What is your relationship with food? Do you break up and
binge, then make up and vow to eat healthier?
It's tough when someone tells us our life styles are
self-destructive. Yet deep inside we know when we at war with ourselves. We
participate in food wars (aka known as eating junk), wars with friends and
others and wars that attack our self-worth. Still, when it comes to eating,
unless we are drunk, drugged or out of touch with reality, we have inklings of
what kind of foods are good to us and for us. Our food problems tend to be more
about staying on track than about amassing more information.

If you had to rate your relationship with food, would you
get a good rating? There used to be a restaurant report on TV and the host
would give "The Slime Report." The term referred to slime in the ice
box. Some food inspector would come unannounced to check out the cleanliness of
the restaurant. The reporter took the filthiest restaurants and gave their
health scores. It was gruesome. You are your health inspector. Don't let you
relationship with food be a slime report; make it a health fair. Keep this
thought in a special place where it is easily accessible, "My health is
more important than my appetite." I'm counting of you, to eat good food -
you know you want to and I hope this thought can reinforce your choice for
healthier living. Yum, yum. Eat well and prosper and may the fork be with you.