KRAFT KAVES! Maker of Oreos to Revamp Products: Cites Obesity

Associated Press -- "Kraft to Revamp Products: Cites Obesity" ^ | July 1, 2003 | Deborah Cohen

[honeygrl]

"Well you have a point there. The problem is - no one is outside anymore. I drive thru nice beautiful safe neighborhoods and nobody is outside. Beautiful houses but they have this noone is home look to them."

In my area, when you see nice areas like that, they are usually all elderly people with no kids to come outside. There are very few safe family neighborhoods. The one I lived in during my middle school and teen years was one of the exceptions but they are so expensive that you have to be wealthy to get a house there. One of the few places I can take my kids to where my son can go outside pretty much on his own without me tailing him is 4 hours away at my in laws farm. Of course he's only 2 1/2 right now though. Even if he were 10 though he couldn't roam our neighborhood with other kids. The crips (a gang) spraypainted sign across the street makes me too nervous for fun outdoor stuff. My parents neighborhood is a decent place for kids to play outdoors together but the homes are $200k and up.

[honeygrl]

"The bottom line is no fast food, processed food or junk food can ever be trusted. It should all be eliminated by the people who want to live a healthy life."

It should be eliminated in their own lives by them. Don't take away my favorite foods though just because you can't seem to control your cravings. You be responsible for you and I'll be responsible for me.

[honeygrl]

"Your best bet is to contact a Coke distributer a few weeks before Easter, and ask where you can find the "Kosher for Passover" Coke."

Any idea if they make it year round or just for Passover?

[appalachian_dweller]

>> You be responsible for you and I'll be responsible for me. <<

Nicely put! The voice of reason in a wilderness of PC BS.

[grania]

I was raised eating fast food a lot and I'm not fat. I eat ice cream and cheese cake when I have it around and I don't gain weight from it because I don't eat it for every meal.

Waaaaahhhhhhh. (Message to self...overcome jealous feelings)

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[rwfromkansas]

I am not a big fruit eater (excepting bananas), but I do love fruit JUICE. I bet I am downing a lot of sugar though; not good.

I have lost about 25 pounds since some surgery in late May on my jaw and am still on a no chew diet. Wow has my calorie intake plummeted from what it used to be. I am glad to be out of the "obese" category in the BMI now. I just need to perhaps consider going on the Atkins diet or just watch my eating habits more closely once I get back to chewing so I can get out of the overweight category completely. But that would take about another 18 pounds.

[rwfromkansas]

Doritos are almost heavenly.

I haven't had them in about a month and a half though (partly due to having surgery in late May so I can't chew until probably next week or the week after).

I will try to go at least 3 weeks between buying Doritos once I can chew again, but there is just no way I will give them up completely.

[pttttt]

Ah, the good old days. Oreos were never the same after they quit using lard for the white center.

[pttttt]

"Your best bet is to contact a Coke distributer a few weeks before Easter, and ask where you can find the "Kosher for Passover" Coke."

Also try Jolt Cola. It's made with refined sugar. Has twice the caffeine (good stuff).

[Husker24]

For some reason my dad likes diet coke, I have never been able to finish one.

[Alex Murphy]

So the serving size that no one reads on the side of the bag is now half a cookie instead of two cookies in a bag of 100.

You caught that too, eh? And the average consumer, reading that the nutritional content has improved, goes and eats the whole bag, thinking that with the "new formula" they're using, it's not as fattening as the half-bag-binges he used to go on before.

[Freebird Forever]

That is where we are right now. The bottom line is no fast food, processed food or junk food can ever be trusted. It should all be eliminated by the people who want to live a healthy life.

I heard an interview with Jack Lalanne last week.

His philosophy is “If God didn’t create it, don’t eat it”.

[Shooter 2.5]

One member of my heart therapy class is fond of saying, if it tastes good, spit it out.

[.38sw]

And the average consumer, reading that the nutritional content has improved, goes and eats the whole bag, thinking that with the "new formula" they're using, it's not as fattening as the half-bag-binges he used to go on before.

I was standing in line at the grocery checkout a while ago, and overhead a rather large woman say to her friend (as she dipped her pudgey hand into a bag of fat-free cookies she had opened): "They're fat free! I can eat all I want!" Um, check the label. They're loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, replacing the fat. Two cookies have 140 calories. The carb count in those cookies is astronomical!

[honeygrl]

". I just need to perhaps consider going on the Atkins diet or just watch my eating habits more closely once I get back to chewing so I can get out of the overweight category completely. But that would take about another 18 pounds. "

I have heard great things from everyone I know who went on the Atkins diet and stuck to it. The hard part is giving up the breads but if you can stick with it I hear it works wonders. Supposedly you even get to add back carbs one at a time after the first 2wks until you get to a certain place where your body can handle them. I don't know all the details really but it is supposed to be a great diet.

[Alex Murphy]

"They're fat free! I can eat all I want!"

Working at movie theatres in my school days, I would stand amazed at the "rather large women" ordering the monster-sized tub of popcorn, lots of butter please - and a Diet Coke. It takes me something like 90 mins of steady treadmill running, just to burn off the equivalent calories consumed in a single Snickers bar. I suppose the Diet Coke is formulated with anti-calories that counteract the buttered popcorn.

[honeygrl]

"Also try Jolt Cola. It's made with refined sugar. Has twice the caffeine (good stuff). "

Love that stuff. Reeeally hard to find though around here. A lot of places just refuse to sell it due to the caffeine content even though it's really not as high as people like to think it is.

[honeygrl]

"You caught that too, eh? And the average consumer, reading that the nutritional content has improved, goes and eats the whole bag, thinking that with the "new formula" they're using, it's not as fattening as the half-bag-binges he used to go on before."

Who can eat a whole bag? I love oreos but if I eat more than 3-4 I'd feel very ill. I could eat the creme in the middle though of probably 1/4 of the bag.

[Preech1]

Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing!!! You win the prize and Nailed the whole idea on the head. Just like Ice Cream no longer comes in Half Gallons, but in 1.75 qt containers and Sugar is sold in 4 lb bags instead of 5lb, at the same price, and bleach is sold in 96 oz jugs as well as detergent at 100 oz..all at the same price. They are taking the ocassion of public health to make a buck.

[.38sw]

That's my theory - that the diet coke negates the calories in the greasy meal you just ate. Like a cheeseburger and fries, with a Diet Coke, please! But, judging by appearances, the theory is faulty.