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the whipped cream episode |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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"When you were very very little, you almost died in the whipped cream episode! One day while piling the whipped cream a mile high upon that 6 high stack of strawberry pancakes, you know, the breakfast that made you wanna reach for the sky? well, my sister, you got a little bit sleepy at the table and fell face first into that whipped cream mountain, and if momma hadn't been there to rescue you? well, needless to say, you still don't eat whipped cream, to this very day! So, can I have your share?" *just having some fun with a news story* some researchers have suggested lying works to help curb appetites (yes, I said lying) just lie to children in order to get them to avoid high-fat/high-sugar foods... just tell them they had some horrific experience with one of those foods...to deter them from over eating meanwhile, another UCLA researcher suggest maybe it would be just as effective to put something nasty tasting on the tempting foods... and here you were feeling guilty about Santa and the Easter Bunny or the Good Tooth Fairy? I thought I was being a good mommie, just teaching my child good nutrition and healthy habits, and teaching her that good old fashioned oatmeal cereal value called HONESTY... |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
*s.... I once got sick from eating a salome? sandwich in school on a warm day and have never eaten it since (and I think that was kindergarten) M |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Well, at least you made up your own story version, right? LOL, but to fabricate some hair-raising story just to cut the fat? It doesn't sound like a positive trade-off to me. |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
nope..the thing my Mom did was to never have junk food in the house except for weekends and or special occasions...and we always ate dinner by 5...so that we had plenty of time to work off the calories before going to bed...of course we didn't sit and watch tv...we were outside playing until dark... *s M |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Oh, M, what a healthy way to grow up! ~sigh~ those days are almost a forgotten page in a history book for many American families. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Oh, the stories one heard 'round the table; about fats, and fries, and Aunt Mabel! The stories they'd tell, while wishing, you'd, well! Eat the whole of the stuff they had ladled! ~*~ Ah, Kacy. Such truth. So many of the folk I know have grown up from the folk they knew who grew up...in the thirties... and were honest to goodness glad for any bit of food they could get. While I smiled at the poem, no more do I roam for the things that I think I should eat; but rather I smile, as all might eat in their style; and I wipe my smile just this neat. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL, a great reply, Ms Sunshine! |
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