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- From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
- Subject: Re: Being At Home
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:11:06 GMT
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- Allen!!! That's an excellent story! I can identify with what you
- said about Ohio's eating habits. My aunts and uncles are all from
- Ohio. They are, every last one of them, obese. And now that they
- are elderly they have the whole gamut of diet related ailments from
- diabetes to heart problems and colon cancer. They know how to cook
- the tastiest, fattiest, gooiest stuff in the universe.
-
- Fortunately my folks emigrated to California long before I was
- born and my mother was into healthy eating (or what passed for it back then)
- even when I was a baby. Even with that I still managed to grow
- up fat. (Would you believe she fed me raw liver when I was a
- baby???!!!). But getting fat didn't happen until I left home and
- could rebel against all that forced healthiness.
-
- But I think your point is excellent. Don't try to force
- your new diet on someone else. Patiently explain what you are
- doing and why. If you try to bludgeon someone to change they'll just
- cling more tenaciously to their old ways. Do by example.
-
- I think the original poster should maybe just take charge of
- her (hope I have the gender right) own environment and put the
- goodies away if they forget. She should make her own meals
- and if she can, perhaps even buy her own food.
-
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- Nancy P. Milligan npm@dale.cts.com
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- Gravity is no laughing matter.
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