Dom Kureen returns. Guest opinion articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the publication. Ed
It seems as if a lot of people have an issue with the healthy eater, taking umbrage with those who reject dessert at the end of a gut busting evening of mastication.
My friend Emma relishes feeding people when they visit her abode, fussing around them with crisps and biscuits for the duration of their stopover and getting offended by any subsequent refusal of this shabby sustenance.
Why are people getting so fat?
My Grandmother was even worse, relentlessly insisting that guests devoured assorted cuisine upon entry, only to scan them later on and enquire: “Why are people getting so fat?”
A balanced diet is now regularly promoted within academic faculties and via medical literature, which is great. Still, there lingers this pompous protocol, wherein the insecure few are pushy and suspicious towards those who reject their calorific advances.
Slim…shady?
It could be the same obsolete mentality that compels us to fire autopilot compliments in the direction of tribes of dieters, in most cases shifting the weight they gained by being greedy in the first place – whilst hypocritically holding in contempt those paragons of edible etiquette, whose lifestyle ensures that they need never resort to such measures.
The celebrated fasters in the midst of their downsizing are also compassionately exempt from force-feeder conventions, until their shrinking physique is deemed ripe for expansion once more.
Difficult to swallow
Healthy is often perceived as fussy, which it is… In the same way that looking both ways before crossing the road is time consuming. The difference is that most people wouldn’t shove their entourage into the path of an oncoming truck!
Surely this is an era in which to celebrate the disciplined, not test them. Conscientious nibblers are people too, let us not lead them to temptation and become exasperated by the rejection of each lardaceous morsel thrust zestfully towards their vicinity. Instead why not bask in reflected restraint? (even if you can’t follow suit).
