Are Children Who Eat Hamburgers At-Risk for Getting Asthma?!

[Big Daddy's House]

The Food Police are at it again!!

This time, they're targetting hamburgers, saying that children who eat at least three of them a week are at-risk for getting asthma.

Who comes up with this crap?!

This is nuts!! :mad: :mad:

[awesomeapril]

a little bit of junk food is good for everyone! Hamburgers don't even have to be junk food.
Ok even if there argument isn't that hamburgers aren't junk, jeeze live a little, can't be scared of everything.

[Chowhound]

Gotta link, Sherm?
I'm having a hard time grasping that someone thinks eating beef, bread and ketchup can cause asthma. I gotta read this one for myself.

[LuvsToCook]

Gotta link, Sherm?
I'm having a hard time grasping that someone thinks eating beef, bread and ketchup can cause asthma. I gotta read this one for myself.

Me too! I don't know if I will laugh or get mad at the information that bigD gave us. I just can't imagine it. Maybe, later on they will warn us to stop eating. :D

[Big Daddy's House]

Here it is;

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section-news/health&id=7477434

[Kimchee]

NO child should be eating "three or more hamburgers a week".
Any parent who feeds their kids that much junk should be flogged in public.

[Big Daddy's House]

Well, not trying to make waves, but what do you think that kids all across America are going to be doing now that the warm & hot lazy days of summer are here once again?

What do you think their favorite sammie is going to be at BBQ's, backyard cookouts, fairs, theaters or those fast-food places like MD's, BK, Wendy's and at theme parks?

The All-American hamburger.

[Whoopie Pie]

Actually that news story didn't really make any sense. It pretty much said, "that statement we made, doesn't really mean that hamburgers cause asthma, it may be lifestyle that contributes more to it, we have no proof that asthma is caused by eating meat".

I really hate the media, they will report on anything, whether it means anything or not. No wonder people are so confused about food!

Did you notice that they didn't even mention which study it was or provide any links to the study, so that we could become more informed about it?

[Big Daddy's House]

Actually that news story didn't really make any sense. It pretty much said, "that statement we made, doesn't really mean that hamburgers cause asthma, it may be lifestyle that contributes more to it, we have no proof that asthma is caused by eating meat".

I really hate the media, they will report on anything, whether it means anything or not. No wonder people are so confused about food!

Did you notice that they didn't even mention which study it was or provide any links to the study, so that we could become more informed about it?



As my mom used to say; If you listen to them, you'll starve to death.

The media has been doing this for eons - badmouthing foods and saying that they can cause serious illnesses or side affects such as asthma, cancer, heart disease, blindness or other things with no basis in fact.

They once even badmouthed coffee, alcohol and wine, saying that they are all too dangerous for you. Then they switched it around and said; "Oh. It's good for you now because it helps stimulate the heart and keeps it in good working order."

THEY are the ones who need to get off that high horse of theirs and come correct and they are the ones who should be flogged in public because they are always & forever trying to put the carriage before the horse! :mad:

[Chowhound]

I noticed that right off the bat, Whoopie. I hate "they said" articles when they don't tell you who "they" are.

Kimchee, are you being sarcastic? You are, right?
I remember eating two burgers in one sitting as a kid. Throw in going to the beach a few times/week during the summer, where my beach going relatives would always barbeque burgers and hot dogs, and I know I ate more than three hamburgers some weeks. The article isn't saying McDonald's hamburgers, it's saying simply hamburgers. I come from a day when eating red meat was still OK though. And cheese and lettuce and onions and rolls and relish... ;^)
That's what I find so vague about the short writeup. They aren't even linking it with fast food hamburgers, just hamburgers in general.
wheeze, cough, cough.... lol

[awesomeapril]

you can find statistics to prove just about anything you want anyway. It's why it is so important to think for yourself.

[Whoopie Pie]

Chowhound, I agree with you completely.

I feel that kids will be just fine eating lots of burgers when they are active, I think that it all balances out. I ate my weight in them as a child and it only caught up with me as I matured and became less active. If you are feeding your kid piles of junk and their only activity is video games, then I could see a problem there.

[PixieKitteh]

To me, it's like saying if you hold a green color crayon you're going to get some rare debilitating disease.

I totally agree with Kimchee that kids shouldn't eat as much junk food as they do. But then again, I come from a family that sat down to home cooked meals 99% of the time. It was a total treat if we got fast food, which might have been 3 or 4 times a year.

If kids eat 3 hamburgers or hot dogs here or there, I don't see a problem with that, all kids do or have done that. Where I find the problem is the constant blaming the food for making them overweight and/or possibly giving them some disease...

[Big Daddy's House]

I think that the media just wants to badmouth anything and everything that we all enjoy and have been eating for years!!

Another childhood favorite food that kids like was also given a bad rap by them - hot dogs!! Burgers, when cooked on an outdoor grill, CAN be ok to eat because the fat drains off during the cooking process. Though it has been said that red meat is not good for you, who says that a child can't have one once in a while.

I don't think having a burger that three times a week would hurt a child any more than having French fries three times a week! With no actual proof or basis in fact that this is the case, as far as I'm concerned, they can go get lost!!

[Whoopie Pie]

Well I have to agree on the hotdog thing, those are pretty bad for you, considering the amount of fat and salt in them. But once again, moderation, hotdogs can be a perfectly acceptable "sometimes" food. I eat maybe a couple per year, but I know that many people feed them to their children multiple times per week, because they are cheap and easy. Save the hotdogs for cookouts, and weenie roasts!

[Big Daddy's House]

Well, there are going to be many cookouts this summer all across the country, and just like the time when WE were kids, kids today are NOT going to miss any of them if they can help it!

I used to eat grilled hot dogs, but now, I can only eat them boiled. Boiling them helps take out quite a bit of the salt. If they are grilled, then they are too atrociously salty, which to me, is very unbearable to eat.

[Roberta]

Agree with Shrm and Chow and others RE: idiocy of these worthless studies based on flimsy shoddy research. When it comes to your health and what is healthy to eat DO NOT TRUST THE MEDIA in all of its various guises.

[Big Daddy's House]

Agree with Shrm and Chow and others RE: idiocy of these worthless studies based on flimsy shoddy research. When it comes to your health and what is healthy to eat DO NOT TRUST THE MEDIA in all of its various guises.



Thank you, Roberta. You're so right!!

They are always so blasted quick to badmouth foods that we ate as small children, that are STILL childhood favoites, even today, while still trying to link them to cancer, heart disease and asthma, yet they furnish very little or no actual proof to back-up their ridiculous claims!!!

I say let the kids enjoy themselves and eat what they like, as long as they don't overindulge and get sick! Kindly have a frank & blunt discussion with them, telling them that you care dearly about them, but to please don't overeat. It's summer! Kids love old fashioned summer foods. :mad: :mad:

[Roberta]

I agree Sherm. We can teach good nutrition and still let kids enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs.

I am beginning to think the food police will not be happy until we all are eating bean shoots and tofu three times a day.

What ever happened to a balanced diet.

And then there are the French. No one eats more fat and cholesterol laden food then the French. Not much heart or weight problems there.

[Big Daddy's House]

I sometimes wonder if those morons are practicing what they are preaching. In other words, are they feeding THEIR children this same line of hogwash? I can assure you that they're NOT!

We as small children ourselves, ate whatever we liked and enjoyed backyard cookouts to the fullest with BBQ'd ribs, chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs. Plus potato salad, collard greens, macaroni salad, mac & cheese, green beans and for desert, we had pineapple upside-down cake homemade ice cream.

Now what child wouldn't enjoy a cookout that had all that luscious food? No child that I know of! He or she would be in hog heaven! I would as well!!

I say let the kids enjoy themselves, but within limits.

[IFight]

I think there is a risk. Following is from BBC.
"Children who eat a Mediterranean diet have a lower risk of developing asthma, but eating three or more burgers a week is linked to a higher risk, research suggests. "

[Roberta]

All things in moderation. That includes moderation BTW!

[Big Daddy's House]

I know an overweight chubby 10-year-old boy who comes over to to spend weekends with his dad who lives down the street. His two older brothers are are also overweight, so you know that the three of them don't miss a meal.

They're in perfect health now, as far as I can see. But of course, as you know, they might start having health problems early in life.

I won't tell them that because they should already know. Don't want any of them to get mad with me!!

[Big Daddy's House]

I remember the time when they badmouthed Saccarin, an ingredient used in the production of Sweet & Low and other generic low-cal sweeteners. Linking it to cancer!

There was a warning on the packets that read;

'Caution; Use of this product can be hazzardous to your health. This product contains Saccarin, which has been determined to cause cancer in labratory animals."

That claim was NEVER really proven, and the warning had eventually disappeared from the packets. I don't use it though because of the nasty bitter aftertaste that it leaves in your mouth.

It used to be put into everything, from diet soda to candy.