Can Junk Food Be the Normal Food From my book Food Wars

Can healthy, normal food be the enemy. How did this happen?

The truth is that junk food costs are substantially higher than a nice home cooked meal - yet our kids won’t eat it and many times, not our spouses. It is also an easy choice when the parents have a busy schedule and don’t have time to cook or shop.

There are many battles around the dinner table when the mother can’t get her husband to eat vegetables or good food prepared by her let alone the kids. The kids take their cues from their parents.

When the parent or parents are suffering from low self-esteem or are over-weight the children will probably be overweight as well.  Eating is a way some adults who are stressed out can control their lives.

This is a huge problem that faces society and families as a whole, today. Every day over food, there is a battle starting with breakfast - lunch - dinner and - a snack.

I just recently listened to a woman speaking about obesity in our children. She made me think back to my childhood and the way I raised my two children. Today food choices and nutritional value are very different from when I was in charge of the food consumption. Today food is loaded with chemicals, additives, salt, sugar, and fat. When we eat this food where is the nutritional value?

Vitamins supplements are walking out the doors of the stores that sell them. It is now a multi-billion-dollar business. I know for myself I would try to heal myself of whatever ailment I have naturally than take a prescription or over the counter drug.

What does this have to do with our children and their food choices? Plenty if you ever watch your children eat and see what they select to put into their mouths. Food down the throat and then settles into their stomachs, it could make you sick.

Linda Meckler, Author copyright 2017 updated  cover and drawing by Linda Meckler