“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” ~Ann Wigmore Why aren’t we taught optimal nutrition in school as adolescents?
I remember briefly learning about the food pyramid, which doesn’t even include water, by the way. Do you want to know what I vividly remember?
Growing up during the peak of , when models and actresses who were unrealistically skinny were the only ones who were considered pretty or good enough.
My dad died from a heart attack at age forty, and my single mother was always on the newest diet pill and didn’t cook much. I was under the impression that the only way to be valued in this world was to eat as little as possible to be as skinny as possible.
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