Beautiful Food

To some, skinny is beautiful. That seems illogical to me. The word "skinny" or "slim" means to be less than a normal weight. It is, therefore, about thin people who are less than healthy. Those who go to great lengths to be unnaturally thin and spend most of their waking hours worrying about calories and exercise and garment sizes, are obsessive. When they meet with friends, they talk about nothing but their diets and their exercise and how they have or have not lost weight and how depressed they are if they haven't stuck to their diets. Their lives from day to day, can be read as  good or bad depending upon what they see on the scales that morning. It is exactly the opposite end of the spectrum of our concern about obesity. Both fly in the face of normal health. If you ask these people why they are doing it, their usual reason is to look good for someone else. What? If that adult someone else expects you to look like a little girl or boy with no hips or body fat, I would say, be wary of their pedophilic tendencies! People, as they age, develop, by nature, a certain amount of fat on their bodies for purposes that only nature knows and there can't be anything wrong with that plan. I do support those who believe in eating food that is nutritious and healthy.  If we want to keep health costs down, even with the great benefits of social health plans, we have to live our lives responsibly and that includes taking care of our health. But to try and emulate the pathetically thin arms and legs of  teen or pre-teen models as seen in fashion spreads, is irresponsible. Those bodies are clothes hangers and, to our shame, we must admit that they do display fashions to our liking for some reason. Few of the models are naturally thin for their lifetimes, but some, indeed, are people with frames that are long and lean and will stay that way. Most of us, gain pounds as we age, but the fashion world denies us  accepting that fact. Lately, I have been a proponent of food that is beautiful. I believe that butter and all of the other no-nos of  dieting folk, can be enjoyed if they are taken simply in lesser amounts. A little filet mignon with pate on top, one glazed carrot and greens with oil and vinegar is acceptable even with a small mousse to finish and a nice red wine. It's all a matter of size. Oops! Did I say size?