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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Have we as a society become so utterly reliant on the state that we are incapable of having any idea how to bring up our children or what makes (what I thought was) common sense nutrition without the government teaching us?
Some greens, some dairy, some protein from meat, fish or some pulses and beans. Sugar and fat to be moderated. Not rocket science.
Given we as a species have raised children with reasonable success for quite a long time no idea why we've suddenly forgotten how to, parental instinct and the need to procreate successfully have evidently disappeared.
It's a pretty grim indictment of us and a genuine shame but somewhere along the line we have evidently completely lost the plot, along with any pretence of looking after ourselves.
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Not everyone has the fortune to be as smart as you..
I learned nutrition at school where us girls were given a good grounding in Home Economics, a subject no longer taught to either sex.
Today's generation are lucky if they get to cook once a fortnight let alone learn what nutrition is.Most of the cooking experience of secondary age children consists of them designing a food item and designing the packaging for that food item..and even then most of them have no idea of the disgusting practices that go on in the industrialisation of food such as meat reclamation which I would have thought would have been a paramount learning experience.You only have to remember the reality TV programmes last year about how food gets to the table to know how much ignorance there is.
Indeed there are junior children who do not know where vegetables or meat comes from.
You would be amazed how many children(and their parents) don't know what the different food groups are, and what they do and how they function.My generation had a pretty good idea though.
And if their parents are equally ignorant whom is going to educate them if not the schools and the government?
The number of times we have been nagged in the last 10 years about child obesity should underline how much it is costing us as a nation(and in the future).