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Eat Right, Earn an iPod
TheMster writes "The BBC is reporting on the UK government's latest policy to tackle obesity - through offering iPods and XBoxes to pupils. The lucky lads and lasses of 29 Glasgow secondary schools will be part of the pioneering scheme, which utilises the newly introduced swipe-card canteens to create a system of the 'better you eat, the bigger the treat'."
More government funding for Apple and Microsoft. Just what they need.
Runners up in the competition get XXL t-shirts as prizes ;)
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I want to lose weight and get free prizes also.
the eurocunts. but the way the usia seems to work is theyd reward them with hamburgers or fried chicken. fucking ridiculous.
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Would this be a food pyramid scheme?
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They shouldn't be rewarding healthy eating - they should be punishing unhealthy eating.
'The worse you eat, the harder the beats'
...turn them on to those little carrot sticks. All kids love those little carrot sticks and you will quickly lose the urge for large nacho trays and 4-meat BBQ once you try them.
fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, and the like -- but in large quantities. I rarely (as in, months go by) eat candy, chips, pasta, pastries, or drink soda or beer. Even with moderate excercise (hey, I have a desk job), gaining weight is a pain.
sounds like fun, first you take a packed lunch, second you use your card for all the apples you can throw
Here, kids, we'll give you a reason to sit on your ass all day if you get up and excercise!
Hmm, what happens when kids buy healthy food from the cafeteria, but also eat unhealthy snacks from home?
This comment was thought up very late at night and does not necessarily reflect my views at a more reasonable hour.
but I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home, ordered the "good" food and threw half of it away.
If I can figure out that kind of scheme, a kid surely can.
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So they can eat right, and then sit on their asses when they get their new Xbox. That's not self-defeating at all.
Now if it was an XBox wired so it only got power from an exercise bike...that'd be genius!
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the way to encourage keeping trim is to give kids video games
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With a system based on incentive, the kids are going to have to buy certain foods in order to earn a nice toy. This can a child's eating habits on the basis of one or two meals a day, but that does nothing to preven them from filling up on junk at other times. Many overweight people who diet fail for this reason: they eat healthy foods IN ADDITION to extra junk on the side.
Eating healthy has lots of incentives that aren't obvious. People have a hard time realizing some key benefits of eating right, such as better health, more energy, and a thinner body, which is why these incentives tend not to work.
Substituting those for something like an iPod or XBox could give kids more drive, but only to earn the prize; the real benefits may only come as side effects, if at all.
We can only hope that such a program will help kids to develop a taste for healthy foods. I know from personal experience that eating something you find unappealing enough times will not only build tolerance, but actually lead to preference if done enough.
My tax is not going to pay for this. No fucking way.
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"The BBC is reporting on the UK government's latest policy to tackle obesity - through offering iPods and XBoxes to pupils."
XBoxes? To tackle obesity? What else? A new TV set? Why not offer bikes and musical instruments instead of XBoxes and iPods? This is the most stupid idea I have ever heard.
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I dont know much about health, but I thought health nuts say video games help make you fat...this is a classic case of WTF?!?
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it's because the english a whingers, they need to just stfu and eat their fucking vegtables
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But what's an XBox about? Spending endless hours sitting in front of you TV.
Reward the correct behaviour.
First, lets talk money. Schools make a shitload of money off soda and snack machines. When I was in school, we did not have a pepsi or coke machine. I think the only one in the school was in the teachers lounge.
But these dirtbag peice of scum motherfuckers decided that they would trade the health of children to make a few dollars. So they installed soda machines in middle schools and high schools. Kids could now get a pepsi and twinkies on the way to math class.
Here is the problem. It is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST. Schools use this money to pay their faculty higher wages.
Check this shit out:
http://www.thechampion.org/teach2004/TopTeach.asp
There are so many elementary, middle, and highschool teachers making over $100,000 a year with 3 MONTHS VACATION!!! And they can't be fired.
They found a formula. They have a teachers union. Every 3 or 4 years, no matter how good they have it, they go on strike, and demand more money. They demand tenure for everyone, no matter how bad the teacher is.
So schools must come up with money. They can only tax the people so much. So they find creative ways. They bring in the pepsi machines, charge a dollar for a 25 cent can. They start packing 60 people in general history and english classes.
And this is where it gets really sick!
They devide of the 10% or so of the school that they know will go on to Harvard and the like, students that could make noise in 10 years. And they make an honors program for them, where they get Honors History with 15 students, while everyone else is stuck in the class with 50 people.
Here is a study I would like to do. Take one of those honors students, before they know they were picked or approved for honors. Keep him/her in the general class. Take a random middle of the road student and put him in the honors class. I bet you will find better grades and exams from the smaller class size. Someone is getting gipped.
But back to fat kids. Why do they get fat? Is PE so value-less that the bright kids no longer want to take it. Is PE a time when 50 kids sit around for 10 minutes waiting for the teacher to set up the game, play for 15 minutes, then get 10 minues to go back and change?
I think the I-Pod idea is bad. Someone has to pay for it, and it won't be me!! I want the kids to be healthy, to exersize, to have a good life. But it does not take throwing money on a problem to improve things. Teachers were never paid better, when I was younger, I was told stay away from teaching because it is a low paying job where the only ones who do it really love the work. This is back when you did not find teachers making over $30-40k. Today we have them making over $170,000 a year.
Now, before I finish my rant, let me tell you the solution. It is called "bust your ass". Kids get 5 minutes to change for PE. Class is long enough for them to get 35 minutes of cardo every day school is in session. They throw out the vending machines (which would require putting teachers in line with reasonable pay, removing tenure as an automatic gift). And here is the kicker, have schools feed healthy meals. Instead of high fat food, how about a vegi lasanga one day, baked chicken the next. It should not be hard to have a healthy menu.
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don't you think that if you give a kid a Xbox they will spend more time in front of a TV, and less time burning off that fat.
So these days one has to bribe or buy someone's good behaviour / habits that benefit the *self*? They just will, if they actually have some selfcontrol, put out to get their Xbox or Ipod or whatever they're offering to forget about it all together afterwards.
Hate to point to the guardians again, but kids / teens get their habits from somewhere. If your guardians haven't got the selfcontrol to leave that other twinky or don't take proper time for preparing proper food, how could you expect a teen to fight that and know better?
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After this weeks E3, everyone would be clammering for an Xbox 360! Xbox or Xbox 360? You decide.
but I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home, ordered the "good" food and threw half of it away.
And if they DONT get candy bars from home? What if this is the only method they have for lunches - this is what I had in college when I basically lived in a box (although they called them dorm rooms...)
The meals cost money - and I had to eat them. I suspect that not all these kids have the dispensible income to just "bring" candy bars. If they did, then they would probably not even bother with the good food at all.
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It's been going on in my school for a while now...Order a veggie burger and enter to win an IPod mini. Nothing new...
Even though an iPod or XBox would be a very nice incentive if I were a kid participating in this program to eat healthy, where does the prizes come from? That kid's parents' taxpayer dollars. As a Libertarian, why should the government have to use the possibility of an iPod in order for them to eat healthy, or, better yet, why should the government even be involved in health issues such as obesity? The rise of obesity is a societal issue and it is best dealt with by society, not government.
In this particular case, if I had a choice, my taxpayer dollars should go toward the replacement of the school's unhealthy food items with healthy food. No bribes necessary; the kids would eat better. Besides, there are plenty of healthy foods; one can snack on fruits instead of chocolate candy bars, for example.
I know I will probably be modded down for speaking against the US/Europe-centric groupthink but I live in a place where children are dying of hunger - can you imagine it you lazy fat pigs with your pathetic obesity "problem"? I seriously find this whole idea insulting as hell! If they think they have too much food in their fucking schools then why the hell can't they send it to places where people actually need it instead of giving toys for not buying their food??? This sounds just too stupid to be true. But you have never been hungry so you won't understand me you rich lucky bastards with your imaginary "problems".
I think you are onto something.
When I was in school, we had competitions for everything. The kid who ran the fastes got a ribbon. Believe it or not, but everyone wanted to compete. It did not matter if you were 20th out of 30, you wanted to be 19th next time. Everyone tried.
Today, you can't be 20th out of 30, it will hurt your ego. It will cripple you for life.
Instead of giving Ipods, how about they teach these kids it is time for the gonads to descend?
Kids have leared it does not matter at all what they do. They go at it half assed. They know that there are two America's. One for the rich, and one for the poor. If you can't get into Harvard, you might as well say fuck it and know the community college will accept anyone. So why bust the ass running, or playing sports, or getting the resume ready for college.
Plus, most poor families can no longer survive on one paycheck. 30 years ago, the wife did not have to work. Today, the wife MUST work to feed the family and pay rent. So the kid comes home and watches TV, gets to see Janet Jacksons tit, the whore from Desperate Houswifes get bannged by a black, and every nutjob with a gripe a venue on TV.
Hmmm... Poor me too!!! Fuck school, I can't win, so I won't try, or I'll give such a lame effort so I can't be punished.
Lets bring back corporal punishment and see how quickly things change. If a kid does not try his best, break out the bamboo stick and give him two across the back of his thighs. Forget the out of school detention, make him spend his day walking with the janator, cleaning toilets after the honors students take a nice, healthy dump. They will learn what foreshadowing means.
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...and then throw that shit out unless it tastes like a chocolate candy bar.
And so the world takes another step towards an iPod-based economy.
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How about eliminating unhealthy foods from schools? Sure, the kids can get it elsewhere but why spend a load of money (taxpayers money) on a scheme that has so many obvious holes it's unlikely to DO anything?
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xbox? i wounder if that a marketing move, i thought an i-toy would be a bit better,
Rewarding healthy eating isn't inherently bad but I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home, ordered the "good" food and threw half of it away.
Even better: a fat bully buys two carrots and a parsley-favoured soyaburger with his ID every day and kindly offers to trade it for candys of the little nerdy kid... It's a win-win scenerio (for the bully, that is).
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...has an equal and opposite government program. Or at least that's what it feels like.
Any day now, I look forward to hearing how the music and software industries are trying to discourage P2P piracy by giving away candy.
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I hope they don't give out iPod photo for eating only grains and vegetables, because then many children will eat diet unhealthy for them just to get a shiny toy. Low carb diet is over-hyped, but it sure worked for some people. And if you are an athlete or have an iron deficiency, you don't want to skip red meat. I would never be in reasonable shape or have a good energy level if I followed the stupid food pyramid. Better to reward exercise and knowledge of health issues rather than specific food.
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Is there a DDR game for XBox? If so, that'll tackle the fat! They should make it a bundle!
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/yourselffitness/default. htm?level1=enusgames&level2=catalog&level3=yoursel ffitness
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But I least i give a shit about the stuff i eat
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yea i care about nutrition
Nutrition is good for me
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True, for non-affluent kids this is not an issue.
But overall, kids have more control over money and disposable income than ever, so I suspect that for the bulk of them it's a real possibility to bring junk food from home so they look virtuous in school.
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Maybe I missed something, but didn't the yanks win the civil war?
So now the school system is steeping in where parents have failed? This screams fucking ridiculous to me! What schools should be done is providing more physical activity and probably putting the fatter kids into more physical activity. That is if they are so concerned about children's health.
This latest method sounds like we're treating our kids like dogs. Sounds like their spoiling the kids. Need i ask, just what type of students attend this school? That is, students with rich or poor parents????
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I go to a private high school in Massachusetts. There are no fat kids here. Maybe one or two overweight ones per grade, but NOBODY "obese," certainly nobody "superobese." There is junk food sold on campus. How do they do it? Mandatory sports after classes. I get out of school at 3:05 and have sports at 3:30. They end at 5:30. Sometimes the time is juggled around a bit, but for the most part the sports last at least an hour and a half. This, my friends, is the way to do it. We sell junk food in campus, but the machines are in the basement. I have to go down and up a couple flights of stairs to eat a candy bar. It works, I'm fit, I'm not complaining.
XBOX IS HUGE. Therefore it will be a weight lifting exercise getting it home, assuming their arms don't fall off. Also, having an iPod will also have to improve their cardiovascular capacity, having to run for their life when being mugged for being recognised with the white earphones.
I don't know what you guys are thinking, this DOES help the kids.
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Okay this is misleading. The idea is NOT to make them lose weight, it's to get them to EAT BETTER. The idea is this way kids will at least try fruit and other healthy options and hopefully stick with it. Most news channels covering it today had kids saying they liked fruit and would stick with it.
So this isn't "go on a diet you fat fucks" it's "try this, it's nice".
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this is such a school-like thing to do. For example:
remember something long enough just to pass a test, pass it, forget.
lose weight long enough to win a free ipod, win it, gain weight back.
another win for the education system.
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Damn! One more reason why the US education system sucks! D:
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iPods for apples. (duck)
Less messy in the lunchroom.
Seriously, getting kids to eat right (or to do anything right) starts at home. So often we expect the State to train children. Now the "State" sees fit to give skinny kids Xboxes and iPods so as to fatten them up as they sit around playing with the things.
It appears that these administrators went to university to be educated beyond their intelligence.
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Our Intro to Psychology professor told us once about this program where kids got free icecream or somesuch for reading books.
Apperantly, when the program stopped, the kids had no interest whatsoever in reading.
Giving Xboxen and iPods to kids so they eat healthier is not going to work.
Once you stop giving those out, or a kid gets one and has nothing left to work for, they'll just drop it.
For them to keep eating healthy they need to understand why they are doing it.
And even that might not help that much.
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Then I can sell my iPod for LOTS of pizzas! :D
I can't imagine why anyone would sit around with an XBox. The small selection of quality games makes the system an ideal free weight - once you drill a hole through the center for a bar.
On second thought, maybe you could trade it for a small set of free weights... or toss it back and forth like a fragile medicine ball.
1) Just get rid of all junk food in school canteens.
2) Only deal with food distributors that embrace healthy eating.
3) Get rid of soft drink vending machines - period. (replace with water & fruit juice)
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"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
To all of those who say, "Why give an Xbox? That just encourages you to sit in front of the TV..."
The goal is to get the kids who are already in front of the TV a reason to stop watching the TV. So you offer an incentive of something they would want. The couch potatos don't want a mountain bike, even if it would be good for them.
The ideal situation would be you get the kids who aren't into physical activity an incentive to go out an try it, then they like it, and it becomes part of their lifestyle. By offering an incentive that fits into their existing lifestyle, it would be more likely to get them involved...
Plus, I would say an iPod can definitely be part of an "active lifestyle". People use them while working out all the time.
X-Box helping kids
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I bet the kids would eat their greens if they could have a big chocolate bar chock full of nougat, caramel, and peanuts. Kids love candy, I like to keep my van well stocked when I cruise by the schoolyard.
to smacking the shit out of your kids when they pick up a candy bar?
Hey Tommy, you fat little shit, put that fucking Snickers down before I whack your ass blue!
Worked for me and my 6 foot, 187lbs of glory today, at 24 years of age.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
The problem, in my perception, is a lot of food distributors deal primarily in unhealthy food. It's easier to produce, package, and store mass quantities of the stuff. All-natural, preservative-free food is harder to keep, harder to make, and, above all, expensive.
...Without a central-planned nannie state to control and legislate every single aspect of people's lives?
If working 10 months out of 12 to pay off taxes, and putting up with an overbearing totalitarian government, and destroying diversity by enforcing a monolithic one-size-fits-all concept of health on people regardless of body type and culture is the price we have to pay in order to keep kids from eating twinkies, then so be it.
Fortunatly, western governments are doing their best to regulate our economy, agriculture, and society to a point where we will have the healthy low-calorie diets that more progressive nations like North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Zambia enjoy.
It is about time that governments stop this food-terrorism. Like our glorious crusade in Iraq, no sacrifice is too great, no cost too high, no tactic too extreme, in order to protect our children from... soda and chips!
I think it is a bad idea. It promotes the idealism of anorexia and bulimia. The government is too stresed on obesity, but loosing sight on people that lose the ability to eat. Sad world it is.
I am naturally underweight.. or as natural as can be. I am on a diet to GAIN weight. Will I get a prize for every 5 pounds I gain? This 'scheme' seems very unfair and biased. Let's be lazy tub of lards for our entire life, then when the time is right, we make a big deal out of it and the government with reward us for losing our illgotten weight. WTF is this world coming to. If I didn't already have an iPod, I'd be pissed.
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What's the deal with this positive re-enforcement shit? If that kid doesn't put down the Twinkies, fucking smack it out of his hand.
Sooner or later he will learn. If not, smack his fat ass right the side of his head.
You don't get a metal for brushing your teeth in the morning. Not being obese isn't something to be rewarded for. You're SUPPOSED to eat right. If you don't you are punished. Give the kid an iPod if he tops the world high jump record.
"UK government's latest policy to tackle obesity - through ... pioneering scheme, which utilises the newly introduced wipe-card latrines to create a system of the 'better you eat, the bigger the treat'."
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
...would be simply to make tastier food. But I guess this is unimaginable for the British.
Maybe Apple should get into the food or drink business.. there would be an interesting lawsuit over "Apple" Juice.
I'm slim already. Here's my postal address so you can ship me my X-Box...
Did anyone else read that as Eat Right, Eat an iPod?
Can't they read? It clearly said not to eat the iPod shuffle!
soo.... if do what i'm suppose to do anyway, i get free stuff?? What's next, if i stay out of jail i get a free car? What if I dont do drugs, do i get a free house??
this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard....
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Whatever happened to supplying people the facts - obesity is one of the leading indicators of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and your basic miserable life filled with various afflictions, and eating well and exercising regularly prevent it. I hate it when people give up on doing the right thing, or things the right way, or both in this case, b/c they weren't working. Frikkin figure out a way to make them work. Hack the problem and solve it. Don't go running off willy-nilly on some hairbrained scheme like bribing kids with Xboxs and iPods to get them to do this. And besides, giving videogame systems to obese kids to bribe them into exercising? Logical contradictions? Yes we've heard of them somewhere...
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And then the next big boss comes in and shuts down the program. Kids quickly regain their lost weight and then some, while enjoying their ipods and xboxes (and twinkies, too)
At first I thought it said ",eat an iPod" :P
we should offer a similar program on a national level, i.e. offering incentives for overweight people to bring down their weight to normal levels. aren't diseases and ailments resulting from obesity a big problem in the US, and doesn't it cost us a LOT of money and lost productivity? while perhaps it shouldn't go to the government to setup such a program, maybe health insurance companies should consider offering good incentives that would motivate people to tackle their obesity problems.
" but I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home, ordered the "good" food and threw half of it away.
If I can figure out that kind of scheme, a kid surely can."
Fair enough, but healthier eating habits are good for you, because.. it's good for you. If I can figure that out, a kid surely can too.
I have almost 3 year old kid and he refused to wear a pyjama shirt when he was going to bed last night. I explained him the blanket might come off and he could possibly catch cold. Well, he refused to even consider the possibility. Then I asked does he remember how I picked him up from the floor last night and put back to bed. He said yes (I'm not sure he does, perhaps). Then I pointed out the floor is pretty cold. He wanted to test this by lying on the floor and agreed the shirt was needed.
My point is, rewarding healthy eating is a weird concept. It's continuing the tradition of "eat your porridge or the evil giant is going to kick your ass".
Things are much easier if you don't outright lie to your kids from day one or try to bribe them to do the right thing. Using lying instead of logic might give instant, easy results, but it's a timebomb. Before you know it, you have to stop lying and start bribing. Ipod, anyone?
I'd have to say that any attempt to get Glaswegians to eat healthily is doomed to failure. /me wanders off to eat a deep-fried Mars bar.
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Don't eat ipod
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This scheme is, speaking as one who iscompletly objective and open minded, retarded.
Children in school are a captive audience. They will eat what they are given. THEY DON'T NEED TO BE BRIBED.
This is simply another example of Government tackling the wrong problem.
Couple of points... this is the local government (City Council) not a UK Govenment scheme. In addition Scotland has a seperate education system to England and Wales so the this has nothing to do with the UK government. Glasgow is the least healthy city in Europe. It also has many of the poorest areas in Europe. This scheme is working very well, and if it works does anything else matter. PE is compulsary in Scottish state schools. After the age of 16 some allow an opt out. Perhaps these adverts would help... http://www.rudefood.org/
I would think this scheme would be exploited mercilessly by kids who simply brought their candy bars in from home
Preventing that would be the responsibility of the parents. If the parents can't stop it, then there are probably larger issues than the kid just eating healthily.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
WTH is a story about the UK preceded by a US-Flag? You wouldn't be happy if a story about the US was under a Swastika, would you? So there... show some decency, please...
Eat what you want, just make sure you burn it all off.
The UK Government is a reactionary bunch of idiots that can't get anything right because they never think further than the indended consequence such that they rarely even cause *that*.
Children will not eat healthier for an ipod because their food habits are formed by how their parents treat food. Fat kids will still be fat, but now they will be pushed out of the fashionata. It will only serve to increase bullying and increase the value that children put on being *in*.
As a result of this, I predict that happy slapping will worsen and somebody is going to die.
They should give gifts to the parents of children that eat healthily - children see fortunate parents as a sign of luckiness rather than betterness. The gifts should be meaningless to children so the children don't feel it should belong to them and pressure their parents into passing it on.
NT!
I've noticed the same thing. Much healthy food used to taste mild to me. When I first tried an Honest Tea I didn't like it because it tasted almost sour. However, once I stopped drinking pop, sugar loaded ice teas, processed foods, and other really unhealthy stuff, I came to appreciate this other stuff more. Now I'm really turned off by pop/soda because it has a really strong sugary acidic taste. Yuck. Also, whole grain and less processed foods provide more texture and are more filling. I made a cake with part whole wheat/part unbleached floor and also with "Sugar in the Raw" and it was very filling. It was really heavy and thick, yet sweet and rich.
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Another thing I found that makes vegetables so much nicer to eat is cooking them right. My parents used to steam most of our vegetables, since they were just a side dish to the meat and they didn't want to spend all night cooking. Now whenever I'm home (almost every weekend), I help cook dinner (dinner without meat), and I insist on fancier foods. Cooking together as a family can be a lot of fun, and you don't mind spending more time in the kitchen if you are socializing. Anyway, my point was that if you make the vegetables really tasty, they are more likely to get eaten. Invest in a nice vegetarian cook book to find good vegetable recipes. My current favorite cookbook is the Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen. The recipes in it contain lots of veggies and are well balanced (protein from beans, carbs from bread, potatoes, or pasta, nutrients from veggies, good fats from olive oil). Try one of the minestrones, it is to die for. In conclusion: cook the veggies well and you'll have no trouble eating them. Also, cut out the super sweet foods (like soda) to lower your sugar dependance
Andrew
PS: Hey, I just noticed some cool new features on Amazon while looking up that book. They do statistical analysis on the books and give you uncommon phrases ("drizzle the remaining olive oil") as well as a Flickresque "Concordance" of the most popular words. Pretty hot.
Really. . .
... Malmoe, Sweden
Wouldn't a better prize than the Xbox be a PS2 with a copy of DanceDanceRevolution?
(No, I'm not aware of any DDR-clones for Xbox but am willing to be educated)
I mean, atleast that's showing some consistency.
Mvh: Ezel
Prosp long and liver.
In France you can't get anything but a 3-course meal (salad - main dish - cheese OR dessert) + a slice of bread at the school restaurant. Most school meals taste like crap, depending on which private company is responsible for the restaurant (my school was lucky
During meal, you can only have water, no Coke, diet Coke, Dr. Peppers, or any of all that crap.
Snacks & sodas are available in the school through vending machines, but they are rather expensive, which limits the consumption. Also, the legislators are thinking about forbidding the vending machines, and they probably will succeed. We saw some fruit vending machines appear, which I think is rather nice.
There is no such thing as a "cafeteria" in schools.
Also, no school is sponsored by Coke, Pepsi, or anyone at all for that matter (forbidden).
The obesity rate is extremely low, albeit rapidly growing among the youngest (due to unhealthy meals at home & junk food everywhere, which is much more difficult to control).
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I'm not entirely sure this is the right message for politians to be broadcasting - rewards (bribes) work? What happened to the 'if you don't do games and eat properly you'll be fat and everyone will laugh at you' approach? And even if they get their ipod, that'll just mean there will be more thefts and muggings on school grounds. Ah, society!
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This is high school kids we're talking about - most of the time telling someone who's 15 that doing something may lead to unpleasantness later in life is going to make no difference at all, because they don't really believe that things like that happen to real people.
"unveil"
If the kiddies in a school are too fat, there is a simple solution. Tell the dinner ladies to stop deep frying everything and produce something healthier.
At some time during the day. The other option is unhealthy food at school *and* unhealthy food at home.
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I wonder when Sears will start offering bras for boys. Maybe they'll offer several styles to coordinate with your preferred gaming console.
Hey world, wake up. Virtual reality sucks. Instead of watching exotic places on TV, go out and experience them for real.
The trap with healthy eating habits is that they don't affect you for a long, long time.
I was thin through my high school and college years. I'm not sure exactly when I put on fat, but it was such a gradual process I didn't notice until I was in the 60 pounds overweight class.
Now turning that around is extremely difficult for an adult with set ways, at least in dietary terms. I can still learn new programming languages and environments with the drop of a hat, but not overeating is extremely hard. I know that because I now have a beautiful girlfriend who really, really wants me to get thin. So I have motivation I never had, but changing habits is STILL very hard.
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Yeh, give these fat people XBox so they can sit home all day and get more lazy and fat. :D
You have a beautiful girlfriend who wants you to lose weight?
:)
Hmm... I reckon this is the old "challenge" thing; she thinks she can change you. Once she does, she'll get bored and ditch you.
So, the trick is to look like you're making enough of an effort, whilst still remaining enough of a lazy git to not lose *too* much weight.
hmm lets see here...
1. Devise a scheme to defraud school *snicker*
2. Actuate plan on daily basis.
3. Spend 3 times the price of an xbox to eat from home and at school
4. Win xbox.
I have a feeling the kid who does this will fail math...
Excellent point!
... I know someone who's a compulsive gambler with scratcher tickets. I'd never seen something like this before; she buys the expensive $20 tickets, five or six a night, consuming her entire income and sometimes (often) more. About one in three of those tickets pay back $20.
:-).
On the other hand
She keeps on telling herself she'll get a $400 winner and that will be worthwhile. So I looked up the odds. Turns out that on the average, you will buy $3,200 worth of tickets to win $400.
I told her this and it has not affected her gambling one whit.
All of this to say that clearly there are many people who behave irrationally. It's a lot more exciting to win something than it is to save up the money and buy it, especially if you're a kid and enjoying candy bars in the meantime
So I still think this contest could well be scammed. After all, so many people want to get back at "the man", no?
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yeah right, get them to eat healthy, then sit them down in front of an xbox all day! makes sense!!
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