The First world Disease.
Isn’t it funny how that in this modern world we come to a point where starvation doesn’t seem to be the death of us as opposed to over eating. One has to ask if it is the quantity or the quality of our modern food or both that is the question. We obsess with this dilemma while on this earth we still have millions living in the conditions that one can only described as prehistoric.
Attention turned to the recent news and how over eating is now akin to child abuse. A mother in
In her defense, she said that he would not eat anything else, referring to junk food. She also added that he had a mouth full of apple “one” and spat it out.
What a pile of crap!!!
To use the words of a good friend, “A kid weighting 90 kg isn’t going to starve any time soon”. What ever happened to the parenting skill of “eat your dinner or go to bed hungry?” It is not like rocket science or are we, as modern parents, scared of our children? Is the social acceptance of “let the child have their way or end up with a law suit form them” scaring people to give in to the desires and wants of children?
Or do we believe that we are too clever to follow the primitive devices that got us to this stage as the human race. That suddenly we have jumped to a new stage of evolution? Far be it for nature to provide when we have McDonalds, this form a race that believes that we could possibly travel to Mars and colonize it? I can just see now the establishment of an interstellar drive through. It also makes the Muppets right when they went on about “Pigs in Space”, only the “pigs” will be the obese astronauts.
Far be it for a simple mechanic like me to equate this to an engine. To run an engine properly you need good fuel, not too lean and not too rich. The balance is what is required.
1 comment:
Trouble is, here in the UK, that we're so up our arses about human rights that nobody intervenes, helps, interferes, however you look at it, until it gets to these proportions. This woman should have been shown (why she didn't know herself is simply a mystery) how to insist upon her son's intake levels, as you say. Way before now, in my opinion. I mean, you don't suddenly wake up one morning, spot your son and say "jesus, you're so fat! How did that happen?" Schools, doctors, relations, friends, must all have known. The Human Rights thing, though, ignores the fact that taking this child away from his mother is surely the LAST thing he would need at a difficult time. His mother needs educating and he needs care, not isolation in a strange family or home. This country. Pah! Why am i still here? Family. Pure and simple.
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