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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Apple Juice

Monday, September 24, 2012

Lately, I have asked a number of parents about their feelings about their children consuming that favorite toddler libation, apple juice. Opinions on the topic naturally vary but the majority opinion on my biased sample is against the apple juice. It is interesting how attitudes have changed; when I was younger, apple juice was looked […]

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More on parents and food anxiety

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Utne has a good piece on the parental role in setting children up for eating disorders. I agree with the position that childhood is ground zero for preventing adult obesity and eating disorders. While there are so many causal factors, attitudes towards food set up early in life may be the most important factor of […]

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Truth about calories

Saturday, September 8, 2012

There is an excellent post at Scientific American about calories in context. One of the most prevalent and perhaps erroneous assumptions about nutrition is that all of the energy in the foods you eat is bioavailable. This truth is more complex.

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Parents and food anxieties

Friday, September 7, 2012

One of the things that stands out to me when thinking about my childhood is my parent’s attitudes towards my eating habits. You don’t remember the multitude of meals in your life, save for the highly emotional ones. The ones associated with an important life event – an engagement dinner. A particularly good meal – my first […]

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Fat body vs. mind

Monday, September 3, 2012

I have now had a weight problem for thirty years. But what is the problem, really? I have found that it is not so much the weight itself, having had ups and downs and thinner and fatter periods in my life. There were times when you could say that I did not have a problem […]

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