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/^t/Surprisingly enough, in spite of the promotion of healthy diets, a lot of families still put an emphasis on substantial breakfasts, dinners, and suppers. For many of them a good meal is a big meal containing soup with flour cream as a thickener, stuffed dumplings in rich souce, a huge size goulash dish and numerous ingeniously prepared potato creations. Add to that a generous portion of bread and finally creamy desserts and... you shall feel fully satisfied! Indeed, there are several occasions in a year, such as Christmas or Easter, when people gorge themselves on huge amounts of food forgetting about the health problems it may bring. Of course, we are very sentimental about our tradition, but is it not high time for us to finally change it?! What is more, we had better think about the harm we do to the younger generation introducing to them the bad eating patterns. Let us come to our senses! Let us not allow our children to blame us for the wrong approach to healthy diets which can only help young people keep fit!