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Feeding fat kids McDonalds and other junk is child abuse!

  • 21-09-2006 11:26PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 668 ✭✭✭


    This pic got me thinking.

    The kid has absolutley no idea of the consequences of stuffing his face full of rubbish. Yet his parents who obviously couldn't give a flying fook about their childs welfare allow him to pile the McD into him.

    And if anyone was watching Sky news over the weekend you probably saw the interview with the Scottish mother who threatened to take their child out of school unless that school reverses the healthy eating policy and ban on selling junk food in the cafeteria. This particular mother went so far as stuffing take away food through the gates of the school so their child could get their daily amount of grease!!

    It is up to the parents to ensure that a child gets 100% RDA of vitamins etc. If a child does not get their fill of vitamins then they are not operating at an optimum level for school therefore they will grow up fat and stupid.

    So considering that should it be made law to ensure parents do not allow a child to become obese?

    Should it be made law to ensure parents do not allow a child to become obese? 51 votes

    Yes, hang em all
    0% 0 votes
    No, stuff them all
    100% 51 votes


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  • #2
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    Deleted User wrote:
    And if anyone was watching Sky news over the weekend you probably saw the interview with the Scottish mother who threatened to take their child out of school unless that school reverses the healthy eating policy and ban on selling junk food in the cafeteria. This particular mother went so far as stuffing take away food through the gates of the school so their child could get their daily amount of grease!!

    Well she's a bloody disgrace :mad: That is outrageous.....


  • #3
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Pardon me while I yawn.

    Ive been eating McDonalds litreally since before I was born. I ate it throughout my childhood, my teens, and to the present day. Im 5`8 odd and weigh 10 stone. Admittedtly, when it comes to running I could do better, but the fact is physically im probably on the skinny side. Some people are just worse affected than others. Though Ive cut it a bit lately, last year my typical day consisted of

    Morning- cornflakes coated in sugar

    1pm- fly up from college to mackers for a meal

    6pm- fly up to KFC/BK/Mackers again for a meal. If not this then Id get a local chipper or a pizza delivered. Through all this I was never more than 10.25 stone. Unfortunately some people are just pre dermined to be fat. If your kid is growing fat, quit feedin them mackers. If they appear to be fine, its no harm.


    btw, that jkid is from the fmr USSR rep of Georgia. I doubt most families in the USSR can afford to eat in McDonalds every day, so you can hardly blame it purely.


  • #4
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Deleted User wrote:
    This pic got me thinking.
    Michelin baby to be honest.

    Some parents have no sense, children need a little discipline in their lives.


  • #5
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    I dont believe you.....


  • #6
    Goldfinger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Goldfinger


    Saw a show last night in a similar vein, some footballer stuck with a bunch of obnoxious overweight kids in an attempt to get them into a better lifestyle, and essentially save their life. I really felt for the poor guy, he was giving it loads and most of the kids just wanted a slap.
    Interestingly, though, the ones that seemed to do the best were the ones getting decent support at home.
    But why on earth should it be a struggle to convince any decent parent that it's essential to their child's well-being to not be fat?

    You see these people all the time , particularly on american TV, "Oh, but my poor little Jimmy cries if I don't let him stuff his fat little face at burger king every day of the week"...so let him cry, you lazy cow! Good parenting sometimes means being unpopular for a while. Believe me, they'll thank you later.

    Maybe a legal kick up the hole is all these people will understand.
    Can't see it happening, though, more's the pity.


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  • #7
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    shane86 wrote:
    Pardon me while I yawn.

    Ive been eating McDonalds litreally since before I was born. I ate it throughout my childhood, my teens, and to the present day. Im 5`8 odd and weigh 10 stone. Admittedtly, when it comes to running I could do better, but the fact is physically im probably on the skinny side. Some people are just worse affected than others. Though Ive cut it a bit lately, last year my typical day consisted of

    Morning- cornflakes coated in sugar

    1pm- fly up from college to mackers for a meal

    6pm- fly up to KFC/BK/Mackers again for a meal. If not this then Id get a local chipper or a pizza delivered. Through all this I was never more than 10.25 stone. Unfortunately some people are just pre dermined to be fat. If your kid is growing fat, quit feedin them mackers. If they appear to be fine, its no harm.


    btw, that jkid is from the fmr USSR rep of Georgia. I doubt most families in the USSR can afford to eat in McDonalds every day, so you can hardly blame it purely.

    Whether you put weight on or not thats not the general issue as a whole. Its still unhealthy and regardless of what you weight its ignorant to think its "fine" if it doesn't physically show. In fact, on that sort of a diet, you are probably in general health terms, not much better off then the fat kid in the picture!


  • #8
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    shane86 wrote:
    Pardon me while I yawn.

    Ive been eating McDonalds litreally since before I was born. I ate it throughout my childhood, my teens, and to the present day. Im 5`8 odd and weigh 10 stone. Admittedtly, when it comes to running I could do better, but the fact is physically im probably on the skinny side. Some people are just worse affected than others. Though Ive cut it a bit lately, last year my typical day consisted of

    Morning- cornflakes coated in sugar

    1pm- fly up from college to mackers for a meal

    6pm- fly up to KFC/BK/Mackers again for a meal. If not this then Id get a local chipper or a pizza delivered. Through all this I was never more than 10.25 stone. Unfortunately some people are just pre dermined to be fat. If your kid is growing fat, quit feedin them mackers. If they appear to be fine, its no harm.

    Jayzus man, have you checked your cholestorel level, blood pressure at a doc?

    I fear you maybe headin to an early grave, its not all about weight you know, its about whats inside those mac/kfc meals which rot your insides, seriously.

    Nobody minds eating them once in a while but eating those types of meals twice a day really can kill you.
    Check out the documentary 'Supersize Me', putting on extra weight was only a factor of those meals.


  • #9
    Lorax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lorax


    Im 5`8 odd and weigh 10 stone.
    10 stone actually sounds underweight for someone whos 20 and your height.. but seriously that diet is frightening! Have u been to the doctor lately to get your cholesterol or blood pressure or anything checked?


  • #10
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,446 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Deleted User wrote:

    And if anyone was watching Sky news over the weekend you probably saw the interview with the Scottish mother who threatened to take their child out of school unless that school reverses the healthy eating policy and ban on selling junk food in the cafeteria. This particular mother went so far as stuffing take away food through the gates of the school so their child could get their daily amount of grease!!

    It was way OTT but I saw a number of interviews with the mother in question. She was feeding her kid this to highlight attention to her protest. She was campaigning that the school meals are of poor quality and lack any sort of variety at all etc etc etc.. She wants kids to have a greater selection of foods and was even arguing that the burger she was giving her kid for lunch was more nutricious than the **** the school were feeding the kids.. Something like that anyway.


  • #11
    Goldfinger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Goldfinger


    shane86 wrote:

    Ive been eating McDonalds literally since before I was born.

    What does this mean?


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  • #12
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,446 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Just to highlight that I do not agree with regulalry feeding kids bad food etc etc etc..


  • #13
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    shane86 wrote:
    Pardon me while I yawn.

    Ive been eating McDonalds litreally since before I was born. I ate it throughout my childhood, my teens, and to the present day. Im 5`8 odd and weigh 10 stone. Admittedtly, when it comes to running I could do better, but the fact is physically im probably on the skinny side. Some people are just worse affected than others. Though Ive cut it a bit lately, last year my typical day consisted of

    Morning- cornflakes coated in sugar

    1pm- fly up from college to mackers for a meal

    6pm- fly up to KFC/BK/Mackers again for a meal. If not this then Id get a local chipper or a pizza delivered. Through all this I was never more than 10.25 stone. Unfortunately some people are just pre dermined to be fat. If your kid is growing fat, quit feedin them mackers. If they appear to be fine, its no harm.


    btw, that jkid is from the fmr USSR rep of Georgia. I doubt most families in the USSR can afford to eat in McDonalds every day, so you can hardly blame it purely.

    Let me repeat, I dont believe you... I think your full of ****


  • #14
    TomCo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,529 ✭✭✭TomCo


    He admitted he's full of ****, did you not read his post?


  • #15
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    TomCo wrote:
    He admitted he's full of ****, did you not read his post?

    Yeah :D


  • #16
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Alot of questions :D

    Righto, lets begin

    Well, Goldfinger, I meant my oul one had a few mackers meals whiilst I was waitin to be born (or more like refuisng, I was 3 weeks overdue and refusing to move before I was forcibly evicted by caesarean :) )


    Stepbar- sorry, but I am 10 stone. My body simply refuses to put on weight, and I eat a great deal of unehalthy, tasty crap. I always hover between 9.75 and 10.25. At stressful times in my life im down to the just under 10, when its all good im just over the 10 mark. Now, probably when Im 40 Ill look like Bobby Bacalla from the Sopranos, but for the moment my metababobolbabobilboism is on overdirve, keepin me slim, stunningly attractive but with the heart of a 90 yuear old chain smoker. :)


    Gurramok- no, I didnt. My oul lad urged me to when I last visited the doctor (first time in 6 odd years, I only bothered going because I needed a sick cert for work), but when I heard it involved needles i said **** that. Sorry, but Im completely fearless against everything and anything, bar needles and dentists.

    As for my health, Im only on the fast food once a day now, I get a nice potato and steak or pork dinner in work every day :) Ima start tryna get the heart running again soon, as tbh Im sick of spitting up streams of saliva after a 15 minute kickabout with the lads.


  • #17
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    In all fairness a sandwich and a bag of crisps are cheaper than a Mickey D's. I dont understand how you dont put on weight... the calories alone :eek: Do you exercise???? It must be quare exercise if you do....


  • #18
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Not really. Last year, id walk 3/4 mile to college/ 3/4 back home, maybe 1/4 mile throughout the day within college (Blanch IT where ya at ma niggas :D ). So i walked 2 miles, but sure so do half the working people in this country id think.

    Now I walk maybe 2.5 miles per day. Fat and my skin just do not have a connection line.....yet.


  • #19
    Lorax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lorax


    shane86 wrote:
    Stepbar- sorry, but I am 10 stone. My body simply refuses to put on weight, and I eat a great deal of unehalthy, tasty crap. I always hover between 9.75 and 10.25.
    Visit the Fitness forum http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=252


  • #20
    GAA widow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 207 ✭✭GAA widow


    Deleted User wrote:
    This pic got me thinking.

    Have to say, fair enough it's a pic of a couple of obese kids, but I think it's v. unfair (have seen it in a couple of national newspapers) using pics of kids to highlight "obesity" when as far as they and their families are concerned they're being photographed at the beach or on a family day out (not for their weight issue).

    Bet any of ye would be horrified if a pic of ye winded up with an "Obesity in Ireland on a par with the U S of A" headline above it.


  • #21
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    GAA widow wrote:
    Bet any of ye would be horrified if a pic of ye winded up with an "Obesity in Ireland on a par with the U S of A" headline above it.

    If someone was fat enough - particularly from eating shìt like that - to be compared with a morbidly obese yank, then I doubt they would have the self-respect to care about a photo being made public about it.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 36,733 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why to you think they call it a BIGMac?*






    *Make Adolescents Chubby.


  • #23
    Jack B. Badd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    shane86 wrote:
    Now, probably when Im 40 Ill look like Bobby Bacalla from the Sopranos

    You're planning on living into your 40s? lol :rolleyes:


  • #24
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Altogether now, (to the theme tune off Batman)

    Nanny nanny nanny nanny nanny nanny nanny nanny NANNY STATE!!!

    Be reasonable. That kid is a big one yes, but he has featured in many magazine articles simply because he is (and I mean this most respectfully) a freak of nature. As someone else pointed out, his family is quite poor, so Maccers is hardly a daily occurance. If I remember correctly as well, that kid is actually in surprisingly good health, and his mum has been commended by doctors on her ability to deal with his massive food requirements, and they are massive, and the vast majority of his intake is actually very healthy food.

    MacDonalds is an easy target, but to say its child cruelty is just plain silly. I think its a case of "oh dear, my child is fat, who can I blame this on??" Now and again, its no harm, so should we really say that because a child is overweight, they should never get to have a "treat" in Maccers? If you're gonna impose this type of behaviour control on parents and their children, then it better go further than Mcdonalds. Lets see, I think I'll have some soup instead. In front of me is a pack of soup for my lunch today and it contains:
    Monosodium Glutonate, Salt, Citric acid, Beta Apo 8 (??) Maltodrexin, Carotenal extract, Emulsifiers, Guar gum thickener, Mono diglycerides, fatty acids and so on and so on. I'm no expert on food or its contents, but I doubt all of the above are going to make me fit and healthy. Okay, I understand that its the high fat and probably salt content that pees people off about Maccers, but whatabout home bake pizza? What about all the unhealthy sh*t people eat from chippers and deli counters, some on a daily basis? Look carefully at the contents of most of what we eat and you'll see a lot of bad things in there.

    Let ye who eat only homegrown organic fruit and vegetables cast the first stone.


  • #25
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    shane86 wrote:
    If they appear to be fine, its no harm.

    Just as some advice, i suggest you get a full check up and blood work done?

    Weight does not equal health after all. It is worth your while to overcome the fear of needles and get your blood work done and make sure you do not have anything.

    This should be done by all men at least twice a year in my opinion.

    While i find your attitude and treatment of the one life you have been given pretty laughable, i suggest you stop being cool for the sake of the internet and get checked. I'm sure there is someone in your life should undiagnosed anything but an end to you. ;)


  • #26
    abetarrush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    The fat babies should just eat their parents, then head down the road to recovery


    these ma's always make excuses

    Oh, the doctor says hes fine
    I can't say no to him

    they shud ask for a helicopter so!!


  • #27
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    shane86 wrote:
    Alot of questions :D

    Now, probably when Im 40 Ill look like Bobby Bacalla from the Sopranos, but for the moment my metababobolbabobilboism is on overdirve, keepin me slim, stunningly attractive but with the heart of a 90 yuear old chain smoker. :)
    If you make it to 40, unfortunately, being thin doesn't always mean being healthy, the strange thing is some overweight people may actually be healthier and fitter than you.


  • #28
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    I dont get how people can still eat McDonalds they are mank. Also you seem to crave it every 6 months just to see if it stil does in fact taste like muck. After you eat you feel slightly queezy roughly followed in a 1/2 hour by a nice healthy run to the nearest jax to spray the bowl.

    Anything that goes through your bod that fast and stinks like that on the way out CANNOT be good for you.


  • #29
    Mrs_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Mrs_Doyle


    My little sis, aged 11, was born 3 months premature, weighing just under 2lb.
    Mentally, she is top notch - no problems there, no learning disabilities or anything like that, and physically, to look at her, she his a little stunner, totally perfect, however, the one place it effects her in her every day life is in her walking, and running.
    The ligaments in the back of her right leg are very tight, which kinda shortens the leg slightly, meaning that she walks with a slight limp - and in 11 year old terms, it just means she will never be the first person picked to play on any of the sports teams :p


    Anyhow, the reason I mention the above - because of her slight disability, it is somewhat more difficult for her to burn of calories - she doesn't get the same kind of exercises that the other kids get by running around, playing on the green, etc.

    She is 4foot 10 and weighs 7stone 3lbs - she is weighed every week, and her diet is monitored.

    The intention is not to give the kid a complex - the CRC asks that we do it because with the wrong diet, it would be very easy for her to pile on the pounds and become over weight.

    She exercises with the CRC regularly, and we get her to do half an hour of her stretching exercises at home.

    None of the above has ever felt like a burden to anyone in my family, and I can't help but wonder how other parents seem to neglect their children, who by rights should be perfectly healthy, by allowing them fast foods on a regular basis, and doing nothing to ensure they they live a healthy and active life.

    I remember when I was about 13 I was starting to get into the whole, 'lets spend the day in MacDonald's hanging out with friends' thing, I piled on a bit of weight, nothing life threatening, but the difference was visible.

    My mam never said anything to me about MY weight, but said that SHE wanted to get healthy and asked if I would start going on walks with her.

    Basically, she knew I was an overly sensitive teen, and didn't want to offend me by telling me I had put on a bit of weight, so instead, she cleverly helped me to shed the weight, and as I was dropping the pounds, she showered me with compliments about how great I looked - so I then wanted to say slim and healthy all by myself.

    I appreciate what my parents have done for myself, and my siblings, but I don't think it should be considered 'above the call of duty', I think it is what all parents should be doing to ensure their children live fit and healthy lives.


  • #30
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    This topic reminds me of a program that I saw on obese kids, think it was based in California. It was about a little girl who was severly obese and was struggling to even walk. She had to have an oxygen mask at home & her meals would consist of maccy d's, taco bell, etc.. Her mother would keep buying this crap for her. She had to go to the hospital for some operation, can't remember what it was but on the way home from the hospital they go to the drive-thru... :eek:

    Parents have to held responsible. Kids are not knowledgeable enough to realise the consequences of eating crap food. And it's not just the Maccy D's, it's also the crap that over worked parents throw out to their kids in the evenings. I think our education system should also be partly held responsible, it's a joke. There is a lot of crap taught that is of abosultely no relevance to us in later life. How about having a proper education system that includes health & nutrition, driving skills, budgeting and so on... things that everyone needs in later life.


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  • #31
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,202 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    jester77 wrote:
    Parents have to held responsible. Kids are not knowledgeable enough to realise the consequences of eating crap food. And it's not just the Maccy D's, it's also the crap that over worked parents throw out to their kids in the evenings.

    I wholeheartedly agree.

    As we are sharing anecdotes, I was recently staying over in a friends house, they have three kids, the oldest of which is obese at ten years of age. Now I like a good fry especially after a few pints but at breakfast the child ate more than me (a thirty-something year old man). The parents just sat there and tried to discourage the child, but she persisted. I couldn't help but notice the crap the parents were feeding the kids during the course of the two nights I stayed with them. It is no wonder these kids, and their parents, are regulars at the local doctors. A constant diet of rubbish, topped up with antibiotics is what these kids are being reared on.

    And no doubt this is being repeated across the country, especially in lower-income families. So yes, I agree, parents should held accountable. Education is the key.


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