Today I was talking to a Vision Personal Training client about the state of her pantry. She suggested that she had to have junk foods in her cupboard so her kids wouldn’t “miss out”. That comment stopped me in my tracks. The only thing I thought her kids were missing out on is the opportunity to feel healthy and energetic, as a result of eating healthy foods. After the meeting, I paused for a few moments and reflected upon how different people associate entirely different meanings to certain situations. The concept of missing out was interpreted in an entirely different way by me, compared to the way my client did.
With obesity rates in Australia reaching epidemic proportions, I think it about time society really started to view the consumption of junk food differently. The sooner that fast food companies are prevented from advertising during childrens TV programs and the sooner they are prevented from associating their products with kids toys the better.
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