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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I have never seen a mom pack chicken nuggets and fries in a kid’s lunch box, so what the hell are they talking about? The pictures I’ve seen of the govt lunches are harrowing, and my kids’ lunches were nutritious and filling - sandwiches, fruit, veggies and hummus, salads with grilled chicken, etc. Its amazing, in a sad way, that there are still so many kool aid drinkers who buy whatever the idiot and the wookie are selling and try to sell it to others. Apparently thinking for themselves is a skill that has never been in their skill set.
When much older (30’s) I used to occasionally walk 1.5 miles each way to pick up bbq from a restaurant. I’d also pick up a bottle of red wine on the way back just to make the meal more healthy.
I walked home for lunch, ate, walked back to school and then walked home again. Guess what” I was not fat. Mom was home and fed us lunch. Go figure
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Same for me, rain or shine, for 12 years. We had rain coats and galoshes.
"Recent findings?" What findings?
"But the program must not continue to be undermined?" What?
This is terrible. A complete waste of attention.
I got tuna fish in my hard rolls, two of them along with hostess cup cakes. I remember my peers dumping 50% of their school provided lunch while I ate all of what my mother packed.
I don't think it's the place of the school to give kids 'opportunities' to give kids food they don't like with virtually no substitutes available. That is the job of the parents.
That's how she maintains her svelte, plastic surgery look.
Is that your REAL face, Jane, or did your sugar daddy BUY that for you?
I bet he did.
Was it a birthday or Christmas present?
We had the same. We walked when it snowed. Mom said we were safer walking than driving. Everybody walked. Or horrors of horrors rode our bikes without helmets! Oh the humanity!
I don't think I'm old enough to have heard that.
What? There's entire stores dedicated to women's shoes, along with large sections in department stores.
Good Lord yes, they were supposed to give you a heart attack with cholesterol.
When were they saying that?
70s, 80’s 90’s
Yeah, in the 90s I was too young to know what was going on. I’ll only be 30 next year, so I had no clue.
My grandfather was a shoemaker and his specialty was to make patterns for women’s high heel shoes.
In southern New Hampshire nearly everybody had a farm of sorts during the 1800’s up to the mid-1900’s. We farmed dairy cows, kept sheep, chickens, pigs, grew hay, some corn, a lot of apples, had some bulls and steers, small farms. They did not make much money but families ate well. They logged, had portable mills to make lumber, heated with fuel wood. For cash families operated side businesses such as making wooden boxes (for lard, butter, dried cod, etc.) barrels for cider, they made straw hats, distilled rum, and the big money maker in the Merrimack valley was shoe making. there were small shoe shops everywhere.
A family would sign-up with a major shoe company (this was before paved roads, autos, even electric railroads (trolleys) and the company would deliver the makings for a pair of shoes except for stitching and finishing. The contractors would get paid a piece rate. The more one finished the more one could make.
The reason I mentioned roads, cars, etc., is because companies in the city found labor scarce before the large immigrant movement in the early 1900’s. They looked to the country side for labor, but the labor could not leave the farm even if they wanted to. The companies brought the shoe kits to the workers and picked up the finished goods.
If one was skilled, like my grandfather, the pay was good and there was a a ton of incentive to make it into the city to the main plant. He did. He lived in Salem NH, about 7 miles or so from the shop in Haverhill MA. In early days he rode a bicycle back and forth, in later years there was the electric train. With 9 kids eventually he could afford to drive. He made about $20 a week when others were making about $10. His job was to deconstruct the shoe designer’s shoe (women’s size 6) and make a full set of patterns from 6 to size 10. Then he had to make steel-rule dies for the clickers which stamped out the leather pieces.
He had to fit each piece on a last first, cut by hand, and then construct the dies. He was a knife expert. Had knives for everything. He could skive leather in his sleep.
In about 1920, my late great aunt, who lived in Hampstead NH was a “fancy stitcher” in the shoe industry. This was another skilled job that one most likely could not do from a farm workshop. She commuted to Haverhill MA in an open Stanley Steamer car. She charged several others for a ride each day. At the end of the day in winter one would have to drain the boiler. In the morning, fill it up again and fire up the kerosene burner.
At one time, not long ago, in this area, there were still a ton of shoe companies. Up until the mid-80’s Nike had large factories in NH. The tech headquarters was in Exeter. Plants were in Greenland, Hampton, Epping, and Exeter. All gone. Timberland had their headquarters in Newmarket NH. In those days the factory was a real factory outlet. One just walked in and asked for the foreman. He would show you shoes available for sale. All were $25.
The only shoe manufacturers left are New Balance.
BTW, Converse sneakers were also made in the area when I was young. All factory semi-rejects were $2. Nice!
Oh, so you were just referring to one state. I couldn’t’ve known that.
Is that all you have to say after I took the effort to educate you?
Thanks....
Where do you know today in USA where hi-end women’s shoes are made? Please inform me.
Up until about 1980, the women’s high-heel shoe industry was centered in Haverhill MA. There were also many companies making work boots, sneakers, leather belts, too. In Manchester NH there were several companies making molded rubber boots as well as work boots. In Dover and Rochester NH there were many companies tanning the leather for the industry.
Derry NH had one of the largest store brand work boot company (Sears) factory. Timberland got its start by making the orange crepe soled work boot for Sears, but got out of it when they produced their own line.
That is the history of shoe making in this area. I am not even going in to the textile industry that has left, or the metal working and steel service industry, or the computer and circuit board industry that has left and gone. There was also Western Electric and Bell Labs, now all gone.
Yea, we now wish we can mow each other’s lawns and wash each other’s clothes.
The real money, industry is in software, banking, medical services, and government now. We do not make much anymore, and we suffer for it.
“Oh, so you were just referring to one state. I couldn’t’ve known that.”
Actually, NH and MA are two distinct states, or more precisely, a State and a Commonwealth.
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