Marks and Spencer to sell 'plus size' clothes to three-year-olds
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[QUOTE=Bacongrave;23622508]the baby food. They claim its great yet its most of the time full of sugar and totally one sided. Its recommended to make food for your baby yourself but most of the time parents are just lazy fucks.[/QUOTE]
It's not so much they're lazy fucks; there's a combination of factors at play. The main problems here are overinflated property prices and the rise (and subsequent fall) of easy credit - people are habituated to lifestyles nicer than those they can really afford and in order to pay off that mortgage and those bills, both parents have to work. This means there's nobody at home with the time to make gourmet foods for the kids - in the 60s it might have been normal for a housewife to cook everything from scratch but today's mother or father comes in from work (which thanks to Blackberries is encroaching more and more on home life) and barely has time to pop in an oven ready pizza before they collapse. Plus if you're cooking from scratch, that means less quality time spent with the kids helping them with (ever increasing amounts of) homework or playing with them which is an unfair tradeoff.
Add in the paranoia about paedophiles (despite the fact the risk posed by paedophiles hasn't increased since the 70s) meaning that parents would rather the kids played inside on the computer rather than went cycling with friends in the woods where the demon kiddy diddler lurks and you'll start seeing why this epidemic is rearing its ugly head.
lol...childhood obesity
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23610008]You got customers willing to buy, why not sell?
Also, how is obesity an epidemic? It is not a disease.[/QUOTE]
It's a disease born of society instead of nature. The implications are the same.
The prices of healthy food is rising, junk food is dropping, parents are spending less time with their kids and relying on daycare/school to make food choices for them. (Who will choose the cheapest option, of course)
Adults, on the other hand, are working more and more just to make ends meet because of the shithouse economy and they simply don't have the time or the money to cook actual food.
Combine this with longer commutes and less opportunities to actually exercise and you have a society that's fucking people over three ways at once.
1000 years ago it was easy to stay in shape because you had to. Now you don't have to, and it's become much harder.
This is terrible. People need to exercise more.
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;23625573]It's a disease born of society instead of nature. The implications are the same.
The prices of healthy food is rising, junk food is dropping, parents are spending less time with their kids and relying on daycare/school to make food choices for them. (Who will choose the cheapest option, of course)
Adults, on the other hand, are working more and more just to make ends meet because of the shithouse economy and they simply don't have the time or the money to cook actual food.
Combine this with longer commutes and less opportunities to actually exercise and you have a society that's fucking people over three ways at once.
1000 years ago it was easy to stay in shape because you had to. Now you don't have to, and it's become much harder.[/QUOTE]
That's no excuse not to exercise. Exercise should be just as important as eating. Most times you can eat what you want as long as you exercise you won't get fat.
Subway has veggie subs and shit, that's cheap and somewhat healthy.
People just need to exercise in direct proportion to how much they eat.
I was sorta fat when I was younger. Then I became taller and it all evened out.