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Thanks for your thoughts, Walt, kmd, and Doc Kim. It occured to me yesterday that the distinction between the liberal and perfect application of the whole foods diet needed to be made (for me!) for children. Do they need to be on the perfect regimen, or will liberal suffice, meaning sticking with the guidelines in Beth's book and allowing them once a week perhaps something that was out of bounds, like ice cream? I don't offer my son anything that isn't made from a recipe in Beth's book or from another cookbook containing similar ingredients, or else on her "approved" list EXCEPT prune juice with nothing added, soy milk with cane sweeteners, kamut cereal with cane sweeteners. His diet at daycare and at his dad's is far more refined carbs and sugars.
In Reply to: children and whole foods diet - perfect or liberal? posted by dfs on June 19, 2001 at 12:42:23:
Hi, dfs,
The only problems with a less than perfect WFD is that the current manufactured foods are purposely designed to stimulate the taste buds and so tend to numb them to the truly subtle, varied and exquisite tastes of whole foods.
So, to children who are occasionally subjected to the commercial "game", whole foods taste bland (unless highly spiced with herbs, etc., by a practiced cook).
After all, the children have no defense against the "food giants" who have had more than 100 years of a free hand and experience to fool the palate into empty calories. All they know is taste and have no idea that they are paying with the quality of their lives for a "mess of pottage".
Hope this helps.
Walt
So long as you can get around that, I see no problem with a less than perfect WFD--so long as you are not trying to treat a problem with C-RS.
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