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My daughters homework for each day this week is : 1. Talk about your feelings. 2. Do something you are good at. 3. Keep yourself hydrated. 4. Eat well. 5.
by weavie 8y ago
My daughters homework for each day this week is :
1. Talk about your feelings.
2. Do something you are good at.
3. Keep yourself hydrated.
4. Eat well.
5. Keep active in mind and body.
6. Take a break.
7. Stay connected to those you care about.
8. Ask for help.
9. Be proud of your very being.
10. Actively care for others.
She has a chart she needs to tick once she has achieved each item.
I get that they are all good things to do and perhaps it provides a talking point in families where these things aren't considered, but it seems a bit much to throw it all in at once. Next week she will probably be back to learning her 3 times tables..
- mapcars 8y agoI would argue that most of those things should come naturally, they should not be homework. Maybe on one day, you need less food, maybe another day your body needs rest. Being proud is beyond everything :D
- sridca 8y agoHow do they teach your daughter to translate these principles to practical actions? For example how does your daugher understand "Eat well" to mean in terms of actual food she happens to crave (cookies, ice cream, plants, meat, etc.)? If they are going EAT-Lancet style on her you should probably be concerned.
- weavie 8y agoI will be asking her what they are teaching her over the week. I am struggling to find any coherent solid information about what the EAT-Lancet diet actually is, or why it is bad. It looks like a load of politically motivated mumbo jumbo! Would you be able to summarise?
- sridca 8y agoIt is a vegan-inspired/ anti-meat diet (similar to Canada's New Food Guide), backed by the processed food industry, but with plenty of issues which are neatly summarized by Georgia Ede here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201901/eat-lancets-plant-based-planet-10-things-you-need-know https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
- weavie 8y agoThanks. I would tweak that diet slightly. Drop the whole grains by an order of magnitude, up the vegetables as much as possible, and increase the lard/tallow to make up the rest. I do agree that we probably eat more meat that we should, but it does look like they are swinging the other way here. How much is 15 calories of beef? About a spooful?
- sridca 8y ago> I do agree that we probably eat more meat that we should, but it does look like they are swinging the other way here. Meat is actually nutritious and healthy. You can read the details in the following link: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/ http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/foods/ (I personally am on the carnivore diet).
- weavie 8y agoPersonally, I try to eat as wide a variety of foods as possible (that includes cheesecake!) I don't find just limiting myself to meat, or just to vegetables, or indeed just to cheesecake to be appealing.
- sridca 8y agoI do it to cure (99%) a chronic condition (and it remains to be seen whether my gut will heal enough to allow old foods back). If I had a choice, I'd be eating a meat-based diet with rice and ice cream!
- jules-jules 8y agoFrom the linked article: "2. Red meat causes heart disease, diabetes, cancer... and spontaneous combustion The section of the report dedicated to protein blames red meat for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer, and early death. It contains 16 references, and every single one is an epidemiological study. The World Health Organization report tying red meat to colon cancer was also mentioned, and that report is almost entirely based on epidemiology as well. [Read my full analysis of the WHO report here.] The truth is that there is no human clinical trial evidence tying red meat to any health problem. I certainly haven’t found any — and if there were, I think this Commission surely would have mentioned it." Are we supposed to take this seriously?