Michelle Obama Announces New School Lunch Nutrition Guidelines

Black Entertainment Television (BET) ^ | January 26, 2012 | By Joyce Jones

[Oldeconomybuyer]

School lunches are about to get much healthier. First Lady Michelle Obama announced today that soon the meals will have less sodium, and will include more whole grains and more fruits and vegetables as sides. The new rules, which will go into effect in the 2012-2013 school year, will also allow schools to serve tofu and other soyfoods and soymilk to children who regularly consume them at home.

Obama said that children who are on a sugar high or have a tummy filled with high-sodium, greasy food have difficulty focusing on their schoolwork.

"As parents, we try to prepare decent meals, limit how much junk food our kids eat, and ensure they have a reasonably balanced diet," Obama said. "And when we're putting in all that effort, the last thing we want is for our hard work to be undone each day in the school cafeteria."

“Schools are finding that when they actually offer these healthier options, kids aren’t just willing to try them, they actually like them. That's the thing, that's the surprising thing,” Obama said. “I've been to so many schools across the country where parents see their kids eating fresh vegetables off the vine, kids they say would never try anything, but that's the beauty of children — they change.”

[Oldeconomybuyer]

LAUSD Students Roundly Reject Healthier School Lunch Menu 

[Sacajaweau]

We ain’t friggin’ rabbits....and what I eat is absolutely none of your business.

[Breto]

Yo, Moouchell...GET OUTA MY BELLY!!!!!!!!!!

[rfreedom4u]

When is the last time Moochelle actually set foot in a kitchen to COOK for her own children? Not in quite a while I bet.

[rarestia]

will also allow schools to serve tofu and other soyfoods and soymilk to children who regularly consume them at home.

NO! NO! NO! Soy has proven negative effects on testosterone production in developing males, and it can cause devastating issues such as gynecomastia (male boobs), depression, extreme weight gain, and even sterility if given in high enough concentrations.

FUMO! They are continuing the aggression against males set in motion by the feminists in the 70s and 80s. This will not end well, and as a matter of fact, they tried to do this crap in California, and it was a miserable failure! The kids wouldn't touch the food and a black market for junk food emerged.

[Mr. K]

And she has what authorty to do this?

[RnMomof7]

Does anyone else remember when parents were really responsible for their kids.?

[ClearCase_guy]

[Old Sarge]

AND THE WOOKIE SPEAKS!

[ClearCase_guy]

Beat you by two seconds! Too funny!

[Old Sarge]

You beat me by TWO WHOLE SECONDS?!

[apillar]

There was a story recently about how in the LA school systems children are dumping the healthy food in the trash by the tons and packing their own lunches or buying junk food on the schools booming “black markets” for such items. I figure this is what Queen Mooch-ells jack boots will go after next. Banning packed lunches unless they meet the same guidelines as the school lunches and go after the kids that are selling junk food with criminal sanctions. Nobody disobeys the queen!!!

[ClearCase_guy]

And my comments sort alphabetically in front of you, so I win ties as well!

[Eldon Tyrell]

Michelle wants to be on the board of the Soylent corporation.

Her whole speach is lies - when tested - kids hated her food.

[RangerM]

"L.A. schools' healthful lunch menu panned by students"

It's lunchtime at Van Nuys High School and students stream into the cafeteria to check out the day's fare: black bean burgers, tostada salad, fresh pears and other items on a new healthful menu introduced this year by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

But Iraides Renteria and Mayra Gutierrez don't even bother to line up. Iraides said the school food previously made her throw up, and Mayra calls it "nasty, rotty stuff." So what do they eat? The juniors pull three bags of Flamin' Hot Cheetos and soda from their backpacks.

"This is our daily lunch," Iraides says. "We're eating more junk food now than last year."

For many students, L.A. Unified's trailblazing introduction of healthful school lunches has been a flop. Earlier this year, the district got rid of chocolate and strawberry milk, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, nachos and other food high in fat, sugar and sodium. Instead, district chefs concocted such healthful alternatives as vegetarian curries and tamales, quinoa salads and pad Thai noodles.

There's just one problem: Many of the meals are being rejected en masse.

[anoldafvet]

When you let the “government camel’s nose” get under your tent flap, this is what results. When the government pays for the lunches, they get to say what the lunch consists of. I have a problem when an unelected idiot makes decisions without any authority.

[philman_36]

...but that's the beauty of children — they change.”
Sure they do...when properly conditioned.

The Nazi Model for Outcome-Based Education
The source of the following quotations is the 1983 book, Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts, 1919-1945, edited by J. Noakes and G. Pridham in cooperation with the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
Change the children first: "The Nazi leadership appreciated the difficulty of indoctrinating the older generation.... They were all the more determined to mold the new generation along Nazi lines. As the leader of the Nazi Teacher's League, Hans Schemm, put it: 'Those who have the youth on their side control the future.'" (416)

When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side.' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community. Adolf Hitler

[Fireone]

Hello, room service?
Send up a large platter of lobster appetizers, a 16 oz. Kobe Beef steak and two 11 oz. lobster tails...what?
$480.00? I don’t care! Hurry up!

[hampdenkid]

Exactly who elected this fat b*t*h food czar? I long for first ladies like Margaret Taylor, old Zach’s wife. I’ve read that when she attended his funeral, observers wondered who the woman in black was. That’s the perfect first lady: totally obscure.

[Bronzy]

MO makes me bulimic.