The New York Times has a positive article about an astonishing phenomenon: people who eat to be healthy and enjoy food, not to lose weight. The fact that this warrants a news article at all stands as a comment about our current culture. Several people who used to struggle with eating issues are profiled, and it is encouraging to see how they have been able to overcome the disorder and appreciate their bodies (and lives). Dieticians are also interviewed about these emerging "positive eating trends."
I wish that our society was such that this kind of article would never be deemed news-worthy, but the fact is that we're constantly pounded with the idea that food is the enemy, to be avoided, resisted, and outsmarted at all costs. We put so incredibly much effort into abusing ourselves-twisting food from a nourishing, cultural pleasure into an omnious enemy--that we damage both our bodies and our minds, to say it's a shame is a vast understatement.
Anyway, article is here.
2 comments:
I completely agree, in wishing that 'normal' eating (2000 calories a day) was actually normal in todays society. I just saw an article in which Eva Longoria, who we all know is miniscule, was asked if she was pregnant for putting on maybe 4 pounds. If that. And to that she replied, 'i'm just fat.'. How are normal people to take that? That now a size 0 is fat- pregnant looking even?? Oy. Thank you for giving level headed insight! Ciao!
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Hi Cammy, it is sad, indeed, that we live in a world where normal, healthful eating is so ABnormal. Eating is such a complex business, hopelessly interconnected with culture and society... here is to more sane eating; for us all.
I will say that, for me, keeping the idea in my mind that I am eating for health and wellness has been pivotal to my recovery efforts.
Ack. I hear you on the work front. I'm a college professor and it is HELL right now with marking....
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