Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post

But it must be supported by parent(s) at home in daily practice, since they wield consider buying power and power to make decisions on types of food for home during first decade or so of child's life. The time period that sets the foundation for a child's physical development for ...life.


It's great to watch some tv shows which do impart useful tips. But support and reinforcement helps by hanging out with people (either in person or virtual forums, like TE ) who are trying to make/maintain the same healthy changes.
I am lucky in that I took a nutrition course as a science requirement in my first year of college and the knowledge stuck with me. Then in the early 1990s I went through a 3-month hospital course on nutrition and cardio health with my husband, a course based on the DASH Diet, which is supported by the USDA and the American Heart Association. I am also lucky in that I grew up with parents who used all of the food groups before all of the food groups were recognized.

You are right, the children need to have appropriate nutrition at home. I was thinking of the next generations, to get today's children educated on how to eat to maximize nutrition and to minimize sodium, sugars, refined carbs and food chemicals. The Dr. Oz show is good to watch because he puts the parents in front of the Truth Tube and shows them what is wrong with their health, like having fatty trigs of 680, or a blood pressure of 220/110, or LDL over 100, and these parents with the bad health must be feeding their children the same garbage they are feeding themselves. Sometimes Dr. Oz has children on the show who are over 300 pounds. Unbelievable.

Another show is on BBCA, You Are What You Eat with Gillian McKeith. This summer there is going to be a show with the female trainer from the Biggest Loser. And of course there is the Biggest Loser. There is a lot of information out there available for people who don't want to take a 3-month hospital course on nutrition, and these types of shows might be in a format that will impart the information to get people to think before they make their food purchasing decisions.

I just feel very lucky that I never liked fast food or processed food or take-out food. It is why I am eager to read this book because there must be a theory advanced by the author that the stuff in processed foods and fast foods gives people food addictions, and not addictions for more raw veggies, but addictions to foods without any nutritional benefits.