Back 127 years ago when I went to school the words, nut allergy, didn't exist; carrot and celery sticks weren't even invented and parents could send kids to school with lunches containing whatever the fuck they wanted to put in there...and most kids weren't fucken fat lazy cunts. Ah yes, the good old days.
Nowadays, kids can't take anything containing nuts in their school lunch in case some little cunt is allergic to nuts, something that seemed never to be the case when I was at school. Many schools here have banned "sticky foods" like dried fruit because of fears over dental health and, of course, the easy target is foods containing sugar and sodium.
I get it, people eat worse now than ever before and the fat, sugar and sodium content of most processed foods (and drinks) is off the chain and rising exponentially. With about 32% of Australian adults considered obese (fat fucks) it pays to start the education early...but is banning things rather than proper education really the answer?
Shouldn't there be an education process around how to eat better and create better and sustainable habits?
Shouldn't that education start at home first with the parents and then in school?
Shouldn't manufacturers and marketers have more pressure applied to reduce fat, sugar and sodium content in their foods rather opting for stacking their foods with rubbish? I mean, that makes sense to me...more sense than banning foods outright which doesn't teach kids anything at all...future fat fucks.
When I went to school most foods were available in the school canteen, this was the case for primary school and high school.
Hot chips and battered fish, pizza, pies and pasties, quiche, hamburgers, hotdogs, baguettes and sandwiches, wraps and so on; we could also purchase fruit, lollies, candy, chocolate, cakes, ice creams and every kind of soda, milkshakes and stuff like that. It was all available daily and here's the thing...almost no one used the canteen daily with most people buying canteen lunches only once or twice a week - for me it was once a week because my parents didn't have a lot of money. We were generally a little more educated about which foods were sometimes foods and what should be avoided altogether by our parents I guess.
I'd be sent to school with a sandwich (peanut butter and jam or cheese usually), small snack of nuts or a single piece of chocolate and fruit (fresh or dried). On Fridays I was permitted to order/buy lunch from the school canteen so I'd get a buttered bread roll with some cheese on it, maybe an apple and every now and then a cake which I'd have to split with my brother. It sucked because I wanted to get a pizza, three burgers, five cakes, some ice cream and a chocolate bar. But I couldn't, and if I'm honest it wasn't my way; I was better educated than that. It all taught me valuable lessons around eating well and the value of money, lessons that started at home with my parents which is where it should start!
Another thing...school sport and general activity.
At recess and lunch time we'd be playing. Kicking the football, playing cricket or basketball, handball, tennis and other such things...running away from bullies who wanted to beat me the fuck up; we were active is my point. This continued after school as well.
These days kids are more likely to sit around on phones and do fuck all, or maybe fuck on the school oval/playing field spreading chlamydia to each other...Dirty little fuckers. The point is, we were more active at school and after school than most kids today...it was something we wanted to do, we were not forced into it.
So...kids are forced away from foods that are deemed inappropriate like dried fruit and peanut butter so they're "healthier" but drive past any McDonalds at school let-out-time and it's full of the little shits stuffing fries, Big Macs and ice cream shakes into their mouths, vaping, smoking and generally being little cunts...and that's acceptable? I generalise of course, there's a few who may be at after-school sports and choose to eat healthily but as any sporting club in this country will tell you, getting kids to play sport is becoming harder and harder - a problem that will hit home down the track.
Where does the fault lay? With the fucken kids for sure, they have brains and should use them; but kids will be kids too.
The parents need to take a lot of the blame...many of whom probably don't provide healthy meals at home and have terrible eating and activity habits themselves - thanks social media. The government and the schools? Yeah them too, definitely to blame. General society, marketers, social media...yep for sure all of the above.
I believe parents need to take a lot of the blame though. It's one thing having a fuck and popping out a child nine months later but that's not the end of it...the parent has to give a lot more for longer and I just don't see that happening enough, although I think banning foods is seen as the right thing by most of them, it's the easier option. Shifting blame and banning foods doesn't educate the kids though and leaves the door open for the perpetuation of the problem; lessons are not taught or learned.
The lazy and unhealthy fat fuck
We're in an era that's seeing the rise of the fat fuck and if I'm honest I should add lazy and unhealthy to the mix.
It puts pressure on the health system which has to cope with issues around obesity, malnutrition and lack of activity, raises mental health and self-esteem issues, reduces productivity due to days off work, increases disability claims, increases social issues like isolation and discrimination and other such things...and it's all largely avoidable...but it seems like no one wants to address the real issues and the need for education preferring to ban certain foods like peanut butter at school instead.
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