Good food feels good to eat. A good drink too. It becomes routine; it becomes our normal. Feels good. It's entertaining, like playing a game or watching a movie.
You walk into the store. You find yourself going for what you expect to be "good." In a feel-good culture it's good to remember that it's all about influences. When taste defines "good," it's obviously about habits. What we keep doing. What we're used to. The culture. The examples children see.
What will a child do with the extra dollar when the sugar-salt-fat taste is in all these foods on the shelf. Will she do what "everybody" does: go to the corner store and buy a candy? Taste buds may be happy but the punishment on the body is too much. That's why in spite of the heavy promotion of fake foods, the culture is steady returning to natural eating habits.
People are intelligent. You wouldn't even notice the difference when you use honey instead of sugar; the egg replacer or the nutritious ground flax seed instead of eggs; almond milk or soy milk instead of dairy milk, in baking. More hands are reaching for the 100% not-from-concentrate fruit juices, as we read labels.
Food is central to healthy living. So we're mindful of what we are eating. What we're getting used to. As we make our body, tongue and mind used to healthy eating, it becomes easier to let go of that cheese. We're always influencing our normal as our normal influences us. The influences we surround ourselves with determine our food choices.
Tasty healthy food eating influences us (and bad food will do its dirt). We pick up good habits the more we do particular things. The more we serve up good meals, the more our taste buds and body get used to it.
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