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School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line
Yahoo News/AP ^
| 10-12-10
| MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Posted on 10/12/2010 1:30:25 PM PDT by kingattax
Federal officials are turning to psychology in a new approach to get kids to choose healthier foods in the school lunch line.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving $2 million to food behavior scientists to use marketing tricks to encourage kids to pick fruits and veggies over cookies and french fries.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cafeteria; lunch; psychology; school
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:30:28 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
How about giving me the $2 million so I can go in and cut pizza and fries and all the other crap out of the lunch menus.
I could really use the cash right now.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:32:31 PM PDT
by
BocoLoco
To: kingattax
jeeess, the only time the kids get to rest from the BS their fed, and now they can’t leave em alone while they eat.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:32:57 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN....PLEASE donate, because it's the RIGHT thing to do)
To: kingattax
Guinea pigs. Why don’t they just use the same techniques they use to sell the kids on the environment, homosexuality and Marxism.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:33:35 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Less than 30 days to go to election day. I'm giddier than a TV weatherman during hurricane season.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:34:11 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: kingattax
Yeh...kids are sooooo stupid.
It's pretty simple. They're eating too much for the life they lead. Yet health folks INSIST that you eat so many servings....and you probably need less....
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:35:38 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: kingattax
"Some students have abandoned school meal programs that tried to force-feed healthy choices. When one school district put fruit on every lunch tray, most of it ended up in the garbage." Imagine that! Who'da thunk it?
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:35:56 PM PDT
by
davisfh
To: kingattax
The legacy of Edward Bernays lives on.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:36:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: kingattax
America has got to round up the kooks behind these liberal farces and put them in a cage somewhere in the antarctic.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:36:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
To: kingattax
School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line
Gee, all we used to get was hamburger gravy or fish sticks.
10
posted on
10/12/2010 1:37:12 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: kingattax
Heck just bring in a couple of Marine Drill Instructors from Paris Island they will lay some psychology on them while in the chow line!
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:39:15 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: kingattax
Hunger is a pretty good motivator.
Cut the crap food (that’s fried foods and such for you liberal types)out and I’ll bet you the little ankle biters will choose the available option pretty quick.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:40:01 PM PDT
by
9422WMR
(Illegal is not a race)
To: kingattax
There’s another 2 mill down the toilet.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:44:27 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: righttackle44
I NEVER ate the so-called veggies on the school lunch trays. I hated them at home, and the intitutional grade mush at school wasn’t going to change that. We all looked forward to friday, because it was pizza day.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:44:57 PM PDT
by
boop
("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
To: kingattax
Kids will choose taste every time.
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:45:43 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Know this, I will return to this land... rebuild where the ruins did stand)
To: kingattax
I have a simple solution to the school nutrition issue. Don’t offer fries and candy bars in the f***ing cafeteria! If those foods aren’t there they can’t eat them, dummies. Why shove more $ to the worthless shrinks?
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posted on
10/12/2010 1:45:47 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
To: Seruzawa
I have a simple solution to the school nutrition issue.
My solution is simpler...close the damn cafeterias down. Momma can sack up a lunch for her little darlin' Mine did. I'll bet most of yours did too.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:05:37 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: BocoLoco
No $hit. Geez. Remove crap. Eat what there is. Don’t like it, don’t eat it. Get hungry enough, come on back.
Learned this first hand in Saudi Arabia. Will work for any age group.
Plan on that generation dropping 20% body weight.
Too harsh you say ??
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:08:20 PM PDT
by
onona
(dbada)
To: kingattax
From the same people who can never find any wasteful spending they can cut from the budget.
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posted on
10/12/2010 2:13:15 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. -- Edmund Burke)
To: FlingWingFlyer
They could put all the junk food in one section and then demonize it by calling it, “racist, tea-party food.”
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