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Educate your children on healthy nutrition and good food choices. It's very important given their heredity on that side of the family. I wouldn't leave my kids alone with these people at all right now. If you are with them when they offer these things, just refuse for the children. [b]Tell them straight to their face that such caloric and unhealthy eating leads to obesity, diabetes and increase cancer risks [/b]- which is all 100% true.

This is a hill to die on.[/quote]

No.  It is not your place as someone who is NOT their doctor to lecture them on food choices.[/quote]

PP you replied to.

We are a family of doctors and research scientists working in biomedical fields, and we know that America is in a very expensive public health crisis due to poor food choices (and junk food malnutrition due to poverty), enabled by a corrupt food industry in bed with politicians. So YES, it's all hands on deck. We all need to politely and factually educate other people on what's unhealthy, because guess what? You and your children will pay for it, in increased health insurance costs and taxes. It's YOUR money that will be earmarked for outreach programs on diabetes and hypertension, funding for drug development and dialysis clinics, etc.

Don't think this doesn't affect you. It does in a very practical way, even if you feel secure that your children won't imitate others and will continue their healthy habits.

All it takes is one sentence, repeated every time a giant bag of junk is offered. It's not rude, it's saving lives and saving pocket-books.

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