Balance of Food

As I have been struggling with remaining good, it was perhaps the appropriate time to see "Bad Habits," a film from Mexico. Anorexia, bulimia, and mother/daughter issues were full-on display in the film. Add in themes of religion and water, and you have a movie. What is a little surprising is that the perception of these issues is that they are mostly Caucasian. You don't think of Hispanics or African-Americans or Asians as having these issues as significantly as white girls. As a guy going through this, it's clear that females have a different perspective on body image and weight. Women have more outlets for their frustration, but they also have much more of a burden. The mother/daughter dynamic is powerful and disturbing. As the mother loses weight, she yells and screams at the daughter about needing to lose weight. When you look at the daughter, she looks average, but the mother gets excruciatingly thin. One "tip" from the movie involved a scene with two young children, a boy and a girl, about 7. Both are in this weight-loss, Jenny Craig type system. The boy teaches the girl that the way to lose weight is to take something you like, chew and chew and chew and then spit it out. It sounds so amazingly simple. We get the taste for things; we want our taste buds to experience the dish. Swallowing is the problem. I don't know whether that would work, and we are certainly not endorsing this technique. Just passing it on. And if it does work, let us know.