How much profit can someone make off of a day of your life?

The other day I saw a commercial for Pop Tarts.  Have a happier summer when you take a pop tart, break it in half and put ice cream in between the halves and serve that to your children.  Other treat options include bowls of ice cream that have a pop tart shoved in the bowl.

This spawned my search to find a national organization that helps the parents of overweight kids.  I had learned on Dr. Oz that all of our fat cells are developed as children, and so overweight children can produce twice as many fat cells as their fit counterparts.  It is like a life sentence to obesity for these kids.  I was unable to find any resources, so I posted something to my Facebook page.

Always fantastically resourceful Eileen shared with me the link for Michelle Obama's initiative for Let's Move.gov - America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids.  I love this description:  A nationwide initiative to promote making healthy choices, improving food quality in schools, increasing access to healthy, affordable food, and increasing physical activity for a healthier generation of kids.

Beautiful!

And just in time!  Tonight we are watching a Colbert rerun and see that Friendly's... isn't so friendly to your health, your heart or your longevity.  Let me introduce you to the Grilled Cheese BurgerMelt:

I entered the basic ingredients into my Biggest Loser menu plan to see what could be in a simply made version of that sandwich.  The actual sandwich may have more or less calories.

The sandwich is almost the calories for an entire day of nutrition.  Add some fries, and of course, since you are at Friendly's, some BASIC ice cream (1 cup vanilla with chocolate sauce) and the calories soar and the sodium significantly increases:

The pursuit of profits at the expense of your life are not beyond anyone.. even a company named Friendly's.

Make a better choice. =)

**** This is where this post originally ended.

Ten minutes after I hit publish on this, I am on Facebook and a friend has posted this link:

You can read the article here:  http://www.nrn.com/article/carls-jr-tests-foot-long-cheeseburger

The one that I had seen, but forgot about is the KFC Double Down


In the article above it says, "The foot-long cheeseburger is the latest in a string of envelope-pushing sandwiches on the market..." 

I disagree.

I think that we ate the envelope a long time ago.