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Kids and Nutrition
On 2005-10-11,
wrote: we'll bring experts to your house and show them how to live a healthy lifestyle. I love this sentence! But would the experts really learn anything at my house? ------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics (Senior member, IEEE) (Board of Directors, ISCB) life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Affiliations for identification only. |
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:29:19 EDT, Kevin Karplus
wrote: On 2005-10-11, wrote: we'll bring experts to your house and show them how to live a healthy lifestyle. I love this sentence! But would the experts really learn anything at my house? Oh, what fun! Let's see, at your house wouldn't they learn about bicycle commuting? At our house, they could see a real clothesline in action. They could come with us on our lakeshore walk. They could go to Food Basics and the open-air market and watch my partner plan a meal on the fly around whatever vegetables look good. They could watch us leave the telephone unanswered because we're having dinner. And they could listen to us laughing out loud while we share the latest paper mail and e-mail we're getting from our young people off at university and college. How about the rest of you, what parts of your healthy lifestyle would you like to show off to the experts? Louise |
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Louise wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:29:19 EDT, Kevin Karplus wrote: On 2005-10-11, wrote: we'll bring experts to your house and show them how to live a healthy lifestyle. I love this sentence! But would the experts really learn anything at my house? Oh, what fun! Louise's lessons snipped How about the rest of you, what parts of your healthy lifestyle would you like to show off to the experts? LOL. They could watch an 10 year old boy (13 now) decide to become a vegetarian and thereby teach his parents how to live a healthier lifestyle. They could watch me get creative in a frantic but futile attempt to use all the fresh limes and oranges that literally fall off our trees between now and spring because we can't use them fast enough. They could watch me make the excellent case that beer is a food group and chocolate is an essential nutrient with an RDA and everything ;-) -Dawn |
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:53:53 EDT, "Dawn"
wrote: They could watch me make the excellent case that beer is a food group and chocolate is an essential nutrient with an RDA and everything ;-) I just found out that popcorn might count as a whole grain. This seems too good to be true! Louise |
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Louise wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:29:19 EDT, Kevin Karplus wrote: On 2005-10-11, wrote: we'll bring experts to your house and show them how to live a healthy lifestyle. I love this sentence! But would the experts really learn anything at my house? Oh, what fun! Let's see, at your house wouldn't they learn about bicycle commuting? snip How about the rest of you, what parts of your healthy lifestyle would you like to show off to the experts? Not much I'm afraid. We don't smoke, we don't drink (neither alcohol or coffee and rarely drink soft drinks), and we eat at least two green vegetables (one of them usually broccoli) and a half grapefruit at every dinner. DH does the cooking and uses almost no prepared foods. We floss, and then rinse with Listerine for 30 seconds, and then brush for 2 minutes every night before bed. We use sunscreen and stay out of the sun. DH has just had a melanoma removed from his arm and he attributes that to have been 'burnt to a crisp' several times as a child - he has the kind of skin that never tans. grandma Rosalie |
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Louise writes:
I just found out that popcorn might count as a whole grain. This seems too good to be true! Funny you should mention that. The last jar of popcorn I bought has a large graphic on the front of the label: "100% WHOLE GRAIN!" It was a teachable moment for the 11-year-old. "Sometimes what you see on a label is absolutely true and at the same time absolutely meaningless. This is one of those times." - Cindy Kandolf, mamma to Kenneth (11) and Robert (4) ****** Bærum, Norway Bilingual Families Web Page: http://www.nethelp.no/cindy/biling-fam.html |
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Cindy Kandolf wrote: Louise writes: I just found out that popcorn might count as a whole grain. This seems too good to be true! Funny you should mention that. The last jar of popcorn I bought has a large graphic on the front of the label: "100% WHOLE GRAIN!" It was a teachable moment for the 11-year-old. "Sometimes what you see on a label is absolutely true and at the same time absolutely meaningless. This is one of those times." Why is that meaningless? As a whole grain, popcorn is a decent source of fiber. Nutritionally, it isn't bad. And if you don't add fats, it's a pretty low calorie snack. -- Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care |
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"Dawn" wrote in message
oups.com... How about the rest of you, what parts of your healthy lifestyle would you like to show off to the experts? LOL. They could watch an 10 year old boy (13 now) decide to become a vegetarian and thereby teach his parents how to live a healthier lifestyle. Rose went vegetarian shortly after Henry, it appears. What the kids have harped on parents about is in general choosing products that are sustainably farmed and as nice to animals as possible. It's easy for them to agitate, as they don't pay the food bill. Nonetheless, if I go to Trader Joe's, I can get relatively inexpensive free-range meats and eggs, non-hormonally-treated cows' milk, and organic products. Another thought is having a vegetable garden. Rose really helped this year in putting it to bed last weekend. The only thing left is a fall crop of chard. I can't believe how expensive greens are at the store. They are always telling us, "get more dark leafy vegetables into your diet", but how much does it cost to buy collard greens or chard! At the same time, they are very easy to grow, and at least here, I can have them in the garden year-round. For us, it's not just bicycle commuting, but a general emphasis on getting around Not-By-Car. I try to have a feet first attitude about getting around. By feet first, I mean the first choice is to walk. Second is bicycle, third is bus, and finally, if all else fails, you get driven. One of the advantages of feet first is that you have greater independence. Yes, mom can take you up to the theatre in the station wagon for rehearsals in 5 minutes, but if you walk (which takes 20-30), you don't have to be dependent on mom. Stuff we're less good at: taking vitamins regularly. Eating a low-fat diet -- Emma loves butter and cream, and I guess I'm right there with her on that one! -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:02:13 EDT, Cindy Kandolf
wrote: Didn't I just see you over there --- in RACS? Louise writes: I just found out that popcorn might count as a whole grain. This seems too good to be true! Funny you should mention that. The last jar of popcorn I bought has a large graphic on the front of the label: "100% WHOLE GRAIN!" I'm not sure why that's a surprise. It was a teachable moment for the 11-year-old. "Sometimes what you see on a label is absolutely true and at the same time absolutely meaningless. This is one of those times." Actually, air-popped popcorn can be a pretty healthy choice for a snack, as long as you don't put anything on it that makes it taste good ;-) http://www.nutritionresource.com/data.cfm?n=19034 http://www.purityfoods.com/nutrition/popcorn.html Maybe a better example would have been a label on some sugar-heavy junk food that said "fat-free." Nick -- Nick Theodorakis contact form: http://theodorakis.net/contact.html |
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