{"id":539,"date":"2009-08-02T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-08-21T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T16:31:01","slug":"diet-pop-culture-dietene-with-vitamin-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/index.php\/diet-pop-culture-dietene-with-vitamin-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet pop culture: Dietene (with Vitamin G!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Housekeeping, June 1935<\/a><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

\"dietene\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My first thought was, “What in the HELL is vitamin G?” Turns out that’s what they used to call riboflavin (now known as vitamin B2.) <\/p>\n

Mmm, riboflavin. <\/p>\n

My second thought was — “a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch…and then a sensible dinner!” And this is from 1935, when, apparently, a sensible low-fat dinner consisted of 900 calories. Holy shit. <\/p>\n

I mean, my breakfast this morning was likely 900 calories, but that was greasy-spoon diner breakfast. I can only imagine the volume of food required to make up a low-fat<\/em> 900 calorie meal. <\/p>\n

Not to squick people out with numbers and calories or anything. But these are things I think of, and numbers (oddly) don’t bother me anymore.<\/p>\n

In other news, what a week it’s been. I ran around to three different hospitals, working 10-12 hours per day (mostly because I was feeling crappy, and everything took me twice as long as usual.) I saw patients, I wrote chart notes, I counted people’s calories, and I thought about food. <\/p>\n

I thought about how much cancer sucks. And how much the treatments suck.<\/p>\n

I thought about how scary it must be to be stuck in a hospital bed in a strange country.<\/p>\n

I thought about how lonely it must be to have dementia and not know who anybody is. <\/p>\n

I thought about how much it must suck to be terrified of eating.<\/p>\n

As much as it also sucks to struggle with normal eating, with negotiating one’s way through a culture riddled with anti-body minefields, I couldn’t help but feel grateful for the health I now enjoy, and the relative ease with which I eat. <\/p>\n

I also couldn’t help but feel that one day — maybe tomorrow, maybe in 50 years — I will be one of those patients. <\/p>\n

I will have troubles of my own, and I will count on someone like me for help.<\/p>\n

Also, now that the crazy-ass work week has ended, I go back to my largely-lady-of-leisure status. Which means writing some actual content-containing posts, and responding to people’s emails. So if you receive a random flood of emails from me in the next week, don’t be alarmed. I’m just getting caught up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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