He decided that he would do an experiment with fries. We went to the drive-thru of McDonald's and Burger King and bought some regular fries.
When we returned home he placed the fries in their own labelled Masson jar. He placed home made fries in another jar. His mission was to see how long it would take for the genetically modified fries to decompose?
Well, we still have those jars of fries tucked away in a safe place. We recently took them out and they still have not changed. The real potatoes became water after 3 days (live food...). The color of the fast food fries has changed a little but the shape and size is still the same...
Now if this boy is able to figure out that this isn't real food why is it that so many adults run there every day with their children for a treat? For a quick fix that costs a fortune really and is full of empty calories.
I've actually brought his experiment to the High School that I work in and showed some students.They say that since they've seen this in front of them they have no desire for fast food fries anymore.
I am very proud of my son and his awareness of the food that surrounds him. Sure he will have the same food as other kids the odd time but he will always comment afterwards, "The ones that you make are better tasting mom...".
Whenever he wants to know something about nutrition or certain foods, I look into it and try to answer his questions to the best of my knowledge. If I don't know what to tell him there is always the Internet and Wikipedia that has a lot of great answers.
If he can do it at such a young age, there really is no reason that we can't do it either right?? We just have to take the time to invest in our health and the one of our loved ones. We have one life to live, lets try to live it to the best of our ability. We don't have to be followers , we can be leaders and live our life by showing the example for our next generation that is in great need of nutritional education.
Lets not forget that we are living in the biggest childhood obesity epidemic....lets start asking ourselves why??
Stay healthy...
Sylvie Thibert
The Health Nut!!!
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