Health
Let's Stop Treating Food Like A Reward
Remember when your soccer team won a game and you all went out for pizza afterwards? Or everyone in your middle school class had great attendance, so you all got ice cream on the last day of school?
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
While these memories might be reminiscent of fun, simple times, they also give us insight into how we’re conditioned from a young age to look at certain foods and automatically use the caveman part of our brains to evaluate them, rather than look at them accurately as part of a larger whole — for example, sugar bad, vegetable good.