Serving Water with School Lunches Would Reduce Childhood Obesity

Healthline ^ | 12/10

[T-Bone Texan]

The Irish ruined everything!

[Katya]

the dairy industrial complex will be upset... but I agree, there’s no reason for kids to ever drink milk. Through most of history we consumed milk as a cultured product, butter or a cooking ingredient.

In fact, it wasn’t a drink outside of giving it to babies who couldn’t or wouldn’t nurse until the late 19th century, well after pasteurization had been invented. It was then pushed by governments in the 20th century.

1922 saw the passing of the Casper Volstead act, which gave agricultural producers the ability to create associations and market their products. Got Milk?

[Chewbarkah]

They could serve Lisa Douglas’s Hot Water Soup.

[Ms Mable]

These children are not becoming chubby by what they are eating and drinking at school.

It’s what they are eating at home. Free packaged food and sodas provided by the foodstamp/welfare system is the problem.

Why are the taxpayers forced to provide funds for junk food and sodas to feed children? That should be the big question that needs addressed.

[McGavin999]

What is bad now is if you order water they bring a bottle of Perrier and charge you $3

[oldasrocks]

Maybe they could import water from Flint for the kids to drink?

[Ms Mable]

If they could force the taxpayers to pay for it ..... and Congress could get their under the table kick-back. Yeah, I’m sure that would be just dandy for the children......

[polymuser]

Yep. Same recollections for me.

Low activity (video screens consume them), high carb & sugar (now lots of corn syrup) diets, less sleep aaaaaand...they’re fatsos.

[AppyPappy]

That will start a riot in some schools.

[AppyPappy]

Fats (like milk) don’t make you fat. Carbs make you fat. Fats make your arteries fat

[polymuser]

“It (milk) was then pushed by governments in the 20th century.”

Yep, another Farmer Assistance Program, just as with corn (for syrup & ethanol).

And low/no fat milk is highly processed and adulterated. Yuck.

[Georgia Girl 2]

We only drink water or iced tea. The sodas are really bad for you.

[Mears]

“try this on the precious elderly....there would be riots in the streets....”

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Since when are the elderly considered “precious”?

I’m elderly and haven’t noticed anyone treating me as something precious.

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[daniel1212]

I’m in my late 60’s and looking back at my school days I don’t remember more that 2 or 3 kids who we consider fat or obese. I always ate sack lunches until middle school and it was school lunches from then on. The lunches were made bu the school cooks and was pretty good. We always had milk, meats, veggies and breads of some type and in substantial amounts. I think the biggest difference was what we did when not eating, in classes, or at the house. We were always busy doing something outside, physical games or physical work. We would play football, baseball or basketball until the street lights came on or Mom called us in for supper. We were constantly on the move and in turn burning calories...Very little of our meals came from a can or a package unless it was tomato sauce or basic broths. I don’t remember people eating any less back then but I do remember us being far more physical in our daily activities than what I see today.

That is what other posts should say. And we actually went HOURS without food or drink, and as said, when we did eat it was not potatoes chips etc. but real food. And we did have dessert after supper. Thanks be to God.