This is a tough subject for Michelle to tackle. I work at a fitness club for women and I know weight control is not always calories in/calories out. Some kids are genetically predisposed to gain weight. Some kids, even young ones, have issues within their families that lead them to use food as comfort or substitute for attention.

That being said, they need a smart program for nutrition that extends to the whole family so parents make the right choices for their kids meals. It needs to include a sensible amount of exercise that kids get at recess/gym class, because relying on parents to take kids to parks or sporting events is tough in this economy. And sadly, many schools have cut extracurricular sports or use a pay-to-play system that cuts out some kids based on finances.

And really, until the subsidies to corn growers to mass produce all of that high fructose corn syrup are cut, we will continue to see that fat-inducing crap in practically everything we eat.

The wingers are up in arms here because our mean Guv is proposing repealing the sales tax exemption for candy and soft drinks (mainly as a revenue raiser).  A lot of “keep yore gummint hans offa my sody!” letters to the editor.

And really, until the subsidies to corn growers to mass produce all of that high fructose corn syrup are cut, we will continue to see that fat-inducing crap in practically everything we eat.

My teenage kid used to hork down junk food and pop like it was going out of style. His argument was that since he is very athletic and in good shape he had nothing to worry about. Then I explained adult onset diabetes to him along with things like having legs amputated and how it doesn’t correlate with being fat.

He has maybe one pop a week now, and I think he last had McDonald’s a few months ago. His primary source of crap food is school lunch programs.

If I can get my kid to eat carrot sticks while parked in front of the TV I don’t see why my school district has to feed him shit pizza laden with HFCS. I blame the local school administrators.

Shorter NRO:

Nobody gonna listen to that skinny-armed wife of whatshisname anyway, so she should just shut up.

That’d totally hate me, my children drink water at birthday parties.  Not because I make them but because I never gave them fizzy so at birthday parties if they’re offered coke (the drink not the white stuff) the bubbles put them off. 

They’ll have the odd one now, but they’re still water babies really.