A question about kids eating candy .

[Jungle Boy]

I should know, this week with family from out of town blew my diet away and my dad and other family members were talking of how I lost 30lbs and I tried to tell them it is not a quick fix diet and it is a life style. So we went over the uncles and aunts that are sick from diabetes and all my fat uncles and dad have diabetes while the skinny uncles do not have diabetes. Strangely enough my aunts which most are overweight do not have diabetes. But I made my point while were have tamales, traditional celebration soup and beer. :laugh:

That's life, hey

 

[CANative]

But why is there more fat folks in lower income places than in higher income areas?

Because cheap, high calorie processed food is cheaper than more expensive healthy food. Try being miserably poor for generations.

Look at the recent DQ commercials offering a giant burger with extra patties, bacon, cheese and mayo, a huge order of french fries and a quart of ice cream for the beverage. $5. Five dollars is 40 minutes of work at minimum wage yet it buys two or three days of calories.

 

[Big ole Boy]

Its a lot easier to hande out a preserved cookie from a package .... than it is to hand out a carefully sliced piece of apple ....

 

[Farmland]

Its a lot easier to hande out a preserved cookie from a package .... than it is to hand out a carefully sliced piece of apple ....

Thanks to overly concerned parents my children can only have prepackaged snacks at school , due to the safty concerns for homemade goods.

It's called irony.

 

[prasercat]

Thanks to overly concerned parents my children can only have prepackaged snacks at school , due to the safty concerns for homemade goods.

It's called irony.

Say what? Things have changed since I raised my child (He's 30 now). Those dang lawsuits....or was it cookie company lobbying efforts?

Oh.......so they are concerned about?.......I have to think about this one......... cookies with razor blades?.........cookies made with weed?

How about buying a bag of packaged cookies, throw them in the trash, keep the bag. Fill the bag with homemade cookies.......

 

[Mile High Trout]

As far as the teeth go....

Chocolate washes away easily with natural saliva over a shorter period.

While hard sugars and molasses type candy stick like glue and are even tough to brush off.

Kids will eat candy in some scenarios. Knowing you can't stop them, it's just better for the kids to let them know chocolate is the candy of choice, and only in moderation. Otherwise, it's drill time at the dentist, and that scares people of all ages. This was the candy advice a tv dentist gave out around halloween time. Having switched to chocolate only when I do eat candy personally, I can tell the difference. Chocolate is the moderate candy choice for your teeth, and health. Also it has some beneficial effect, especially when compared to hard sugar candy bombs.

 

[cloud9]

If this question is regarding giving candy to kids in general, then I do not think that is too much. If this question is regarding giving candy to kids to reward them for everything, I think that is an entirely different situation. Kids should not be deprived entirely of sweets and some unhealthy foods. I do believe it is important to keep children healthy and active, but I also think it is very wrong to restrict kids from sweet and chips and some unhealthy indulgences throughout their childhood. They are young and growing. This is part of life and growing up.