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It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.