More Data- The Importance of Family Meals

Great article May 1 in WSJ-" Our Big Problem" by Anthony Daniels, a British physician. "Obesity is spreading- and eating away at America's economy and health...For most of the population, family meals are a ritual of the past:36% of British children never eat a meal at a table with another member of the family or household...In the homes of the poor,the unemployed and the single parents that I used to visit as a doctor, I would find no evidence of cooking ever having been done there...There was not even a table to eat at: an absence that was not the consequence of raw poverty, since the flat- screen television would have been large enough, turned horizontal, to serve as a dining table...Family and social meals are among the most powerful teachers of self-control in the human repertoire...It is hardly surprising that those who do not experience family or social meals early in life exhibit the lack of self-control that underlies so much modern social pathology in the midst of plenty." The reason we, as a society are not cooking boils down to a lack of planning and our own lack of discipline or method of practice. A doctor sets up a practice. Go set up a cooking co-op practice!