My husband loves having smoothies for breakfast, the homemade kind with milk, maybe yogurt and frozen & non-frozen fruits. Julia was absolutely disgusted. "Smoothies are the worst thing for you!" She said. According to her, she saw on The Doctors that smoothies are horribly bad for your health. "That has, like, 700 calories you know." (It doesn't.) We told her maybe store bought smoothies or fast food smoothies are bad, those made with syrups, but fresh fruit? No way. One whole bag of the frozen fruits is less than 100 calories.
The very next day, she made a fruit salad with an entire container of whipped cream (regular, not fat free) and mini marshmallows. She said "It's good for you."
Not to mention she thinks McDonald's chicken and Hi-C is a good meal for our daughter - who we don't feed fast food to because of health reasons.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Dr. Julia : On Food
Short explanation of the title : Julia is my mother in law. She is always giving me wacko advice, claiming that it's true. So I call her Dr. Julia.
Okay.
My two year old enjoys sipping my coffee every so often because I put quite a bit of sugar in it. I don't like this fact because no two year old needs caffeine + sugar. My Mother in law said "Just give her coffee now, that way she won't like it when she gets older."
She went on to explain how if she ate a specific food (like coffee) now, she won't like it as an adult. And the reverse works, too: if she doesn't eat a specific food (like grilled cheese sandwiches), this guarantees that she will like it later in life.
Dr. Julia also informed me that when my two year old wants coffee, this means her body is in need of something (such as a protein or vitamin) that resides in coffee. She then went on to say that her younger sister used to eat paint chips... "I wonder what kind of vitamin her body needed? What exactly are paint chips made of?"
Nice, Julia.
Okay.
My two year old enjoys sipping my coffee every so often because I put quite a bit of sugar in it. I don't like this fact because no two year old needs caffeine + sugar. My Mother in law said "Just give her coffee now, that way she won't like it when she gets older."
She went on to explain how if she ate a specific food (like coffee) now, she won't like it as an adult. And the reverse works, too: if she doesn't eat a specific food (like grilled cheese sandwiches), this guarantees that she will like it later in life.
Dr. Julia also informed me that when my two year old wants coffee, this means her body is in need of something (such as a protein or vitamin) that resides in coffee. She then went on to say that her younger sister used to eat paint chips... "I wonder what kind of vitamin her body needed? What exactly are paint chips made of?"
Nice, Julia.
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