Is feeding your children fast food tantamount to slowly murdering them?

Question

They say fat is worse than smoking

Answer 1

pretty much. you should look at the calories that are in fast food. its disgusting. no one should eat fast food.

Answer 2

It depends on how often you feed it to them. If it is a "treat" on occasion and you normally feed them a healthy diet, it won't kill them.

However, if fast food is the daily diet, then maybe. Are they choosing milk or pop, fries or apple slices?

Moderation is the key here. Just like, you can drink 1 a day and be fine, but if you are an alcoholic, you will have lots of problems.

And no, smoking is worse.

Answer 3

Yes because as they eat fast food, they take in lots of calories. If you have it once in a while thats ok but if they eat it too often, it isnt healthy. Its also okay if they do exercise but if they dont, it is like murdering them. They will get fat and get wrinkles earlier in life. It also causes heart and cholesteral problems. Then they will become unattractive and obese and go on huge fad diets and sometimes may even get depressed. The keyword here is a balanced diet. You can have fast food every once in a while but too much is like murder. I hope I was able to help. ~Chow~

Answer 4

Only in the same way that driving them somewhere in an automobile is tantamount to putting their safety at risk. However, just leaving the house these days is a chance we must take, and there are not that many choices out there in getting something to eat....

Answer 5

well, murder has a specific definition which doesn't apply here. i think most parents that run their kids to McDonalds every five minutes are, at best, guilty of not caring whether their kids are fat. most of them don't know the risks beyond simply making the kids overweight.

maybe the worst offenders are the few who are consciously trying to make their kids fat and unattractive, for usually sick reasons. these parents often have no self-esteem of their own. they seem to not want their apples to fall very far from the tree.

Answer 6

Very much so. In fact, you can probably take out the adverb "slowly" because it's unlikely your kids will live long enough to graduate from high school.

I was just looking at the news yesterday and an obese kid dropped dead from a heart attack when he tried to run from his house to a nearby soft drink machine. He should have walked.

That's something you can tell your fat kids - "Walk, don't run!" - and then maybe they will live long enough to graduate.

Answer 7

I would say yes if that's the majority of what you're feeding them. Have you seen "Supersize Me!"? I couldn't imagine doing that to your kids! I think that fat will definitely kill you a lot faster than the smoke.

Answer 8

nanny nanny nanny. everybody is trying to control somebody else's lifestyle. keep us safe from ourselves. So who gets hurt when I leave my seatbelt off? I do. So whose decision is it? The government's. And now they're talking about regulating the fat content of Chicago restaurant fare. There is no end to this Nanny Nazi-ism. Is there no more personal responsibility? The Declaration of Independence called for "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" - That's Me pursuing My Own Happiness, not someone else's.

Answer 9

Noooo. I don't know who told you this? Although fast food has been shown to contain lots of fat in the past due to recent law suits, many establishments have greatly improved thier menu.

Answer 10

Feeding them any kind of food slowly kills them with all the additives and chemical sprays used today.

Answer 11

No.

Murder is the intentional taking of another life.

Its just bad parenting if you feed them that glob all the time.