I'm a Famous Carrot

I got to be "Mrs. Carrot" for one of the classes in our daycare program. I read "The Cookie Monster and the 3 Little Bears" to the 3 & 4 years olds.

Sooo.... here is the video of me on the 6:00 Channel 3 News as Mrs. Carrot :)

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Sudoku is for Sailers?

A dad came in today with his 2 1/2 year old daughter. He seemed "normal"...for the first 10 seconds. After mumbling I don't even know what while filling out the food intake form in my office, he hands it to me and as serious as serious gets he says, "you really need to find something better to do with your time, like play sudoku." Sudoku? What was I thinking getting a college degree?! Let alone trying to help people! I could be sitting around playing sudoku all day! No words would come though, just a smile and a, "ahh ha." Then when he looked at the "goal" sheet, which was created to help people think of nutrition related goals for their children, he says to me, "Goal? We don't make goals. The only goal we have is to go sailing." Again, he was dead serious. Everything out of this mans mouth literally had my jaw on the ground, but the last thing I remember was telling him his daughter was underweight and his only response? "She doesn't need to gain any weight, because then I'll have to buy her a new life jacket!" You know...for that sailing goal. And In case you haven't caught on, he was serious.

Absolutly not, and by that I mean yes

So I got to work in WIC today since they were short staffed. Some things never change. I saw a woman and her 7 month old baby who just moved from another state. Mom says, I need to switch her formula because I changed it a month ago and she has been vomiting since. (She wants to change it to this other formula that is literally the same thing, just a different name). I asked if she was sick or if she had added any  new foods in the past month? Of course the answer was no. Towards the end of the conversation I asked if she had started infant cereal, "yea, about a month ago..." AND in her bottle with the formula ;) of course! Too add the cherry on top, I notice she has a hospital band on her wrist. Apparently baby just got out of the ER and has a virus...

My only explanation is I must have stupid tattooed on my forehead.

Institute for Responsible Technology - Quotes from FDA Scientists

Key documents revealing the hazards of Genetically Modified foods and flaws with how the agency made its policy.

These documents became available through the Alliance for Bio-Integrity's lawsuit to gain mandatory safety testing and labeling of these foods.

Institute for Responsible Technology - Quotes from FDA Scientists

11-year-old Birke Baehr talks about our food system

This is such an awesome video! Only 5 minutes. You pretty much need to see it...

Click here to watch!!

Ghetto...Not So Fabulous

I guess I chose to go to the restroom at the wrong time today. While in the stall, a women came in yelling at her child "you better pull your pants down because you're getting a whoopin".  I assume he did because then I could hear, rather loudly, the woman spanking the child. After he got his "whoopin", the yelling continued. The poor child answered his mother "no sir" and got a promt, "IT'S NO MA'M!!" yikes. So then she yelled, "do you want to go to McDonalds or not?!?" I liked this part. The little boy says, "no"  haha. I think this angered her more.

Why I am still standing in the bathroom I have no idea but as soon as these people walk out, another woman walks in. 

AGAIN, this woman yells at her daughter and then starts spanking her very loudly. I couldn't take anymore so I came out, and to my shock, this child could not have been over the age of 2, and looked terrified. I nicely attempted to give the woman the, "you can not hit your children while you are in the health department" speech and was bombarded with an array of questions including, "well why can't I hit her in the bathroom?" ---her point here being that the bathroom was not part of the heath department. So ANYWAY. I tried to calmly respond to her questions and after the last one I got a finger in the face and a "BITCH PLEASE". Classy. Well I obviously told her that was unacceptable behavior and I was going to get the director who would escort her from the building. In the 30 seconds it took the director to get to the lobby the woman had run off, without her checks. 

Hunny, Bon Qui Qui has more class than you.

Ban Food Stamps for Sodas

Plan to Ban Food Stamps for Sodas Has Hurdle


Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg may face legal and political hurdles in carrying out his ambitious plan to bar food-stamp recipients from using their benefits to buy sugar-sweetened drinks, food policy experts said Thursday.


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