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Of this sponsored celebration of gluttonous nostalgia, Claire Buckley writes:
Ahead of the chocfest that will be this weekend, Saorview took to the streets of Dublin to ask the public some hard hitting questions about Easter – here’s what they found out!
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On Sunday morning, I’ll be holding a discussion group with the kids about the unopened expensive Easter Eggs I’ll be buying from Dunnes tomorrow (on credit card, storing and returning after Easter). On Sunday, we’ll be studying the nutrition information on the boxes, where we’ll find that nearly all Easter Eggs contain 500-600 calories per 100g, mostly from sugar. A standard Easter Egg is around 300g, a small Easter Egg is around 150g.
One standard Easter Egg will provide 1500-1800 calories. The recommended intake for a 7-year old boy is 1649 calories and for a 7-year old girl is 1530 calories. How many eggs does the average child consume at Easter? We’ll then be discussing the facts around childhood obesity in Ireland where one in four children is overweight, and four out of five children don’t get enough exercise.
You have to give the marketing people and obesity merchants credit. How the fupping hell did we arrive at the stage that we stuff overweight children full with more calories to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Because people give presents to each other, overly so in my view. Hence the chocolate eggs just got bigger and fancier and consumers got sucked in, much like they do for de other christian holidays. Would a child feel disappointed if their childhood easter memories were that of a fun day out and a family meal as opposed to the quantity of chocolate eggs received?
We used to get one egg each, bought by our grand-aunt. For some reason she always got me a Black Magic egg. YUCK! No wonder I was so scrawny.
Ah lads, ye’re better than this.
+1. That was wojus.