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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is turning 11 yrs old and wants to invite a handful of friends to sleep over. Any suggestions for some "fun" food to serve - I will order pizza but would like to have some fun snacks as well (the kids will be here what feels like a long time!).  I'm willing to heat/prepare, or buy, and since it is my son's bday I will not be monitoring fat or sugar intake ;-)[/quote]

I'm sorry, but you should monitor fat/sugar intake. Even if you are okay with your son getting fat, you can't be sure everyone else is with their kids getting fat.

What to have:

-Apple
-Oranges
-celery and avocado spread
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One night at a party will not make a kid fat[/quote]

And then its breakfast the next day, then its dinner that night because, "You let me have eight pieces of pizza and a gallon of ice cream last night" then its the next night, then you have a 200lb 12 year old.

Make home made fruit cups without sugar, portion them one per kid. For dinner have baked chicken with a side of broccoli. Its all about health.[/quote]

I can't even tell if this is mocking or serious.

Even if it is serious, why only one fruit cup per kid?[/quote]

You can get fat by eating too much healthy food, you know.

Its just that big corporations have made shitty food that people (especially children) are purposely addicted to, so moreboften then not fat kids get fat off of those ratherbthen healthy food.

You can eat carrots only for a few years, and get fat off such a diet, though naturw has made it that you cant get addicted to healthy, natural foods. [/quote]

You know why kids get fat?  Because they are never outside anymore.  I grew up drink cool-aid, sweetened iced-tea, and milk for drinks.  Always.  Parties always had junk food.  Even soda at that age.  We always had ice cream in the house.  Dinners were homemade but never diet and veggie controlled too much.  Guess what?  There is no one obese in my school pictures or in our neighborhood.  Because if we weren't eating, we were outside all day long playing!

So now we glue video games and computers to their eyes but mandate avocados and celery for parties?  Give me a break.

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Exercise certainly might be one component. But actual bona-fide research (not just your fond memories) documents that Americans are consuming a LOT more calories and a LOT more sugar (less cane and beet sugar, but substantially more corn sweeteners--THANK YOU BIG SUGAR!) as well as unhealthy fats, meats, and so on.  Fresh fruits and veg?  Down.[/quote]

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