Posted on 02/03/2023 3:59:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
U.S. agriculture officials on Friday proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries.
Under the plan, for instance, an 8-ounce container of chocolate milk could contain no more than 10 grams of sugar. Some popular flavored milks now contain twice that amount. The plan also limits sugary grain desserts, such as muffins or doughnuts, to no more than twice a week at breakfast.
The plan, detailed in a 280-page document, drew mixed reactions. Katie Wilson, executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, said the changes are “necessary to help America’s children lead healthier lives.”
But Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswoman for the School Nutrition Association, a trade group, said school meals are already healthier than they were a decade ago and that increased regulations are a burden, especially for small and rural school districts.
“School meal programs are at a breaking point,” she said. “These programs are simply not equipped to meet additional rules.”
Shiriki Kumanyika, a community health expert at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health said if they’re done right some of the changes will be hard for kids to notice: “They’ll see things that they like to eat, but those foods will be healthier,” she said.
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I was under the impression that fructose, very common in just about all “sugary” drinks was much worse then sugar itself. Even a can of peaches is loaded with fructose. When I was on a sugar-free diet, a friend told me tomrewd the label. Silly me.
Kids didn’t put sugar on Michelle Obama’s okra and kale lunches. Just poured them into the cafeteria trash cans.
Why are schools feeding kids at all, let alone three meals a day year round? That’s what parents are supposed to do. If a child really has no food for lunch, the school should provide one slice of cold Nutraloaf, and that’s it. And then the kid can sweep out the classroom after school to pay for it.
Kids will just steal sugar packets at Starbucks and add it to their food.
Just like the last time a Democrat administration did something similar, a lot more school lunches will end up in the trash can.
Parents who can’t feed their own children should have them taken away! IF they are on food stamps, they should have to PACK their LUNCH!!
Feeding children is the responsibility of parents. All these free lunch/free meals programs cause a huge increase in obesity.
I sorta agree.. however kids cant help who their drug addled parents are. I did not grow up inn a safe home and that was decades before we started reading daily stories of moms and dads prostituting their kids.
If we can send 10 billion every two weeks to Ukraine in another proxy war with Russia, kids can be fed.
I have seen abject poverty.
However, the crap processed foods and juices are creating insulin resistance. Most fruits should never be a daily item.
I know there are problems with drugs and poverty, but it is not the school’s job to solve them. There are organizations to help the needy. Schools are for teaching.
Soon they will be asking for more gruel.
I believe their meal includes Orange Juice. Damn it...Give them WHOLE milk fortified with Vit D. Stop the skim cr**.
Less sugar, less ADHD diagnosis.
Is Nobama’s husband behind this?
BAN Ketchup then, especially Heinz
Brought to you by the same Fing morons who rearranged the food pyramid and let Obama’s male wife get near schools food programs?
The Big Pharma Diabetic Treatment Industrial Complex isn’t going to like this...
Why is the federal govt involved in school meals?
Circa 1966 in the cafeteria, we ate if it tasted good. If it did not, we did not eat it. I love olives. When they served such, I had many olives to eat as my classmates did not like them. I did refrain from the aerial olives that the students threw at each other. I miss those days of innocence.
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