More than 1 MILLION students stopped buying school lunches after Michelle Obama's overhaul (program, children)
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Parents who want their kids to eat junk remain free to pack a lunch of junk for their kids.
I remember back in the 70's my friends and I didn't eat lunch, every day. Gave us more time to play off campus, eating wasn't our most important thought come 12:00. My friends and I hated school food. I seemed to leave my lunch on the counter even when my mom made it. Kids don't need to eat as often as people think and they're smart enough to know when they're hungry. Less P.E., along with fast food, the availability of sugar foods, energy drinks/sodas, alcohol has shot the obesity rate up.
By the way I agree with you, Michelle is not over weight! On the other hand, the government has no business getting into school diets. I thought schools had dietitians and doctors working with them already, where is it the government's job to intervene?
Speaking for myself I have no issue with schools serving lunches. I ate lunch at school everyday. Everyday except chicken salad sandwich day.
The first time I ever ate a Taco was at school. I liked the Ziti, and I liked the school pizza.
Paying for low income kids to eat? I have no issue with this either. Parents are poor and this is a program that 100% benefits the child.
I am no fan of Mrs. Obama, but is eating healthier such a bad thing? I travel and I'll tell you this our kids are fat compared to other countries. I mean we have a lot of fat kids.
Eating healthier and teaching kids good eating habits it's not only "not a bad thing" but it's critical to having a healthy population. Yes, America has terrible eating habits as exemplified by the number of obese people we have so changing these habits is very important.
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Originally Posted by tinman01
I am no fan of Mrs. Obama, but is eating healthier such a bad thing? I travel and I'll tell you this our kids are fat compared to other countries. I mean we have a lot of fat kids.
This is the way I see it, I never asked the school or anyone to feed my 2 boys. They never knew PB& J and a crock pot of Pinto Beans w/hamburger for a week or 2 meant we were broke.
I remember back in the 70's my friends and I didn't eat lunch, every day. Gave us more time to play off campus, eating wasn't our most important thought come 12:00. My friends and I hated school food. I seemed to leave my lunch on the counter even when my mom made it. Kids don't need to eat as often as people think and they're smart enough to know when they're hungry. Less P.E., along with fast food, the availability of sugar foods, energy drinks/sodas, alcohol has shot the obesity rate up.
By the way I agree with you, Michelle is not over weight! On the other hand, the government has no business getting into school diets. I thought schools had dietitians and doctors working with them already, where is it the government's job to intervene?
There have to be nutrition standards, and they have to have the force of law. You'd think this "change" was something totally out of the ordinary, when in reality, the standards change every so often.
This is the way I see it, I never asked the school or anyone to feed my 2 boys. They never knew PB& J and a crock pot of Pinto Beans w/hamburger for a week or 2 meant we were broke.
You take responsibility. But many parents don't. Does that mean we should ignore the children of those wo don't and let them go hungry at lunch?
Eating healthier and teaching kids good eating habits it's not only "not a bad thing" but it's critical to having a healthy population. Yes, America has terrible eating habits as ecemplified by the number of obese people we have so changing those habits is very important.
Doesn't matter how healthy one eats if enough exercise is not included then food just sits, so school cuts P.E. activity. Putting soda and chip machines in the schools was brilliant thinking!
The schools showed our kids, add sugar and sit more and they wonder why the kids carry this through their daily lives. My town's high school encourages social time during breaks and lunch, by going into a room that has flat screen TV's and computers lined up to encourage socializing and getting to know one another. The school doesn't encourage getting out in the clean mountain air.
There have to be nutrition standards, and they have to have the force of law. You'd think this "change" was something totally out of the ordinary, when in reality, the standards change every so often.
And here you go....more law...so the parent does not have to deal with the child....
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