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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grab some capri suns and one of those big bags of chip-type snacks, and clementines. Y'all can let your kids eat some/all of them or not according to your parenting beliefs. BTW folks on this area can be crazy.[/quote]

How can we not let our kids eat the snacks?  No, honey, everyone else can enjoy the chips, just not you.  Really?  Don't think we should have to put our kids through that.

I just wish it wasn't snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks all of the time.  [b]We do have a food issue in the US.  And all of these parents saying "it's no big deal," I really, really wish we could track whether your kids become overweight as adults.  Because, likely, they will be...[/b]

From google this morning: "More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be OBESE. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity. Almost 3 in 4 men (74 percent) are considered to be overweight or obese. The prevalence of obesity is similar for both men and women (about 36 percent)."

Don't those numbers make you want to raise your kids to understand healthy eating and snacking?  Your skinny little boy will end up as an overweight man.  But who knows, that may not bother you.  It does bother me.[/quote]

Actually, likely they won't be. The research has overwhelmingly linked rates of obesity and overweight issues to education and income levels. Overwhelming. We are kidding ourselves when we talk about weight problems in America and pretend like the average DCUM poster is the demographic we have to worry about. Are there NO overweight kids or adults in the DCUM bubble, of course not. But those rates are much more proportionate to decades past than when you observe the general population. There are counties that see the overweight and obese categories being the vast majority of the population- this is where the national numbers are coming from.

Not to say that I don't think we have a portion and processed foods problem in the US at all levels ( I mean 2 parents working demanding jobs has become the norm at all income levels so convenience is a new paramount) but I also think these [b]arguments against cupcakes 4-9 weeks a year for 6 year olds[/b] in rich (yes, even "middle class" hoods in this area are comparatively rich) neighborhoods, so as to combat America's problems with big food, inc. are disingenuous. [/quote]

Really?  Your kid only eats cupcakes 4-9 times a year?  If so, then there is no problem.  But it seems a lot more than that in my northern VA suburb world.  Snacks, snacks, snacks, treats, treats, treats, etc, etc, etc all year long.[/quote]

Sorry I meant to say cupcakes, even if every week or every other week during soccer season is 4-9 at most. And wouldn't be every week. But again, if we are talking about the obesity epidemic in America we are missing the mark big time with focusing on the amount and kinds of snacks upper middle class kids get and how often. Those kids have much more well rounded diets than the rest of the country, which is a much larger percentage of the population and much larger proportion of our problem.[/quote]

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