Also, kids don’t buy the cereals. Mom and Dad purchase them. If they don’t have the sense to buy better foods with less sugar....
Oh, I drank lots of Nestles’ Quik as a kid, and ate Quake cereal, Sir Grapefellow, and Rice Krinkles (like Rice Krispies, only pre-sweetened). The weight didn’t come on until I stopped eating that stuff in my mid-twenties.
These consumer watchdogs have been watching too much TV and it is clouding their ability to think clearly.
We had Tony and Snap crackle pop when I was a kid, and almost no one was fat.
“What makes kids fat is that they can not run and play at recess. They can not play stick ball in the street or ride their bikes around the block. Kids do not get a chance to be kids and play. Thats what makes them fat.”
And lots of urban kids can’t do any of the above because of the predators out there. They stay inside, get fat and meet predators on the computer instead.
Fat? You should have seen what Joe Camel had me doing back in the 80’s. The kids these days have it easy......
OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE MENTIONED, and my cousins as well, there is ZERO obesity, ZERO weight problems. My mother is as trim as she was in high school, as is my uncle; my grandmother and great grandmother were trim all of their long lives, and at 50-plus, I am the same trim size six I've been most of my adult life, and all four of my brothers are healthy and about the same as they were in high school, though beefier, not teen-skinny.
Next generation -- my nieces and nephews, raised to drink soda pop and eat lots of starches and carbs, ALL have weight and skin problems. So I don't buy folks who tell me and my family, "Well, you're just lucky -- it's genetics."
Bullsh*t. If that was true, why are my nieces and nephews butterballs, after five generations of thin genes? It's because they EAT and DRINK stupidly. One of the biggest, most stupid mistakes ever made was to create the new "food" pyramic, which encourages WAY too much consumption of carbs and starches.
Look at your meal. There should be one or two or even three vegetable servings, one protein serving, and ONE STARCH. Not two, not three, but ONE. That means beans OR rice OR potatoes OR corn OR bread OR pasta, not beans and rice and potatoes and bread and pasta (though I make an exception with pasta and serve yummy gnarly sourdough with homemade garlic butter thick with fresh-grated parmesan). Milk, wine, water, or tea to drink. ZERO SODA POP, even diet -- throw that crap away and only drink it on special occasions.
We always had dessert -- pie, ice cream, cookies, cake. No one starved, no one felt deprived, AND NO ONE GOT FAT.
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