What do you wish you'd learned in school when it comes to nutrition information?

[wiccagirl24]

It seems to me that we were never taught much about nutrition in school. There was the food pyramid, which is not correct (at least not the one they used when I was in school a decade and a half ago.) We were taught to eat fruits and veggies and "a well balanced diet" but not given much information about what that was.

Now, as a result, we seem to have many problems in society with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. We have people not understanding basic things like where protein comes from or how much we need. I wish we had learned more about vitamins, minerals, proteins and carbs. I wish we'd learned about different types of diets like vegetarianism. I wish we'd learned more about what foods had what benefits.

What about you?

 

[Rikkiem&m]

Did you have to take Family and Consumer Science? Or Health? We have to take both when I was in middle school and we have to take health in high school. They teach you all about nutrition.

 

[ANNiE]

Concepts like:
Reasons to eat: hunger, social situations and being polite, fullness.
Cultural differences and balanced diet.
The role of herbs and spices in diet, nutrition, and metabolism.
How the body and brain are designed to manage your weight so you don't have to focus on it (unlike what every woman's magazine will tell you)...

 

[HiddenBarb]

It was easy to figure out what foods are healthy..... but portion control, that's what I wish I had learned earlier.

 

[Malia]

i agree with you, ive always known what was healthy and what wasnt, but portion control..like we learned how many servings of everything we were supposed to get in each day, but we were never taught how much a serving is..i didnt really learn that until i was pregnant with my first and went and saw a nutritionist..our portions are completely out of control, its rediculous and completely disgusting to me that we eat so much