interesting article about picky eating in children.

[mopinko]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmcquaid/2015/08/03/study-ties-picky-eating-in-preschoolers-to-anxiety-depression-adhd-and-family-problems/

i wonder if this strikes a cord w anyone else. my most troubled kid was a crazy picky eater. still that way. puts worcesteshire sauce on everything to.this.day.

[No Vested Interest]

1. Not so in my family of four children.

The pickiest eater - would not eat vegetables or eggs- was/is the "all-boy" type, interested in sports, and a good student.
To this day as a middle-aged adult he still eats few veggies and no eggs, but seems to get along in society fairly well.
I will admit that he has perfectionist tendencies, especially re his own performance. He has also suffered some depression - not clinical- in the past.

His father also ate no eggs, though nothing was made of it in the household.
Father was also something of a perfectionist, and suffered secondary depression in his last illness - more a function of an organic brain disease than of emotional problems.

[canoeist52]

2. The problem of "sensitivity" seems to also be embedded in anxiety. ADD, etc.

Texture taste etc.

[hunter]

3. My siblings tell stories about me.

As a somewhat feral child I was blessed to eat, or not eat, whatever my parents served for dinner, supplanted by whatever I could grow or catch myself.

My normal healthy state is "skinny." A bad flu or lung infection would turn me into skeleton boy, keeping me out of school sometimes for a week or two or three. Later I was skeleton man, sometimes slogging in to work only to be sent home again by my supervisors. My skills must have been valuable enough to tolerate my absences.

Once upon a time my parents were traveling in Mexico, leaving me in their house to look after my mom's mom, and my dad's dad, my two remaining grandparents, and the craziest of all my immediate family then. (Only the good die young.)

Wouldn't you know, I was just recovering from the flu and it turned into pneumonia. So my wife's seen me as skeleton man, and she also saw these two grandparents in their highest form.

My grandpa would get up at two in the morning, fry a pound of bacon, throw a few eggs into the mess, consume it all with a pot of coffee, and than scan the radio bands with the volume turned up loud enough to wake the dead. He was blind and somewhat deaf at that point. (When he could see he'd be up late at night with his telescopes, or in his workshop.)

My grandma, the one who had to be removed from the home she owned as a danger to herself and others, the one who'd get kicked out of even nice, tolerant, understanding, expensive nursing homes, would lock herself into her room with her evil cat, the "master" bedroom of the house, and they'd both hiss whenever anyone dared to check in on them. My mom had asked if I could make sure grandma bathed at least once that month, but it was not to be.

In college I would make buttermilk from surplus government powdered milk, cultured in surplus glass quart milk bottles on top of the water heater in the bathroom closet. And rice, lots of rice. And various plants I'd grow or find, which is probably why I'm not dead.

My diet is still bad. I know how I should eat, but I don't.

[olddots]

4. nobody knows yet how sugars and salts effect us

why we crave them and what gets released how and when .Think about smelly cheeses ,why some people love them or hate them .

[mopinko]

5. it true

one of my favorite things that kurt vonnegut said was-
it all started to fall apart with the invention of underarm deodorant. that we primates use our stink to stay together.
this makes perfect sense to me.