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BALANCED MEALS

Weather you cook and serve yourself, eat out or are served by others, a few guidelines about nutrition are important.  Try to eat balanced meals, watch between meal snacks and remember to brush your teeth.

Gypsy Boots, an early advocate for healthful eating. 

Breakfast, the most important meal of the day​.

Nutritional experts have referred to breakfast as the most important meal of the day, citing studies that find that people who skip breakfast are disproportionately likely to have problems with concentration, metabolism, and weight.  The impact of a skipped breakfast on a mental patient can be quite astounding with cumulative results varying in the routine treatment of the clinically insane which are thought to alter the criteria for diagnosis and placement in an asylum which were considerably looser in the olden times than today. Eat your eggs!

Yippee!  Snacktime!

Clinical nutritionists are health professionals who focus more specifically on the role of nutrition with respect to mental health, including possible prevention or remediation by addressing nutritional deficiencies before resorting to drugs. Snacks have been proven to improve cognitive skills while suppressing manic mood swings due to hypoglycemic levels.  While government regulation of the use of this professional title is less universal than for "dietician", the field is supported by many high-level academic programs, up to and including the Doctoral level, and even has its own voluntary certification board, imagine that! Enjoy your snack!

Lunchtime did you bring a box or sack?

Lunch, is a middle of the day meal and is generally smaller than dinner, which is the main meal of the day whenever dinner is eaten. The origin of the words lunch and luncheon relate to a small meal originally eaten at any time of the day or night, but during the 20th century gradually focused toward a small meal eaten at midday. At Happydale we recommend a strict adherence to the regular schedule of serving lunch at 12:00 sharp.  

Dinnertime at last!

The food groups in a TV dinner were displayed neatly in a divided metal tray.  A representative tray was placed in the Smithsonian Institution in 1987 to commemorate the trays impact on American culture. Celebrity figures from Howdy Doody to President Eisenhower touted the dinners.

Swanson removed the name "TV Dinner," from the packaging in the 1960s. The Campbell Soup Company replaced the aluminum trays of Swanson frozen TV dinners with plastic, microwave-safe trays in 1986. That same year, the orginal aluminum Swanson TV Dinner tray was inducted into the Smithsonian Institute, sealing TV Dinners' place in American cultural history. In 1999, Swanson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  All that so you can enjoy Dinner!

 

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When were were children, they always told us not to play with our food.  This has resulted many of us suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Eating Disorders, Anorexia and other dietary difficulties. This simple game will help to cure you faster and better than all the "normal" diets, therapies and programs that you pay a fortune for and can seldom follow anyhow.  Instructions: When we call out the entree, side dish, or desert, place your chip on it.  When you get a line, you win.  What could be more fun?

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