Why is the individual who eats whole wheat bread better than the one who eats white bread? As a Registered Dietician, I am not crazy about hydrogenated peanut butter on white bread, but I know plenty of successful, bright, healthy people who hate natural peanut butter and love mushy white bread. And you know what? They are perfectly capable of making other healthy food choices, as well as good decisions in the other parts of their lives.
These "good" and "bad" assumptions on food choices are a total waste of our energy. When you eat the yummy Haagen Daz ice cream on a hot summer afternoon and suddenly feel like a bad person for doing so, you feel guilty. You doubt your food choices and these misguided judgments spill over into the rest of your life. After all, if you can't trust yourself to make good food choices, can you trust yourself at all?
Let's stop this craziness! What about thinking of food choices as simply "healthier" or "not as healthy"? "Essential" or "nonessential"? It is a fact that it's healthier to choose whole wheat bread over white bread, since there are more nutrients in the whole grains than in the refined flours. But the truth is that this has nothing to do with the type of person you are, your "goodness" factor or, (if there is such a word), "badness." I believe that if we allow ourselves to relax, we will ultimately create a balance and most of our choices will be ones that fall into the healthy column. And, more importantly, we will also learn to trust ourselves in making good decisions in the other areas of our lives.
Becoming "at peace with food" involves a journey resulting in a new relationship with food. Instead of being marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and competition between you and the food you eat, food will take its place as one of the many activities in your life, along with family, friends, working and being active. And, like these other activities, it should be pleasurable.
In order to become truly at peace with food, you need to learn about yourself and why you have the relationship you do with the food you eat. Like all relationships, your relationship with food took time to develop, and it will take time to change.
And that's the truth!
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While the days of the '50s beach movies are long gone, some things remain, even as they have evolved. Surf culture is first and foremost all about surfing. Sure there are fashion elements, styles of speech and a whole lingo. But surfers are united in their love of the perfect wave that gives the perfect ride.
It takes months or longer to get familiar with the many ways a wave can form and break. It takes a long time to build up the skills to take advantage of it. But surfers will share locations, techniques and provide help to those who are struggling to get up to speed.
That's the good.
There are fringe elements in surfing, as there are in any culture. They think they own the waves, they may dominate the beach. Sometimes they engage in threats and violence against others. Not cool. That part of surf culture sometimes gets big press. That's not surprising since people often, for reasons no one understands, prefer to read about bad news.
That part of the culture happens on public beaches. Yet the surf Nazis think it's ok to try to control access to the beach and the waves. Whatever demons are running around in them that push them to do it, they come out when they can get away with it. Police and right-thinking surfers are rebelling against that anarchy, but it sometimes still happens.
That's the bad.
But the most important part of surf culture is the beautiful. And there is lots of it.
The sky on a clear blue day isn't something created by surf culture. But the choice to take advantage of it is. Seeking the sun and the colored sky plays into the feelings that draw surfers to the waves. Even when the skies are gray, the view can be dramatic in a quiet way. That's part of surf culture, that impressive natural display.
The warm yellow sand also is a given, but it's another element that draws surfers to become part of the culture, not just weekend wave riders. Nothing wrong with that, of course. The wide stretch of gently curving sand that gives underfoot is part of the natural gift that creates the mellow state that is part of surf culture.
But there's a state that isn't mellow, that is all passion. That comes from riding the perfect wave in a perfect way. And there's a kind of beauty to that, too. It's the beauty of excellence, the quiet pride of a skill well earned and the whooping joy of the rush when you use it.
Whether big endorsements that flow from winning competitions is your goal, or you just want to experience the ride for its own sake, that beauty is there for anyone who seeks it.
The safe surfer always wear sun protection swimsuits, sun protection hats, sunglasses, and sunscreens. Riding waves unprotected could cause kin damage at later stage in life.
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