Sublime

Taste is identity.

If our food habits are learned, they can also be relearned.

Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat.

The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.

those who are eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all of the choices on the table are real, whole food.

There are the “feeding disorders” of little kids, and the “eating disorders” of older children and adults.

its composition matters not just in the short term but because it forms how the children will eat in adult life.

“in hunger and satiety, there is some point in the development process when children begin to respond to contextual cues such as portion size.”