  Renee is a blogging mom from Canada, and here she puzzles over American parents' unhealthy kids. I do understand that an awful lot of American parents make choices like she discusses, but I hope the number of people I've blogged, or who've commented on my blogs, help her understand that we're not all that way! urlLink likeababy: a pregnancy, a baby, a family : "I was lurking through mommietalk and saw a post on fast food and toddlers. I realized (duh, Renee) that our American neighbours seem to eat a lot more fast food than we do up here in Canada.
I mean, part of this may have to do with a combination of cost and accessibility. I know in most of the communities and cities I've been in the U.S., there are miles and miles of fast food restaurants. Canada, you're most likely to live in either in a big city, where real estate is expensive and restaurants tend to be higher end, or in a more rural community where access is unlikely (no McDonald's in most of the British Columbia interior, for example) I don't know. Don't get me wrong, if you want to feed your family Mc D's twice a week, it's not the end of the world.
It's just that, in order for me, or most of the Canadians I know to do that, we'd actually have to go out of our way...know what I mean? Why do Americans make fast food choices more than Canadians and Euros? Is it because they work longer hours, commute farther, have less free time and way more disposable income? Is it because fast food is actually (from what I remember about pricing) cheaper than cooking at home? " 
