Comments on: Shocker: Study Finds Fast Food Unhealthy for Kids http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/shocker-study-finds-fast-food-unhealthy-for-kids/ Diet Column - bringing you all the best diet news and opinions Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christina http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/shocker-study-finds-fast-food-unhealthy-for-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-3242 Christina Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:51:14 +0000 http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/shocker-study-finds-fast-food-unhealthy-for-kids/#comment-3242 You know I was recently reading a ahort blog from my Boyfriend's daughter (who is presently overweight) and she was answering questions about her daily life. One question really got to me, she said for lunch every day she has Chic fila - and I'm so sure it's a salad...right, but I'm sure she has the option. They have put this food choice in her school cafeteria right in her face and the faces of other young adults. We have tried to get through to her about the way she eats, but if you are not following these kids around and watching them at school - what they learn to be socially acceptable is not always the healthiest, but what can you do? I agree with you, sometimes you can't always cook, and choosing healthier alternatives IS best. I just wish there were some kind of buzzer we could attach to the kids to make them realize what we know now. Have a Good Day! Christina You know I was recently reading a ahort blog from my Boyfriend’s daughter (who is presently overweight) and she was answering questions about her daily life. One question really got to me, she said for lunch every day she has Chic fila – and I’m so sure it’s a salad…right, but I’m sure she has the option. They have put this food choice in her school cafeteria right in her face and the faces of other young adults. We have tried to get through to her about the way she eats, but if you are not following these kids around and watching them at school – what they learn to be socially acceptable is not always the healthiest, but what can you do? I agree with you, sometimes you can’t always cook, and choosing healthier alternatives IS best. I just wish there were some kind of buzzer we could attach to the kids to make them realize what we know now.
Have a Good Day!
Christina

]]> By: Princess Dieter http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/shocker-study-finds-fast-food-unhealthy-for-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-3234 Princess Dieter Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:57:21 +0000 http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/08/shocker-study-finds-fast-food-unhealthy-for-kids/#comment-3234 And it's not as if they try hard to make the healthy options tasty and appealing. The McD's salads have been nasty for ages. How hard is it to have crisp, appealing garden salad elements and a decent packaged dressing? I wonder if they purposely make the "diet" items crap so you buy the crap items that maybe make them more moolah.... We don't go to McD's or Burger King or KFC anymore. Our local KFC stopped doing the Tender Roast and we can do without the fried chicken. When we do fast food out of necessity or cause I'm too pooped to cook, we do Subway or Wendy's, cause we can get veggies and lower calorie-items that taste decent. The last time we went to McD's about, mmmm....9 months ago..it was cause we had a craving for ice cream cones, and their low-fat soft serve cones are quite pleasant on a warm Miami evening. If KFC paid more attention to healthier chicken and sides, we'd go there. Until then, we get our take-out chicken (when I don't cook) at Boston Market, which now has a zucchini marinara I like for a side, along with my usual green beans. (And they've added huge chopped salads that two people can easily split). If we had kids, I'd want to keep them out of McD's, Burger King, KFC, and their ilk.. I don't want them to hooked on junk food like I used to be in my younger, stupider days. the Princess And it’s not as if they try hard to make the healthy options tasty and appealing. The McD’s salads have been nasty for ages. How hard is it to have crisp, appealing garden salad elements and a decent packaged dressing? I wonder if they purposely make the “diet” items crap so you buy the crap items that maybe make them more moolah….

We don’t go to McD’s or Burger King or KFC anymore. Our local KFC stopped doing the Tender Roast and we can do without the fried chicken. When we do fast food out of necessity or cause I’m too pooped to cook, we do Subway or Wendy’s, cause we can get veggies and lower calorie-items that taste decent. The last time we went to McD’s about, mmmm….9 months ago..it was cause we had a craving for ice cream cones, and their low-fat soft serve cones are quite pleasant on a warm Miami evening.

If KFC paid more attention to healthier chicken and sides, we’d go there. Until then, we get our take-out chicken (when I don’t cook) at Boston Market, which now has a zucchini marinara I like for a side, along with my usual green beans. (And they’ve added huge chopped salads that two people can easily split).

If we had kids, I’d want to keep them out of McD’s, Burger King, KFC, and their ilk.. I don’t want them to hooked on junk food like I used to be in my younger, stupider days.

the Princess

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