32 teaspoons of sugar a day/ teenage boy

August 25, 2009

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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