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[Jared77]

@Smart Red I can relate. I was that 90lbs wrestler in school too.

I was FOREVER hungry too. Wresting is a very technical sport that also requires significant conditioning. I was burning calories as fast as I could get them. Tack on normal growth/development at that time too the kids going to hungry.

I used to eat 2 bowls of cereal/oatmeal at breakfast, a PB&J at 10ish between classes, lunch say noonish, another sandwich at 2:30 when school was out before practice, then a snack on the way home then dinner. It was crazy.

Say I went to McDonalds I'd eat a 20 piece nugget, a large fry and a large strawberry milkshake at lunch. That was NORMAL for me. I'd cook a whole box of spaghetti & a jar of sauce for a meal then raid the freezer for ice cream while chugging down a gallon of milk.

I ate like that and graduated high school at 155lbs @ 5'10". I'm not a big guy at all. I realized I was a twig and if I wanted to work in public safety I knew I'd have to hit the gym. So I started eating everything in sight like my life depended on it because I was lifting weights at the gym. Protein shakes, tuna fish, eggs, & peanut butter plus anything else that tasted good. I bulked up to 175-180lbs & hit a plateau because without some serious life changing decisions aka steroids I just wasn't going to get much more mass.

I eat like a normal person now but I feel your grands hunger pains.

I'm not defending the Feds food guidelines by any stretch of the imagination but wanted to help clear up the picture for you.

 

[Smart Red]

Thank you, Jared77. I am certainly not saying that teaching healthy eating habits is wrong. I'm agree that many American children need to lose weight. It is a growing problem (pun intended) in our society.

I am saying that the federal government's one size fits all mentality is wrong here as it is in so many other programs.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

DH and I were just diagnosed with hi cholesterol and hi bad L's. We were talking about sugars and fats and how they, along with inflammation, contributes to increases in cholesterol.
He loves his cereal in the a.m. Honey bunches of Oats, Captn Crunch, etc. Time to wean him to cherrios, chex, oatmeals, and such.

 

[ninnymary]

murphysranch, try to get him to stay away from cereals all together. They contain refined flours. There is a book called "Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Furhman that I just love. I started eating 80% the way he recommends 6 weeks before my phsical. My bad cholesterol went down 50 points and my good one, HDL went up 50 points also. He does a wonderful job of explaining how eating more of a plant based diet is so beneficial. I'm sure you can find the book on ebay or amazon for around $10 plus shipping. I also started exercising more. I asked my Dr. if it was the diet, exercise, or both. She said it was probably both.

Mary

 

[Jared77]

Red your 100% right. What I don't understand is why schools are allowed to sell soda.

I graduated in 1996 and we had milk or water as an option. That was it. You could have white 2% or whole, or chocolate. That's it. No Pepsi, no Gatorade, that's it.

I don't see how limiting lunch is going to change the weight of society anyway. To me it's just window dressing. It looks like they are trying to do something without really doing ANYTHING.

 

[Nyboy]

Red my grandmother like your husband wanted to eat out all the time. It was nothing to do about food, but about getting out of the house. She used to call me up and say she was tired of looking at the same walls, lets go out to eat.

 

[so lucky]

@Jared77, the schools allow soft drinks in their schools because Coke and Pepsi pay big bucks to the school, especially the athletics department. If not actual cash trading hands, then sponsoring, buying supplies, you name it. The schools get the proceeds from the soda machines, as well. Coke and Pepsi try to appease the "health nuts" on the school board by putting in their bottled water along side the soda. Thanks a lot.

 

[Jared77]

I know but it's HIGH SCHOOL ATHETICS!!