I can definitely see where you're coming from, but I honestly don't remember my parents saying anything about my nutrition besides "Don't eat too much candy." Especially when we were tight for cash, we ate a lot of things like raviolis and Campbell's soups and whatnot. My parents never forced things like milk or specific fruits/veggies on me, and never really supported milk. It was always present for cereal (2%), and then when my brother was a baby (whole), but otherwise not. The Got Milk ads always disgusted me, because the thought of drinking milk straight has always been repulsive. Maybe because we aren't really a picky family (the children)? If we didn't like something, we didn't have to eat it or could find an alternative - Bethany made a lot of her own "meals" and August gags if he tries something he doesn't like but is otherwise fine.
I never bothered caring about ACTUAL nutrition as a child, because I didn't need to. I was comfortable with myself. Some of the things you said I can see - milk ads in school + the lunch ladies requiring you to get milk with your food, but I didn't drink it. I gave it to a friend. Actually, the only real pressure I remember receiving was because I wanted to be like Amy and she skipped breakfast and lunch a lot. So I did that sometimes. But started in 7th grade we could buy a la cart, so it was a lot of pretzels with cheese, slushies, and warm cookies! :P In high school, it was a lot of getting pizza from the pizza line vs the actual school lunch. And MOAR WARM COOKIES.
I didn't start caring about what I ate until I was 17 (almost 18 - because I never worried about my weight or health, probably why I have high cholesterol) and took that class in college. I took the food groups/health class with a HUGE grain of salt, because I just didn't feel like it applied to me. It was repeated so many times but not followed by anyone I knew (such as the food guide pyramid), so of course it wasn't important to me, either. And my parents weren't health-conscious until after I was an adult *shrug*
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Date: 2011-02-07 01:21 pm (UTC)I never bothered caring about ACTUAL nutrition as a child, because I didn't need to. I was comfortable with myself. Some of the things you said I can see - milk ads in school + the lunch ladies requiring you to get milk with your food, but I didn't drink it. I gave it to a friend. Actually, the only real pressure I remember receiving was because I wanted to be like Amy and she skipped breakfast and lunch a lot. So I did that sometimes. But started in 7th grade we could buy a la cart, so it was a lot of pretzels with cheese, slushies, and warm cookies! :P In high school, it was a lot of getting pizza from the pizza line vs the actual school lunch. And MOAR WARM COOKIES.
I didn't start caring about what I ate until I was 17 (almost 18 - because I never worried about my weight or health, probably why I have high cholesterol) and took that class in college. I took the food groups/health class with a HUGE grain of salt, because I just didn't feel like it applied to me. It was repeated so many times but not followed by anyone I knew (such as the food guide pyramid), so of course it wasn't important to me, either. And my parents weren't health-conscious until after I was an adult *shrug*