Girl Scouts cookie pushers that cause obesity?

Girl Scouts. They are service oriented young people of the community, they are contributing to society, make friends, and learning important leadership and life skills? Or are the pushers and peddlers contributing to the obesity epidemic that must be stopped?

How can you call Girl Scouts pushers? After all, is not the synonymous word "Girl Scouts" of "squeaky clean" and "beneficent"? Since founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, Girl Scouts have been about traditions, such as food drives, Christmas carols, nursing home visits, friendship circles, WTD, camping trips, and Science , programs Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). His students include First Lady Michelle Obama, Dakota Fanning, Sandra Day O'Connor, Hilary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Gloria Steinem, Laura Bush, Celine Dion, Sheryl Crow, Erma Bombeck, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Lucille Ball BLL + 0.46%, Mary Tyler Moore, Martha Stewart, Sally Ride, Gwyneth Paltrow, Taylor Swift, and Elizabeth Alms.

But there is more to this picture ... as the first brought to my attention by Michelle Sandberg, MD, a pediatrician at the Medical Center of Santa Clara Valley and clinical instructor at the School of Medicine at Stanford University and health advocate public. Girl Scouts could be a vehicle for sweet sweets are contributing to the obesity epidemic in progress? Consider the situation that has given rise to a sweet business.

For years, the Girl Scouts have been selling cookies to raise money ... and pushing the floor can not be too much of a stretch. After all, if we go down a Girl Scout can be very difficult when touting their cookies. During your sales pitch, a girl scout can provide information about how a cookie purchase support their activities, meetings, events, and educational programs and help reach different badges and honors. Do you really want to be the one who says, "I'm sorry boy, I guess not going to get that plate or camping trip"? Do you really want to be seen as one of the sharks in the TV show "Shark Tank", turning his back on an agreement and say that Kevin O'Leary did, "life is hard, money does not matter, your tears will not they do add value "? Even if you have no interest in the cookies, the potential disappointment on their faces alone could make buy some. Often, they are not only moving the girl scout, but also his family, trying to help with sales, such as asking: "My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies, you can buy a hundred boxes" The tone becomes even harder to resist if your boss asks you to buy Girl Scout cookies from their daughters. "Hmm, buy some cookies against looking for another job"

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