Health knowledge made personal
 And so it begins... School starts next week (finally) in my dinosaur of a district, and our first day of professional development is on Tuesday. Because of budget constraints, the staff has been asked to bring a potluck dish. If I were to sketch the typical school potluck, I would have to be unkind by showing obese birds of prey insanely circling a table full of crap. I don't know how else to put it. Now, I state up front that I am still, according to my BMI, overweight. I will probably ALWAYS be considered overweight to some degree. But I have learned that carbage delivers a false promise. It is not a source of comfort, self-acceptance, peace, nutrition, health, or hottie-ness. Unfailingly, teachers are, for the most part, unhealthy: Too much alcohol, too much stress, too much sugar, not enough sleep, all these factor in to one lifestyle that has an incredible potential for self-destruction: Education. (When I served on a union committee for medical benefits, I found out that the most widely prescribed medication for teachers, after Metformin and blood pressure meds, was antidepressants.) Let's face it...it's an incredibly difficult job. Every facet of society blames the student failures on teachers, even while ignoring where most of the problem resides: In the cultural climate of the home. But politics notwithstanding, we teachers are a bulgey-belly lot. So, back to the potluck. What to bring was assigned by department, hence I am to bring a main dish. Any suggestions? I love to cook and bake (especially bake), and I am torn. I hate to waste expensive low-carb ingredients on people who have no wish to take control of their health, yet I don't want to be a part of the problem by bringing carbishness. All suggestions are welcome. The Bionic Broad out. |
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