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...guarded, so families huddled close to eat what they had caught or picked. Somewhere in there may lie the origins of the dinner table. When food was abundant enough to share, it was passed around mostly at celebrations--harvest festivals, when the foods of autumn were eaten; Easter feasts, when the spring lamb recalled both Jesus' sacrifice and the story of Passover. "The foods became the anchor to which the rituals connected," says Brenton. "You don't see the same foods at a wedding as at a funeral as at a naming ceremony...
...down family dinners offer the best opportunity for building good eating habits. Not only do they enable you to keep an eye on what your child eats, but they also tend to be more well-rounded than meals eaten on the run, and kids are less apt to bolt them down. Dinnertime talk can also reveal emotional issues that might underlie overeating. If you can't do it every night, aim for three or four family dinners a week. Satter stresses that even snacks should be "structured, sit-down [meals] served at set times" with no grazing in between...
...million on its main nutrition-education program, McDonald's spent $500 million on its We Love to See You Smile campaign. It can be no surprise that teenagers consume nearly twice as much soda as milk (the reverse was true 20 years ago) and that 25% of all vegetables eaten in the U.S. are French fries...
...TORONTO The Serial Diners Club has but one laudable goal: working through the restaurant listings in the local Yellow Pages (except for venues "playing music at volume level 11"). The club, which offers free membership, meets weekly and has so far eaten its way through to the letter...
...details about how the feedback and comment period would progress.) But yesterday’s nauseating, fawning staff editorial in the Boston Globe—written in language scarily similar to that of the press release released by Harvard—would seem to confirm that the media has eaten up their sales pitch...