[zook]

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.

[Steve_Seattle]

"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."

The problem is, we weren't just fine. We were in the process of developing Type-2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

[bkepley]

--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.