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The Flintstones Are Deadly

Vitamins have been an important consumer item for years.  Now they have vitemin pills and drinks for just abotu everything, so if need be, you could probably live without consuming anything except for these items.  They have even put it in people's heads that children need these vitamins in addition to thier daily food intake.  They have come out with alot of forms of vitamins for children to try to make them more apealing to consume.  A variety of flavors and shapes, making them look like popular cartoon charectors so the kids think they are eating candy.  Aaahhh yes candy, what child doesn't like candy right?  Did they ever notice how children are usually the ones opening the childproof items for the adults?  Did they ever think the natural psychological workinngs of a child when creating these vitamins?  Hello kids love candy!!  They try to sneak it in at every opportunity.  Kids for the most part have to show their parents how to unlock child proofed items.  It's only natural for children to think of these candy like vitamins as something that is a great find and try to sneak it in when no one is looking.

Back in the day my vitamin of choice were the wonderful Flintstones.  Who wouldn't want to take a bite out of Bam Bam hello?!  He was a hottie to the toddlers of America!  Shit now there's and adult Bam who is hotter then shit, but we will save that for another story. 

Every mornign my mother would let me pick one Flintstone to have with my breakfast.  It was teh shit!  My mom let me eat candy for breakfast wo0t!  I believe I was about three of four years of age when I decided I wanted more!  One day when she wasn't looking I took the bottle and easily opened it and then proceeded to shove as many in my mouth as possible.  She didn't notice the empty bottle or how extremely happy I was and we went on with our day.  I thought I had been oh so clever until I started getting sick and lethargic.  My mother couldn't figure out what was wrong with me, even when I said I ate too much candy. 

Shortly after me going unconsous she found the empty bottle and rushed me to the hospital.  That's right folks at three years of age I was already following in my uncle's footsteps and overdosing on pills and got my first experience with liquid charcoal and stomach pumping.  I'm not saying my mom was a bad mother or anything like that, she has always cared about me and done what she thought was best for me.  She thought she was doing something good for me by giving me vitamins.  Keep your child heathy right?  But why can't we keep our children healthy the old fashioned way?  Give them the right foods and exercise.  Why do we have to surcome to the media and think that because they came out with an easier way to stay healthy that it is better then the way it'd been done for centuries before?