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Why Cafeteria Food Is the Best
New York Times ^ | December 22, 2014 | By JANE E. BRODY

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; education; family; lunchlady; marxism; mooch; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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?


21 posted on 12/23/2014 4:11:56 PM PST by mylife
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NY Slimes is pig slop, and so is the supposed ‘food’ they write about. This isn’t newswriting, this is propaganda.


22 posted on 12/23/2014 4:13:25 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: mylife
-- Why not hypnotize the little tykes and give them MRE's? --

Get 'em hungy enough, and you won't even have to hypnotize them.

23 posted on 12/23/2014 4:14:34 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s still alive???? And a good little commie


24 posted on 12/23/2014 4:18:46 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They don’t even try to conceal the propaganda titles any more.


25 posted on 12/23/2014 4:18:57 PM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,”

Halp uhs rubes! Weez two dum to kuk.
26 posted on 12/23/2014 4:19:25 PM PST by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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27 posted on 12/23/2014 4:19:55 PM PST by mylife
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To: MamaB
Oh, you silly. Haven't you ever heard of tossed salad?

;^)

28 posted on 12/23/2014 4:22:55 PM PST by SAJ
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


29 posted on 12/23/2014 4:23:14 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,”

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.

30 posted on 12/23/2014 4:23:17 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Cboldt

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...


31 posted on 12/23/2014 4:23:22 PM PST by mylife
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My children had excellent packed lunches, both vegetarian and meat based. Not the lunchable things, real meals.


32 posted on 12/23/2014 4:24:49 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
But that is exactly how we got to the dismal state of child obesity and the disease-promoting eating habits that too often carry over into adulthood. Many chronic ailments that currently trouble adult Americans originate with poor diets acquired in childhood.

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".

33 posted on 12/23/2014 4:31:16 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: SAJ

Thanks, I needed a laugh. Merry Christmas.


34 posted on 12/23/2014 4:33:58 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
For about 60 percent of those children, half or more of their daily calories are consumed at lunch.

Really? They must be literally starving!

/s

35 posted on 12/23/2014 4:39:44 PM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


36 posted on 12/23/2014 4:39:45 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: defconw

Bump. Me too.


37 posted on 12/23/2014 4:40:35 PM PST by upchuck (Too much ME, not enough G.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


38 posted on 12/23/2014 4:41:04 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Former Fetus

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.


39 posted on 12/23/2014 4:43:34 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: Forgotten Amendments

The food pyramid is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American public.


40 posted on 12/23/2014 4:45:50 PM PST by mylife
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