9-What’s eating our kids? Fears about “bad” foods
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26food.html?ref=dining
Newspaper: The New York Times
By ABBY ELLIN
Published: February 25, 2009
The new trend is to eat organic food and many parents adopt this as a law. There a re legions of parents who are vigilant about their children’s consumption of sugar, processed foods and trans fats. Many of them try to stick to strict vegan diets and transmit their ideas about their idealization of what good and healthy food means to them to their children.
What parents do not become aware is that they print their version in their kids mind in such a way that they become obsessed with their food consumption. Many parents become overzealous in efforts to engender good eating habits in children. Maybe, parents have good intentions but they do not consider the possible future and negative consequences their constant advises may produce on their sons and daughters’ health: Bulimia and anorexia among other eating disorders.
Some specialists think this obsession for the consumption of healthy food is a form of anorexia. This bad habit when it is carried out in a strict way is known as orthorexia. This psychological disease is shown in the obsession to eat what the consumer thinks in his own belief it healthy for him. After few months, this consumer looses weight and vitality and finally his obsessive behaviour increases in many aspects of his everyday life like in social interactions and at their jobs. That’s why it is said that eating disorders come out of a disordered psyche.
To sump up, it is really worrying that parents oblige their children to become vegans because they just think it is “healthy”. But what is even more worrying is the fact that such is their belief in what ids considered good food that they avoid the consumptions of many vital substances that our bodies really need leading their children to eating disorders as well.
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26food.html?ref=dining
Newspaper: The New York Times
By ABBY ELLIN
Published: February 25, 2009
The new trend is to eat organic food and many parents adopt this as a law. There a re legions of parents who are vigilant about their children’s consumption of sugar, processed foods and trans fats. Many of them try to stick to strict vegan diets and transmit their ideas about their idealization of what good and healthy food means to them to their children.
What parents do not become aware is that they print their version in their kids mind in such a way that they become obsessed with their food consumption. Many parents become overzealous in efforts to engender good eating habits in children. Maybe, parents have good intentions but they do not consider the possible future and negative consequences their constant advises may produce on their sons and daughters’ health: Bulimia and anorexia among other eating disorders.
Some specialists think this obsession for the consumption of healthy food is a form of anorexia. This bad habit when it is carried out in a strict way is known as orthorexia. This psychological disease is shown in the obsession to eat what the consumer thinks in his own belief it healthy for him. After few months, this consumer looses weight and vitality and finally his obsessive behaviour increases in many aspects of his everyday life like in social interactions and at their jobs. That’s why it is said that eating disorders come out of a disordered psyche.
To sump up, it is really worrying that parents oblige their children to become vegans because they just think it is “healthy”. But what is even more worrying is the fact that such is their belief in what ids considered good food that they avoid the consumptions of many vital substances that our bodies really need leading their children to eating disorders as well.
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