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[quote=Anonymous]Personally, I can't stand the American obsession with the health value of food and eating purely for nutritional reasons (read the first chapter of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food and his discussion of "orthorexia" - people with an unhealthy obsession with avoiding unhealthy foods- in America, among certain socio-economic groups).  I would avoid a school like this like the plague.

For the record, I love good healthy food and exercise, but the way it's approached by most people around me seems obsessive, competitive, and judgmental/elitist.  The last thing I would want is for my kids to start looking down on others because they eat sugar, or for their lives to revolve around diet and exercise.  No thanks!

I would, however, be interested in a Home Ec school, as someone seemed to make fun of.  A school where kids  learn to cook, learn to sew, manage personal finances, crafts, gardening, etc, would be awesome.  Take out the focus on healthy eating though as the point of all existence.

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