Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Panera's isn't fast food

Some people want to blame the fast food business for America's obesity, but what I saw in Panera's yesterday wasn't the problem.

An extremely overweight young woman came in with two normal weight children--I assume she was their mother. The little boy was maybe 7 and the little girl about 3. She bought breakfast, I think, because it was 8 a.m. She gave the little girl a very large chocolate brownie with chocolate icing. She and the little boy were sharing an iced muffin and a spinach egg souffle. She had a large coffee, but the children had nothing to drink, not milk, not juice. In actual calories, the muffin and souffle may have more than the brownie, but still, I would think by 10 a.m. you'd be scraping that little one off the ceiling just from a sugar high. And what a pattern to set.

On second thought, let's hope she was the babysitter; moms should know better.

posted by Rosabelle 2:52 PM  

3 Comments:

  • At Sunday, 21 May, 2006, Blogger Creature said…

    They don't know better (I'll include Dads here too!) Maybe they thought it was a 'treat'... I dunno.

    Who teaches? It's not going to come from schools. If that Mum didn't get a sense of how to feed her kids from her parents, where does she learn it from?

    The large extended family is no more, where there was a close community surrounding every child, and more support for Mums and Dads. There are still some out there, but most parents are in small family groups. I dunno. It shouldn't be that hard to feed your kids sensibly, should it?

     

  • At Monday, 22 May, 2006, Blogger Norma said…

    You're too kind. I think she ordered that stuff hoping they would only eat a few bites and then she could eat the rest. I see that a lot in restaurants. Every public school graduate in the US had required health classes.

     

  • At Monday, 04 September, 2006, Blogger Neoma said…

    parents should but they don't.....

    I was gone for two weeks, when I came back nick weighted 20 pounds heavier, it seems he had been lving on ice cream for two weeks. I could have shot his Dad. He didn't cook one meal while I was gone. He is hopeless.

     

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