Hi Barbara, nice to hear from you!

How fun to find PNP where up didn't expect it! It's like a touchstone, where you know you've found a kindred spirit.

I hope your daughter comes to rejoice in her difference as a strength. I wasn't so lucky to be doing the food at that age, but I was definitely not like the other kids . I had thoughts like your daughter does -- why can't I be like everybody else? Years later, I was starting a new job and meeting my co-workers. One of them later came up to me and told me her sister had been one of my classmates in middle school, and the sister had said she really liked me because I never was afraid to be myself! I had no idea!

Being sugar sensitive has its blessing side, and after years of doing the food, I know it. Thanks for sharing your story.

Jo

: Hi, all! I don't visit here much
: anymore, but I will always 'do the
: food' - it's been about 10 years
: for me and life is good! This
: program literally saved my life.

: I felt compelled to share the
: following story with you today...

: I'm interning at SNAP-Ed
: (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
: Program - Education division) as a
: Nutrition Educator this summer.
: It's very basic nutrition
: education. The last site I went to
: was a career center for the
: unemployed. I can't wait to go
: back because behind the desk of a
: person who was out that day were a
: stack of 4 or 5 books and Potatoes
: Not Prozac was very clearly one of
: them! It's funny how exciting it
: is to see that the word is out
: beyond the community that I know!
: I can't wait to ask them about
: it!!

: As an aside, my daughter (10.5 years
: old and on the program for the
: last eight of them) was just
: saying how if she had three wishes
: the first would be that she wasn't
: addicted to sugar so that she
: could eat it just once in a while,
: and that the only reason it's so
: hard is that she doesn't know
: anybody else that eats the way she
: does. :( Thankfully she has always
: understood why we eat this way and
: she does appreciate the benefits
: of it.

: Thanks for listening, and I wish you
: all radiance that's within us -
: it's such a gift to find it and
: share it!

: Barbara
: Jackson, NJ