Orthorexia – Righteous Eating
Posted by Cottontimer on 26 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Food
From The New York Times – What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About “Bad” Foods:
Lisa Dorfman, a registered dietitian and the director of sports nutrition and performance at the University of Miami, says that she often sees children who are terrified of foods that are deemed “bad” by parents. “It’s almost a fear of dying, a fear of illness, like a delusional view of foods in general,” she said. “I see kids whose parents have hypnotized them. I have 5-year-olds that speak like 40-year-olds. They can’t eat an Oreo cookie without being concerned about trans fats.”
Not a problem in our house. I bought a box of baby donuts from J Co today.
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I think she’s too quick to blame the parents! I have (I think) an extremely healthy attitude to food – rather than a freakish relationship with “healthy” food – but my 4-year-old is constantly being indoctrinated at school, telling me this food is good and that bad.
I agree about indoctrination at school! The worst is when the kids get confused about the message and think one thing is good for one reason and another is bad for some other reason when nutrition is hardly so black and white.
I’ve encountered food fundamentalists and it’s really weird the fervor that they have about it- I remember especially the woman at a health food store who told my kid that cookies are poison. I stared at her, looked at my kid and said “actually, they aren’t. Some people just don’t like cookies very much.” I mean, WTF, telling a stranger’s kid something like that?
I do care about healthy eating. It is a big part of why I bake bread (in my bread machine, yay bread machine!), and grow food organically in my yard, and cook a lot of things from ’scratch’. But we do love our treats, and I feel nothing but pity for the kids growing up who don’t get to eat yummy stuff like Oreos. Who are neurotically reading labels worrying about the freaking salt content. Poor things!