tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post909053532591843725..comments2023-11-10T02:18:23.772-08:00Comments on Minnesota Matron: Swim Suit SeasonMinnesota Matronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16565431067927240183noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-49319336333224748322008-06-02T17:03:00.000-07:002008-06-02T17:03:00.000-07:00I'm adding a new guidline to my life rules for foo...I'm adding a new guidline to my life rules for food...<BR/><BR/>"Be wary of any food that doesn't wash off after 10 days."<BR/><BR/>(PS - hearing Pollan speak at the Sydney Writers Festival truly <I>was</I> a treat.)Fairlie - www.feetonforeignlands.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145612102935177016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-63570254287579995852008-05-25T16:16:00.000-07:002008-05-25T16:16:00.000-07:00As someone who has actually walked out of the groc...As someone who has actually walked out of the grocery store after not being able to find anything my family could actually eat.....I get what you're saying. Our family has gone to complete whole foods - it is not easy - but is the only way I can sleep at night. Also, having a daughter that has been treated for an eating disorder, makes food in our home even more tentative. It is difficult not to make food an issue (which we were taught during her treatment) when you are trying to be conscious of 'real' food on a daily basis. There is a fine line between consciousness and making it an issue.<BR/><BR/>The regular grocery store is a vast wasteland of fake food. Until everyone is willing to take the time to learn what real food is and how to cook it, I don't see anything changing any time soon.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this post and for bringing awareness to this subject.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590585650894114884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-83799673261564985732008-05-23T23:09:00.000-07:002008-05-23T23:09:00.000-07:00Between Pollen and Kingsolver and my own good sens...Between Pollen and Kingsolver and my own good sense (which occasionally rears up), I've been increasingly annoyed with American food culture--the sheer amount of processing, of taking real stuff out of our foods and putting in fake stuff (aspertame, anyone?) in and calling it "better." I have the only five-year-old on the block who can say the words "high fructose corn syrup" and identify foods without it.<BR/><BR/>As far as body image, I'm tres eff-ed up, personally...totally, completely fit (yoga, pilates, muscle pumping plus daily runs of an hour), but I remain outside the ideal, and I can't. keep. that. from. mattering. to. me.<BR/><BR/>Yet.<BR/><BR/>Yet.<BR/><BR/>My daughter only knows her mom is totally, completely fit. The only word she couldn't identify correctly back when she had her pre-kindergarten assessment at age 4, was "fat."<BR/><BR/>My proudest moment as a parent.Jocelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03227519811818290510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-79686973535170739742008-05-23T13:35:00.000-07:002008-05-23T13:35:00.000-07:00wonderful post, as usual. very serious subject an...wonderful post, as usual. very serious subject and i agree, but all i can think of are old dutch potato chips!! we don't have them in the south. i miss them!Madgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14905740781186585499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-90723768338512722932008-05-23T07:52:00.000-07:002008-05-23T07:52:00.000-07:00Oh my, nailed the topic once again. I really love ...Oh my, nailed the topic once again. I really love this post as the issue is near and dear to my heart. I somehow escaped the cultural/gendered obsession with thinness and food (largely due to genetic factors I bet) and it's made it interesting, to say the least, to be female. I remember marveling in junior high that I was the only girl I knew not on a diet. Kind of like a guy who doesn't like the Sports Machine banter. Anyways, if you stick your fingers in a grapefruit for awhile after eating it, you may be able to bleach your nails out.JessTrevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11000531822628182708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-75007136744920709222008-05-23T07:38:00.000-07:002008-05-23T07:38:00.000-07:00Suburban -- No, you're right. Anorexia (I think) ...Suburban -- No, you're right. Anorexia (I think) is more than just a disease of cultural pressure. But it's often called a "culture-bound" syndrome, meaning that certain cultural pressures -- not just thinness, but power and control and autonomy (also American values) create a climate in which the very traits that become pathological in their extreme are desirable in some degree.Minnesota Matronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16565431067927240183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-81813596959217332882008-05-23T06:43:00.000-07:002008-05-23T06:43:00.000-07:00I begin this by stating in college I was a dance m...I begin this by stating in college I was a dance major and I switched majors because I couldn't starve myself to be thin enough for "performance" standards. Eating disorders were rampant among my peers.<BR/><BR/>I eat and love to eat and I've long adhered to the advice of "If your great-grandmother can't identify it, it's not food." Amen. This advice makes apple pie good and McNuggets--well, scary if you think about it.<BR/>Great post (as usual!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-70911718173772940582008-05-23T01:49:00.000-07:002008-05-23T01:49:00.000-07:00I couldn't have coped with that conversation. Do t...I couldn't have coped with that conversation. Do those mothers ever point the judgement finger inwards?<BR/>My girls and I debated the current push by our government to ban fastfood ads on TV. Kyla feels it will make no difference, whilst Madi thinks it's a good idea. Get this, she thought the government actually cared about obese kids. I had to break it to her that it all comes down to $$$. Fat=sick=pressure on already struggling public heath system.<BR/>The sweet innocence of youth...politicians never lie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-80711123735225215172008-05-22T23:50:00.000-07:002008-05-22T23:50:00.000-07:00Normal eating, normal weight...I despair of ever g...Normal eating, normal weight...I despair of ever getting it all right in a healthy way. Genetics aren't my friend, and I wish it was all easier.Jennifer Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16239563357592230711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-91805120492886934892008-05-22T21:48:00.000-07:002008-05-22T21:48:00.000-07:00Half of the food I eat is not food I need and is a...Half of the food I eat is not food I need and is actually food I can very well do without. Empty calories nutritiously seen. It's good to be reminded of that so clearly in this post. Thanks MM.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14543678444899992860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-40004511720725793782008-05-22T20:29:00.001-07:002008-05-22T20:29:00.001-07:00I think people know more about anorexia because th...I think people know more about anorexia because they can identify with that desire to be thin. They can't so much identify with the more standard mental disorders. Are you saying that anorexia shouldn't be qualified as a mental disorder, because it is caused by our culture, rather than by our minds? I think it is more a form of OCD, actually.Suburban Correspondenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488916572135296650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-89935273214126793262008-05-22T20:29:00.000-07:002008-05-22T20:29:00.000-07:00I'm pretty sure I could blog on just this subject ...I'm pretty sure I could blog on just this subject everyday. And then I'd need meds.<BR/><BR/>Fake food and disordered eating - can't eat the first & the second, marred my high school years.<BR/><BR/>I love what you told Scarlett. Best advice; I try to do the same.Lisa Wheeler Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07386193798727387546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-83403619838725650752008-05-22T20:06:00.000-07:002008-05-22T20:06:00.000-07:00Fast food is an oxymoron.Fast food is an oxymoron.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7381811875173852585.post-68138435873772293692008-05-22T20:03:00.000-07:002008-05-22T20:03:00.000-07:00So, so, sad. And the clothing manufacturers keep ...So, so, sad. And the clothing manufacturers keep changing their sizes. I'm sure that my 10s are yesterdays 14s. Because in High School, I think I wore 10 - and believe me, I am at least 25 lbs heavier. <BR/><BR/>So, they screw with our food AND our clothes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com