Article #4: Gorging The Innocent

Gorging the Innocent, Herald Sun, 16/4/14

To the editor,

I was a McDonalds Manager for 8 years. Once a little girl, and by little I mean youthful, got stuck in the Mc Happy land slide. I spent 30 mins trying to pull her backwards up the slide while her parents sat eating fries down below. How have we let our youth get to this stage? How have the waist lines of our future grown so large? As a society we need to be protecting the health and future of our children by sending them healthy eating messages that will serve them well for the rest of their lives.

 The health and wellbeing of our children are being put at risk by society’s addiction to junk food, when they see us gorging ourselves to death they say, ‘me too.’ Parents need to be vigilant; cheeseburgers, coke and chips do not constitute balance, we need to instil healthy and sustainable eating habits in our children.  If we don’t we are condemning our future to a lifetime of obesity: no six year old should get stuck in a Macca’s slide.

Sam Coleridge, Devonshire