My son was off to university, embarking on his first adventure into the world.

My heart was pumping with anxiety, with worries about how he was going to survive without me, his mother.

I tried to get him excited about nutritious food, enlighten him about the secrets of health, and prove to him in every possible way that some foods have far superior nutritional worth than others.

To get his attention and to persuade him that my words of wisdom were worth hearing I tried to appeal to his philosophical views