Just something that was on my mind today and thought I would share...and enjoy any thoughts/feedback!
Just a lil' food for thought....
In a quest in raising up my girls as best I can, I strive to give them the best nutrition...most of the time but also like it at the same time. I like to think we live a healthy lifestyle. Jerry and I are both very active and workout usually 5 times a week, our girls see us and know what exercise is. Jacquelyn sees kids at our gym doing classes (our gym has training for young athletes) and she tells me she wants to do that when she gets bigger! We play outside a lot, I cook most of our meals and strive for them to be healthy. However, I am not where I want to be physically but I consiously strive not to have "negative body talk" around my girls! I do not want them growing up like I did, always worried about my weight. As long as I can remember, I have always been wanting to loose weight. Granted, I would like to be as "fat" as I was back in high school now! But vanity aside, health is my main focus.
Have ya'll ever read Eat Right for you Blood Type. I read this probably in high school. I always had an interest in health and nutrition and my mom's local health food store got it in, along with blood kits to see what blood type you were, so we all did it. Whether its true or not it is pretty interesting.
While it is not something I 100% implemented, I have always kept the recomendations and ideas in the back of my mind. Lately, I have been thinking more about it-especially now that I have kids who are 2 different blood types and have 2 different taste buds....which raised the question in my head today...
Are we innately born with desire to eat the foods that are best for us and over time, environment and other factors change those taste buds? One thing I remember from my nutrition classes, is that we loose the ability to know when we are "full" by the time we are 5. Our bodies, naturally tell our brain when we are full but growing up, environmental factors numb that sensor and we loose that sense by the age of 5. So are we also born knowing what foods are best for us but loose this sense too?
Example-
My 3 year old daughter, Jacquelyn, is type A-those should stick to a more vegan diet
My 18 month old daughter, Giuliana, is type 0-those should stick to a heavy protein diet
Tonight at dinner we had chicken breasts, sweet potates, broccoli and humus.
Jacquelyn ate all of her humus first, using chicken to scoop up as much humus as she could...this girl will eat beans over ANYTHING!!!! and she had some sweet potate again scooping up the humus!
Giuliana ate and ate and ate chicken like it was her last meal and almost all her broccoli and skipped the sweet potatoes
As each of them were babies and I started introducing foods, I noticed their tendencies always swayed to their bloodtypes. Giulilana refused all baby purees I made her, that Jacquelyn always loved. It wasn't until I started pureeing full meals with meat and adding chicken stock that she ate them.
Yall might think I am crazy, but just some observances I have seen in my kids...
Just some food for thought....
What do you think?
I'm not a mom yet, but Katherine and I talk about this a lot. Mainly about our struggles with food and where we think that came from, as well as a desire to teach our kids (present and future) how to balance and moderate and learn healthy eating habits. She often refers to kids just expecting snacks at certain times, whether or not they are actually hungry, because they get them at school or other places at certain times.
ReplyDeleteThe blood type diet is interesting and I think if your girls are gravitating toward certain (healthy) foods, then maybe in the long run they will remember better how to be truly hungry, rather than eating out of habit. It's definitely a balancing act, but you're doing a great job!