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Post by rockysigman on Sept 3, 2006 11:42:56 GMT -5
Darth here must work for the Memphis' Chamber of Commerce ...  haha |
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Post by Mary on Sept 3, 2006 19:23:13 GMT -5
FYI, this is on the same general board topic, albeit not the specific topic we were discussing - but interesting nonetheless. There's a big article in this week's New Yorker about the head cook in charge of lunches for the Berkeley public school system, a woman named Ann Cooper. She was hired through a grant established by Alice Waters, the head chef of Chez Panisse, a legendary Berkeley restaurant that is as much a philosophy of life as a restaurant (locally grown food, organic produce, healthy, gives back to the community, blah blah blah - typical berkeley progressive stuff) Her mandate was to drastically change the processed and unhealthy nature of school lunches, and the article tracks her as she attempts to introduce healthy, fresh food into the Berkeley public school system. It's an interesting article, because you watch as her idealism gets partially quashed beneath the sheer weight of necessity - producing and distributing enough meals for thousands of schoolchildren every single day while obeying increasingly obscure and arcane federal regulations about school lunches. And also, apropos of the topic of the board, it goes a long way toward explaining the problem of childhood obesity - once again, especially as regards low-income children, who are less likely than their better-off peers to forgo school lunch in favor of something provided at home by their parents. Highly recommended.
Cheers,
M
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Post by luke on Sept 3, 2006 19:33:38 GMT -5
School lunch was the shit. Fried chicken day was always tremendous. I pity these poor bastards that aren't going to get the whole experience anymore. Shame the fatties had to ruin it for everybody.
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Post by Mary on Sept 3, 2006 19:38:01 GMT -5
Oh yeah, one of the funniest things in the article is when they serve Cooper's new pizza, which is made with all these fresh and healthy ingredients and topped with tons of veggies, and all the kids freak out and hate it and complain incessantly and even petition the principal to bring back the "old" pizza.
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Post by loudaab on Feb 22, 2007 19:30:49 GMT -5
I plan on making sack lunches or else picking my kid up for lunch once he starts going to school. His eating habits are one among the many differences in opinion that me and his mother have. She's always giving him cookies and pretzels and crap food--and he's only 14 months old! She also starts off every day by bringing him into her room and laying him next her and turning on the TV while she sleeps in!!! And TV ofcourse is where kids learn to yearn McDonalds and junk food in the first place.
Luckily I spend the daytime with him; from 7:30am to 4:30pm and only feed him natural foods; mostly vegetables and fruits, some cereal and white meat, so hopefully he'll continue with a healthy diet as he grows older and is making more of his meal decisions on his own.
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Post by poseidon on Feb 22, 2007 22:19:54 GMT -5
Why are so many americans overweight? Easy answer: we eat too damn much.
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Post by poseidon on Feb 22, 2007 22:20:57 GMT -5
I'm 190...my best ultimate weight was 170. So, I consider myself 20 lbs. overweight.
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Post by poseidon on Feb 22, 2007 22:37:29 GMT -5
Been thinking (between milky ways  ) about a dietary supplement. Anyone out there with supplement experiences? Maybe...TRIMSPA... baby! |
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Post by loudaab on Feb 22, 2007 22:44:04 GMT -5
Been thinking (between milky ways ) about a dietary supplement. Anyone out there with supplement experiences? Maybe...TRIMSPA... baby!Cant help you there. I prefer to do things through mind over matter...I set up challenges for myself to test my will power, and also just educate myself about what is in food and stuff like that. But then again, maybe man was meant to be fat:  |
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Post by KooL on Feb 22, 2007 22:53:46 GMT -5
LOL. That last dude is such a fat blog.
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Post by strawman on Feb 23, 2007 2:10:25 GMT -5
you get fat because you consume more calories than you use...start exercising if you feel you are getting overweight.....I do exercise (to the extreme some may say) daily and rarely do I "watch" what I eat. I eat fresh healthy home cooked stuff..very rarely any fast food, because I want to perform when it matters. I train upwards of 20hrs a week when I'm serious....I'm 5 11 and somewhere about 150....resting pulse as low as 43........and I can bump it up to just over 200 max.......yeah I'm sick of hearing the excuses of the morons who overeat and don't exercise. Don't have time to exercise, yet they know all the idols, castaways, survivors, jerry springer and oprah episodes. Get off your bum!!!
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Post by dolly on Feb 23, 2007 13:01:23 GMT -5
To be fair to all the fatties it's very difficult to take the first mental step in admitting that you really do have to exercise to shift the pounds. When you're overwight and obese, you have far less energy (mental and physical) than if you're healthy - so when you first try that exercise DVD or jog around the block, the paiiiiin from being out of condition is just the pits. It's easy to think "bugger that for a game of soldiers' and reach for the comfort of the biscuit barrel. It's the mental hurdle that is holding many overweight people back, and I think we have to be compassionate about that, and not look down on people for having no will power. Of course, I'm not speaking from experience here, but as someone who mostly wears a size 2. but I can sympathise and count my lucky stars  I'm also thinking I really should do some star jumps to atone for the 200grams of chocolate I've eaten today. |
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Post by kmc on Feb 23, 2007 13:08:19 GMT -5
I eat Burger King twice a week. That shit is delicious.
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Post by dolly on Feb 23, 2007 13:14:51 GMT -5
I prefer Maccy D's myself. Double cheese-burger with fries, large.
Y'know, this kind of talk isn't helping, Kenny.
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Post by kmc on Feb 23, 2007 13:23:46 GMT -5
Are you lusting for bad food? Because I just had some. I might not even go running later, either.
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) about a dietary supplement. Anyone out there with supplement experiences? 
