Feed our children a healthy diet or our childhood diet?

Don’t you wish you knew some of the things you know now sooner in life?

Would it make a difference?

In my case yes, no, and maybe.

Yes I wish I knew some things sooner for example that the food I eat can prevent diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and all kinds of unnecessary health illnesses.

No and maybe because although I knew working out and studying hard would make me more successful, it didn’t really make a difference at the time.

I truly believe that if my parents really understood the implications of the food they fed us and kept in our kitchens that they would make better choices for our sake. But I think they thought they were doing their best feeding us a well balanced American diet.

Now a days we have so much information at our fingertips that we can see the well balanced American diet is the leading cause of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. Yesterday I was dumb founded as I read in the China Study that Chinese folks eat many more calories than us in general yet they’re slimmer than us and lack our diseases all because of what they eat as opposed to what we eat. I was also reading how Japanese eat double and sometimes triple the carbs we eat yet again, slimmer and healthier.

It’s not our parents fault, they just didn’t know better. Sure, they knew candy and junk food wasn’t healthy but they didn’t think it could cause huge implications as we now know. Processed foods have always been cheaper and last longer, it made sense to buy these, plus our government told us this was part of a well balanced diet.

Not as a parent, it may not be my fault that this diet is still represented as a well balanced diet, but it is my responsibility to teach my boys that they need to do better for themselves.

Some folks may even say something like “let them live.” My answer to that is that that’s precisely what I’m trying to do. I was reading how many of these diseases are genetic. It was showing how literally how your grandmother ate, affected the genes in which your mother carried before creating you, then between her mother’s diet issues affecting her genes and her own diet, affected the genes in which you carry. You can’t help what your mother or grandmother ate but you can literally change the gene strands of your grandchildren with the foods you choose to eat now. That’s insane. I honestly believe that if our parents knew this, they would have made better choices.

I can look the other way on many things for the sake of avoiding conflict. But for the love and care of my children this is one thing I can’t ignore.

Should I be selfish and knowingly harm my children and their children for the sake of enjoying potato chips, ice cream, and candy?

Maybe I’m completely wrong. The science sure isn’t. Maybe my kids will make bad choices wether I teach them better. Or maybe I can lengthen their lives by a few more years with all their limbs and without dialysis or cancer.

Maybe