Re: NYTimes.com: What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

[Guest guest]

I am a parent and this article is very relevant to me. I have seen the effect

of being restrictive with my 7yo son, who is what some would call strong willed.

He will now go to a salad bar and everything that is not on the O diet.

I believe the issue is not really health food vs. junk food, but the issue is

respecting the individual freedoms of our children. We can advise, we can lead

by example, we can not bring certain foods home, but lecturing about how some

things are awful are better left to be learned by experience. So much better if

kids learn to think for themselves about what their bodies thrive on and what

makes them feel yucky.

My husband just will not stop bringing home gross candy & chemical-laden sweets

that I would never buy. It is an issue. But I will admit it helped me lay off

being the (pardon the expression) food Nazi in our house, a role I undertook

because I lacked this ability to be gentle with and respectful of my own freedom

when starting the O diet.

Marie

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[Guest guest]

It will be unfortunate if good nutrition gets a bad rap because of " fanatical "

parents and media.

But that is human nature of the child and adult dynamic. Eating disorders

and other anxieties that children develop are really a symptom, not the

actual problem.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:35 AM, <tamaratornado@...> wrote:

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> HEALTH / FITNESS & NUTRITION | February 26, 2009

> What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

> By ABBY ELLIN

> Many experts worry that some parents are becoming overzealous in efforts to

> engender good eating habits in children.

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In a healthy world, where the profits of commercial food manufacturers are not

the issue, healthy eating is normal. People have forgotten that. Most people

have been " hypnotized " into thinking fake food is food, birthday cakes are

necessary, and it is cruel or disordered to deprive kids of junk food. People

need to wake up to the bigger picture and to the real benefits of real food.

Serve healthy food, including on special occasions. Real food is delicious and

kids will agree if they are not taught that junk food is special.

My kids were fed only healthy food until they started school. Then they had more

control over their own eating and started eating what their friends ate. But

they never lost their taste for the healthy food I gave them. And now, in their

twenties, they appreciate real, fresh, organic food and avoid fast food.

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thought it was something to consider.

HEALTH / FITNESS & NUTRITION | February 26, 2009

What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

By ABBY ELLIN

Many experts worry that some parents are becoming overzealous in efforts to

engender good eating habits in children.

http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 02/26/health/ nutrition/ 26food.html? emc=eta1

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my 11 yr. old son.. too... will pick out all the 'O' avoids at the salad

bar!!... (honeydew, corn, cucumbers... and of course any bread)... it's

tough !! he won't even try my green smoothies !!

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That's the way to do it. It was the same with my daughter.

The trick is to not be stress-out fanatic about it.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Bumpas <lindabumpas@...>wrote:

> In a healthy world, where the profits of commercial food manufacturers

> are not the issue, healthy eating is normal. People have forgotten that.

> Most people have been " hypnotized " into thinking fake food is food, birthday

> cakes are necessary, and it is cruel or disordered to deprive kids of junk

> food. People need to wake up to the bigger picture and to the real benefits

> of real food. Serve healthy food, including on special occasions. Real food

> is delicious and kids will agree if they are not taught that junk food is

> special.

>

> My kids were fed only healthy food until they started school. Then they had

> more control over their own eating and started eating what their friends

> ate. But they never lost their taste for the healthy food I gave them. And

> now, in their twenties, they appreciate real, fresh, organic food and avoid

> fast food.

>

>

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> HEALTH / FITNESS & NUTRITION | February 26, 2009

> What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

> By ABBY ELLIN

> Many experts worry that some parents are becoming overzealous in efforts to

> engender good eating habits in children.

>

> http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 02/26/health/ nutrition/ 26food.html?

> emc=eta1

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Part of the issue is if children are in school or regularly eat away from home.

Marie

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[Guest guest]

This is why I thank my creator that

I live on 80 acres out in the country.

We have our own three Nubian goats

For milk and cheese, and grow about

70% of our own food. If it is time to

Restock the freezer with beef, we go to the local

rancher, point out THE steer we want,

and a week later pick up the meat.

We have six chickens for our eggs, so except for

bulk basmati rice, pasta, and fruit, we pretty

much have total control over how what we eat

is produced. Brie

In , Bumpas <lindabumpas@...> wrote:

>

> In a healthy world, where the profits of commercial food manufacturers are not

the

issue, healthy eating is normal. People have forgotten that. Most people have

been

" hypnotized " into thinking fake food is food, birthday cakes are necessary, and

it is cruel

or disordered to deprive kids of junk food. People need to wake up to the bigger

picture

and to the real benefits of real food. Serve healthy food, including on special

occasions.

Real food is delicious and kids will agree if they are not taught that junk food

is special.

>

> My kids were fed only healthy food until they started school. Then they had

more

control over their own eating and started eating what their friends ate. But

they never lost

their taste for the healthy food I gave them. And now, in their twenties, they

appreciate

real, fresh, organic food and avoid fast food.

>

>

>

>

>

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> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:35:23 AM

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Foods

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> What do you think of this? I am not a parent, so it's not my issue, but I

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something to consider.

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> HEALTH / FITNESS & NUTRITION | February 26, 2009

> What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

> By ABBY ELLIN

> Many experts worry that some parents are becoming overzealous in efforts to

engender

good eating habits in children.

>

> http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 02/26/health/ nutrition/ 26food.html? emc=eta1

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[Guest guest]

Yes. Send food if you can, otherwise you educate them the best you can and

accept that they will survive. Lead by example and teach them what you can

while they are with you and do as little damage as possible. Then you have

to let it go - it's their life.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, <emhosdil@...> wrote:

> Part of the issue is if children are in school or regularly eat away

> from home.

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> Marie

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[Guest guest]

There's really nothing more satisfying than ignoring a real problem

while simulataneously taking oh-how-terrible pleasure in blaming

parents or teachers for doing their best to deal with the problem.

We, as a nation, are so ignorant of our bodies. The medical/political

infrastructure fosters that ignorance. And as a nation, we are

poisoning ourselves so fast and in so many ways that the effects are

distressingly, horrifyingly apparent to all who start to take the

blinders off. Children are suffering from horrible conditions that

the establishment wants us to believe have know known cause or no real

cure besides asking us to donate billions of dollars while they create

toxic treatments.

Turn on the lights, look at the elephant. It isn't a problem of

overzealous parents, after all. As for the kids, (and I don't mean to

sound harsh, here, but look through history and kids have and continue

to go through MUCH worse), this is a learning experience for all of

us, and it is anxiety-provoking for all of us.

But what I think this type of article could lead to is hyperfocus on

the wrong thing to the detriment of solving the real problems of our

food supply, our medical system, our dental system, our vaccination

system, and suppression of and absence of funding for research of more

natural, healthy dietary and complementary interventions. People need

more and better information, INCLUDING the information that stress

will ruin the nutrition of ANY meal. But telling people just a few

fast-food French Fries is ok is an outright lie. Just because they

don't kill someone now, next week, next month, next year, or by

graduation, doesn't mean those occasional fries won't seriously

compromise their health and well-being down the line...and not just

the fries, of course.

We should be more concerned about our lack of understanding of how

foods can help, hinder or heal the health issues that are so prevalent

today, including and especially those faced by our kids, from autism

to aspergers, anorexia to attention deficit, anxiety and asthma.

Mental illnesses like anorexia and bulimia HAVE been helped

significantly through proper, personalized nutrition that may address

a number of different biochemical issues.

Articles like this can set up an ill-advised campaign to eat what you

feel like eating from a very poor pool of choices, as long as you feel

good about it.

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> HEALTH / FITNESS & NUTRITION | February 26, 2009

> What's Eating Our Kids? Fears About 'Bad' Foods

> By ABBY ELLIN

> Many experts worry that some parents are becoming overzealous in

efforts to engender good eating habits in children.

>

> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26food.html?emc=eta1

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