Over the weekend I visited my parents who are still doing good .. well into their 80′s. My father always ate vegi’s and worked hard. My mother too ate well and was a very hard worker. Great people, sometimes they can’t believe I’m actually related to them.
But however great it is to visit them, it’s always a bit of a challenge since they’re constantly pushing the Wheat Thins, the cookies, the cheese, the “this” and the “that”. Absolutely nothing organic and it’s tough to convince people who manged to thrive into old age without it, that organic is better.
Anyway, what I do is eat a meal before visiting. That way I’m not hungry and it’s easy to resist. Then while resisting, I truthfully tell them I just ate. So I chat, politely decline, chat decline and on and on. Finally, they usually offer a some sort of fruit (bananas are a favorite of theirs because it’s high in potassium… what’s the deal with older people and potassium? Was their a shortage or something?). And that’s it. Eat first. Be polite. Don’t ever try to give reasons. And you’ll do fine. However, for anyone other than family feel free to let them know the real deal on the environmental and biological effects of chemicalized food consumption.. aka, let them have it!
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