RULE 5
Beware food rules
Some people are unfortunate enough to have very complex and unhealthy issues in their relationship with food. Many of us have some underlying beliefs or attitudes that colour the relationship, and which it helps to recognise. So here are a few of the more common and unhelpful patterns we can get into as a result of the way we relate to food.
I’ve already touched on the first, which is the inability to leave food on your plate30. You don’t have to have grown up in the 1950s and 60s, or in the West, to have been taught from an early age that you must finish everything on your plate. At school we were never allowed to leave the table until every last morsel was eaten. My headmistress when I was about five would say, ‘Don’t ...
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