{"id":10878,"date":"2017-08-11T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:28:22","slug":"hey-high-schoolers-is-nutrition-on-the-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/11\/hey-high-schoolers-is-nutrition-on-the-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, High Schoolers &#8211; Is Nutrition On The Syllabus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Martinko on\u00a0<i><b>Treehugger.com\u00a0<\/b><\/i>brings up a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/health\/good-food-not-pharmaceuticals-what-most-patients-need.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/health\/good-food-not-pharmaceuticals-what-most-patients-need.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502490460856000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH1AXiCtN0P2TzWEYntMQ_fIeWoJg\">mundane but important point\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; doctors are beginning to realize that many health problems begin with our diet, and food is what makes or breaks us:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div>\n<p>Doctors and hospitals are well-positioned to guide patients toward better eating habits; but, ideally, such education would start much earlier in life, before chronic diseases manifest themselves. Children should be learning how to cook from their parents, and schools should implement cooking classes as a standard part of the curriculum. It\u2019s an excellent connection point for various subjects, such as science, math, health, even history and social studies.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the societal mentality toward cooking deserves a makeover. It should not be viewed as drudgery (a normal reaction when one struggles with a skill), but as a respected domestic art, something to celebrate, admire, and constantly strive to improve. After all, our survival depends on it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall this being on my high school syllabus, but it seems obvious in retrospect &#8211; good nutrition and provision of food should be a central topic in schools. Yes, yes, division of labor has led to astounding discoveries, so why should everyone learn about cooking? But the division of labor has also led to a fast food industry unconcerned with real nutrition, just with making money. If only out of self-defense, knowing how to cook and\u00a0<i>how to evaluate a restaurant meal\u00a0<\/i>is probably one of the great under-taught skills of American civilization (I shan&#8217;t drag down the rest of Western Civ for our mistakes).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Martinko on\u00a0Treehugger.com\u00a0brings up a\u00a0mundane but important point\u00a0&#8211; doctors are beginning to realize that many health problems begin with our diet, and food is what makes or breaks us: Doctors and hospitals are well-positioned to guide patients toward better eating habits; but, ideally, such education would start much earlier in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/11\/hey-high-schoolers-is-nutrition-on-the-syllabus\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}