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In a news story that came out a few weeks ago, KSL.com's Brooke Walker reported on a vending machine at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. This vending machine is special, among other special vending machines we have talked about in the past, because all of the items inside of it are free, but once customers try to input their snack selection, the machine "yells" at them, telling them that their choices are unhealthy and should stay away from those unhealthy types of foods. Emily Refermat from VendingMarketWatch.com writes, "Where's the research correlating the rate of obesity to how often someone indulges in a snack from a vending machine?" Kathy Lovitt of Carts Blanche LLC also comments on this story, writing, "Since when did a vending machine make you obese?" I also spoke with a vendor, and his opinion followed in the same vein as Refermat and Lovitt; he said that the vending machine is more of a scare tactic as opposed to a means of helping people make wise decisions. "It teaches kids that vending machines are evil," he said.
This machine does not have support from people within the vending industry because it makes vending machines the scapegoat for obesity in the United States. There are many organizations in the US fighting against obesity and obesity-related diseases, but there is no consensus on what causes obesity, contrary to popular belief. The popular belief is the thermodynamic model, in which calories go into the body and used as fuel. If one consumes more fuel than one needs, that excess is stored as fat cells. However, this does not account for anomalies in poor countries and communities. For example, according to Gary Taubes, an investigative journalist and author of Why We Get Fat, in a 1971 survey in Czechoslovakia revealed that "10 percent of the men were obese and a third of the women." The country at the time was very poor, and people did not have very much to eat. This type of obesity is referred to as a "form of malnutrition." Taubes contends that obesity is caused by what we eat, not how much we eat. This is an important point because the vending machine in the museum does not teach children this point. It simply yells at them, tells them to make better choices, and leaves them to be afraid of vending machines. It is an ineffective scare tactic.
David Berreby, a science writer and author of the book Us and Them: The Science of Identity, in an article featured on Aeon Magazine, agrees with Taubes in the idea that the calories-in/calories-out model is not defensible, as in it is no longer a legitimate argument because the evidence behind it is not there or invalid:
Yet the scientists who study the biochemistry of fat and the epidemiologists who track weight trends are not nearly as unanimous as [Mayor Michael Bloomberg] makes out. In fact, many researchers believe that personal gluttony and laziness cannot be the entire explanation for humanity's global weight gain. (Full article here)
Therefore, if the snacks in the vending machine are not causing our weight gain in America, then what is? Berreby goes on to write that as Americans have been getting fatter, so have mice, American marmosets, macaques, and chimpanzees, along with other animals. Their diets have not changed nor have their lifestyles, yet they are gaining weight. In the end, Berreby states that different types of food that people consume have different effects on a people's bodies. There are other things that make us obese, such as stress, anxiety, sleeplessness, viruses, bacteria, and industrial chemicals. Even air conditioning has been linked to obesity. All factors considered, snacks and drinks from vending machines are not the only things that are contributing to our weight gain, and therefore, we should try to better understand the causes of obesity before becoming dogmatic about our ideas, which the Discovery Gateway Museum vending machine has expressed already.
Moving back to the vending machine in the museum, if it was meant to educate children on healthy eating and good dietary choices, it has completely failed. It takes the thermodynamic model and suggests children to eat other snacks instead. However, not all vending machines are the same, and there are many machines out there that offer healthier choices. Therefore, the enemy in all of this is not the vending machine, the Snickers Bar, nor the choices of the consumer; ignorant assumptions on why we get fat is what is working against educating people on making healthy choices. This scare tactic will be ineffective at educating children and only propagates a unproven assumption, and what's more, it is hurting an industry that has nothing to do with obesity in America. Intelligent ways of educating today's youth on healthy eating are what is necessary to give them a chance at a better, healthier future, but using vending machines as a means of passing blame for obesity is not the way to go.
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For those trying to figure out the current state of partisanship, comity, and cooperation in the U.S. Senate, recent news would only add to the confusion. For example, the Hill published a story yesterday afternoon headlined "GOP presses for quick confirmation of Obama UN ambassador pick." That sounded encouraging for those who think the president should have a great deal of latitude in choosing his own advisors, and the article did not disappoint.
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"The changes we're making are very, very minimal. What we're doing is saying: 'Look American people, shouldn't President Obama have somebody working for him that he wants?'" Reid said. "If you want to look at nominations, you know what the Founding Fathers said: 'Simple majority.' That's what we need to do."
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But the more important answer has to do with a fundamental difference in how the two parties wish to govern–and contrary to what you may hear from the media, it reveals McConnell's GOP to have far more respect for Congress and the legislative process than Reid's Democrats.
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This rulemaking comes with little accountability. It's often impossible to know, absent a major scandal, whom to blame for rules that are abusive or nonsensical.
The recent scandals at the IRS and EPA, in which a government bureaucracy, egged on by powerful Democrats, absorbed the establishment's liberal bias so thoroughly as to be actively targeting conservatives, prove both the efficacy and the inherent corruption in this worldview. Democrats understand that if they control the bureaucracy they can install "legislators" who remain anonymous, unelected, and unaccountable. Reid can be voted out of office, but the IRS cannot.
Where once the energetic and youthful liberal grass roots at least had an anti-authoritarian suspicion of government power and abuse, today the liberal movement is united in its belief that government must expand–and keep expanding. When liberal intellectuals swoon over China's authoritarian rule, it isn't because they are enamored of Chinese Communism but because the consolidation of power into a ruling elite is, to these intellectuals, an unfortunate means to a desirable end. Sacrificing a bit of freedom and democracy isn't optimal to the professional left, but otherwise they'd have to pass up an opportunity to impose their dubious and unpopular environmentalist activism on the country.
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I heard about this book a couple of weeks ago through a friend on Facebook. She said, "Found a book that combines (in a major way) video games, 80's culture, puzzles, and an atheist protagonist. I haven't been this excited to read in while" and immediately my interest was piqued. I'm quite the gamer myself, and a good book influenced by the above is pretty hard to find.
I looked about for a while, and finally decided to take the plunge and buy it. I began reading it while sitting in a hospital waiting room, and when my consultant finally called me in, I almost wanted to tell her to hold on a bit, because I didn't want to put it down.
The book is clearly written by someone who greatly loves geek culture, the attention to detail is loving and nostalgic.
Ready Player One is set in a world only thirty years from now. The population has boomed, the world is over-crowded and mostly unemployed, fuel resources are pretty much gone. Life is pretty dire for most. The only source of solace for many, is the OASIS. An immersive online universe, where you can be whoever you want. Virtual jobs with real money are available, virtual schooling, anything is possible in OASIS.
When the OASIS creator dies, he leaves a massive fortune plus control of the OASIS to whomever can find his hidden 'easter egg'. James Halliday was an 80's fanatic, and games programmer. Having no family to leave his vast fortune to, he creates secrets within his tens of thousands of virtual worlds, and invites the world to find them upon his death.
This launches a massive easter egg hunt. The world has their eyes set on the money. Apart from one corporation, who have their eyes set on control of OASIS, who want to change it and charge only the richest for access.
When Halliday dies, it's a race to find the three Keys, and find the grand prize.
Enter Wade Watts. A 17 year old school student, who is a self proclaimed 'gunter' (egg hunter). He devotes his life to finding Halliday's easter egg, but the closer he and the world gets, the more danger they are all in.
Earnest Cline has thrown such a vast array of different things into a large melting pot and came out with something fantastic.
I has 80's trivia, geek culture, gaming references, conspiracy theories, quests, romance, films, books. Everything you could draw reference from is in there, and it's all original!
I didn't put this book down for about three days. Sometimes it's a little bit predictable, and other times, your mind will be blown clear out of the water.
It's one of very few books that had my heart racing at times, it is suspenseful and exciting, as well as being puzzling. You feel Wade's frustrations and fears, as well as his elations and joys.
A really magnificent read, and if you can, check out Earnest Cline's easter egg hunt of his own!!! The prize is a DELOREAN!
A short while ago, I stumbled across a highly enjoyable film called ''Fanboys'', about a bunch of ''Star Wars'' fans trying to break into George Lucas' mansion to get a sneak preview of the new film. I didn't pay much attention to the name of the writer, until I came across Ernest Cline's author bio in ''Ready Player One'' and realised it was written by the same person. This immediately gave me high hopes.
James Halliday, the creator of ''Oasis'', the ultimate in virtual reality multi-player online games, has dies. Leaving no heirs, he hides the rights to his fortune within his creation, which can only be found by solving clues set within his farewell video and within the Oasis itself and then beating whatever challenges these lead to. Everyone wants Halliday's fortune, which includes ownership of the Oasis, from individuals like Wade Watts to corporations who will want to charge for it and turn the Oasis to their own ends.
The aspect of the story that most caught my eye is that Halliday's era of growing up was the 1980s, so there are lots of references to the culture of that time; music, films and computer games. Given that my growing up occurred in the 1980s, this helped me feel completely at home with the novel. Although I never have been much of a computer game fan, I'm a music and film fan and there was so much that seemed familiar here that it was a very welcoming and comforting experience. Not since Stan Cattermole's "Bete de Jour" have I found a book that so closely mirrored my own life experience.
Perhaps the one thing that seemed slightly off putting was the writing style. Many of the main characters appeared to be teenagers and the relentless style and much of the use of language seemed to suggest a book aimed for a tween or young adult audience. However, the 1980s setting could only be aimed at an audience in their 30s who would have lived through the decade. This provided a minor distraction as I tried to work out the target audience for the book.
Fortunately, however, the story is interesting enough that this is only a minor concern. Unlike in many such stories, the various sub-plots fit in naturally within the story and don't feel added on. The challenges and clues are not the kind that the reader could guess and wonder why the characters don't see the solutions, which annoys me in Dan Brown's writing, which also helps to keep the reader interested, as there's no point at which you feel you've gotten ahead of the characters.
Ultimately, I think ''Ready Player One'' is a book that could cross boundaries. It's got the action quotient and the subject matter that would appeal to the tween audience, but the 1980s retro feel that would appeal to 30 somethings looking to relive their youth. It may appeal slightly more to the former, but as a member of the latter group, I thoroughly recommend it, although with a best price of £8.39 from Amazon or £7.19 for the Kindle version, perhaps only as one to borrow.
This is a slightly amended version of a review previously posted under my name at www.thebookbag.co.uk
I picked a copy of this up to make up numbers on a three for two deal at Waterstones. It usually retails for £11.99 or currently £6.83 on Amazon.
It is a sci-fi novel set about 50 years from now in which society has become impoverished due to vastly reduced oil reserves. Very few people can afford to travel and live in very close proximity in what are left of large cities. The majority of citizens spend a lot of time hooked into 'OASIS' which is a cross between the internet and a huge role playing game where anyone can do pretty much anything they like across a multitude of virtual worlds.
When the designer of the game dies he leaves a challenge that whoever solves will gain control of the game and all the wealth that results.
This is where our protaganist Wade comes in, a geeky teenager with no family or money but a wealth of knowledge about the 1980s which the game designer has based his challenge on. However there are plenty of other parties who will stop at nothing to gain control of the OASIS.
The book is well written and flows well, I read it in about a week which is good going for me these days due to annoying things like work and grooming! It will appeal particularly to anyone who grew up in the eighties especially those who had any interest in computer games of the time. It avoids overly complicated scientific language which in my opinion can detract from these kind of books.
The novel has been optioned for a movie remake which would be interesting. It seems the author has not written any other full length novels but I will be keeping an eye out for any future releases. Highly recommended.


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Geert Jan van Oldenborgh's video abstract of the "Reliability of regional climate model trends" paper is very well done:
Thanks, Geert Jan.
Comment by Bob Tisdale — 15 Apr 2013 @ 10:12 AM
A layperson here, anxiously awaiting a translation. JP
Comment by John Parsons — 15 Apr 2013 @ 12:52 PM
This is a very interesting post. Please elaborate:
"…the climate change signal is now emerging from the noise in many regions of the world…"
Exactly how is the "climate change signal" separated from the noise, and is this "climate change signal" considered to be anthropogenic?
"the verification of regional past trends in climate models has become possible."
Exactly how are "regional past trends in climate models" verified? Is this through "hindcasting"?
Comment by Louis Hooffstetter — 15 Apr 2013 @ 5:05 PM
@2 John Parsons. Follow Bob Tisdale's link and watch the video.
Comment by MikeH — 15 Apr 2013 @ 9:01 PM
Interesting. I looked at some regional climate projections for Australia a while back and had noticed the depressingly large error bars on precipitation and temperature projections. Are the issues solely dependent on missing physics in the models or could spatial resolution be an issue?
Comment by SCM — 15 Apr 2013 @ 9:28 PM
The full article:
In general, I wish posts would give links to complete articles when possible, since some readers would have to pay to download from publishers' sites.
Comment by T Marvell — 16 Apr 2013 @ 2:31 AM
John Parsons: we checked whether past trends on the regional scale (which, in the jargon, means a few hundred kilometres still) are correctly simulated by the set of climate models that the IPCC is using to make the Fifth Assessment Report, due in September. You cannot demand that the models completely reproduce the trend, because it is also influenced by unpredictable weather. Also, we know that climate models are not perfect, so we ask rather that they fall in the range of models. Taking these two uncertainties into account we still find that the trends are more often than expected not simulated well by the climate models. We do not yet know why, but it means that we cannot take the climate model output for the future simply as a numerical climate forecast, but have to use the useful information in the climate model output in more sophisticated ways.
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 16 Apr 2013 @ 4:38 AM
Louis Hooffstetter: the climate change signal is separated from the noise using a linear regression on the global mean temperature. This gives the best signal to noise ratio. We compare that to the modelled trends, computed the same way but using the modelled global mean temperature. These models include all forcings: natural (solar variability, volcanic & natural aerosols) and anthropogenic (greenhouse gases, anthropogenic aerosols). Howevr, it is clear from the maps that indeed the anthropogenically forced signal dominates (as is also shown by the detection and attribution studies).
Indeed, past trends are verified by considering the historical runs of these climate models as hindcasts. We have also done this for decadal prediction hindcasts with very similar results (see http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/guest-post-titled-decadal-prediction-skill-in-a-multi-model-ensemble-by-geert-jan-van-oldenborgh-francisco-j-doblas-reyes-bert-wouters-wilco-hazeleger/)
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 16 Apr 2013 @ 4:44 AM
John Parsons,
I think the essence is:
– the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble seems to encapsulate surface temperature change at the global scale fairly well.
– However, when looking at smaller spatial scales different model runs seem to be too samey in what they predict. There are fairly robust spatial change patterns in the models which aren't well reflected in observations. This means any probablistic prediction based on the robustness of trends across the model ensemble is unlikely to provide an accurate forecast for what will be observed. In the words of our guest hosts: 'the ensemble is somewhat overconfident'.
– That being the case they suggest that the multi-model ensemble would not be useful for making weather forecast style probablistic predictions for climate.
I wonder how this finding relates to the Deser 2012 paper featured on here a few months ago? That paper described a model experimental setup where they produced a large number of realisations from a single model, paying special attention to varying initial conditions and found large differences in regional trends. Is there some reason that CMIP5 models would be initialised in similar ways that produce false robustness?
Comment by Paul S — 16 Apr 2013 @ 5:02 AM
@T.Marvel: this is an open access publisher, so there should be no problem downloading the PDF from their site.
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 16 Apr 2013 @ 6:34 AM
Paul S: a same-model ensemble like Clara Deser's (or our ESSENCE ensemble) only captures the natural variability, not (part of) the model uncertainty, so these ensembles are in general hugely overconfident. Yokohata et al (2012) in their rank histograms also include perturbed-physics ensembles where a single model is run with different parameter settings, which should include all natural variability and some of the model uncertainty. With a larger spread than a single-model ensemble these ensembles still are hugely overconfident. Of curse these statements depend strongly on the realism of the natural variability, Tom Knutson's paper has some good graphs on this.
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 16 Apr 2013 @ 6:39 AM
My thanks to Geert Jan van Oldenborgh for this post.
Comment by Matthew R Marler — 16 Apr 2013 @ 12:47 PM
Geert Jan, Thank You so much for that synopsis. I went to the video and found it to be tremendously helpful. It looks to be important work, which will doubtlessly be very helpful to model development.
I hope you and your colleges know how much we amateur scientists appreciate R/C.
Best Regards, JP
Comment by John Parsons — 16 Apr 2013 @ 1:18 PM
Many Thanks to Bob T., Mike H. and Paul S. for your very helpful comments. JP
Comment by John Parsons — 16 Apr 2013 @ 1:23 PM
SCM@#5 re Australia:
The Fig 1C pattern for Australia troubled me on sight. It's correct; you can reproduce something similar here (linear time basis): http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/trendmaps.cgi?map=rain&area=aus&season=0112&period=1950.
Problem is, most of that is probably not an AGW signal, at least in the E and SE (it surely is in the far SW). Compare, for example, the pattern for 100 years, here: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/trendmaps.cgi?map=rain&area=aus&season=0112&period=1900. Or have a look at the last 40 years.
Aus rainfall is just really really variable. Expecting any sort of GCM ensemble to reproduce something like the 60-year pattern of change is a step too far IMO (except in the SW). That is in annual means; extremes may be another matter.
Comment by GlenF — 17 Apr 2013 @ 6:28 AM
The acronym TCR usually refers to 'transient climate response', which is defined in terms of an idealized CO2 emissions scenario (1% per year increase to doubled CO2):
Comment by Tim M. — 17 Apr 2013 @ 9:47 AM
GlenF: The method we use takes the natural variability into account (to the extent that it is correctly simulated by the models). We do not look at the multi-model mean, but at the full spread of the ensemble, and ask whether trends are in the top or bottom 5% more frequently than expected by chance. Part of the coloured regions on Fig.1c are due to chance and our method cannot tell which ones are and which ones are not. We can only state that there are too many areas with colours compared with chance alone. A detailed study on SE Australia would start with a check whether the models correctly reproduce the large natural variability there. We are planning to do work in this direction, but first I have to finish some other obligations.
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 17 Apr 2013 @ 9:55 AM
GlenF: yes, you are correct, I guess this shows that I come from seasonal forecasting and not climate change research. It should be Total Global Response (TGR).
Comment by Geert Jan van Oldenborgh — 18 Apr 2013 @ 5:43 AM
Mr. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, I saw your video. Your explanations are clear are convincing. The conclusion,the large scale patterns are very similar, but the regional scales are overconfidence is very meaningful. It is not possible that uncertainties may be reduced to zero. Local variabilities have significant impacts on the precision of forecasts from general scales.
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//**Forgot to post the code before:
//**Having problems with the grad square root.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace squarerootsys
class Program
static void Main(string[] args)
//loop 12 times calculating and displaying values
for (int Number = 1; Number <= 12;
Square = Number * Number;
Cube = Square * Number;
Squareroot = Math.Sqrt(Number);
Console.WriteLine("\t{0}\t{1}\t{2}\t{3}", Number, Square, Cube, Squareroot);
}// end of calculate and display
I'm confused. This is obviously a homework problem. For that, you don't deserve a code answer. You are supposed to produce something like:
Value: 1, Square: 1, Cube: 1, Sqrt: 1
Value: 2, Square: 4, Cube: 8, Sqrt: 1.4142135623731
Value: 3, Square: 9, Cube: 27, Sqrt: 1.73205080756888
Value: 4, Square: 16, Cube: 64, Sqrt: 2
Value: 5, Square: 25, Cube: 125, Sqrt: 2.23606797749979
Value: 6, Square: 36, Cube: 216, Sqrt: 2.44948974278318
Value: 7, Square: 49, Cube: 343, Sqrt: 2.64575131106459
Value: 8, Square: 64, Cube: 512, Sqrt: 2.82842712474619
Value: 9, Square: 81, Cube: 729, Sqrt: 3
Value: 10, Square: 100, Cube: 1000, Sqrt: 3.16227766016838
Value: 11, Square: 121, Cube: 1331, Sqrt: 3.3166247903554
Value: 12, Square: 144, Cube: 1728, Sqrt: 3.46410161513775
Sum of all Sqrt values: 29.2490045916973
I wrote the code to do that in 11 lines. The square and cubes are simple math statements, you just need to know how to calculate them. That's obviously part of your homework. There are equations for finding the N'th root of numbers, but you don't even have to know that fairly advanced mathmatics. The square root is a built-in function of the Math tool. (A built-in part of the system namespace.)
I've probably given you more help than your teacher wanted you to have in order to solve this.
My reply was prior to seeing your new post. OK, you know about Math.Sqrt. You didn't define the type of your Sqrt variable. The type you supplied to Sqrt does not match the type it expects. That should be fine, it should automatically convert int to the right type but this is the type of thing that can bite you in the @ss ao you need to know when you are taking the shortcut.
It IS critical you fix your Sqrt variable's type correctly, setting it to int won't cut it. Your logic is missing the variable that caclulates the sum.
Personally, I wouldn't put Console.ReadLine() inside the loop, I would put it right after writing out the sum AFTER the loop has finished.


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Hey everyone! So first off, this isn't a thread to talk about "hiding" nutrients in smoothies or sauces... trust me, I've tried all the tricks. And have gotten great suggestion throughout the years from MDC! I'm more wondering how other mamas who have btdt have dealt with picky eating as to their own reactions to it.
My son is 6 and has been picky since he started eating solids. And I understand him. I was a picky eater, too, but not as extremely picky. I've noticed that throughout the years I've started to make family dinners that suit him, but it's a pretty short list of foods and DH and I would like to branch out a little. We miss eating anything that doesn't involve noodles or rice. I don't believe in forcing him to eat foods he "hates" but at the same time, I want him to eat dinner because if he doesn't, he'll wake up at 5 in the morning starving, wake us up, and that creates a rough morning for all involved. I've tried to gently encourage him to try new foods but he shuts me down. DH, who came from a "clean plate" family is less understanding that I am... and sometimes says things like... "if you don't eat a bite of mashed potatoes you won't get your book tonight". As much as I'm uncomfortable with that approach, sometimes it works, and he ends up liking that formerly disgusting food. DH and I don't exactly see eye to eye, but he will defer to me. It's just that I'm not sure what approach I'm comfortable with. These are my options, I think:
-make whatever everyone else will enjoy for dinner, and if he doesn't eat it, he goes hungry
-same as above, and if he doesn't eat it, he can have a sandwich or something (maybe he'd have to make it himself?)
-continue to make dinners that suit him (again, this is only a noodle or rice dish, with the ingredients separated in some way)
-give him "rewards" or "punishments" for not eating (not cool with this...?) although we had a sticker chart for awhile and if he tried a bite of most things on his plate he'd get a sticker, now he doesn't care about stickers!
He eats a decent breakfast and lunch. Granola, whole grain cereal with milk, sprouted bread sandwiches, etc. We're vegetarians and he doesn't have an interest in meat (if he did, I would accomodate that). So I'm worried about his protein intake as he hates beans (used to eat raw tofu but doesn't anymore) so his only source is peanut butter and dairy, which he's getting picky about too. He's growing (always been 99th percentile for height/weight), so I know he's okay, but I worry about his energy level, which has always been sluggish. He doesn't have any food allergies or other health issues.
So, how would other mamas handle this gently?
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
So, when your child doesn't want the dinner you've made s/he can have cottage cheese. It means that they don't go hungry but they're also not refusing food in order to get more desirable treat-type foods.
It isn't something I've tried yet but it seems like a good idea to me.
Mother of two spectacular girls, born mid-2010 and late 2012
I just try to keep foods I know my daughter will like on hand for her to eat if she won't eat dinner. Ramen with veggies and fruit on the side is always an option, ham and cheese sandwich with baby carrots, or just ham and cheese and applesauce. It doesn't even have to be a full sandwich. I also try to make sure it's something she can fix herself, adapting to what's age appropriate. At ten, my daughter can prepare plenty of simple foods that she is willing to eat.
I think the one taste or one bite idea is just fine. I don't like the "clean your plate" approach.
Thanks for the suggestions ladies. My son is able to make sandwiches himself so I might just do that as a dinner alternative. He also has access to apples and bananas (the two fruits he likes) so that can be the side.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
I would go with this; and also add bread on the table; if he doesn't like anything, he can still have bread and not go hungry.
Offering food that you, the parent, enjoy is important, even if he doesn't eat it yet, because it gives him a chance to expand his food preferences. If you only offer food he likes, you limit his choices.
It takes time and patience.
Here's my favourite website on nutrition: http://www.ellynsatter.com/the-picky-eater-i-43.html
Do a good job with feeding. Have regular meals and structured snacks so your child can be hungry but not starved at mealtime. Have family meals, and make those meals a pleasure and a privilege, not a chore. To keep meals positive, don't pressure her in any way to eat.
Teach her to say "no, thank you" rather than "YUK." Have her leave the table if she behaves badly.
Be family friendly with meals. Pair unfamiliar with familiar food, not-yet-liked with liked foods. Don't make special food for her.
Be sure to put one or two foods on the menu that she ordinarily eats. Bread and milk would work.
Let her pick and choose from what you put on the table, even if she eats five slices of bread and nothing else.
Teach her to use her napkin to get food back out of her mouth when she discovers she doesn't want to swallow. (Teach yourself this trick, as well. It will make you braver about trying new food!)
Avoid feeding errors.
Failing to have structured meals and snacks and/or letting her eat or drink (except for water) whenever she wants to between times.
Talking about your child's food likes and dislikes.
Limiting the menu to food your child readily accepts.
Putting pressure in any way on her eating.
I completely understand the idea of not wanting the child to be hungry, but also not making special foods at dinner time dilemma.
We've been using the Satter method, and I think it makes a lot of sense. One thing that she suggests is to always put something on the table that the child likes and can fill up on if they don't love the rest of the dinner, like bread. The other idea that has been helping us, is limiting snacks. The kids can't get their own snacks whenever they want anymore. I put them out between meals. That way, I can offer them the things they need in their diet (like protien-rich foods), and they don't fill up on whatever it is that is easy for them to eat (like fruit).
We're vegetarians too, and I think that during their early years I was worried about them not getting adequate nutrition (even though I logically know that a vegetarian diet is healthy.) So I overcompensated and let them eat whatever and whenever they wanted, as long as it was healthy. That way, I never let them get hungry enough to try new foods. And now they are picky eaters. Sigh.
The Satter method is intriguing and I will definitely read more about it!
We need to cut down on snacks as well. I try to only let them have one snack after school but usually an hour or two later they are clamoring for more food and dinner is still a couple hours wait. We get home from school around 3 and dinner is usually around 7 (when DH gets home) and that's a long time for little stomachs to wait, or at least they think so!
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
The Satter method is intriguing and I will definitely read more about it!
We need to cut down on snacks as well. I try to only let them have one snack after school but usually an hour or two later they are clamoring for more food and dinner is still a couple hours wait.
Try to find something filling and let them eat as much as they want. Like crackers with peanut butter or cheese, dry fruit and nuts or seeds, I also offer milk and cookies (don't know if you are comfortable with this option). If they have 3 hours or more until dinner, they WILL get hungry again and they will eat.
It's important imo not to limit quantities, provided they have enough time until dinner to get hungry again. And to offer something filling. I usually offer only fruit or yoghurt as an after-school snack, but my ds gets home at 4:30 and we have dinner around 6:30, so we have only 2h in between.
My DH and I both came from a "clean plate" family and Ellyn Satter saved our sanity.
Luckily my children aren't terribly picky, though I do have a child with dietary restrictions due to fructose intolerance, so I hear you about missing foods that someone else in the family can't eat. Because of my own really horrid memories of dinner times as a child, I decided that a pleasant family dinner time was more important than the actual food. But it was also important that I got to enjoy dinner as well and that the kids weren't hungry. So our approach has been as follows and it has worked really well. My kids are 9 and 13 and they eat just about anything, family meals are a highlight of our days and they both enjoy preparing food. I'm willing to call this an area of success for us. We generally eat breakfast and dinner according to this plan -- lunches are a whole different ball game.
* At the beginning of the week, during menu planning, I ask everyone if they have any requests for meals during the next week. I try to include everyone's reasonable request (no, crab legs are not a reasonable request -- you can request that on your birthday...) If there are budget limitations (and there have been for the last couple of years), I try to do a little money management/budget awareness education around grocery trips. My personal goal is to try one new recipe a week so there is generally something new in the mix. We are foodies so get about 4 food-oriented magazines a month and try things from them all.
* DH and I trade who is preparing meals based on lots of considerations but generally it's about a 50/50 split. But regardless of who is preparing the meal, we prepare one family meal for everyone. The cook never prepares anything for a single person. Sometimes something like a really spicy sauce might be left to the side for everyone to add their own amount but that's about it.
* If you don't like all or part of the meal, you are free to eat something else but *you* have to fix it. My kids could make a PB&J sandwich by the time they were 3 (cleaning it up was a different matter...) General rules are that it has to be nutritious, it has to be the same type of thing you don't like (so protein for protein, fruit or veggie for veggie).
* Everyone has to sit down at the table and say grace. After that, if you truly aren't hungry you may get up and do whatever. But when you are hungry you have to prepare your own meal. If you didn't eat any dinner you need to eat something "real" before dessert. Dessert is separate from dinner and is a more individual thing.
* You can decide you don't like something based on taste, smell, texture, appearance, whatever. I won't force even one bite since I know that some smells instantly turn me off and the kids have the same right to react to something other than taste as I do. But you may not make snide/nasty comments (no "yuck" or "ewww" or "gross").
* New dishes get evaluated at the end of dinner with everyone getting a say in whether it gets repeated. Generally I only repeat things that at least 3 of 4 of us liked.
Have you tried involving him in the food prep/cooking & choosing recipes? I find that when my kids have been the sous chefs for a meal, or selected the recipe (we get a lot of cookbooks, especially kids cookbooks with photos, from the libray) they are more interested in eating the results. Both my kids have been peeling, chopping sauteeing, etc. since aorund 4 y.o.
Thanks ladies!! Some really good recs in here and I appreciate them all.
Evan&Anna's_Mom I think I might exactly copy what your family does! We also make the kids sit down with us for a little while to chitchat a little, and then if they're not hungry they can take their plate to the kitchen and be excused.
MAMom, my kids are off and on into helping me cook. They really love baking but that might be because they will definitely LOVE the end results! I think I need to be better about trying to involve them in the cooking process. Not only will they be more invested in the end result but I also want to raise boys that turn into men who know their way around the kitchen.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
As much as I try to accomodate my children's likes and dislikes, I would be pretty upset if all my girls ate for dinner was bread. I have a child who WOULD fill up on bread and skip her whole dinner every single night. She wouldn't try new things. I don't think that offering an alternative like bread is the way to go honestly. That only compounds the problem. I do understand trying not to make food a battle or a reward but putting out bread and making it a viable alternative and letting them eat 5 or 6 slices of that seems like just ignoring the issue.
As much as I try to accomodate my children's likes and dislikes, I would be pretty upset if all my girls ate for dinner was bread. I have a child who WOULD fill up on bread and skip her whole dinner every single night. She wouldn't try new things. I don't think that offering an alternative like bread is the way to go honestly. That only compounds the problem. I do understand trying not to make food a battle or a reward but putting out bread and making it a viable alternative and letting them eat 5 or 6 slices of that seems like just ignoring the issue.
They WILL tire of bread. They WILL try new things. It might take weeks but it will happen. You just need to trust them, not accommodate them.
How do you think human beings have survived until now? I don't remember my grandmother forcing (or begging, or pleading with) me to eat anything, yet I enjoyed her meals tremendously. Kids learn to enjoy food that adults eat, if we provide structure and opportunity.
It not the food that we eat that makes us fat, but the fact that we've lost touch with our inner regulations of hunger and satiety because we've been told what and how much we are supposed to eat since we were little.
My little girl loves meat. Two days ago I offered wraps for lunch, buffet style. Of course she had nothing but chicken on hers. But she compensated with fruit for the afternoon snack, vegetable soup for dinner and more fruit the next day. I could have insisted that she put some salad and tomatoes on her wrap, or count the number of bites, etc. but in the grand scheme of things, it wouldn't have made any difference, other than completely turning her off vegetables for the next weeks (or months!). Last week she tried a slice of tomato (I was shocked) but she didn't get any special praise or stickers for it. Food just is. They eat how much and what feels good for their body.
A positive attitude towards food is more important for me than any amount or type of food that my kids eat on a given day.
This. And I think the long-term perspective is really key for us to lean back and let the process unfold. If I watched what my kids did (or didn't eat) at every single eating occasion in isolation, then I would probably drive myself crazy (OK, craziER) worrying about it. But if I look at at the whole day or, better yet, the whole week then things seem much more balanced. The truth is that I don't always have a perfectly balanced meal either -- a sandwich and Dt. Coke sitting at my computer working through lunch really isn't all that balanced. But its what I do often.
I can understand not wanting to offer bread as a valid dinner but I agree with the PPs. I was a picky eater when I was a kid and there were years that I lived off only noodles with maybe some celery sticks thrown in. I didn't start to *really* expand my palate until high school, and then moreso once I left home and had to cook for myself. I grew just fine (actually am the tallest in my family somehow), had a good amount of energy, and I have a healthy relationship with food as an adult. So I think my parents were right to just let me do my thing, within reason.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
one of the things to keep in mind too is to realise the importance of taste.
i have seen dd go through this quite often. right now anything bitter is off her plate. no matter how mild the bitter taste. and squash.
i really think taste has an impact on kids which we are not aware of. and textures too. things they are unable to explain to us even when they have words.
many cultures have survived on v. little variety. i think some of our kids are like that.
food personalities are so different.
for instance dd survived on bm till she was 2. she was a great eater. ate a lot of variety. but till she was 2 she maybe ate 2 ounces of solid food a day.
and then she started daycare. she would eat things there she would not eat at home. the owner told me she would cook the same beans at home, and her dd would refuse them.
i am not sure if variety of food is the best.
I slightly disagree with PP. In my experience, when I truly backed off from interfering in what and how much the kids ate, they started being more adventurous with food. Both dd and ds tried hot peppers as toddlers (and decided they didn't like it). Ds likes raw onion in salads, which is not something many kids his age like. And I could go on.
We assume that when we stop interfering they will be condemned to a lifetime of eating only bread. But in my experience, and from what I've read, the kids push themselves to eat and like what their parents eat as long as we provide them with opportunity and structure.
So for the past week we've offered bread with peanut butter as a substitute for dinner if dinner is icky to the kids. Although we do encourage them to try what's on their plate first. So far it's worked great. My 6 yr old has surprised me a few times and has tried foods previously considered to be ghastly. We also offer carrots, apples, bananas, basically whatever easy raw veggies/fruit on hand that he likes.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
Ah, the small victories! My dd tackled another tomato slice this past week and my ds had a bite of liver (!), of their own accord.
Glad to read your update.
When dd was little she was very wary of new foods. We did the smell, lick, taste method. Basically she had to at least smell it. Then if she agreed it smelled ok she had to touch it to her tongue. If that was ok, she would take a small taste of the food. For some reason this worked with her and she's a kid who doesnt' do anything she doesn't want to do.
Ooh tomatoes and liver! Movin' on up in the world!
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
OMG -- one of my worse childhood memories ever (and the reason that I handle food the way I do for my kids) revolves around liver. Just thinking about it still makes me ill to this day. More power to you if your child will try it!
LOL, and I haven't even mentioned that he should try it! Both me and dh like liver and we have it about once a month; ds asked for a bite and decided he didn't like it
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Very calmly tell him:
I serve dinner. Eat what you liek out of it or not. Or go to bed hungry. We are not longer dicussing it.
IF you wake up hungry at 5 am, DO NOT WAKE US UP. Go to the kitchen and make yourself a bow of cereal. Or cup of yougurt.
My teaching your kid how not to be a picky eater, you will give him a great gift.
Along with above, go and shop together for groceries. Then cook together. Kids are more likely to eat what they made.
Do not be a short order cook for your child and do not give him an idea that family menu is changed for him. I see products of that sort of upbrining coming ton dinner at my house ll the time and either staying hungry or demanding "Pasta with butter like my mom makes".
It may help you to know that there is a "picky" gene:
Also, I try to treat my children like I would treat myself or dh, when possible. (Of course, that's not always possible.)
When I don't want to eat something, or when dh doesn't want to eat something, we allow ourselves other choices. So, I allow my kids other choices, too.
And I've found that having a large garden (and letting the kids help in it) goes a long way toward their willingness to eat fruits/veggies! Fresh, organic, homegrown produce tastes so much better than anything you could get in a store. (Farmers' markets are a close second.)
Would your son eat eggs? Hard-boiled eggs are relatively mild and a great source of protein. Or how about yogurt?
For example there might be a stir fry, a separate bowl of rice, maybe some lo mein type noodles, maybe not, and a salad or some plain cut veggies and dip. That way, a child can take a small bit of the stir fry, put their rice separate with soy sauce if they want to, and find a veggie they like. They may just end up eating vegetables and rice, but it's still OK. I also make easy accomodations like a hot sauce on the side for those who want to spice it up, or a dish of raw onions on the table for those who want to mix it in their portion of the salad.
This is what I do. I call it "modular" cooking. It works with our family - one omnivore (me), one (cow) dairy-free DH, one vegetarian/pescatarian DD, and one DD we jokingly call "separatarian" - she will eat a variety of meat, dairy, fruits and mostly uncooked vegetables, but pretty much unsauced/unspiced and separate. No one is allowed to call each other's food gross. Sometimes they can make themselves an alternative if they truly don't want what we're having. And we also have DD2 try a bite of new foods now and then. She has been branching out lately, so I think it's good to continue that.
I get what Alenushka is saying, and I think to some extent she's right, but I don't go quite that far. If I'm serving something I know DD2 has eaten before & is fine with - too bad, that's dinner. Same with other kids who come over - I offer pretty common foods, like pasta, and if they don't like it or it isn't just like home? shrug. On the other hand, DD2 is a kid who refused all solids until about 10 mos. old, is very sensitive to smells, and I have seen her physically gag on certain tastes. I have that reaction with one food - caraway - which tastes so strong to me and truly makes me feel like I am going to hurl, although everyone else tells me it's a "mild" flavor. That sort of thing I am willing to accommodate short of making totally separate meals (I would do that for medical conditions, but that isn't the majority of cases).
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
I know people have already mentioned Ellyn Satter, but I just wanted to chime in my love of her. I saw her speak once at a WIC conference and she is just as great in person as she is on paper. My favorite of her books is How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much.
I am very sceptical about picky genes.. Do you see picky kids in refugee camps? Litte Sibirian villages? etc etc etc. No, of course not.
Genes are not everything.
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This is an answer to Rev. Bruce MacInnes' letter (Sept. 28, 2013).
It's sad that a man of the cloth elaborates such misinformation in a letter to the editor about the Affordable Health Care Act. The Affordable Health Care Act focus on preventive services, it is less expensive to prevent a disease than to treat a disease. It is better and cheaper for citizens to go to their family doctor than in the emergency room at a hospital, which is the most expensive type of health care. It is better for all of us to be health of body, mind and spirit. That is why most places that people work provides health insurance to their workers.
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Here are some of the preventive screenings and services for children under the act: autism, behavioral, blood pressure, developmental, fluoride supplements for children without city water, immunizations, lead screening, iron supplement, vision screening and obesity counseling.
Students do not have to take out insurance since under this bill they can stay under their parent's insurance coverage until they are 26 years old. Then there is the prevention of fraud, waste and abuse hotline that anyone can call: 1-800-447-8477. It has already helped save the American taxpayers over $10.7 billions.
If a citizen does not have insurance coverage, they will more than likely wait until they are very sick and end up in the emergency room, and you and I will end up paying for their care. Citizens of Lee County, please do not listen to lies and rumors about the Affordable Health Care Act. Please search on the internet or ask your doctor. Don't take my word, but check it out for yourself.
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"The Devil in the Dark"
Air date: 3/9/1967
Written by Gene L. Coon
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Review by Jamahl Epsicokhan
A mining colony desperately seeks help from the Enterprise in finding and killing a monster that has been tunneling through the mines and killing men. As Kirk, Spock, and a security team track the monster, they learn that it is not inherently hostile but rather misunderstood. Spock mind-melds with it (mind-melding with a rock?), and learns the nature of its existence.
With the intriguing encounter with the Horta, "The Devil in the Dark" represents some of Trek's best ideological values: tolerance for all forms of life, the search for intelligence in unlikely places, and communication with the unknown rather than simply destroying what we fear. And as an action show, the episode works well, too.
Alas, this episode also tends to show some of Trek's unavoidable plotting hokiness—including a painfully obvious "mystery" involving silicon spheres that turn out to be—gasp!—the Horta's eggs! It's perhaps idealistic to a fault, but this episode epitomizes the hopefulness and anti-cynical nature for which Trek is partly known, and for that reason I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and then some.
Previous episode: This Side of Paradise
Next episode: Errand of Mercy
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It would be beautiful if things did work out that way, though. But, we don't even treat different "life forms" on our own planet with respect and care. Sometimes Star Trek really highlights what the hell is wrong with us. :(
I also didn't quite buy the transformation of the pitchfork carrying villagers (aka the miners). Guess I'm very cynical with regards to human nature.


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Day two of the McNairy Central Christmas Classic was as equally successful as the first for the Lady Cardinals.
Adamsville gave Crockett County fits as they continued to execute the full-court press efficiently, forcing 24 Lady Cavalier turnovers in route to a 26-point victory.
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