Make Up Your Mind
When I was a kid we started learning about how bad certain foods were for us, so my mom cut back on things like butter, eggs, red meat, and salt.
As I got older we learned that those same foods were actually not so bad for us... Butter and eggs are now considered essential natural foods. Red meat is the basis of several popular diets, and salt is something our bodies cannot do without.
In recent years, carbohydrates have gone from being evil to being not so bad.
Now I read that people who are modestly overweight actually have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight. So is fat going to be the new health trend?
It all makes my head spin. I try to feed my kids a well-balanced common sense diet. If I were to pay attention to every food study that comes out, I'd probably be afraid to feed my children anything but oatmeal and water. Of course, now I'm reading news reports about drinking too much water! So I guess nothing is safe anymore.
As I got older we learned that those same foods were actually not so bad for us... Butter and eggs are now considered essential natural foods. Red meat is the basis of several popular diets, and salt is something our bodies cannot do without.
In recent years, carbohydrates have gone from being evil to being not so bad.
Now I read that people who are modestly overweight actually have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight. So is fat going to be the new health trend?
It all makes my head spin. I try to feed my kids a well-balanced common sense diet. If I were to pay attention to every food study that comes out, I'd probably be afraid to feed my children anything but oatmeal and water. Of course, now I'm reading news reports about drinking too much water! So I guess nothing is safe anymore.
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 11:23 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with you Phil. I just limit soda and junk food in this house. My husband drinks Pepsi's like they are going out of style, but I can't change him. However the kids get milk or juice with meals not soda.
Then my in-laws think I'm crazy because I don't allow a bunch of chips and cookies in the house. I make desserts for my family once in a while and that's good enough.
My family is healthy, but I don't worry about all the reports. Too much fast food and junk food is not good, but the rest, if taken in MODERATION, is healthy as far as I'm concerned.
Hey, I love the blog.
Actually, though, the articles about fat being healthy were struck down in Popular Science; seems as though the article's writers misinterpreted some vague information.
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