Re: 32 teaspoons of sugar a day/ teenage boy

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Can I forward this? From: prayerfulmantis <prayerfulmantis@...>Subject: 32 teaspoons of sugar a day/ teenage boyhealth Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 7:19 AM

That was a number that was listed in the newspaper today as an average added sugar intake and that works out to only 2 sodas and a candy bar. As a visual representation of this I spooned out 32 teaspoons into a pint jar to see how much that was and I was shocked. It's an incredible amount of sugar.

The news was also whining about health care reform and how the current system is heading for bankruptcy. No surprise there! If our people are consuming that level of sugar/corn syrup then it doesn't matter how much money they throw at health care it isn't going to matter one bit. Our citizens will be dying in the streets of various chronic illnesses all the while corporate boardrooms are filled with people congradulating themselves for soaring profits.

How do we turn people away from the advertising memes that infect their consciouness and get them reconnected with the earth? Health care reform? Put down the soda and drink some water. Plant a garden on the lawn rather than pay someone else to spray it with fertilizers and pesticides. How can we outreach what we know in the alternative health care community and bring it into the lives of children and teenagers? I'm not a parent but I am a citizen of a country which won't survive this one if action isn't taken.

Some of my aquaintances are trying to manage classrooms filled with out of control idiots (hmm, nonpolitically correct there, how about dysfunctional children) with abnormal brain functioning busy texting, staying up to 2 in the morning, and drinking energy drinks. Forget teaching them academics if their minds and bodies aren't working.

This hits both the education reform and also health care reform. I have no ideas how to enact change but seems like we can find a way even if it's just "one more child".

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Well, it doesn't help much, but it's something....in our state it is illegal to sell soda at school and they took out candy bars from the vending machines. BUT!!! They are allowed to sell "healthy" granola bars with high fructose corn syrup. BUT there is also water in the vending machines and that seems to sell well.

Then there's my school, not governed by the rules for whatever reason I do not know. We sell all the sodas and we sell RAW cookie dough! Yes, honestly we do.

We can sell it because we don't use trans fat in it. But the substitute has to be worse than butter! This stuff sits on the counter until it is used, even if it's three weeks or three months. It NEVER gets soft. So, let's see it's nearly 80 degrees in the kitchen some times and this stuff never gets soft, hmmmm. Put it in the oven to bake at 350 and yes it gets soft, but some times there are little clumps of it still solid after baking, hmmm.. My body is at 98.6 or thereabouts, how is this s* & ^% going to break down inside of me?! Makes no sense.

But I digress, back to school. I watch kids walk away with 6 cookies doughs and a Mountain Dew. Makes my stomach turn, but I am required to sell this crap. What they term healthy is a joke. We tried to get Naked Juice in there but the district said no. No reason, just no. The kids were even excited, but the closest we come to juice is over processes orange juice and sickeningly sweet apple juice. Blah. Doesn't sell at all.

I haven't even told you what we serve in the restaurant that adults think is healthy! That is another story altogether and it's not pleasant.

Please stop me before I

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Wow!!!A coworker use to whine about how he was always broke and I pointed out that he drank 3 Mt Dews a day and that was just at work! That's $270/month right there!!!!Maybe he should have been MORE scared of all the sugar!He also smoked a pack a day and went to the bar every night which I won't even get into.Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 25, 2009, at 8:26 AM, <deuteronomy2929@...> wrote:

From: prayerfulmantis <prayerfulmantis >Subject: 32 teaspoons of sugar a day/ teenage boyhealth Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 7:19 AM

That was a number that was listed in the newspaper today as an average added sugar intake and that works out to only 2 sodas and a candy bar. As a visual representation of this I spooned out 32 teaspoons into a pint jar to see how much that was and I was shocked. It's an incredible amount of sugar.

The news was also whining about health care reform and how the current system is heading for bankruptcy. No surprise there! If our people are consuming that level of sugar/corn syrup then it doesn't matter how much money they throw at health care it isn't going to matter one bit. Our citizens will be dying in the streets of various chronic illnesses all the while corporate boardrooms are filled with people congradulating themselves for soaring profits.

How do we turn people away from the advertising memes that infect their consciouness and get them reconnected with the earth? Health care reform? Put down the soda and drink some water. Plant a garden on the lawn rather than pay someone else to spray it with fertilizers and pesticides. How can we outreach what we know in the alternative health care community and bring it into the lives of children and teenagers? I'm not a parent but I am a citizen of a country which won't survive this one if action isn't taken.

Some of my aquaintances are trying to manage classrooms filled with out of control idiots (hmm, nonpolitically correct there, how about dysfunctional children) with abnormal brain functioning busy texting, staying up to 2 in the morning, and drinking energy drinks. Forget teaching them academics if their minds and bodies aren't working.

This hits both the education reform and also health care reform. I have no ideas how to enact change but seems like we can find a way even if it's just "one more child".

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I believe 22 was the average amount for an american, the 32 was the amount for

the 14-18 year old male bracket though I have since put away that paper and

don't have it at the fingertips.