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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The evidence of the unhealthy effects of ultra processed foods is overwhelming at this point.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

I work with kids in before/after school program and have worked with them in schools as well. The school lunch programs in most places are shameful - very different from when I was a kid in the 70s and lunch ladies cooked us actual food in an actual kitchen. Now the schools are all heating up prepackaged ultra processed foods, much of it branded to make little kids into future consumers. And most schools have contracts for soda machines in the lunchroom and around campus too.

But the kids who bring packed lunches and snacks and breakfast to my program are bringing what the parents choose, and much of what I see is sickening. Ultra processed junk, Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast, candy and chips and fizzy drinks galore.

Do you not understand that this manufactured food substitute does not actually feed your child’s gut or brain? That this crap is what is making them hyperactive, unfocused, mentally ill? There are volumes of books and articles by actual scientists which proves that this garbage junk which isn’t food is poisoning people’s bodies and minds.

It’s one thing for you to choose this for yourself, but it is unconscionable to teach such habits to innocent, defenseless children who trust you and don’t know better. Why did you bother to have them if you were just going to set them up for failure and lifelong disease?

Eating 50g of cured meats daily increases the risk of colon cancer by 18%. Keep shoveling those lunchables - under whatever brand name you choose - down your kid’s throat because it’s too much parenting to feed them healthy and insist that they eat what you feed them.

A very small number of kids have actual developmental disorders that affect their eating habits in very negative ways.

The vast majority of kids are capable of eating healthy foods, but have conditioned their parents who are weak and lazy to give them whatever junk they demand. [/quote]

And yet I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks nothing of putting a child on a bike on a busy city street so maybe you’re not great at assessing risk?[/quote]

It’s always the self-assured righteous who “get blindsided”

Can’t help but roll my eyes at “18% higher”. Like okay, you feed your kids food they hate that tastes awful and have them develop eating disorders once they’re able to freely choose their own diet because you’re afraid of them having an 18% higher chance of colon cancer when they’re 60.[/quote]

There is an explosion of colon cancer in young people today, poster. People are dying of colon cancer in their 30s, not their 60s. Knowing that I cannot fathom parents who want to feed their kids cured meats every day.[/quote]

And no, I don't send kids out to ride their bikes on busy city streets.  :roll: [/quote]

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