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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ate a PB&J and pack of Oreos or bag of potato chips (or both) everyday for lunch as a kid and don’t think that was unique among my classmates growing up in the 90s — lunchables everyday would have been healthier!

Anyway, if this is all my kid would eat, it’s not the hill I’d die on.[/quote]

The chips and Oreos aren’t great, but a PB&J on whole wheat bread is vastly healthier than feeding your child carcinogenic deli meat day in and day out for years.

Deli meat should be at most a very occasional treat. It is best avoided altogether.

It’s crazy to read the posts in this thread and the see you all posting in threads about the rise of colon cancer in young people and being oblivious to the obvious connections between diets heavy in cured meat and processed garbage and young people dying of colon cancer.

I’m 53 years old and ate PB&J daily for years as a kid. Tuna salad a few times a week. Fruit as a side, no garbage chips or cookies. Sometimes school lunch when I was younger, but that was back when schools had kitchens and they cooked actual food that looked very much like the healthy meals cooked at home.

Shoveling processed foods and fizzy sugar laden drinks into your kids daily for decades and then wondering with anxiety, will my kids get colon cancer? [/quote]

Other things that cause cancer but that a lot of adults seem to be okay with:

Alcohol (it's just straight facts that any amount of alcohol is way more likely to cause cancer than deli meat).
Steak
Not wearing sunscreen
Not getting the HPV shot
Air pollution

I think that it's really important to be responsible parents, but it's impossible to be perfect and sometimes we have to make judgment calls. And being judgmental about what other parents do is not going to make their kids' lives better.

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Cool story Jan [/quote]

You must be a highly educated DCUM poster. Impressive comment. [/quote]

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