Food Porn and How to Rescue Your Child from It Now
If you want to start the New Year out right with one thing that can have a major impact on your child’s overall well-being, turn off the TV. TV’s effect on eating habits is reason enough, though only the beginning.
“Food on television makes one think about eating and gets one’s gastric juices flowing, triggering the release of insulin, lowering one’s blood sugar, and stimulating food cravings,” writes Mireille Guiliano, author of French Women Don’t Get Fat. “It’s gastronomic pornography.”
Americans, unlike the French, have a conditioned impulse to snack while watching TV anyway, and food ads whip that urge to a frenzy. For the French, food is always the main event, never background accompaniment to another…
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