Foods to avoid - Page 12

QueenDanceALot · ‎04-18-2013

@Noel7 wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@hckynut

Hi John

I think it's not knowing, a lack of information and the prevalence of fast food and no time to cook for many families.

It's too bad. I don't know what the answer is.
Noel, I read the report on Huffington Post and what they failed to introduce is the topic of children refusing to eat. Many parents introduce healthy foods and their child will just not eat. I had it with my children and my daughter has been very concerned about my grandson and whether he is getting the proper nutrients. Children often have a mind of their own and are pretty stubborn when it comes to what they will eat. The lowly french fry is often times all a parent can get a child to eat in a restaurant. Finicky eaters abound.... I don't put blame on the young parents of today. I think it is an age old problem.
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Hi @Trinity11

I never put the blame on young people and I didn't with this subject.

I stand by thinking most people don't know a lot about nutrition, and that's not age specific.

I know about finiky kids, we have them in our extended family. As I said before, I don't know what the answer is.
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No, you didn't put the blame on young parents but the article implied that parents are not feeding their kids in a healthy manner. It did in fact lead to some comments...sids mom went so far as to say it was almost child abuse if a parent feeds their child under 1 a French fry.

I really believe that things haven't changed all that much in regards to nutrition. People in general eat foods that are appealing and nutrition takes a back seat. Then there are the various voices in the medical community with conflicting advice...the perfect recipe for indecisiveness in what really is a healthy diet. I think most do the best they can...

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@Trinity11

Gee, I really missed several posts.

I saw the comment about "child abuse" and just rolled my eyes.

I also think most people try their best, but a lot of information just isn't out there. Also, like I said before, so many families of all ages just don't have the time to make good meals from scratch anymore. Work hours and extracurricular activities take a lot of time.

When the subject came up a couple of years ago, many older people did not know that as we age, it's harder for our bodies to absorb vitamin D, even from milk or sunshine.

I just don't buy this. It takes little time to put something together at home that's nutritious. You could do it in the time it takes to go to the drive through.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
Are the QVC boards REALLY slow today or is it my computer?

It's not you. I think they're tinkering again. Some functionality is missing. It keeps looking to me that I haven't posted, it never shows "Success! Go to your post" so I have to refresh & exit/enter the thread. PITA.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

My mother always served a huge salad and a side of veg for dinner.

There were a lot of small family produce farmers around at the time, so luckily it was always fresh.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

@Moonchilde wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
Are the QVC boards REALLY slow today or is it my computer?

It's not you. I think they're tinkering again. Some functionality is missing. It keeps looking to me that I haven't posted, it never shows "Success! Go to your post" so I have to refresh & exit/enter the thread. PITA.

It's been terrible....I tried to give hearts to a lot of the posts and it won't let me. Also I got a message that the website is not secure.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
And there are the scientific discoveries that prove that kids don't always say they don't like something just to be annoying. The "bitterness gene" was discovered several years ago. It's real.

http://www.livescience.com/39578-why-some-hate-broccoli.html

They use broccoli as the main example, but it's true of any less-sweet, slightly bitter vegetable.

Forcing a child to eat something they truly hate the taste of doesn't do anything but show the child you're a bully. Nice lesson.

Give them a different vegetable they don't hate. Put a little cheese or sauce on it. Attempt to work with the child. It should be about exposing the child to as many foods as they are able to tolerate while providing decent, not always perfect, nutrition.

It should not be about "You'll eat what I tell you to eat or starve." That serves the parent and their need to control. It certainly doesn't demonstrate love for the child. Children remember the battles, and the control. And the more control, i.e. bullying, the child experienced, the less likely they are as adults to ever eat what they were literally emotionally "forced" to eat.
Serving kids "sweet" so they'll eat something isn't going to serve them well as they grow.

I wasn't bullied at the dinner table. I just grew up eating nutritious food. That's the point I was trying to make. I know a few mothers who let their kids eat cookies and gummy bears because they won't eat anything else, saying "oh, they'll grow out of it".

Not sure why you feel the need to make this All About You. Quite a few posters have commented that they were expected to eat what was put in front of them like it or not, with various "methods" or threats to insure that they did. It's the way most of us past 60 were raised. Just because we lived through it doesn't make it a great idea.

My post didn't even mention serving sweet foods to children instead of nutritious food - that's your interpretation, of ?

A commentary is just a commentary.
I certainly wasn't making it "All About Me". "A little sauce" is often sweet. Mea Culpa if I misinterpreted it. Or perhaps I was responding to the topic as a whole and it wasn't just in response to you. Yes, yes I was.

Maybe it's your control issues coming up.

Oh, there are issues aplenty in this thread (and every thread that has to do with food and "nutrition"), but they're not mine - or mainstream medical science's.

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Life without Mexican food is no life at all

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Trinity11 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
Are the QVC boards REALLY slow today or is it my computer?

It's not you. I think they're tinkering again. Some functionality is missing. It keeps looking to me that I haven't posted, it never shows "Success! Go to your post" so I have to refresh & exit/enter the thread. PITA.
It's been terrible....I tried to give hearts to a lot of the posts and it won't let me. Also I got a message that the website is not secure.

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I'm really glad to find out it's not me. I just dropped off of the net, but that happens with our ATT service.

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

I found out in mid-life that I am allergic to most of the foods I wouldn't eat as a child, including potatoes, which sometimes make me vomit. I have to be careful with them, but can digest them a bit better now.

Being a little kid not allowed to leave the table til I cleaned my plate, I would excuse myself from table and throw the potatoes (concealed in my hand) down the toilet or, better still, behind the radiator near where I was always seated, b/c our spaniel, "Ruffles," being my particular friend, always watched me and would go behind there and eat them up.

My only point in this thread is that when diet is concerned, no one size fits all. We can't advise others to do anything except understand their own family and personal food issues. These will be different for practically everyone, in terms of foods that are not healthy.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@Trinity11 wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
@hckynut

Hi John

I think it's not knowing, a lack of information and the prevalence of fast food and no time to cook for many families.

It's too bad. I don't know what the answer is.
Noel, I read the report on Huffington Post and what they failed to introduce is the topic of children refusing to eat. Many parents introduce healthy foods and their child will just not eat. I had it with my children and my daughter has been very concerned about my grandson and whether he is getting the proper nutrients. Children often have a mind of their own and are pretty stubborn when it comes to what they will eat. The lowly french fry is often times all a parent can get a child to eat in a restaurant. Finicky eaters abound.... I don't put blame on the young parents of today. I think it is an age old problem.
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Hi @Trinity11

I never put the blame on young people and I didn't with this subject.

I stand by thinking most people don't know a lot about nutrition, and that's not age specific.

I know about finiky kids, we have them in our extended family. As I said before, I don't know what the answer is.
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No, you didn't put the blame on young parents but the article implied that parents are not feeding their kids in a healthy manner. It did in fact lead to some comments...sids mom went so far as to say it was almost child abuse if a parent feeds their child under 1 a French fry.

I really believe that things haven't changed all that much in regards to nutrition. People in general eat foods that are appealing and nutrition takes a back seat. Then there are the various voices in the medical community with conflicting advice...the perfect recipe for indecisiveness in what really is a healthy diet. I think most do the best they can...

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@Trinity11

Gee, I really missed several posts.

I saw the comment about "child abuse" and just rolled my eyes.

I also think most people try their best, but a lot of information just isn't out there. Also, like I said before, so many families of all ages just don't have the time to make good meals from scratch anymore. Work hours and extracurricular activities take a lot of time.

When the subject came up a couple of years ago, many older people did not know that as we age, it's harder for our bodies to absorb vitamin D, even from milk or sunshine.
I just don't buy this. It takes little time to put something together at home that's nutritious. You could do it in the time it takes to go to the drive through.

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@QueenDanceALot

I wasn't talking about drive throughs. IMO people who haven't raised kids have no idea what evenings are like, especially for working parents.

But yes, I know for sure preparing a well balanced home-cooked meal with fresh ingredients for a family takes a lot longer than a drive-through, although I would not recommend a drive-through.

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

The issue today is the lack of home cooked meals, period.

My mother worked all three shifts alternating and still fresh food was our dinner every night.

A side of pasta was just that - a side. Not the honking huge plates of pasta served today as a main meal.

McDonald's was a treat and you were content with that 5 cent hamburger and your littlebag of fries. No super-sizing.

Arby's didn't show up until I was a senior in high school.

There is nothing wrong with a fast food treat here and there but some families live on it.

As far as not serving food a child doesn't like, allergies aside, if you expect a child to not like a certain food, he/shewon't. How many parents present a new veggie or dish and tell the child 'It's good for you you'll like it". Wrong move.

I could type more but this spacebar is wonky again so please excuse any words that may berun together.

"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

I don't know any parents who told a child they wouldn't like a veg, and I know for sure I never did. My daughter has always loved vegetables of all kinds.

IMO there's no stereotyping when it comes to food.