Not true!
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.”
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The pics I saw on Twitter that children tweeted was a school lunch that was not appetizing or healthy....it was disgusting.
Well, if Jane and all the other concentration camp guards insist that the kids have enough to eat who are we to question? I stopped wondering whether these people are evil or merely stupid because they can be both.
Not true!
A fully balanced breakfast!
It amazes me that generations have been taught that a bowl of sugar bombs with 1% milk and a glass of OJ is a balanced breakfast.
That is almost pure carbs and sugar!
Now that’s my kinda food pyramid.
I’ve seen that before, about the food pyramid being steaming pile, but would you mind elaborating on it?
The government knows best alert!!!
Its like a recipe for fat people, corn fed.
Remember when they told you eggs would kill you?
Jeez, it is the worlds oldest PERFECT food.
If that were the case, I would have been dead years ago.
My grade school was exactly like that too. Plus, it was a 7 block walk. Everyday. I used to watch the "Dick Van Dyck" show during my meal.
This nosey liberal is claiming parents don’t feed their children properly and therefore, it should be left to the “smart” people in authority to feed other people’s children and parents should pay for it.
I despise these buggers. I fed my own kids a packed lunch with healthy snacks so they would not eat and drink junk at school.
Being their mother, if I consider the food I give to my children healthy and proper, then it is so, no matter what the “smart” Stalinists blab. My children would have been laughing at the Michelle starved eaters at school. They were too fit and tall to be mugged for their lunches.
What Stalinists try to do is talk to down to everyone and shape everyone’s life around the lowest common denominator of society. That’s the ghetto. No thanks.
This from the woman who thinks it’s healthy to avoid all fats and load up on carbs.
PERIOD.
FOR A MONTH ...or two... No 'eating out' no 'lunches brought in'. Your co-workers will get used to it, right Jane? Ask around the newsroom and find out...
JANE E. BRODY - show us the way... YOU DO IT. Eat that crap for a month. No matter how you feel that day or what you'd like to have - EAT WHAT YOU'RE FORCED TO EAT OR DO WITHOUT. Put yourself at the mercy of control freak women who don't have kids and resent the women who do... because that's the people forcing these young children to eat 'spinster women in their thirties' type food...
And don’t forget the “experts”.
This is the case to have home economics restored and mandatory 6th grade and up. Teach knife skills, more knife skills and even more knife skills, recipe reading, then basic cooking like omelettes, steamed/sauteed vegetables and grilled meats, shopping skills, reading nutrition labels, effective use of a freezer, home gardening and home canning.
After all, once everyone graduates and no longer have access to these wonderful cafeterias, what are they going to eat?
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