[–] Shitlord_and_Savior 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Basic nutrition should be taught in every high school and middle school. It's much more applicable than a lot of the stuff they teach.
[–] marymarynotcontrary 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
NO. I got nonsense.
[–] ShitArchon 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The complicated food-pyramid stuff was a turnoff to me. It made health seem complicated and goody-two-shoes. /r/fatlogic and FPH changed my worldview.
[–] Shitlord_and_Savior 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Don't forget to eat 42 servings of bread and cereal each day!
[–] interstate-15 ago
Nope. We didn't have any nutrition classes at all. But we all knew fatties were the ones who ate more and shit food.
[–] shezbot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No. We were taught very little about nutrition, or at least, I don't remember it (it was the 80's & 90's). I remember being taught the "food pyramid" and how certain foods were "better" for you than others, but never any mention of CICO. I do know that I realized at a pretty early age that there was a link to how much I ate and my weight...growing up with parents that were constantly on one fad diet or another made things challenging. Perhaps someone should have taught THEM CICO...
[–] Alterna-slim ago
We spent a few days on nutrition. But health class was focused mostly on std's. I vaugly remember the food pyramid and thinking "gee that's a lot of bread!" I vaugly remember that women supposedly needed 2000 calories and med 2500 a day. So I never learned in school about individual caloric needs. I learned a pound of fat was roughly 3500 calories. And I felt very confused on proper nutrition in general.
I learned a lot after leaving high school. I did a lot of research. I learned about individual calorie needs, how they can be very different based on height, weight and activity level. I learned how to properly measure my food. I had to search this out because what I was taught was inadequate.
[–] TeeheeReeRee 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I had a serious eating disorder in high school. It pisses me off when people try to shield themselves or their kids from calorie info because "EATING DISORDURZ" when 2/3 of people in the US are fat and only 4% have an ED. Knowledge doesn't give you an eating disorder; circumstances/predisposition/Satan do. I was not educated on CICO but still figured out how to starve myself just fine. Ridiculous.
[–] shitempress 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I did, but it was only because my science teacher decided to talk to us about it. It wasn't part of the curriculum, and it wasn't a lesson or anything, it just came up.