I have noticed that the list became rather a battlefield of personal dogmas, than an open discussion forum but I hope it is just temporary state of evolution. Just my opinions about children feeding and food dogmas: 1. What about the cases where parents due to their 'food purism' e.g. macrobiotics, raw foodists, vegans etc. limiting their children food choices make them actually more harm than good? Most people here are watching from the Palediet perspective, but what about the rest of the world? And what if we are wrong and our children have better ideas what they should eat? No free choice beacuse Paleo is the best (sounds familiar for me e.g meat gives you cancer, etc.) 2. I think the worset thing the parents can do to their children is to make them obsessed with food. Personally I know some vegetarians' children who truly believe that eating meat will kill them and it's really scaring. 3. Foods that are great for a parent can be a poison for a child. I cannot tolerate lettuce in any form but my wife is eating huge garden salad every day without any problems. Convincing each other that lettuce is a healthy food doesn't make sense and is pointless. I think that some persons on this list are forgetting that we are individual human beings and everybody has slightly different metabolism/needs/taste. 4. As somebody mentioned before food/diet is only a part (smaller or greater) of a total well being of any human creature. And when you concentrate too much on what you should/shouldn't eat you are not able to enjoy you life. Again, I know (and used to be for a while by myself) people whose life consists of instant watching what they eat, and then making medical checks if the food is OK. or not. Even if they find this way their perfect way of eating the stress their crating by such a behavior won't let them to feel really good. I understand that when you sick you have to be more careful and self-centered but IMO any food purism pushes this situation to the extremes creating additional stress (e.g. panic attacks when you are hungry in a middle of a city and you are scared to death because you don't know what to eat to avoid all this poisons in a convenient foods). Regards, Paul Sand ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com