Capt Crunch is retiring!!!

[samurainoir]

Whose next? Cookie Monster?

Cookie Monster on Colbert Report part 1 6/19/2008 - Redlasso.com

[Cmonster]

Too late. I've heard they've been making him eat healthy.

Last time I saw him, he was down 10lbs. He looked great.

SC

[jwyblejr]

Whose next? Cookie Monster?

Too late. I've heard they've been making him eat healthy.

[Mego Magyar]

As a kid I ate nothing but Capt'n Crunch, I'm not fat and wouldn't even be considered over weight. But, as HardyGirl mentioned, I played - outside or inside but it wasn't sitting down. I didn't sit in front of a TV or computer screen for my play, I was active. I also wasn't allowed to eat too much of the cereal by MY PARENTS. Pulling a cereal isn't the answer it only continues the mind frame that "I'm not responsible for my own actions it - - fault" and Big Brother ( whoever that is in your eyes ) need to protect us from ourselves.
I have resisted the urge to say point out other things that we are told are bad for us and we need to be protected from while some other thing are fine because the powers that be like those things but I'm not going there. It's too early and I need to eat breakfast now, wish I had some Capt'n Crunch handy.

[MIB41]

Hardygirl is spot on. Kids these days are woosies. I use to run all day on the weekends. Play football in a field for hours and probably only ate at McDonalds on weekends when we went to see a movie. The rest of the time I ate home cooked meals and for breakfast? You betcha...Capt Crunch. That and Freakies, Frankenberry, and Lord knows what other combination. If kids got off their tails and did something physical there wouldn't be this outcry for changes in advertising. It's not the gun that kills people, it's the person pulling the trigger. Change your behavior and the problem fixes itself.

[jds1911a1]

The goverment has determined that everything not good for you is bad and therefore illegal. Do we live in San Angeles?

[Brown Bear]

Whose next? Cookie Monster?

[huedell]

The logical conclusion to that thinking is a reduction in our freedom of choices because some in power have decided we don't know how to handle it.

You had a lot of excellent points in your post. I just didn't find the fake proposal all that encroaching probably because I believe it was simply a good idea overall. What I saw was a big uproar over something that did not seem to be that big of a deal.

I understand one thing leads to another and yada yada yada, I just didn't see a reason to get up in arms and draw some kind of line.

Apparently neither did the government, as this is a fake thing and actually I think I heard about this a few years ago that this joke news was circulated back then and I think we all just forgot about it.

Maybe our government isn't that bad after all.

[Hector]

That's me BTW...computer and TV...and very little physical activity...

[Hector]

Actually Cap'n Crunch does make a lower sugar version of the standard cereal called "Treasures" or "Golden Treasures" (I can't remember which). It comes in smaller boxes and you can get it at Walgreens for $1 a box. I've eaten it. It's kinda blah, but it's defintely lower sugar and not that bad.

There are 2 reasons for the rampant childhood obesity today:

1) Electronic trappings like video/computer games, cell phones, internet and having access to a zillion cable channels, DVDs, etc. Our kids are WAAAY more sendintary than any generation EVER!

2) Kids don't play outside anymore, b/c their parents are afraid to let them. Kidnappings, drug dealers, and the like have made playing outside a thing of the past. Some will do after-school activities, but that's only a small portion of their week. If the government really wants to do something, they should pay stay at home or work from home parents to form neighborhood coalitions to watch kids after school, (for free or really cheap if the government foots the bill), so they have can some of the fun we had playing outside on the block. And how's this? A portion of the proceeds from all sugar coated cereals, sodas, fast food and candy should go to PAY for these coalitions. Parents wouldn't be afraid, kids could play outside, and burn off those empty calories the way we did. And who knows? A side effect of that would actually be...oh I dunno, imagination? Creativity?

You go, girl!

[mego73]

If the worst that a country government'll do to us, is make sure we eat
better... I'll live there any day and be happy about it.

A government forcing me to eat the way they think is best is sort of... I dunno... fascist.

Not to even mention how what is best for you to eat is often a broad and evolving consensus. In other words, they might be wrong. Remember the 5 food groups stuff we got back then compared to the food pyramid now?

There are those that advocate a return to the "hunter gatherer" diet that stresses low carbs and all the protein and fat you want. There are also those that just stress low fat.

Any one of these motifs can gain traction in people that make policy that affects us so if we allow it, we are in danger of leaving our eating decisions in people that know as little about it as we do.

The prevailing culture these days is fostering a trend of blaming others for things we ought to take responsibility for ourselves. I have a ton of weight to lose and it's that way because of a combination of my choices and heredity. It's not Captain Crunch's fault or McDonalds fault (and not only because it's been years since I've seen the inside of a McDonalds or that I never had Captain Crunch) and I don't want these institutions raked over the coals because some have too much of it.

The logical conclusion to that thinking is a reduction in our freedom of choices because some in power have decided we don't know how to handle it.

[torgospizza]

Hardygirl, you're dead-on here. Those things effect (or is it affect? help me here) adults, as well. And I'm talking about myself. Not that a perv's going to grab me (even they have standards), but playing World of Warcraft and an abiding fondness for air conditioning hasn't helped me any.

[HardyGirl]

Actually Cap'n Crunch does make a lower sugar version of the standard cereal called "Treasures" or "Golden Treasures" (I can't remember which). It comes in smaller boxes and you can get it at Walgreens for $1 a box. I've eaten it. It's kinda blah, but it's defintely lower sugar and not that bad.

There are 2 reasons for the rampant childhood obesity today:

1) Electronic trappings like video/computer games, cell phones, internet and having access to a zillion cable channels, DVDs, etc. Our kids are WAAAY more sendintary than any generation EVER!

2) Kids don't play outside anymore, b/c their parents are afraid to let them. Kidnappings, drug dealers, and the like have made playing outside a thing of the past. Some will do after-school activities, but that's only a small portion of their week. If the government really wants to do something, they should pay stay at home or work from home parents to form neighborhood coalitions to watch kids after school, (for free or really cheap if the government foots the bill), so they have can some of the fun we had playing outside on the block. And how's this? A portion of the proceeds from all sugar coated cereals, sodas, fast food and candy should go to PAY for these coalitions. Parents wouldn't be afraid, kids could play outside, and burn off those empty calories the way we did. And who knows? A side effect of that would actually be...oh I dunno, imagination? Creativity?

Just an opinion, and I'll step off the soapbox now.

[Hector]

I eat a bowl of Snickers fun-size bars with Coke every morning as part of my balanced breakfast.

[Brad]

It's the people who let their kids eat three bowls a morning, every day, and sit in front of the TV all summer, who are the catalyst for stuff like this.

That is exactly the point I was trying to make. It shouldn't take any entity, whether it's a government or big corporation, to make sure our children are protected from things that are bad or unhealthy for them. It's a sign of bad parenting which seems to keep getting worse rather then better.

And I am glad to know that this was an incorrect rumor but that still doesn't change the fact that there are way too many lazy parents in the US that need to rely on something or someone other then themselves to raise their children properly. And for the record I say the US because I have never lived anywhere else so I can only speak of what I see in this country.

My wife Maggy is a social worker that works with foster children and foster homes so we have seen more then our fair share of crummy parents.