Successful People Don’t Feed Their Kids Honey Buns…and Neither Should You!
I have nothing personal against honey buns—well actually I do. It’s NOT just honey buns. Its Little Debbie snacks, its .25 “juices,” its “hip hop snacks.”
It’s not just snacks. It’s fried chicken, its Chinese food, and its pork skins…its snoots! (shout to the ESTL with that one). It’s every food you can’t find outside the hood.
Check this…in general, Black and Latinos get more diabetes, high blood pressure, have more cases of obesity (yes, we are fatter), and here’s the most important one—we get more of different kinds of CANCER than other groups!
We’re are talking about black people…descendants of kings…descendants of the very first people on the planet… the richest lineage…and all of a sudden…we have the shortest life spans and have the most diseases than anyone else? Why does that not add up? That’s why I can’t eat that certain things any more (at least not all the time) because there is no way in the world those statistics add up to me. If I can’t drive up to ‘burbs and get that in one of their shops, I’m not eating it. Point blank. And even if and when I eat I eat stuff like that, there is no way, I’m feeding them to my 2 year old.
And here’s why: Do you realize that from time they are in the womb to their first 5 years of a child’s life is when the brain and all their other organs are forming? Those 5 yrs + 9 months set the tone of their health for their entire LIFE. What do I look like feeding my son some damn pork fried rice, with no onions, and gravy with a fruit soda to go with it? There’s no telling what that’s doing to his brain.
No wonder, an increasing number of our kids are getting ADHD and learning disabilities and other diseases, because these people let all this garbage food into our stores, don’t teach a young woman a lick of nutrition, then they give her $300-800 of free money a.k.a. food stamps to buy all that trash!
“Oh, what do you say, you’re having a baby? Oh, you have kids? And you are poor? Here…go kill yourself! Let your kids eat all that garbage while you are pregnant and better yet, while they are little and they need nutrition! Let’s see what happens! Yeeeyy!”
Oh, and it gets better, when your kid is actually born with a disease or develops one or has behavior or obesity problems or has a hard time reading at school or doing math…they will also make you feel guilty and look like an irresponsible mother in front of the world. It’s a double whammy there. So let me get this right…you don’t teach me about food, you give me free money to buy food, then you put junk food in the hood for me to buy, THEN you say I’m irresponsible for buying it when they have consequences? Bingo! That’s exactly how it works!
I’m telling you, it used to not be like this. No one ever heard of all these autistic black and Latino kids, and kids with ADHD, and kids with dyslexia, obesity, high cholesterol, asthma…now that’s all you hear. Our mothers and aunts, in their 50-60s, are falling apart health wise. It doesn’t make sense. Our young men are dying in the streets or going to prison. Our young women are contracting HIV/AIDS at larger rates than anyone else. And whoever they miss with that bull…they get with this damn food that’s in our neighborhoods!
At some point, you have to see that for what it is. And recognize you’ve been feeding into it.
COME BACK TOMORROW FOR PART II
We’re going to break this issue down some more, look at what rich and successful DO feed their kids, and what are some of the things we do need to eat/not eat and why.
