When I was a kid we used to the following in our school cafeteria:
Corn Bread
Navy Beans cooked with pork fat
Fried Potatoes
Sweet Corn
A Huge piece of cake cooked with lard
On some days we’d get some kind of meat, usually fried.
And twice a day we’d get a half pint of whole milk. Drinking it through a straw seemed to make it taste better. In fact, I think I’ll get me a glass and drink it through a straw right now!
Nothing new here. In the 1960s in government schools in Maryland they were weighing us in front of everyone and sending the report home. I was overweight as a child and it was embarrassing. They did more harm to me than good.
When it comes to fitness and nutrition, the government is every bit as good as it is in every other thing having to with health: terrible. Salt doesn’t cause high blood pressure, fat doesn’t make you fat, the food pyramid coincides with the obesity epidemic, and you can’t possible “burn off” all the carbs they say you should eat through the lie called “cardio”. Their entire agenda is to stop you from eating meat and other animal products.
Interestingly, my children both went to public elementary school in a very upscale district. There simply are NO fat kids. The moms are either stay at home, or only work part time. They either cook meals, or buy take out from pretty nice places. Mostly, they still cook supper. If they are all like mine, they eat a lot, but they aren’t allowed to consume nothing but crap all day and night. It makes all the difference.
What a terrible world we live in. Our children are in peril because they are well-fed, and warm, sunny days are proof we’ve wrecked the Earth.
So glad the leftists are there to save us.
Write them back a letter and tell them “Well, at least she knows when to mind her own business!”
The left wants to have proper body mass index subjects with plenty of time on their hands to find themselves and become artists. Artists tend to vote leftist.
They also want everyone to not smoke so they are better employees, I guess, in case the US ever becomes an economic powerhouse again, you know, with jobs and such.
So, eventually, our society consists of “healthy” dole collecting subjects that consider waking, eating, going to the bathroom and procreating to be “work”.