overloaded shopping trolley with junk food - a frequent sight ?

I don't think junk food should be rationed, people buy what they want. If they want to clog their arteries, they will do it. What bothers me is their children eating this junk, they don't know any better when their parents are doing this. I've noticed my son wants to eat whatever I do, so I watch what I put on my plate and stock my cupboards with healthy stuff. I guess if you feed your child bad food, you will have to live with the damage you've done to your own child. I used to work at a nutrition part of a grocery store, where they sold diet pills. 90% of the people that came in looking for diet pills-there cart would be full of ice cream, soda, and chips. I really never understand why they think a pill will help them when they continue to eat like that.

I too am amazed at peoples shopping carts. It is a serious problem - and you are not overreacting. I have grown more and more health concious over the last few years. Some years ago my trolley had much more junk in it than it does today, but it never had more junk than healthy food. I do not think a limit on purchasing junk food is the way to go. Forbidding people to eat or do something will only cause more resistance in them. I think it will only make it even more tempting to get junkfood. I believe the way to go is to educate people on what different nutrients do in your body. People need to know why certain food is good and other bad for you. What is the importance of proteins? What process does carbohydrates start? More knowledge may give them a better undestanding of what harm they are doing to themselves. this knowledge should be given kids in the first grades at school, before bad habbits are set.