Everyday there are millions of blogs posted on the websites but only a few worth reading. One of the blogs named “food-it’s complicated”, posted by a registered dietitian named Renee, is an exception. The distinctive idea that the relationships in life with the food we eat she proposed really draws my attention and evokes my curiosity. I even begin to reconsider and rearrange my own relationship with food after reading this beneficial blog.
Click the link and enter Renee’s site, I cannot help falling in love with the simple but adorable design. The background includes various vegetables which emphasize a healthy food selection. Moreover, the main color of the background is green, which is able to give me a sense of comfort and relax. The most attracting part of the whole site is the photo of a great heart which consists of all sorts of healthy foods. The photo is not only creative but also tightly related to the chief massage that the author want to spread. I think my blog will be more intriguing If I incorporate these kind of innovative pictures into my own sites.
Moreover, Renee chooses to use “you” instead of “he/she” while writing the blog. She addresses the audience as friends and uses a narrative tone that shorten the distance between authors and readers, which pulls them closer with each other. In addition, she lists four situations that lead to a negative relationship with food, and she even gives four detailed advises to cope with corresponding situation. What’s more, the suggestions are pretty reliable and helpful- overeating because of stress and skipping meals because of the busy schedule are frequently-existed scenes in college students’ life.
However, what draws me into the blog is actually the first sentence: “As Valentine’s Day approaches, I reflect on the relationships in my life”. When the phrase “Valentine’s Day” appears, I can smell the sweet chocolates in the air and see the lovers hug and kiss each other. But wait! Isn’t it a nutritional article? So does that mean my lover will be those fruits and vegetables? Calm down and think for a second, it is awkward yet funny to be in love with a banana, or a slice of fish, especially for a nutrition learner like me. Don’t forget that our body is constructed by the food we eat. What we eat is what we are. Thus loving the food we consume can be considered as loving ourselves and our own bodies.
“Food is life.” -written in the blog. The easiest way to show our positive attitudes towards life is to enjoy every moments we spend with food. Keeping a healthy relationship with food is almost the same as dealing with the relationship with boyfriends/girlfriends. Skipping meal is like ignoring and mistreating the lovers; and overeating is like relying to partners mindlessly. These are all unhealthy relationship so we want to get rid of them. A healthy relationship with food is complicated as any other relationship in real life.
To maintain a healthy relationship with food is even harder. When encounter food, we not only think about the tastes and nutrients but also consider how to be slim and beautiful, how to prevent disease with food. We automatically concern about the negative side of the food even if we do not recognize that. Or we put too much hope with food, thinking that one cup of leafy-green vegetables can cure the cancer and save the life. Isn’t that ridiculous?
What we should do is to try to alter the way we often think about food. Instead of thinking about losing weight and eating as less as we can, we should choose the favorite fruits and veggies which contain enough nutrients but low in calories. Wash and cut the food we choose, cook it, add the sauce we like and enjoy the meal with that pleasant smell- this will be the ideal state with food.
If you already have a healthy relationship with food, keep it. Or if you are on the way to a healthy relationship, hold on to it and you will love that feelings when succeed.
http://reneeshealthyweighs.blogspot.com/2015/01/food-its-complicated.html