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[quote=flu]”Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”[/quote]

I think that is true. The key is to be aware of it in your relations with people and try to modulate it as best you can.

I do not agree with any imposed behavior mod program–but educating kids about healthy choices in behavior and in nutrition and exercise is great–at home and reinforced at school.

The two really should go hand in hand. I know and have coached kids whose parents don’t read to them because the parents can barely read themselves and/or they work a lot and aren’t home much with their kids. So it’s great that the kids get reading instruction and reinforcement at school–otherwise they wouldn’t get it anywhere else! So too for good habits–if meals consist of high fat, high calorie foods, then a health class on nutrition in school may be a kid’s only hope.

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[quote=flu]”Everyone is prejudice to some extent..One way or another….Anyone who denies that is just full of it..”[/quote]

I think that is true. The key is to be aware of it in your relations with people and try to modulate it as best you can.

I do not agree with any imposed behavior mod program–but educating kids about healthy choices in behavior and in nutrition and exercise is great–at home and reinforced at school.

The two really should go hand in hand. I know and have coached kids whose parents don’t read to them because the parents can barely read themselves and/or they work a lot and aren’t home much with their kids. So it’s great that the kids get reading instruction and reinforcement at school–otherwise they wouldn’t get it anywhere else! So too for good habits–if meals consist of high fat, high calorie foods, then a health class on nutrition in school may be a kid’s only hope.

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[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

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[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

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[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

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[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

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[quote=bearishgurl]Honestly, I think learning about taking something from each food group every day and how much energy expenditure it takes to lose a pound as well as balancing a checkbook and the study of the cost of carrying credit card debt (or a car loan) should be mandatory subjects in a high school curriculum.

These are life skills that would be of GREAT BENEFIT if mastered at this age and the vast majority of parents do not try to teach them. Why is this so? Because many parents don’t understand this subject matter themselves. And, even if they do, they are NOT leading their kids “by example” :=][/quote]

Agreed. I think it’d be a great class to have every child (with a dr’s approval) run for 30 minutes on a treadmill at a 7 min mile pace (or somewhere thereabouts) and then read off the calories burned. Then tour the room and look at how many calories are in each popular *single sized* junk food item–let’s say each kid would burn approximately 350 calories on that treatmill run. Then walk over to a large cheese pizza (which many teenagers will eat in its entirety in one sitting) and see that it contains 1500+ calories. Hm, that’s a lot of running to nullify that pizza. Then do a bag of doritos, supersized fries… compare with fresh carrots or low fat protein source.

See, Math, science, health and life skills all in one class! An educational bargain!

Let’s not even get into how much less you’d pay if you shopped for fresh food grown locally or the decrease in health expenses for treating the result of years of bad eating….

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UCGal: Beating the dead horse–I’ll bet the C-suite execs are all funded and probably even get other perks that middle line workers have no access to.

It’s all really just a continuation of the middle-class squeeze. I would accept the “economy did it” defense, and that there is a new ecomonic reality, but for the fact that there seems to be no willingness for the people running the ship to share in the misfortune that they were in the best position to avoid!

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UCGal: Beating the dead horse–I’ll bet the C-suite execs are all funded and probably even get other perks that middle line workers have no access to.

It’s all really just a continuation of the middle-class squeeze. I would accept the “economy did it” defense, and that there is a new ecomonic reality, but for the fact that there seems to be no willingness for the people running the ship to share in the misfortune that they were in the best position to avoid!

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UCGal: Beating the dead horse–I’ll bet the C-suite execs are all funded and probably even get other perks that middle line workers have no access to.

It’s all really just a continuation of the middle-class squeeze. I would accept the “economy did it” defense, and that there is a new ecomonic reality, but for the fact that there seems to be no willingness for the people running the ship to share in the misfortune that they were in the best position to avoid!

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UCGal: Beating the dead horse–I’ll bet the C-suite execs are all funded and probably even get other perks that middle line workers have no access to.

It’s all really just a continuation of the middle-class squeeze. I would accept the “economy did it” defense, and that there is a new ecomonic reality, but for the fact that there seems to be no willingness for the people running the ship to share in the misfortune that they were in the best position to avoid!

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UCGal: Beating the dead horse–I’ll bet the C-suite execs are all funded and probably even get other perks that middle line workers have no access to.

It’s all really just a continuation of the middle-class squeeze. I would accept the “economy did it” defense, and that there is a new ecomonic reality, but for the fact that there seems to be no willingness for the people running the ship to share in the misfortune that they were in the best position to avoid!

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[quote=jstoesz]There goes that civil discourse…

Have a nice day.[/quote]

I didn’t see anything there that was uncivil…

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[quote=jstoesz]There goes that civil discourse…

Have a nice day.[/quote]

I didn’t see anything there that was uncivil…

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[quote=jstoesz]There goes that civil discourse…

Have a nice day.[/quote]

I didn’t see anything there that was uncivil…

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