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Dinner table isn’t proper environment for a guilty conscience

You hear it all the time.

Likely you have even said it: “I was bad today.”Or, “I was good today.”

“Good” and “bad,” terms commonly used for moral and ethical issues, somehow have become everyday language in relationship to food and eating. I hear this a lot myself as I am a registered dietitian.Somehow, I become an automatic “confession box” for the “wayward eater.”

Have you ever stopped to think about why we slap such…