Damned if you do; Damned if you don't
By Jackie Money
@olliesmum (828)
Norwich, England
October 27, 2019 6:05am CST
Adam, my partner, had to return to the doctor's for a blood test last week. He'd been the previous week but a nurse had telephoned to say that the blood test hadn't shown what the doctor had expected and thought it may be down to the fact that Adam hadn't had enough fluids that morning.
Adam, on the second occasion, made sure he had a good mug of tea and a glass of cold water before attending but, while he was there, he asked the doctor just exactly how much fluid he should be having a day. The doctor said that he should have 6-8 glasses and, in order to hydrate properly, water should be warm.
Adam asked if it was OK if he added a drop of orange squash to it, to which the reply was 'No, not really. If you have the full sugar variety it's not good for you and the low sugar ones can be detrimental to your health as they have sucrose etc in them'.
We've decided that, as sensible adults, we'll opt for the full sugar one. We always eat/drink sugary things in moderation anyway as it's obvious that sugar will rot your teeth or make you fat. Been instilled in me since I was a child.
Over here in the UK full sugar drinks are more expensive that the low sugar ones because there's a problem with obesity. I maintain that, if we brought back school cookery lessons and sports it wouldn't be a problem. I was appalled to hear that we no longer have sports lessons or cookery lessons.
When I was 5/6 we had gym classes at school once a week for an hour and we also used to play with bean bags out in the playground, throwing them to each other and we also used to have climbing frames in the playground. We also used to dance. Once I got to the next school from age 7 to 11 I learned how to play netball and rounders and then, when I moved to high school from 11 to 16 I played netball, rounders, tennis, athletics and hockey. I also then started having cookery lessons which taught me which foods were good for me and which weren't.
It seems madness to me that, rather than get kids out into the playground learning a sport and teaching them how to cook, they put something that's not natural into our food and drink to stop obesity.
Does anyone else agree?
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@MALUSE (69416)
• Germany
27 Oct 19
@olliesmum I'm not in close contact with school curricula any more. As long as I was a teacher (until ten years ago. I'm retired now) there were obligatory sports lessons. As far as I know they haven't been stopped.
Yet, many children are too fat. This has to do with eating too much fast food and drinking too many sugary drinks like coke. I've read that the amount of sugar in one litre of coke corresponds to 40 sugar cubes. It's the parents' duty to feed their children in a healthy way and to teach them what is healthy and what is not. But if you see the many fat parents, you know that the children have no chance.
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@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
27 Oct 19
@MALUSE Somehow we see to have lost willpower. When I was growing up in the 1960's a glass of coke was a real treat and, although my parents ran the village shop which stocked sweets and chocolate, I was only allowed a small amount each week. We used to eat loads of vegetables and fruit.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
28 Oct 19
I used to drink cranberry juice. I went to the dentist and these drinks damaged my teeth. These days I drink plain water. My daughter likes water flavored with natural fruits. My son likes more milky sort of drinks. Teaching children cooking is a good idea for their adult lives. Some adults eat lots of fast food and it can make them put on lots of weight.
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@wolfgirl569 (94684)
• Marion, Ohio
27 Oct 19
Much of the same is happening here.
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