LOL, maybe they should hold classes in MacDonald's! Don't laugh, add computer games and it would a natural. Grief, it wouldn't get any better than that.
Posted on 03/17/2006 10:28:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
There was a big "Coca-Cola" sign on the refrigerator, but all it held was bottled water and juice. The menu offered sandwiches on eight-grain bread. The lunch ladies were pushing salad.
The cafeteria at the William E. Cottle Elementary School has undergone a nutritious change this year, and Congresswoman Nita Lowey chose it as the setting Friday for an announcement of legislation aimed at battling obesity in children.
"The exploding rate of obesity is one of the most serious health issues our nation faces," said Lowey, a Democrat who represents parts of Westchester and Rockland counties. She said the health problems caused by obesity, such as heart attacks, diabetes and asthma, cost the nation $117 billion a year.
Her Stop Obesity in Schools Act would provide federal funding to local school districts to develop nutrition policies, as the Cottle school has done. It would also increase funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so the CDC could give technical assistance and measure the policies' effectiveness.
Lowey said she did not yet know what the bill would cost taxpayers, but added, "What's more fiscally conservative than attacking these health care costs?"
She said that during a recent trip the Walt Disney World with some of her grandchildren, she noticed that "dozens of people" were being pushed through the parks in wheelchairs _ "not because they were injured or sick but they just couldn't walk because they were obese."
Mary Ann McCann, one of the school's food workers, said soda and doughnuts had been ousted from the cafeteria, which serves kindergartners through fifth-graders in the Tuckahoe school district, "and we try to get the kids to take the fruit, the vegetables, the salad. "
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LOL, maybe they should hold classes in MacDonald's! Don't laugh, add computer games and it would a natural. Grief, it wouldn't get any better than that.
My girlfriend and I used to leave highschool at lunch and eat a 'burger' or a bag of chips and a coke and I had a 22inch waistline.
Something else is going on with the kids, laziness??
"My girlfriend and I used to leave highschool at lunch and eat a 'burger' or a bag of chips and a coke and I had a 22inch waistline."
Everybody metabolizes differently. Some people can eat anything they want and get away with it, while others, struggle with each bite. Some just pass a burger stand and get a smell, and put weight on. However, as we get older, moderation and exercise of any kind will do wonders. For sure, among other things, out of control sugar eating will eventually do a number on the best of us, and do you in.
Yes, I know that's right. My Mother in law is the biggest 'sweets' eater and doesn't gain weight.
Now, the fat kids can opt out and do a "packet" (written work) instead of getting out of the bleachers and moving around. Also, P. E. (never call it "gym") has become an academic discipline, with books to read and lessons to hand in.
So...are the obese people happy and healthy at home, or did they die of weight-related conditions? BTW, I love the smileys!
LOL, sorry but I'm laughing about where the fat people disappeared to...
I know they haven't called it P.E. in years, the libs got ahold of it and named it something else.
I'm not an expert, but from what I was told and understand, in general, over weight people live shorter lives compared to thinner people. Now whether over weight are happier or at some point in time feel healthier, I don't know. I'll personally go the moderate route. Eat healthy and wise with light exercise.
LOL, that smiley has the easiest 'situp' I've ever seen!!
ok, we didn't do that presidential fitness thing, that i can remember im 31 is that something new? although in gym class we were tested in that kind of stuff, pullups and everything
You go Gabz!
BUMP!
Read the ingredients on the packages of insta foods.
You getting a burger when you were young is a lot different now. That was beef.
Now, an insta burger (or anyting else) is full of chemical ingredients. Your body doesn't process that junk and turns it to fat.
http://www.fitness.gov/about_history.htm
Here is a history of the President's Council On Physical Fitness and Sports.
I was teaching it during the time of Ronald Reagan 1981 - 89;
"The 1985 National School Population Fitness Survey spurs the development of the National Physical Fitness Award."
Looks like something else good that the libs managed to eliminate from the school programs!
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