Food Police

Oh man I just read an article on the fact that Mead-Johnson who makes baby formula is now making chocolate flavoured baby formula for toddlers.  AAAAHHHH!!!!  What in the heck has gone so wrong in our world that somebody actually thought this was a good idea, and what is scarier is that somebody actually buys it.

Am I living in an alternate universe that when I see something like this I want to scream!  How anybody in their right mind can feed their child this I will never know.  I watched a friend put strawberry syrup in a baby bottle then added milk to it, gave it a shake, laughed and said to her child, “Don’t show Sally, HEHE”.  Listen, I am not the food police and, yes it saddens me that people do this to their kids and think it is funny.   Yes it makes me sad that we are killing our kids with kindness.  But here is the thing; giving your child Type 2 diabetes is not kind.  Giving your child a lifetime of obesity is not kind.  Giving your child cancer is not kind.  Think it won’t happen to you then you better go take a tour of the oncology unit at a children’s hospital because it is happening to people like you every day and it is no joke!

I cannot control, (nor would I ever try to) what you feed your kids.  I can only give you the information and the real facts and you can do what you will.  If you choose not to then that is your choice, but I never want to put my child in a bad place from something I did.  We all have choices and we have to live with them.  What I more want to do is give people information and alternatives to what is “the standard North American diet”, and hopefully the light will come on and our children will have a fighting chance to a vibrant, healthy and long life.  This will be me stepping down off my soapbox now….breath Sally…aaahhh.  Think about it; that is all I ask.  Until next time.