Posts Tagged by Food
Genetics, Starvation, and Willpower
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
I’ve written about how diets don’t work, which means it’s pretty difficult to make a fat person thin. It’s popular to blame fat people for that, but it turns out the story is a little more complicated. I’ve found a few other interesting places to dive into, including tales of thin people who try to get fat and the research on the genetics of fatness. After that, let’s tackle the big, bad willpower thing that… Keep Reading
Parenting Philosophies – What Do You Do With the Ice Cream?
| January 23, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Parenting |
Near the beginning of my childcare career, I read the book How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too by Sal Severe. As a newcomer to childhood development theory, it made comforting sense, seemingly outlining sensible ways to react to children’s misbehavior. These days I don’t look on this book so highly. It’s full of behavioral modifications and reactionary prescriptions. Your kid does this and then you do that. The book presents a view of… Keep Reading
Diets Don’t Work
| January 18, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
(Photo from Fat From the Side submitted by fiercefattyflavor who says, “On the runway modeling Size Queen designs. If you told me in high school that my fat, beautiful ass could do these things, I would have rolled my eyes. But I’m so happy to be walking the road of body acceptance, and doing all the things I never thought I could.”) When you talk about fat-discrimination, like I did a few posts back, there’s usually someone… Keep Reading
Lard
| January 17, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen |
Lard rendered from the fat of our own pig, then canned for storage. Beautiful. Keep Reading
The Seesaw of Life
| January 10, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Animals |
I think my experience of life and death in food production is more like a seesaw of life than a “circle of life”. In Barnward Irony, Gene Logsdon talks about his troubles trying to keep broilers alive in the heat – a problem we had at The Wallow in 2011, our first year raising broilers. We are in a record-breaking heat wave as I write this, and as we are learning, these broilers have very… Keep Reading
Baby Led Weaning
| January 2, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen, Parenting |
As a nanny I followed many guidelines and practices set forth by parents. I provided a lot of guidance, but I also followed their lead. Many times through the years, I’ve started spoon-feeding purees as soon as the baby turned 4 months old. Joshua and I have decided to go another direction with Dylan and do “baby-led weaning”. This means there hasn’t been and won’t be a single puree in Dylan’s life. Baby-led weaning (BLW)… Keep Reading
Dylan’s First Food
| November 27, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Parenting |
Dylan has become very interested in food. As I said in my post about momsicles: When I’m eating he carefully watches my every motion and is bothered when he can’t have whatever it is I’m having or do whatever it is I’m doing. He wants to put everything else in the world in his mouth, too, so I’m not certain that he knows something different is happening with food, but since I won’t give him… Keep Reading
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