Comments on: Keeping Our Families Healthy http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2009/10/01/keeping-our-families-healthy Promoting Positive Images of Marriage and Parenting Since 2007 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anna http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2009/10/01/keeping-our-families-healthy/comment-page-1#comment-18050 Anna Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:07:47 +0000 http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/?p=6341#comment-18050 Harriet I also cut up bell peppers like french fries and my kids are grown and still love them. I know parents that give their kids soda or fake fruit juice all day. I gave my kids ice water, they still continue to drink it because it was introdued from day one. As we get older we have to have snacks to watch tv. Our snack are raw/ broc or cali or carrots and of course fresh fruit. We as humans have a oral fixation of wanting to eat while being entertained. I went to a concert last week and saw ppl with buckets of buttery popcorn and nachos. Who eats that watching Maxwell live in concert? LOL. (I want to sing along and not choke on my dry popcorn or nachos). America thinks they are getting so creative cooking that I heard about ppl deep frying "butter". I like that Mickey D's has apple slices (and a choice of health foods like most resturants)that they put in what looks like a french fry carton. It amazes me of the many ppl my age that I see in motorized wheel chairs and walking with canes. America is obese and it needs to stop. Hubby and I went to Big Boy's last week(not healthy but it was the only thing open). There was a man with a cane who could not walk to the vehicle parked in front of us. Someone got in the vehicle and picked him up at the door that was not far away. He was big, but not 400#. Ppl don't realize that changing diet habits will give you better health and a longer life. Take baby steps, stop drinking soda and cut out the bread and sugar. White bread has no nutritional value at all. I do agree that eating heathly is expensive, in the long run it won't run up a doctor/surgery bill for a heart bypass/transplant or complications due to diabetes. It's up to us to take care of our health. I don't want a food czar to take beef or pork out of my grocers freezer. Big Brother is already way too much in our business, and I think I deserve a really hearty steak or juicy pork chop every now and again.(ok a few times a week) I am not ready to be a vegan yet. The holidays are around the corner and I love my Ham, chittlins, and all the fixins'. It's called "moderation" ppl. FYI: You can get full from fresh veggies and fruit. I replaced iceberg lettuce with fresh spinach in my salads. Harriet I also cut up bell peppers like french fries and my kids are grown and still love them. I know parents that give their kids soda or fake fruit juice all day. I gave my kids ice water, they still continue to drink it because it was introdued from day one. As we get older we have to have snacks to watch tv. Our snack are raw/ broc or cali or carrots and of course fresh fruit. We as humans have a oral fixation of wanting to eat while being entertained. I went to a concert last week and saw ppl with buckets of buttery popcorn and nachos. Who eats that watching Maxwell live in concert? LOL. (I want to sing along and not choke on my dry popcorn or nachos). America thinks they are getting so creative cooking that I heard about ppl deep frying “butter”. I like that Mickey D’s has apple slices (and a choice of health foods like most resturants)that they put in what looks like a french fry carton. It amazes me of the many ppl my age that I see in motorized wheel chairs and walking with canes. America is obese and it needs to stop. Hubby and I went to Big Boy’s last week(not healthy but it was the only thing open). There was a man with a cane who could not walk to the vehicle parked in front of us. Someone got in the vehicle and picked him up at the door that was not far away. He was big, but not 400#. Ppl don’t realize that changing diet habits will give you better health and a longer life. Take baby steps, stop drinking soda and cut out the bread and sugar. White bread has no nutritional value at all. I do agree that eating heathly is expensive, in the long run it won’t run up a doctor/surgery bill for a heart bypass/transplant or complications due to diabetes. It’s up to us to take care of our health. I don’t want a food czar to take beef or pork out of my grocers freezer. Big Brother is already way too much in our business, and I think I deserve a really hearty steak or juicy pork chop every now and again.(ok a few times a week) I am not ready to be a vegan yet. The holidays are around the corner and I love my Ham, chittlins, and all the fixins’. It’s called “moderation” ppl.
FYI: You can get full from fresh veggies and fruit. I replaced iceberg lettuce with fresh spinach in my salads.

]]> By: Danielle http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2009/10/01/keeping-our-families-healthy/comment-page-1#comment-18046 Danielle Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:07:31 +0000 http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/?p=6341#comment-18046 Great post.....to me this just reinforces our need to remember to love ourselves and take care of our bodies.... @Harriet: I loved this statement, "When it comes to food, I feel like we’ll either pay now or pay later. It’s not cheap to eat healthy, but it’s even more expensive to pay for medications regarding hypertension, diabetes, lupus and a host of other autoimmune and degenerative diseases." We are what we eat. I'm no dietition, but I encourage people to give themselves 30 days, while making small changes as they assess and re-evaluate their diet. I've taken small steps, like eating carrots, a small handful over a two week period, and drinking water. It was amazing the change I saw in my skin. Later, I've also experimented with meat reduction .....I'm not vegetarian (at least not yet), but I've noticed changes in my energy levels, mood, and regularity. Great post…..to me this just reinforces our need to remember to love ourselves and take care of our bodies….

@Harriet: I loved this statement, “When it comes to food, I feel like we’ll either pay now or pay later. It’s not cheap to eat healthy, but it’s even more expensive to pay for medications regarding hypertension, diabetes, lupus and a host of other autoimmune and degenerative diseases.”

We are what we eat. I’m no dietition, but I encourage people to give themselves 30 days, while making small changes as they assess and re-evaluate their diet. I’ve taken small steps, like eating carrots, a small handful over a two week period, and drinking water. It was amazing the change I saw in my skin. Later, I’ve also experimented with meat reduction …..I’m not vegetarian (at least not yet), but I’ve noticed changes in my energy levels, mood, and regularity.

]]> By: Harriet http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2009/10/01/keeping-our-families-healthy/comment-page-1#comment-18042 Harriet Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:21:38 +0000 http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/?p=6341#comment-18042 Outstanding article! When it comes to food, I feel like we'll either pay now or pay later. It's not cheap to eat healthy, but it's even more expensive to pay for medications regarding hypertension, diabetes, lupus and a host of other autoimmune and degenerative diseases. My friends sometimes make fun of me, because I chop up bell peppers and serve them to my son like fries. He tears them up! All my meals have more green stuff than anything. Every meal has to have some kind of fresh veggie. Even my husband is on board with that now (there is a God). LOL But I saw what my pops went through with diabetes. Slowly and surely his toes left, then his heart, then his eyes, then his kidneys, then his leg, then his life. He couldn't even enjoy his retirement from the military because he was always sick. Eight years after he retired, he was dead. He never wanted to eat right, and it got to the point where he couldn't digest anything at all. That's too much of a price to pay for me. I'd rather spend the money in the produce section, thankyouverymuch. Outstanding article! When it comes to food, I feel like we’ll either pay now or pay later. It’s not cheap to eat healthy, but it’s even more expensive to pay for medications regarding hypertension, diabetes, lupus and a host of other autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

My friends sometimes make fun of me, because I chop up bell peppers and serve them to my son like fries. He tears them up! All my meals have more green stuff than anything. Every meal has to have some kind of fresh veggie. Even my husband is on board with that now (there is a God). LOL

But I saw what my pops went through with diabetes. Slowly and surely his toes left, then his heart, then his eyes, then his kidneys, then his leg, then his life. He couldn’t even enjoy his retirement from the military because he was always sick. Eight years after he retired, he was dead. He never wanted to eat right, and it got to the point where he couldn’t digest anything at all.

That’s too much of a price to pay for me. I’d rather spend the money in the produce section, thankyouverymuch.

]]> By: Execumama http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/2009/10/01/keeping-our-families-healthy/comment-page-1#comment-18034 Execumama Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:11:10 +0000 http://blackandmarriedwithkids.com/?p=6341#comment-18034 Excellent post! Thanks for the information. Excellent post! Thanks for the information.

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