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The New York Times Stole My Blog |
Well folks, it’s true. The New York Times has finally caught wind of my genius and is now stealing my blogs for story material. Ok, maybe that’s not so true, but they did eerily rebut my rant on picky eaters last week with an article claiming that picky eating may be hereditary. GASP!
Let it be known that I am indeed irritated with the Times for giving my nemeses fodder for argument. But, alas, I found the article interesting and an appropriate continuation of my conversation with you. Here’s the gist of the research that was the base of the article:
“Researchers examined the eating habits of 5,390 pairs of twins between 8 and 11 years old and found children’s aversions to trying new foods are mostly inherited. The message to parents: It’s not your cooking, it’s your genes.”
No mention as to why it is inherited, but apparently 78 percent of pickiness is genetic and the other 22 percent is environmental. I would assume that his percentage is adjustable depending on just how poor a cook your mother really is. I know some folks whose mothers’ food was an environmental force to be reckoned with.
Anyway, before you picky eaters get all excited thinking you have some sort of congenital condition, let me offer you one more tidbit:
“We have to understand that biology is not destiny,” said Patricia Pliner, a social psychology professor at the University of Toronto. “This doesn’t necessarily mean there is nothing we can do about the environment.”
So true, Patricia, so true. The thing is you CAN like different foods and, if you are hanging around me, you WILL like different foods. All you have to do is try. If you can’t force anything resembling a vegetable down your throat, try Jessica Seinfeld’s approach and make it look less like a vegetable.
In her book, Deceptively Delicious, the wife of funny man, Jerry Seinfeld, dupes her family into eating healthful and seemingly yucky things. By pureeing and mashing vegetables and fruit and then concealing them in inconspicuous kid-friendly food, Seinfeld has found a way to feed the picky eaters that which they don’t think they want.
She’s a woman after my own heart.
Moral of the story: you can keep giving me excuses for why you are a picky eater, but I won’t believe you.
NYT Article
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