Posted on 12/23/2014 3:50:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Many parents undoubtedly think they are doing the best for their children by having them bring lunch from home instead of eating the lunches served in school. But recent studies clearly prove them wrong.
Home-packed lunches, the research showed, are likely to be considerably less nourishing than the meals offered in schools that abide by current nutrition guidelines for the National School Lunch Program.
That program is, distressingly, increasingly under attack.
But the program must not continue to be undermined, and more schools should be encouraged to participate. Nearly 32 million of the more than 50 million children in public elementary and secondary schools currently eat school lunches.
Those numbers, along with the recent findings on meals brought from home, make the contents of lunches served in school especially important to the health of America’s children, now and in the future.
“Kids are adaptable and sometimes need repeat exposures to new foods,” Dr. Cohen said. “Given enough opportunity, they can learn to like them.”
“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,” Dr. Baidal said. “Schools can help by giving foods creative names and presenting them in fun ways. Food service personnel can prompt children to try different foods when they come through the line.”
(Excerpt) Read more at well.blogs.nytimes.com ...
“Schools can help by giving foods creative names and presenting them in fun ways.”
Why not hypnotize the little tykes and give them MRE’s?
NY Slimes is pig slop, and so is the supposed ‘food’ they write about. This isn’t newswriting, this is propaganda.
Get 'em hungy enough, and you won't even have to hypnotize them.
She’s still alive???? And a good little commie
They don’t even try to conceal the propaganda titles any more.
;^)
Really? Then why is it that as our society has moved away from home-cooked meals to pre-packaged food and cafeteria/restaurant meals, the obesity rate has ballooned?
Just maybe a large part of the problem is the convenience of food. If kids learn to take time to prepare it themselves, they appreciate it more. Plus, they learn about portion control and nutritionally balanced meals.
Seems they're looking at the food that obese welfare mammas feed their kids and assuming every child eats this way at home. If this were this case, yes, they'd be correct. But it isn't.
Now why didn’t I think of that?
We’ll all work harder with a gun in the back for a bowl of rice a day...
My children had excellent packed lunches, both vegetarian and meat based. Not the lunchable things, real meals.
Actually the obesity problem in the USA got worse precisely because of the unscientific fat/meat phobic obsession of the past 45 years. Something this hack apparently won't give up.
Everything about this makes my blood boil, including the very idea of "Pre-K".
Thanks, I needed a laugh. Merry Christmas.
Really? They must be literally starving!
/s
Look at who wrote an editorial for the jama network, one of the organizations cited for their study
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=182767
Bump. Me too.
They are and have said so and send pics of their food to Mooch. So sad that much of what they get is so bad they throw it away, and go hungry, it’s hard to learn that way.
The food pyramid is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American public.
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