04-23-2009, 09:36 AM | #1 | ||
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So today is 'Take Your Kid To Work Day'.......
Office is packed with kids today and there's one thing I notice more than anything else........
There's a lot of fat kids around here! WTF?!?!?! This just in. Fast food is bad for you. Cook meals for your kids and get them active on occasion. Geez. |
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04-23-2009, 09:40 AM | #2 |
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I bet you could torture them until they got thinner.
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04-23-2009, 09:41 AM | #3 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Really? I always seem to remember this getting a fair amount of play at work. Hasn't been mentioned here, and I don't see any kids. Strange.
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04-23-2009, 09:42 AM | #4 |
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04-23-2009, 09:43 AM | #5 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Torture? Why not put them to work and go get a Big Mac!
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04-23-2009, 09:45 AM | #6 |
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I did a paper on childhood obesity for a nutrition class I took last year. The numbers were staggering.
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04-23-2009, 09:45 AM | #7 |
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Well they did say torture, now didn't they? |
04-23-2009, 09:49 AM | #8 |
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04-23-2009, 10:01 AM | #9 |
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Of my 15 24-35 yr old coworkers, none of us have kids.
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04-23-2009, 10:28 AM | #10 |
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Finally, a plan we all can agree upon. Fat camp for all! SI
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04-23-2009, 10:50 AM | #11 | |
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04-23-2009, 10:59 AM | #12 |
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04-23-2009, 11:04 AM | #13 |
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Anecdotal but I don't think it's as much about the food as it is the frequency of food, at least not based on our recent experiences.
Consider this feeding schedule, which is the norm for our 11 year old 5th grader. 700 am - Breakfast 1000 am - Morning snack Noon - Lunch 200 pm - Afternoon break w/snack 400 pm - get home after school snack 700 pm - Dinner See, by the time I hit 1st grade "snack time" at school was just a memory. Now it's apparently not unheard of for it to continue all the way through high school as they push the benefits of making sure you're not hungry while trying to work (every year he's been in school there's always special snacks during testing weeks, exam weeks, etc even if they didn't already stop down twice a day for it) It ain't what they're just being fed, it's how often they're eating.
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04-23-2009, 11:08 AM | #14 | |
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04-23-2009, 11:12 AM | #15 | |
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Actually, eating 5-6 times a day in small amounts is actually preferred if you have the time. It revs up your body to burn calories knowing that more fuel is coming every few hours rather than eating 2-3 big meals a day, which makes the body feel like it should store more energy. As long as the calorie intake is controlled and regular exercise occurs, that's actually a great eating schedule. |
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04-23-2009, 11:14 AM | #16 |
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Basically it's a 10 minute break where they're strongly encouraged to bring a little something to nibble on. I've gone through more Special K bars, Rice Krispie Treats, Goldfish, cheese cubes, crackers, mini boxes of raisins, and fruit snacks that you can shake a stick at over the past 7 years. I was really looking forward to him getting past that age cause it's a real pain in the butt to figure out what to make sure is here at home (trying to avoid falling into the chips & cheetos routine) but apparently now there really isn't a "past that age", it's never ending.
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04-23-2009, 11:17 AM | #17 | |
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Yeah, right up until you have normal meals at the three traditionals. And I'll be damned if I'm going to deny my kid real honest-to-God food in order to worry about saving calories for all this crap. Thankfully he got my metabolism, because I've had the same weight +/- 5 pounds since my early 20's now into my early 40's regardless of what I eat. And my heart attack on a plate tendencies have been documented here previously so it's not as though it's from counting calories. And you can safely assume that it definitely isn't related to exercise, which I go to every length possible to avoid as completely as I can.
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04-23-2009, 11:18 AM | #18 |
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Shoot, if we had 10 minutes when I was in high school, we would have ran across the street to the taco shop and got some rolled tacos.
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04-23-2009, 11:19 AM | #19 |
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Snack time must be a relatively new invention. I'm 28, and when I was through school, the only snack time we had was in Kindergarten.
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04-23-2009, 11:20 AM | #20 |
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I wish we could have nap time at work like we did in pre-school.
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04-23-2009, 11:22 AM | #21 | |
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I'm now 42 and had the same experience but that changed some time in the 90's, and it's steadily been stretched out to 2nd grade, then middle school, and now is apparently starting to be pretty much sanctioned in some high schools as well. And then the same schools make a big fuss about phys ed this and fitness test that and so on. It's inane.
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04-23-2009, 11:29 AM | #22 |
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Full disclosure we did have an extended break between 2nd and 3rd periods in High School, I think it was 10-15 minutes and the student store (of which i worked in) did pretty good business during that time. Plus I know the lunch ladies served some snacks and whatever from their carts.
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04-23-2009, 11:38 AM | #23 |
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I eat every 2 hours or so. 6-8 times a day. No meal more than maybe 350-400 calories. I've stayed under 165-170 for over a year so far. What matters more is what they are eating. In theory, they should be eating more often, but not just if they are going to pile potato chips on top of crappy lunches and dinners.
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04-23-2009, 11:41 AM | #24 | |
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04-23-2009, 11:57 AM | #25 |
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There's something oddly comforting in knowing that Jon can get so pissed over snack time.
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04-23-2009, 12:20 PM | #26 |
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I was at my daughter's college graduation last weekend. Of the 100 or so graduates, there were a half-dozen that must have waited 400+ pounds. On unfortunate woman apparently decided that in order to distract folks from her enormous girth, she would simply cover her upper chest and neck in a bright and colorful tattoo.
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04-23-2009, 12:26 PM | #27 | |
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04-23-2009, 12:32 PM | #28 | |
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Glad you're comforted by it. I'm just annoyed by it, instead of just having to figure out what's for the normal meals (often the most perplexing question of the day) it's like having to go through that an extra couple of times.
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04-23-2009, 12:35 PM | #29 |
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I'm 35. Until 7th grade (Junior High for me), that "morning snack" time was Recess, where we all went outside and ran around like crazed lunatics (well, at least the boys did). I can't recall if we had an afternoon recess. |
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04-23-2009, 12:44 PM | #31 | |
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04-23-2009, 12:51 PM | #32 | |
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For us what I'm referring to as snack time is officially "morning break" and "afternoon break", which consist of 10-15 minutes of combined snacking & lunatic imitations.
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04-23-2009, 12:53 PM | #33 |
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Ah.
Speaking of which, I wish I could have "recess" at work. Maybe I should take up smoking. Of course, these days that would require a 100 yard trek a few times a day.... |
04-23-2009, 02:17 PM | #34 | |
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Either way, this is completely spot on.
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04-23-2009, 03:43 PM | #35 |
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Take your kids to work day would make my workday very interesting. My 7 year old would especially love it. The passengers? Not so much.
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04-23-2009, 06:05 PM | #37 | |
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This is cracking me up. Picturing a bunch of lunch ladies each pushing their own cart around the school is probably part of it. The other part is imagining the lunch ladies trying to entice you with candy and fish tacos. |
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04-23-2009, 06:31 PM | #38 | |
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There was only like 2 of them and the just pushed them to the location they set up and that was it. And there wasn't really any candy or fish. More like cheese rolls, bean burritos, cookies, fruit, and drinks. The student store had all the candy! |
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04-23-2009, 10:30 PM | #40 |
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In our current test-based environment, recess is out, since that time can be better used in preparing for the test. Snacking can keep the students from losing focus during test preparation and the test itself, so it is encouraged. The days of the test, it is even mandated.
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04-23-2009, 10:44 PM | #41 |
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About 50-55 work on my floor and no kids. They were all in school. Didn't the kids you saw have school today?
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04-24-2009, 09:37 AM | #42 | |
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04-24-2009, 06:15 PM | #43 |
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I want my kid to take me to her job.
It is far more interesting than installing a new payroll system.
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