the nutritionally recalcitrant spouse . . . part four (summing up)
Lisle and Goldhamer, in The Pleasure Trap, write about how as a culture we’re like that frog in the boiling water. You try to put a frog in boiling water, he’s going to leap out. But put him in cold water and turn on the heat, he’s going to gradually boil to death without [...]
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FOUR, just put more nutritious foods in the menu without taking any kind of soapbox stand about it. Just do it with no fanfare, and have a rule that it’s bad manners to criticize the cook. (You don’t want your kids leaving your home and turning their noses up at others’ cooking anyway, [...]
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TWO, a major reason you’re enthusiastically moving ahead with health-related dietary changes and he’s resisting is this: you’ve been educated, and he hasn’t! Obviously, or you wouldn’t be blogging on gsg.com with full confidence that he’ll never see it! Ever go on long car trips? I read China Study on a 10-hr. [...]
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Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: ”I am excited about eating right and enjoying the changes I’m making, but my husband/wife is sabotaging my efforts and doesn’t think eating white flour, sugar, meat, and Diet Coke is really gonna hurt anybody as long as we mix in a salad now and then.” You aren’t alone. I give my [...]
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