The question of healthy diet vs. family desire for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. [View all]

[Denninmi]

So, I'm eating very carefully, following a diet developed for me by a dietician. I'm great with it, easy to follow. I feel so much better than when I was living on pop and junk food.

Family, though, will want the "traditional" foods, high in fats, sodium, refined carbs, and empty calories.

I am always the cook. And I love cooking, I can easily modify recipes to make them significantly healthier.

But should I?

Is it fair to them to impose changes on them that they may object too?

Or should I consider the fact that many in my family are typical of many Americans, overweight with the conditions associated with obesity and eating very poorly, plenty of all of the wrong kinds of foods but terrible nutrition, mostly empty calories?

Let them have their day, or try to promote positive change?