Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Trump administration rolls back Obama-era school lunch rules" video.

@AATHEISTU : Kids also don't play outside, as much, because our over-protective society doesn't permit unsupervised play, outdoors, any more. Too afraid of child molesters and kidnappers. And the flip side is the inner city neighborhoods where it actually IS dangerous to let your kids out to run around. I still remember my mom getting vexed with us for tearing up the house with our shenanigans and MAKING us go outside. "But Mom! There's nothing to DO!" "There's PLENTY to do. Go clean your room, for starters. And when you're done with that, fold the laundry." LOL! I think we were lucky, with yard to play in (and MOW), and the small-town neighborhood that we terrorized on a daily basis, playing Army in the bushes or pick-up football in the street... Our folks were more worried about us running afoul of the nice neighbor lady (Your kids are shooting the birds in my back yard with BB guns!) than ANYthing some poor bastard trying to molest us might do. Heck, we'd probably knock the stuffing out of any real molesters in the neighborhood. Nothing more dangerous in this world than a gang of rambunctious 12-13-year-olds!
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@johnfreeman9358 : It's still not that good for you. Sugar or fake sugar, either one. But you can definitely minimize the hazard with an active lifestyle.
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@johnfreeman9358 : In a bygone age, calories were PRECIOUS to us. Now, we have too many.
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@TheHSIHP : Plenty of protein and calories in a McDonald's meal. Nothing wrong with that. It's too salty, but once a week or a month or so? Nothing wrong with it. Eating McDonald's because it's cheaper than the grocery store in a crime-ridden neighborhood isn't good, though.
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@Bluesdawg : I knew a vegetarian who ran track for a high-mountain college. She really struggled, until she SWITCHED TO RED MEAT. Suddenly, her wind improved and her body's ability to metabolize oxygen improved, generally, and she started winning races. Of course, red meat ain't what it used to be, before WW II. Since that time, they've been injecting antibiotics into healthy cattle and all kinds of other nasty stuff. Still, if you cook it well-done, you fight SOME of the problems with store-bought meat. Personally, I'd prefer to shoot a deer and an elk every year, for a couple hundred pounds of free range red meat.
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@emstut : Burgers are fine. Just not every day. But a portion of meat and bread, with a vegetable on the side is actually pretty healthy. Kind of an ideal diet. It's what I slap together after work if I've got nothing else. Burger and asparagus is one of my staples.
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@emstut : In a high-activity setting, it's almost impossible to over-eat. And in the cold North, fat might be what saves your life! It all depends on your metabolism and activity level.
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@WannaBeLevrone : It depends on how you're weight-training. Some lift max weight 10 or 15 times to get big muscles. Some will do 100 or more reps with a lighter weight. You can make weight training as aerobic as you want. Just moving around with ankle weights and 5- or 10-pound dumbbells will give you a helluvan aerobics workout.
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FWIW, I couldn't STAND asparagus or broccoli until I moved OUT of the house, and discovered they both taste pretty good BY THEMSELVES. All that cheese and butter and salt made them inedible to me. Raw broccoli or steamed/boiled (but not overboiled) asparagus are pretty good, though. Cooked carrots? Fine plain. But you spruce them up with your buttery bullshit and I can't stand cooked carrots. That said, I'm a firm believe in butter and salt in foods. Rather have the real thing and just eat a reasonable amount. Never been overweight. Margarine and low-fat foods were invented so that people could continue to overeat without getting fat. But what do you see? You see all the fat people buying all the fake, low-calorie stuff that's unhealthy, and they just get fatter.
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