How much nutrition do they teach in schools in the US? Is it tested on? The sort of stuff that's easily forgotten long before you actually have to plan your own meals?
It occurs to me that university is a really good place to harp on that, for those that go. Someplace where food really starts to look like your own responsibility.
One of the courses my mother teaches at medical school is nutrition, and she gets students who gripe about having to learn that stuff. It's not just useful for doctors, dammit! It's useful for people. Doctors will just get the why of it more easily/in more detail.
I've come across some really strange blanks of knowledge (the guy eating donuts for breakfast who's asking me what sort of things he should do to lose weight--he ended up having lipo in his early 20s; or the spin instructor who thought he would be able to teach well during week 1 of Atkins) that I'm not sure if it was my mother, or school that gave me what I know. Or that it's just the dumb-about-it people that speak up the loudest and stick in my head.
clothes are drying, and the beginning of a large craigslist listing is stating to take shape. I figure, I'll put everything in one listing, like a moving sale and post it on Friday for Saturday and Sunday only pick-ups and see what sells.
also taking pictures and going to list ebay things tonight.
Those are 2 things I can do without much physical effort.
What does He is so L.Y. mean?
Those are 2 things I can do without much physical effort.
Yikes. They seem horribly hard to me. Which reminds me, I have pictures on one of my cameras that need to come off. I can totally do that.
Essentially none.
Okay, I can see how you might think algebra is something you can get by without (it's not, but work with me)--NUTRITION??? So not optional.
One of the courses my mother teaches at medical school is nutrition, and she gets students who gripe about having to learn that stuff. It's not just useful for doctors, dammit! It's useful for people. Doctors will just get the why of it more easily/in more detail.
My friend is a nutritionist who regularly gets patients referrrals from a doctor. Her doctor friend said that she really feels like they got hardly any nutrition educaiton in med school and doesn't feel able to cousel her patients on making dietary changes.
I should say, in my experience, basically none. Because people's experiences vary so widely by state and district and every other level where curriculum decisions are made. I seem to recall the food pyramid, but that's about it.
I need to put in laundry, but I still feel like at this point I'm just focused on staying awake for another five hours.
All the nutrition stuff I remember was about the Canada food guide, but it definitely didn't go into any detail.
And now I think the food pyramid is a load of shit anyway -- grain industry propoganda.
There might have been a little nutrition in one of my health classes, but it wasn't much. It's one of those things that can trigger the "don't tell me how to raise my children" response, I think. Though I've seen news articles that imply that there's more of a push to teach nutrition today than when I was in school. It's just rumor afaik, though.
I think we were supposed to learn how to eat from PSAs in Saturday morning television.
