Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Blue Zones/Buettner

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

Oh I hope we'd never do such a thing!!

Our very successful meals program is such that the cook decides. 

Most cooks do something helpful for people who want meat if the cook doesn't or 
don't want meat if the cook does (often vegetarians ask the assistant cook to 
make the meat, or buy it already prepared). 
Most try to make gluten free and dairy free available (both with and without 
meat). Most try to make fruity dessert choices along with those that used 
processed sugars. Everyone labels ingredients (almost all the time).

The only rule is don't chop nuts in the common house.

Since we have three meals a week, I can skip a meal that doesn't meet my needs. 
Since I live 48 steps from the common house, I can bring food that I do eat to 
supplement a meal that isn't my style.

The evils of a community definition of a healthy diet go in two directions: 

-one is the presumption that people who get sick do so because they at the 
wrong diet. We have that here.

-the other is the presumption that people who try to stick to a diet that works 
for them are wrong because the science says that 92% of people don't have that 
problem. We have that here too.

I'll stick to my view that food is not medicine and appropriate diets are not 
universal. 

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.worcesterfellowship.org
www.mosaic-commons.org
508-450-0431


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> 
> From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
>> Subject: [C-L]_ Blue Zones/Buettner [was: Benefits of cohousing for
>>        Diane   Margolis
>> 
>> ... So the question that comes to my mind about cohousing is, how much
>> have
>> cohousing communities done to promote this sort of healthy diet? ...
>> 
>> 
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