A family tale from the past. Back when my Granddaughter Jill was 11 or 12 and her sister Lisa was abt 7, I was talking with them on the phone about arranging a weekend overnight visit with them to allow their parents some alone time. At one point I remembered and mentioned that Veteran's Day was coming up soon and that would mean a 3 day weekend for us to do lots of things. Then Jill said: "That's right. You were a veteran and my other Grandpa Paul was a veteran but my Daddy is not a veteran and none of my uncles are veterans." Whereupon little Lisa piped up:-
"Well, Jill, you gotta understand, in the olden days they use to call out your name and you had to go."
Out of the mouth of babes.
Buckle up for a very rough ride into the future with a demented Trump on the White Horse seeking to add the legendary apocalyptic 3 accompanying riders into the abyss.
I'm the age where we used to watch them pick the draft birth dates on tv, and then anyone I knew with a birth date in the top 20 would start deciding on Canada, some sort of exemption, or Vietnam.
Back when he was a Congressman, after the end of conscription, Charlie Rangell used to WANT the draft re-instated because he felt that was the only way to get whites (especially rich kids) from NYC to agree to serve. It will be interesting to see what they do about the military -- their numbers are down, and while they'll get a lot of brown shirts, it won't be enough -- and I am convinced they want an all-white force -- so we'll see. As per normal -- they have not thought this through.
He wasn't the tank commander, he headed the motor pool and ONLY because he could read. Every other soldier was from a farm, so they knew how to fix things from growing up needing to fix tractors and what not. None of them could read.
I learned this about dad when he and I took a night school class in car repair when we lived in New Hampshire. He thought since I was recently out of college, and had a car, I should know how to change a tire, so we signed up for this class at the local vo-tech. I was the only girl. I had beautiful nails. All they boys in class did my stuff for me the first night so I wouldn't risk breaking a nail. The teacher thought I was charming, and that if my car was on the side of the road, any boy would stop and help me.
My father looked at our text book and had nightmares about when he was in the Army. We only went to the first class and never went back.
No surprise, here... Brussels Sprouts are - and always have been - my most favorite vegetable. (Even when they were in a little rectangular frozen block.)
Obesity is such a complex issue – it’s so much more than just overeating. More than anything, it’s eating heavily processed food. Fresh fruits and vegetables can be expensive and quick to spoil - you don't always get a lot of bang for your buck. Amazingly, processed foods are ridiculously cheaper for the consumer. It is far less expensive to fill up a hungry kid with a Happy Meal than with 3 oz of lean protein and vegetables - especially when the child was weened on low-cost, high calorie foods to begin with.
Highly processed foods lead to cell dysfunction, contributing to chronic diseases. Without adequate nutrients, cells can't perform critical repair, replication, or energy-producing functions. Among other issues, it starts a pretty uncontrollable carb/sugar crave that follows into adulthood… You need to eat the proper foods to repair cells and gain the ability to fight the bad cravings – and it needs to be consistent. While good nutrition can often bring them back - it's better to keep them healthier in the first place.
It can also take upwards of 17 introductions of a new food for a child to accept it - most people tend to stop trying after the 2nd time the baby refuses it. Chicken nuggets become the path of least resistance - but they start the downward spiral.
Obviously, good eating habits start at home with a family all eating a variety of foods together. But when the parents grow up eating frozen pizza and microwaved mac & cheese, their kids don't stand a chance. It's why child nutrition is so important. Introducing real food for breakfasts in school is a start. We advertise sugary cereals as a wholesome breakfast, when we should be eating a high-protein breakfast to start the day. It can be done - we were able to cook fresh eggs for breakfast on an aircraft carrier for 5000 people in under 2 hours - with two people cooking the eggs.
It CAN be done - but the Food Lobbyists hold power - convincing us that The Government is Trying to Take Away Our Dorito's. Fat chance of that happening - pun intended.
And we also need to rid ourselves of the idea that actually cooking real food is difficult, onerous, and downright impossible. Advertising has made the average woman - they're targeted to women - feel inept when she can't pull off a Martha Stewart Meal at the drop of a hat every night, so they market Crap-in-a-Bag that the whole family will love! Hell, Martha Stewart can't do it - and the Crap-in-a-Bag is so nutritionally unsound, the family would probably be better off eating the bag.
Obviously, worm-brain is not the brightest color in the Crayon box and Raw Milk is NOT healthy for children - Gail Borden realized that back in the 1850s. He's definitely not my [insert any number here] choice for ANYTHING - but remember that the Reagan administration wanted to classify ketchup and pickle relish as vegetables. There is no depth to how low they will sink.
#1 -- Brussels Sprouts are your fave? YIKES!!! How can you pick them when there's broccoli????? I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I actually eat broccoli most nights. I have a broccoli-cooking gadget and boy oh boy oh chef-boy-ar-di do I LOVE my broccoli!!!
Sorry, I digress.
Highly processed foods are certainly bad -- but I've been reading more and more that part of the issue isn't the food itself-- but HOW it's made and the fact that it's packaged in plastics and forever chemicals.
I remember being a kid and there was "food". Just food. Now, it seems that so many people want "layers of flavor" -- like, I love broccoli. I don't want butter on it, I don't want salt, I don't want sauce -- I just want the broccoli. I know I'm in the minority.
I think they WILL call ketchup a vegetable since it's the sole vegetable that their master eats.
A family tale from the past. Back when my Granddaughter Jill was 11 or 12 and her sister Lisa was abt 7, I was talking with them on the phone about arranging a weekend overnight visit with them to allow their parents some alone time. At one point I remembered and mentioned that Veteran's Day was coming up soon and that would mean a 3 day weekend for us to do lots of things. Then Jill said: "That's right. You were a veteran and my other Grandpa Paul was a veteran but my Daddy is not a veteran and none of my uncles are veterans." Whereupon little Lisa piped up:-
"Well, Jill, you gotta understand, in the olden days they use to call out your name and you had to go."
Out of the mouth of babes.
Buckle up for a very rough ride into the future with a demented Trump on the White Horse seeking to add the legendary apocalyptic 3 accompanying riders into the abyss.
I'm the age where we used to watch them pick the draft birth dates on tv, and then anyone I knew with a birth date in the top 20 would start deciding on Canada, some sort of exemption, or Vietnam.
Back when he was a Congressman, after the end of conscription, Charlie Rangell used to WANT the draft re-instated because he felt that was the only way to get whites (especially rich kids) from NYC to agree to serve. It will be interesting to see what they do about the military -- their numbers are down, and while they'll get a lot of brown shirts, it won't be enough -- and I am convinced they want an all-white force -- so we'll see. As per normal -- they have not thought this through.
Well, it's not likely we will ever again get a tank commander like your Dad, He got that job because he was one of the few who could read the manual.
He wasn't the tank commander, he headed the motor pool and ONLY because he could read. Every other soldier was from a farm, so they knew how to fix things from growing up needing to fix tractors and what not. None of them could read.
I learned this about dad when he and I took a night school class in car repair when we lived in New Hampshire. He thought since I was recently out of college, and had a car, I should know how to change a tire, so we signed up for this class at the local vo-tech. I was the only girl. I had beautiful nails. All they boys in class did my stuff for me the first night so I wouldn't risk breaking a nail. The teacher thought I was charming, and that if my car was on the side of the road, any boy would stop and help me.
My father looked at our text book and had nightmares about when he was in the Army. We only went to the first class and never went back.
No surprise, here... Brussels Sprouts are - and always have been - my most favorite vegetable. (Even when they were in a little rectangular frozen block.)
Obesity is such a complex issue – it’s so much more than just overeating. More than anything, it’s eating heavily processed food. Fresh fruits and vegetables can be expensive and quick to spoil - you don't always get a lot of bang for your buck. Amazingly, processed foods are ridiculously cheaper for the consumer. It is far less expensive to fill up a hungry kid with a Happy Meal than with 3 oz of lean protein and vegetables - especially when the child was weened on low-cost, high calorie foods to begin with.
Highly processed foods lead to cell dysfunction, contributing to chronic diseases. Without adequate nutrients, cells can't perform critical repair, replication, or energy-producing functions. Among other issues, it starts a pretty uncontrollable carb/sugar crave that follows into adulthood… You need to eat the proper foods to repair cells and gain the ability to fight the bad cravings – and it needs to be consistent. While good nutrition can often bring them back - it's better to keep them healthier in the first place.
It can also take upwards of 17 introductions of a new food for a child to accept it - most people tend to stop trying after the 2nd time the baby refuses it. Chicken nuggets become the path of least resistance - but they start the downward spiral.
Obviously, good eating habits start at home with a family all eating a variety of foods together. But when the parents grow up eating frozen pizza and microwaved mac & cheese, their kids don't stand a chance. It's why child nutrition is so important. Introducing real food for breakfasts in school is a start. We advertise sugary cereals as a wholesome breakfast, when we should be eating a high-protein breakfast to start the day. It can be done - we were able to cook fresh eggs for breakfast on an aircraft carrier for 5000 people in under 2 hours - with two people cooking the eggs.
It CAN be done - but the Food Lobbyists hold power - convincing us that The Government is Trying to Take Away Our Dorito's. Fat chance of that happening - pun intended.
And we also need to rid ourselves of the idea that actually cooking real food is difficult, onerous, and downright impossible. Advertising has made the average woman - they're targeted to women - feel inept when she can't pull off a Martha Stewart Meal at the drop of a hat every night, so they market Crap-in-a-Bag that the whole family will love! Hell, Martha Stewart can't do it - and the Crap-in-a-Bag is so nutritionally unsound, the family would probably be better off eating the bag.
Obviously, worm-brain is not the brightest color in the Crayon box and Raw Milk is NOT healthy for children - Gail Borden realized that back in the 1850s. He's definitely not my [insert any number here] choice for ANYTHING - but remember that the Reagan administration wanted to classify ketchup and pickle relish as vegetables. There is no depth to how low they will sink.
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#1 -- Brussels Sprouts are your fave? YIKES!!! How can you pick them when there's broccoli????? I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I actually eat broccoli most nights. I have a broccoli-cooking gadget and boy oh boy oh chef-boy-ar-di do I LOVE my broccoli!!!
Sorry, I digress.
Highly processed foods are certainly bad -- but I've been reading more and more that part of the issue isn't the food itself-- but HOW it's made and the fact that it's packaged in plastics and forever chemicals.
I remember being a kid and there was "food". Just food. Now, it seems that so many people want "layers of flavor" -- like, I love broccoli. I don't want butter on it, I don't want salt, I don't want sauce -- I just want the broccoli. I know I'm in the minority.
I think they WILL call ketchup a vegetable since it's the sole vegetable that their master eats.
I really just want unadulterated broccoli, also. As for ketchup, tomatoes are fruit.