Some people don´t worry about my health.

@marguicha (230350)
Chile
August 28, 2023 8:35pm CST
Sofía was very bad with me yesterday. She told me that she would bring dessert and I agreed. I´m not into making desserts and I had just bought vanilla ice cream. Sofía told us that she had made a very "light" dessert. She had beaten one can of evaporated milk, added one can of condensed milk and then some lemon juice. It was delicious but not light at all. And it was a lot for us 3. And she also brought a couple of packs of wafers. One was filled with a vanilla cream and the other with chocolate cream. Everything you buy now has to say what is made of. These wafers said "high in calories", "high in sugars" and "high in saturated fats". I´m about to finish eating the vanilla ones while I write this post. I´ll finish the chocolate ones for breakfast tomorrow. When I was a child, there was just one overweight boy in my school. He must have had a health problem. We ate dessert every day (one or 2 fruits depending on the season), after a lunch that had either salad or soup to begin with (depending on the season too) and a main dish which we HAD to eat to the last spoonful. Grownups always had sentences that depended on the war that was going on in other parts of the world to make us be ashamed of leaving food while those other chidren were dying of hunger. And we could not leave bread either (there was a religious sentence for that). Yet, in spite of that huge amount of food we were slender. We ran and played with the other kids of the neighborhood as soon as we finished doing our homework. No TV and no tablets existed then. How did you play when you were young?
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@DaddyEvil (174658)
• United States
29 Aug 23
Your aunt assumes you'll only eat a small portion at a time. After all, that's what "sensible" adults do. Of course, there's no such thing as a sensible adult and we all indulge in eating things that aren't healthy. She loves you and was making something she thought you'd love. And brought other things she thought you'd love, too. We also went out and played as soon as homework was done. We ate whatever mom put on the table.
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@DaddyEvil (174658)
• United States
29 Aug 23
@marguicha I'm sure you'll enjoy the lemon jam. And yeah, most of my friends aren't "sensible" either.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
@DaddyEvil I thought you are not tthe sensible kind That´s why we are friends
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@DaddyEvil (174658)
• United States
29 Aug 23
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@LindaOHio (222728)
• United States
29 Aug 23
We played outside until the street lights came on in the summertime. We were always on the go.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
Those were the days!
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
In the summer time, we had a curfew from the city.
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@LindaOHio (222728)
• United States
30 Aug 23
@marlina What time did you have to be in?
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Aug 23
I played out with my cousins all the time. Always active and real healthy.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
So did I.
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
29 Aug 23
You brought back memories Marga. No one in our school was fat and our parents always reminded us how difficult it was to have food during the war so we had to eat everything and do not complain. We had dessert often, we had bread and no one was overweight. There is something wrong in what we eat now.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
We ate bread and butter (or with homemade jam as we did not have butter all the time). I met cereals when I went to the US with my parents when I was 11. But I never liked it. I liked for a small while the plastic bread they had there but then started to yearn our real bread.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
We had to eat what was on the table, that's it, that's all.
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
29 Aug 23
@marguicha - Same as you, we never had cereals. I had cereals when I was already a teenager and I did not like at all. I still like bread with butter and home made jam for breakfast.
@wolfgirl569 (135925)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Aug 23
We were outside most of the time too. That makes a huge difference
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
I am not for letting children sit all day long playing with their tablets.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
2 Sep 23
@TheSojourner They have all become tablet freaks.
@wolfgirl569 (135925)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Aug 23
@TheSojourner I don't mind phones for teenagers with limits. All electronics should be supervised
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@Beestring (15372)
• Hong Kong
29 Aug 23
When we're indoor, we played paper dolls (no Barbie, too expensive). When outside, we played jump rope; red light, green light.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
"red light, green light", not familiar with this one.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
2 Sep 23
@marlina Me neither.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
2 Sep 23
https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Red-Light-Green-Light
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@May2k8 (19792)
• Indonesia
29 Aug 23
I thought I was still young and when I consumed cassava leaf vegetables my head was a bit dizzy. So good for me is not necessarily good for other people.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
We played outside a lot during all 4 seasons. Lots of fun in the snow Also bicycling, rope jumping, badminton. In those days, there was a lot of kids around. Not like today.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
2 Sep 23
There were lots of games we played wuth the neighborhood children.
@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Aug 23
We always lived in apartments so mom or dad would take me to a nearby park to ride my tricycle. There was a brother and sister who I visited they lived in a big house and we could also play outside of their house,
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
2 Sep 23
I never lived in apartments in my whole life.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
We played outside constantly. But I would find somewhere to sit and read a book
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
Me too. I used to read all the time. We did not have TV then.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
29 Aug 23
I read a lot also.
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• India
29 Aug 23
I still eat what I want but I know I need to control my sugar intake as it is not good for my health
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
29 Aug 23
I have not eaten much sugar for decades but now, after the kitchen fire, I began to buy chocolate cake for depression.
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