{"id":212,"date":"2005-04-10T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","slug":"cookie-monster-say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Monster: Say It Ain&#8217;t So!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sesame Street announced last week that, as part of an ongoing story arc, Cookie Monster will learn about healthy eating through a song called  &#8220;A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/04\/07\/tv.cookie.lessmonster.ap\/\">More details from CNN&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone who grew up with Sesame Street seems to have the same reaction to this news &#8212; absolute shock. I certainly felt the same way &#8212; how can Cookie Monster not be, well, Cookie Monster? The more I think about it, however, the more I realize that health education in this country is disasterously bad, and that any improvement to that will be a good step towards fixing our obesity problem.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, this problem runs far, far deeper than Sesame Street, but if we put our feelings of nostalga aside, it&#8217;s clear that teaching children about eating healthy at an early age can only have a positive influence. Let&#8217;s just hope that the writers don&#8217;t try to focus on faddy low carb dieting and instead focus on strategies for long term healthy living: whole grains, fruits &#038; vegetables, and fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sesame Street announced last week that, as part of an ongoing story arc, Cookie Monster will learn about healthy eating through a song called &#8220;A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food&#8221;. More details from CNN&#8230; Everyone who grew up with Sesame Street seems to have the same reaction to this news &#8212; absolute shock. I certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}