Thank you Tim. I'd be fascinated if you share the messages you detect. I think if we start pooling our collective experiences we will uncover even more ways in which we are being brainwashed into bad food decisions.
This resonates even more now. There's no doubt that you can eat poorly here in Spain. However, it's much easier to eat healthy or at least better in your day to day.
Smaller portions. Quality ingredients. Reasonable prices. Healthy meals in schools. It's pretty incredible that we.can't do any of this really as policy, as public service, as a way of life in the US and Canada, two of the wealthiest, most advanced nations (in many ways) in the world.
Exactly! How is it that the basics of real food are so hard here in North America!?! Except that we both know it's a matter of corporate greed and profit over people's wellbeing and health. When food giants have a hand in setting national policy through high level jobs, appointments and lobbies, things won't be focused on individual human health and wellbeing, ever.
It just makes it so much more important to do this for ourselves, especially as we age. And to provide examples for younger people. I'm so looking forward to hearing about the food in Spain and the lifestyle shift you are experiencing. Many happy days ahead!
So important to our young people too - so often we are looked at as hippies because we cook our own food! Plus it is food we can recognise as healthy!!
I’m thinking of potato chips: “You can’t just eat one!”
Thanks for writing about the internal chatter we have inherited from society about food. I’ll be on the lookout for what I’m telling myself today.
Thank you Tim. I'd be fascinated if you share the messages you detect. I think if we start pooling our collective experiences we will uncover even more ways in which we are being brainwashed into bad food decisions.
This resonates even more now. There's no doubt that you can eat poorly here in Spain. However, it's much easier to eat healthy or at least better in your day to day.
Smaller portions. Quality ingredients. Reasonable prices. Healthy meals in schools. It's pretty incredible that we.can't do any of this really as policy, as public service, as a way of life in the US and Canada, two of the wealthiest, most advanced nations (in many ways) in the world.
Exactly! How is it that the basics of real food are so hard here in North America!?! Except that we both know it's a matter of corporate greed and profit over people's wellbeing and health. When food giants have a hand in setting national policy through high level jobs, appointments and lobbies, things won't be focused on individual human health and wellbeing, ever.
It just makes it so much more important to do this for ourselves, especially as we age. And to provide examples for younger people. I'm so looking forward to hearing about the food in Spain and the lifestyle shift you are experiencing. Many happy days ahead!
So important to our young people too - so often we are looked at as hippies because we cook our own food! Plus it is food we can recognise as healthy!!