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» ifeandtwilight - Health advocate or Junk Food Ogre?

It's definitely a contradiction, but it really doesn't upset me. I mean, Shrek wasn't created as a healthy lifestyle advocate - he was entertainment, and more logicially, a corporate mechanism. It's similar to school lunches - they tell you to be healthy, even provide a code for what is and what isn't - but they still allow kids [even severely overweight ones] to buy three pieces of carry-out pizza per day.

And, really. I'm but a mere teen, so childhood [particularly a "modern childhood"] isn't so far off in my memory. As far as my personal experience, kids don't really look to their figureheads as role models for activities unless they really engage them. For instance, I was a Blues Clues nut, and did whatever Steve told me because he was talking to ME he was making ME get excited - a cartoon face on any package will make it more likely for kids to jump for it, but it's not a sealed deal. It comes down to the choice of parents and children. I mean, this is America. We should know that a cute character hardly makes anything more or less wholesome.

-- posted by ifeandtwilight