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On Friday, USDA Deputy Under Secretary Brandon Lipps announced new proposed rules for the Food and Nutrition Service that would allow schools to cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at lunch and breakfasts while giving them the ability to sell more pizza, burgers and fries to students.
kids don't eat peas and carrots, feed them something they like.
And then wonder why obesity gets worse and worse? There's definitely an education component to school lunches as well. Of course humans like salt, fat, sugar. But there are serious health consequences to that and kids need to be taught better.
Make them run a few laps around the schoolyard every day.
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For lunches, the new rules allow schools to offer potatoes as a vegetable everyday and gives them the flexibility to provide pizza and burgers over more nutritious choices.
Oh the pain!!
On a happier note I had a bag of salty potato chips as my lunch today. But I have been out of high school and lower for over 40 years.
Has OP ever been to a public school at lunch time? All that stuff goes into the trash. THEY. DON'T. EAT. IT....
My experience being in cafeterias in school is that the young kids, like grade schoolers, do eat the veggies & fruit. High schoolers maybe not so much unless there is a salad bar available. They do love their salad bars.
When ketchup is a vegetable, their guidelines are a mess anyway. The favorite day for all grades here is Wednesday. Chicken patty sandwich with fries day. Even the teachers say it is the best thing on the menu.
We know we have an obesity problem. For lots of kids, sadly, the school lunch is the healthiest meal of the day. Why go backward on this?
Isn't the potato a vegetable? So how can more potatoes equal less veggies?
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