food, class and kids

The food issue is really hard given how cheap unhealthy food is and how much these issues, as the Times article suggests are all about class. Wealthy women have more resources all around to worry about food and to police. At the same time, their daughters, especially, are all the more prone to eating disorders as they observe their mother's anxieties around food. It seems hard to let this go and let kids figure out what they actually do want to eat, what their bodies tell them with all of this other stuff complicating the very act of eating.

And, the truth is these habits are formed early--