Parenting: How I defeated the red haired clown.

[A790]

IIFYM I guess.

I love me some McDonalds from time to time.

Double quarter pounder w/ lettuce + tomato, side fries (if leg day) or salad (any other day). Diet beverage.

[ZenOps]

Potential for backfire, high.

Poop related story: I remember a camp guide who picked up a glossette chocolate covered raisin off the ground on a camp trail and proclaimed it as rabbit poop, that it was actually very healthy, and then proceeded to eat it.

Next thing you know, halfway though the hike a kid picks one up and eats it.

Things were just so much more fun when I was a kid.

[FixedGear]

There's nothing wrong with McDonald's, or any fast food for that matter... the key is moderation and eating an otherwise balanced diet.

If all you eat is carrots, or 98% lean chicken, it's going to make you sick too.

It seems more important to teach this to children, rather than to be blindly and ignorantly opposed to McDonalds.

[Ntense_SpecV]

So you are promoting lying to your kids to get them to do what you want, even though you said you accepted the fact that your wife takes them to Mc'ds on occasion. Do you plan on telling them that all fast food places make their food from poop considering they all have similar nutrition values? Have you told your wife what you taught your kids? Do you also plan on lying to them if they ask how babies are made?

[sputnik]

Originally posted by DeleriousZ
I recommend people to check out the documentary "Fat Head".

[maxomilll]

Fuck that, McDonald's is disgusting and factory farming is a problem.

[zipdoa]

Originally posted by LollerBrader
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Originally posted by 2Legit2Quit
OP's avatar and posting about eating poop.....intredasting....

this

Originally posted by revelations
I hate McD as much as OP, but I would never tell kids falsehoods

Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Jesus etc?trolling, but still - those are all falsehoods.

Originally posted by FixedGear
There's nothing wrong with McDonald's, or any fast food for that matter... the key is moderation and eating an otherwise balanced diet.

I eat fast food once in a while, but the majority of my diet is clean as hell. I get what you're saying about moderation, but it doesn't change the fact that McDonalds is garbage food.

It's like smoking - you can do it in moderation, but it's still bad for you. Eating McDonalds once in a while might not make you fat or cause any other perceivable maladies, but it's still not good for you.

Same thing with the new coke commercials, promoting a healthy, balanced diet - just because you lead a balanced lifestyle doesn't mean some of the products you consume aren't bad for you, they just don't have the immediate cumulative effect present in overconsumption.

inb4 cool story bro.

[Penis McNickels]

Originally posted by Ntense_SpecV
Do you also plan on lying to them if they ask how babies are made?

I constantly lament to my kids how upset I am that the return period at Walmart has expired and that I am stuck with them.

[FixedGear]

Originally posted by zipdoa

I get what you're saying about moderation, but it doesn't change the fact that McDonalds is garbage food. It's like smoking - you can do it in moderation, but it's still bad for you. Eating McDonalds once in a while might not make you fat or cause any other perceivable maladies, but it's still not good for you.

I disagree. How is it bad for you? It doesn't contain cyanide, or any chemicals known to cause birth defects in California. (Fast food is not analogous to cigarettes.) On the other hand, looking at the Nutritional Facts for a Big Mac, you can see that it contains calories, fats, sodium, protein, vitamin a, vitamin c, calcium, iron, etc. -- all of which are necessary components of a healthy diet. Fast food is not bad for you, but eating fast food in excess is. Just like eating carrots in excess is unhealthy.

[Ntense_SpecV]

I'll give Zipdoa one point about talking about Santa, and the rest of that statement...I guess I fall into that also. Seeing as how I didn't crush their dreams of telling them Santa etc. isn't real at 3 years old. But to me, I wouldn't put McDonalds on the same level as Christmas, but in a sense it is. I would just tell them NO you can't have McD's and deal with the crying/consequences.

[A790]

Originally posted by FixedGear


I disagree. How is it bad for you? It doesn't contain cyanide, or any chemicals known to cause birth defects in California. (Fast food is not analogous to cigarettes.) On the other hand, looking at the Nutritional Facts for a Big Mac, you can see that it contains calories, fats, sodium, protein, vitamin a, vitamin c, calcium, iron, etc. -- all of which are necessary components of a healthy diet. Fast food is not bad for you, but eating fast food in excess is. Just like eating carrots in excess is unhealthy.

People blame fast food for obesity, etc. because it isn't balanced. It's very calorically heavy, particularly on carbs/fats, and its very easy to exceed your BMR when eating fast food.

Prime example: I'm going to Five Guys tonight. I KNOW their double cheeseburger is 1,100 calories. Add another 600 for fries (assuming I eat them all). That's a 1,700 calorie meal.

1,700 calories is the BMR for your average woman (probably slightly over TBH), and about 2/3s of what a typically adult male would need. And it's just one meal.

Not everybody will hit the gym and squat (like I will today) and do cardio tomorrow to balance out that intake. Most people will get hungry again in a few hours and eat again. No big deal, right?

If one meal a day is fast food its easy to be 500-800 calories over your BMR assuming you aren't cognizant of that fact. That means you're gaining 1-1.5lbs a week, easily.

[Super_Geo]

Hm... clicked on this thread expecting it was about how you got rid of your ginger kid...

[Kritafo]

I just let my kids decide what garbage it is. Given the choice my kids 99% of the time want me to just BBQ burgers. But if we are in a town we don't know a restaurant I would rather McD's or BK or another chain have my money because I know what I am getting. I have been sucked into many bad meals hoping that restaurant was good.

[heavyD]

So OP are you going to tell your kids that having teen sex results in AID's, cancer, or any other fib you can think of? I can understand a parent not wanting their kids to eat fast food but there are better ways at going about this than fabricating stories.

Edit: Meh I assume that this was probably cut and pasted from someone else anyway.

[lilmira]

Let's have some McPoop and wash it down with an ice cold McPee lol!

[zipdoa]

Originally posted by FixedGear


I disagree. How is it bad for you? It doesn't contain cyanide, or any chemicals known to cause birth defects in California. (Fast food is not analogous to cigarettes.) On the other hand, looking at the Nutritional Facts for a Big Mac, you can see that it contains calories, fats, sodium, protein, vitamin a, vitamin c, calcium, iron, etc. -- all of which are necessary components of a healthy diet. Fast food is not bad for you, but eating fast food in excess is. Just like eating carrots in excess is unhealthy.

High temperature deep frying makes food carcinogenic, much like a blackened steak is carcinogenic.

Just because it contains calories doesn't make it OK to eat.

Fast Food and Pop IS analogous to Cigarettes, and in the future I wouldn't be surprised to see the same sort of warnings on these food products that are currently on cigarette packs.

Most fast food = toxic food. Just because it doesn't kill you instantly doesn't mean it isn't harming you. The same way a cigarette doesn't kill you instantly, but still damages your body.

Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils or trans fats are commonly understood to be bad for you. These are present in the majority of fast foods.

Just because fast food has trace amounts of certain vitamins and minerals, doesn't make automatically warrant inclusion in a healthy diet. Just because Cinnamon Toast Crunch has certain nutrients added doesn't mean it's a healthy choice for breakfast.

Perceptions will change.

edit:

And to be clear, I'm not against fast food. I do eat it sparingly. I just don't try to convince myself that because trace nutrients are present that it's somehow contributing to a healthy diet.

[sxtasy]

I agree with ops take on mcd's. Food habits stick with u from a kid until your an adult, I was never allowed to eat that shite, I still don't and my kids won't. Some kids parents take them to mcd's quite often. It's probably those same kids who are overweight when they get older.

On a similar topic, one of my buddies keeps a drawer full of dead batteries for all the noisy shitty toys his kids get for Christmas. When the batteries die in the noisy toys he puts a dead battery in and says to his kid "oh looks like your toy is broken, no wonder its made in China" :lol

[lilmira]

Originally posted by zipdoa


High temperature deep frying makes food carcinogenic, much like a blackened steak is carcinogenic.

Wow hold on, don't you dare dragging a nicely seared, crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside piece of steak into a discussion with poop and pee, curse you!

[zipdoa]

Originally posted by lilmira


Wow hold on, don't you dare dragging a nicely seared, crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside piece of steak into a discussion with poop and pee, curse you!

[jazzyb]

good on you man.... I plan on doing the same.