Eat Crap & Die! A Test of Eating Skills for Ages 15-21
15 July 2006by Stephanie Selene Anderson
Look in the mirror. What do you see? Is your image scary or pleasant? Hopeful or dreadful? Capable or faking it?
There is one skill that, if you master it, will improve that mirror image whether you see yourself as smart or dumb, as a success or a loser, as gorgeous or hideous, as confident or scared. If you master this skill, it will truly make you smart, successful, sexy, and sure of yourself.
What is that skill?
Let me give you a hint. You have to perform this skill at least three times a day, usually as many as six times a day, everyday, for life. In your lifetime, you’ll have to perform this skill for others as well as yourself.
If you answered, “Eating!” you got it.
Eating is a skill. Selecting and preparing food is art, instinct, and common sense. The body is always engaged in some aspect of eating long after you’ve had a meal. Eating is what keeps you alive and, beyond that, keeps you either healthy or dying of disease. Mastery of healthy eating skills empowers you to heal a sick body. It will keep you in athletic shape, keep you at your correct weight, and hold you together through the hard times.
More than just a face or a body, eating helps create the person you want to see in the mirror. Eating can influence your mental health, causing you to feel happy, confident, in touch with yourself, or causing you to feel irritable, impatient, depressed?even to the point of feeling crazy, murderous, or suicidal.
When I was seven years old, I had a pet mouse. My mother wouldn’t let me keep it in the house, so I had to keep it in the basement. It died. Why? Because I was just a kid and had other things to do rather than think about the mouse living in the basement. I forgot to feed it. It died of starvation. If it had been living on its own in the wild, it would have had no problem knowing what to eat in order to be a healthy mouse?unless someone tricked it into eating poison.
Eating is that clear cut. If you don’t eat, you die. But from a practical, day-to-day standpoint, that’s not the point. The real point is what you eat. Eating crap means that you’re starving the body a little every day. And long before you die, you will have lived a life of suffering from starvation in a hundred ways.
Read the rest of this article online, and take the Eating Skills Quiz to see if you are smarter than your parents.
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