Is feeding your kids white bread, or God forbid high fructose corn
syrup, the kind of thing that should lose you custody of your kid in a
divorce?
I don't think so -- even though I am a strong believer that most
of what is marketed to kids is crap and shoudn't be fed to anyone,
ever. But I certainly don't fool myself that the bowl of Pirate's Booty
I just handed my daughter to snack on is anything other than fancy
Cheetos. If most of what you feed your kids is good, wholesome, real
food that bears more resemblance to how it came from the ground or the
animal than to a lab-created Frankenfood, a preference for white bread
or a daily bowl of Doritos is not that big a deal.
Laura Bennett agrees with me.
In this piece from Alternet she recounts
running into a mom at her sons' school who was livid with her
ex-husband, livid to the point of asking a judge to revisit their
custody arrangement, for his wanton disregard for their children's
health.
What was the issue, you ask?
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