{"id":3549,"date":"2010-07-06T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2010-07-06T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T18:17:32","slug":"2-pounds-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"2 Pounds of Sugar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone else a Top Chef fan? I love the show. I’m not a reality show fan in any way but this show is the exception. I’ve been watching it for two seasons and am watching the current season now.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago there was a challenge to prepare a healthy lunch for grade school kids in the DC area. The contestant that went home was Jacqueline Lombard. She made a dessert — a banana pudding — that was a total and utter failure.<\/p>\n

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Jacqueline was eliminated<\/strong> because her banana pudding contained a whopping 2 pounds of sugar! <\/strong> It wasn’t nutritious in any way, and was not well executed (too starchy and too sweet). I’m glad she went home and when they were hyping the elimination round, I was yelling at the TV that if she wasn’t sent home, the show was rigged. TWO POUNDS OF SUGAR?! Oh my god! That’s\u00a0incomprehensible\u00a0to me. No adult should have two pounds of sugar in any thing they consume, let alone a kid!<\/p>\n

Did anyone else watch the show? What did you think?<\/p>\n

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A new study out claims that Oregon is ranked 39th in obesity for the USA. \u00a0The 2010 report states that 1 in 4 Oregonians is obese. However, the good news seems to be that Oregon is setting a standard for having nutritional breakfasts, lunches and snacks in our schools. For being 39th in obesity rating, we somehow have a lower rate of childhood obesity.<\/p>\n

I recently discovered that some Oregon schools have a Farm-to-School<\/a> program. 32% of the schools are getting their produce from local farms. That’s a win-win situation in my book! Not only do the kids benefit from healthy food, but the locally owned farms are still in business too.<\/p>\n

I don’t have kids. Someday I hope to and I hope I can pass on a passion for healthy eating and exercise. Growing up in my house, the theme was RESTRICTION. My parents were into the low-fat\/no sugar\/no flavor kind of diet. It was horrible. And as a result I rebelled and ate junk food whenever I could…at friend’s houses, at school, sneaking candy into my room to eat secretly. Restricting treats lead to my obsession with sweets and overeating.<\/p>\n

Who has kids? What are the challenges you have for getting your kids to eat healthy food?<\/p>\n

Clearly, restricting food is not the healthy way to go about things. And what about kids that are super picky about their foods? Is it too challenging to fight with them daily to eat their healthy foods? Do you give in and let them eat what they want to avoid that fight?<\/p>\n

Check out this article about a local school that’s making a difference! <\/a><\/p>\n

QUESTION: Do you know where your state ranks in the obesity statistics? Is your community doing anything to make a difference?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone else a Top Chef fan? I love the show. I’m not a reality show fan in any way but this show is the exception. I’ve been watching it for two seasons and am watching the current season now. A few weeks ago there was a challenge to prepare a healthy lunch for grade school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,315,104,159,195,297,298],"tags":[474,657,8662,839,8803,1130],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}