PUBLIC OPINION > Disney Won't Combat Obesity With Its Junk Food Ban

Just want to say, first of all... whoever wrote this up really needs to take themselves out of their writing. Present the facts, not your own bigoted opinions laced with your disappointment that we didn't go along with what you'd wanted or expected. A good reporter and presenter of facts is exactly that.

Anyway, it absolutely is up to the parents. To be a parent doesn't mean simply having a kid (or kids) and letting the TV and Government raise them for you, contrary to that being exactly how the majority of post-modern parents raise their kids as such by leaving themselves mostly out of it. I was raised that way in the 90's, but the difference between myself and most of my generation was that I matured very quickly and didn't sink - but swam, teaching myself and questioning EVERYTHING I heard or was told, forming MY OWN opinions. It's a dying phenomenon to be sure.

But to get back on topic here... I want you all to do something the next time you go to the grocery store, the fast food joint, or whatever other place you go to get your food. READ THE INGREDIENTS! It is NOT the "Nutrition Facts" that you need to be concerned about, that is actually the LAST thing you should consider when making decisions on the foods that you eat.

If you think that eating man-made, processed and reprocessed and chemically-laced, "artificial" (including GMO or GENETICALLY MODIFIED), hormone saturated foods is what you really need to be putting into your body, then think again. Now I am not saying that you have to only eat fruits and vegetables, raw and all day long. Not at all, but you DO need to educate yourself on exactly what it is you've been putting into your and your kid's mouths! I guarantee you that more than 70% of the things you have been eating, have absolutely NO Nutritional values whatsoever, that is to say that they have next to no, if any, vitamins, minerals, and even micro-nutrients (i.e. Chromium, a very crucial element that USED TO be provided in the human diet from whole grains and whole wheat, but is now as much as 80% depleted from our soils, and which isn't found AT ALL in processed or refined grains and wheat - it is the largest helper of INSULIN AND SUGAR functioning).

Many people think the Nutrition Facts is all that they have to pay attention too, but it really isn't. Fats are also not the enemy, believe it or not. The Mediterranean peoples eat three times higher fats than in any other peoples, but the difference is that their fats are UNSATURATED (and most of them come from EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL - not vegetable oils, not cristco, but EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL). They also consume a lot of SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATES via pastas and breads, but again, the difference is that their pastas and breads are NOT made with processed flours - but with WHOLE GRAINS AND WHOLE WHEAT! More than half of anything they eat consists of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES AND NUTS AND BEANS. And their primary sources of protein comes from FATTY (UNSATURATED OMEGA-3) FISH! And instead of eating high fructoise or/and corn syrup coated in refined sugars, they eat DARK CHOCOLATE OR NATURAL SUGAR CAINE (it looks like a piece bamboo, you cut it length-wise and you chew on it to release the natural sugars).

Why am I telling you how the Mediterranean people's eat? Because this is how human beings are SUPPOSED TO BE eating, by and large. This is how just about everyone on this planet USED TO EAT! That is why it is relevant, and it is only one example of how to eat for your health (and the food tastes GREAT if you take some time to learn how to prepare it!!!)

So really, all it takes to be healthy and for your body to NOT freak out on you and glob on the pounds (and try to KILL YOU) because you're not feeding it what it wants and needs (i.e. trying to put in food that is not actually food at all, because it is only chemicals and filler - you can literally think all of that boxed crap as being DOG FOOD FOR HUMANS), is to eat NATURAL FOODS!!!

If nature didn't make it, don't eat it! Bottom line. Now it is OK to 'cheat' and eat some of that commercial and fake food, but NOT ALL DAY EVERY DAY, THAT IS WHAT IS KILLING PEOPLE!


Parents, it is UP TO YOU. YOU are responsible for the health, welfare and education of your own children. STOP letting the Government, TV and society at large do YOUR job for you. Be the parent, learn when to say NO. Discipline your children, set BOUNDARIES. And good luck, parenting is not easy (never said it was, not that I am a parent but I CAN empathize). It is the toughest job in the world... even tougher to start being involved when you hadn't been before. But you have got to do it, you have got to set the example for your children whereby they can follow it.

Do not let your children end up like me, with the Metabolic Syndrome and insulin resistance, high blood pressure, racing heart, high liver enzymes (liver damage), sky-high bad cholesterol, very low good cholesterol, EXTREMELY high Triglycerides in the blood, and facing a lifetime of health problems that will eventually put me into the official Diabetes Type II, and from there, heart, liver and kidney DISEASE and finally... death. This is what I am facing and I am ONLY TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD, ORIGINALLY DIAGNOSED AT SIXTEEN YEARS OLD - MY ATTEMPTS TO REVERSE THE UNDERLYING CONDITION, EVEN WITH RADICALLY CHANGING MY DIET AND EXERCISE REGIME HAS FAILED!!! IS THIS THE FUTURE YOU WANT TO GIVE TO YOUR CHILDREN? NO? THEN DO YOUR JOB, FOR THEIR SAKE! THEY AREN'T GOING TO MAKE THIS CHOICE FOR THEMSELVES, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASSERT IT FOR THEM BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM AND DON'T WANT THEM TO WIND UP EXACTLY LIKE I DID, BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE THERE FOR ME TO TELL ME WHAT I WAS DOING WAS GOING TO CAUSE MY VERY PREMATURE DEATH. YOU HAVE GOT TO DO IT FOR THEM!

Up to you. Hopefully I've helped someone, I sure hope I have. Good luck and good health to you and yours.