I have been cooking my whole life, and if I do say so myself, I am pretty darn good at it too. Not only do I know how to cook well, but I also know a lot about nutrition. When I was first in college, I was a biology major, studying to become a doctor, and had to take a number of nutrition courses. I also had to take nutrition courses while I was in culinary school. I furthered my nutritional journey, focusing a lot on sports nutrition, as I became more involved in the world of sports and coaching. More and more, people, kids in particular, rely on fast food as their food source, and this reliance on fast foods is wreaking havoc with our bodies in many ways. People today do not know about proper nutrition and the problems of obesity and other diet related issues due to poor diets and sadly, major health issues due to poor diets are steadily on the rise. I have always said that if we taught people how to eat and to cook properly, we would not have near as many problems with obesity and diseases as we do. I am all for teaching cooking and nutrition classes in schools, churches, community centers, hospitals, Boys & Girls’ clubs, etc. I have attached the comment and the link to a petition to do just that, and to start teaching cooking and nutrition classes in schools again. This was a link forwarded to me from an acquaintance of mine, Anthony Davison. I think this is a fabulous idea. I hope you do too. If you agree, please sign the petition and forward it on. If not, no worries. I am only providing the information.
Hi Jeanne, and thanks for the link up, as a foodie I thought you would like this: When 20% of NHS budget is spent on food related disease please read & sign our petition; “Get Food, Growing Cooking and Nutrition at the core of the School Curriculum” More here: http://chng.it/YhNkxrB87W Please promote the petition to your contacts as I think we need lots of signatures to get the government to change.
I remember having to bake a cake in middle school. Kids definitely need to learn nutrition and how to cook, I agree! God bless!
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Absolutely! I used to take cooking classes at the Girls’ Club as a little girl. Whatever we cooked in those classes, I came home and cooked for my parents as well.
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I most certainly will it’s very important to get back to those ways, well done 💐😀
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AWESOME!!!! Thank you. I think we have to get people cooking and learning about nutrition again.
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Were taught dependence. Hungry? Get fast food. If fast food ran out, what would people do?
I’m not against learning! I’m completely with you!
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I know, right?! 🙂
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Unfortunately so…
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I remember cooking in middle school. I loved it! Our high school is getting a culinary program, which is great as long as everyone is allowed to take it. This is another reason I’m glad I’m able to homeschool. 🙂
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I think more schools should bring back cooking classes and home ec classes. 🙂
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Great idea.
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I cannot take credit for it, but I certainly agree with it.
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cooking one of the good excellent skills you must have
in your life
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Thank you. I LOVE to cook.
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I agree with you all the way I am glad someone is caring for nutrition!😊👍🏻🍎
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We have to. We have some nutritional deficiencies and problems that we need to take care of before they get even worse.
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As Anthony Bourdain once said: “basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe one’s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.” 😉
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I love this! Thank you for sending it to me.
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