From my childless position, which means I know nothing of life in the trenches, I think you're on the right track.
What I'm talking about is the Value judgement that we place on food in this country. We assign virtue to foods and by extension people eating them: "I was good today, so I can be bad later....or I was BAD today so I have to be good tonight."
Salad = good Cookie = bad
Except really ... Salads can be very fatty and caloric depending upon how you dress them up. A cookie or two can be a perfectly nutrious snack. Food is food, it is neither good nor bad, nor does eating cheesecake for breakfast once in a blue moon make you a bad person ... it might give you a headache a few hours later, but not put you on the FBI's most wanted list. But we judge other people and ourselves by what we eat. That's what I wish I hadn't gotten from my mother.
I think your tactic of distinguishing between things that are nutrious and things that aren't but allowing both in a balanced way is very sensible. Here's a question ... is the bean able to identify when she's having a sugar crash, and does she relate that crappy cranky feeling to what she's eaten a few hours ago?
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Re: good and bad food
Date: 2010-03-25 09:11 pm (UTC)What I'm talking about is the Value judgement that we place on food in this country. We assign virtue to foods and by extension people eating them: "I was good today, so I can be bad later....or I was BAD today so I have to be good tonight."
Salad = good
Cookie = bad
Except really ... Salads can be very fatty and caloric depending upon how you dress them up. A cookie or two can be a perfectly nutrious snack. Food is food, it is neither good nor bad, nor does eating cheesecake for breakfast once in a blue moon make you a bad person ... it might give you a headache a few hours later, but not put you on the FBI's most wanted list. But we judge other people and ourselves by what we eat. That's what I wish I hadn't gotten from my mother.
I think your tactic of distinguishing between things that are nutrious and things that aren't but allowing both in a balanced way is very sensible. Here's a question ... is the bean able to identify when she's having a sugar crash, and does she relate that crappy cranky feeling to what she's eaten a few hours ago?