Posted on 05/04/2006 8:35:43 AM PDT by ejroth
AH...yes, now I know...thanks for the information..
I bet these soft drink companies are NOT happy!!!
You know I have read comments about the "empty calories"...and how cokes aren't good for you or your kids...
We all know that...and we didn't have cokes in my house when I was growing up...but we had Kool-Aid...NO DIFFERENT, except for the lack of caffeine.
No, we weren't. We had plenty of exercise. To suggest that limiting milk, juice, and soda in school cafeterias is going to have any significant impact on young America's health is like saying we can improve kids TV viewing habits by assigning them different kinds of homework.
--Don't know. No one ever monitored what I ate in school. We had all kinds of rich foods, whole milk, ice cream, etc., and we seemed to be just fine.
All those things are food. Soda is not, it's garbage. If parents want to feed their kids garbage that's up to them. It doesn't belong in the schools any more than cigarettes.
With the exception of lunch break .. kids are in classes learning .. not drinking sodas all day
LOL...yes you are right...and anything that happens before or after school is the parent's and child's responsibility.
The problem isn't going to get fixed by managing one meal a day. The issue is bigger than school lunch programs. You can exert greater control over these programs but the incidence of obesity and diabetes will not decline. The schools probably want to do some good but, as usual, they are seriously misguided. Bill Clinton on the other hand, has an ulterior motive that you can bet has everything to do with control.
If the education system was truly concerned about the health of our children they would be doing more to educate their communities about nutrition. Or course, they'd have to understand nutrition in the first place and would have to agree to take some time away from their prized indoctrination programs to make it work. This feel good nonsense will have little or no impact on the relative health of children.
"The amount of control people are willing to give up to government is amazing. Even small things like what refreshment we may consume are controlled."
School lunches have existed for decades, and somebody in authority decides the menus. That's just the way it is. Soda happens to be a major contributor to obesity and Type-2 diabetes, so eliminating it from schools is a good idea, even if liberals are behind it. I hate to think that there is something in conservatism that is against a healthy diet. If so, that is an argument against conservatism.
So does drinking large amounts of fruit juice..which is equivalent to sugar water
Today it's just soda, tomorrow it'll be scotch.
If the soda companies wanted to fight this, they could make 'schoolhouse' versions of their products with vitamins added. Soda has no more sugar than fruit juice. Squirt in the nutrients, and it's comparable to what mother nature is offering. Let the food police argue with that. However, nutritive value would probbly freak out most of the kids whether it tasted any different or not.
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