You may be into something, Francine. And it probably would do for a nice study that probably no one would want to fund. But in all reality, there may be a connection between being happy while you eat vs feeling guilty about the nourishments you provide for your body. Guilt instead of gratefulness and joy. And I would even like to go a step further to say that when in today’s date parents give junk food to kids, they probably do it with a sense of guilt. I wonder also if the zeitgeist of the time has changed. I am not implying that you were a child in 1965, but I think that back on the day that was the food of the future, what astronauts would eat, the food that would take us to the stars. Now is the food that yields a quick profit, that fills the pockets of stake holders who know no satiety, for whom no riches are enough wealth.

Thank you for the beautiful memories in the times when a little indulgence didn’t come with a warning for diabetes type 2. When our parents gave us what they could with love, and we children took it gleefully.

Pablo