[Oldeconomybuyer]

[tinyowl]

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

[posterchild]

“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.

[exDemMom]

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.

[Drew68]

“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.

[Chickensoup]

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

[Forgotten Amendments]

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".

[Former Fetus]

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

[lowbridge]

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

[Iron Munro]

[Billthedrill]

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.

[Captain Compassion]

The government knows best alert!!!

[GOPJ]

Blowhard hypocrites at the New York Times should be forced to have their cafeteria ONLY offer the typical school lunch.

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...

[Mears]

Bull**** !!!!!!!!!!!

My kids ate bagged lunches for years—— they were/are very healthy.

I can’t imagine what this lady’s real agenda is? /s

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[windcliff]

I like to think I made decent lunches :)

[blueunicorn6]

“Eat yer government cheese and quit yer complainin! Them that complains about the government cheese don’t get no government crackers!”

[VRWCer]

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.

[MV=PY]

"Recent studies?" What studies?

"Recent findings?" What findings?

"But the program must not continue to be undermined?" What?

This is terrible. A complete waste of attention.

[Organic Panic]

giving foods creative names and presenting them in fun ways

No no no kids. It's not gruel. It's happy fun super cool power viddles served on a shingle. ...where's the shingle...

[Patriotic1]

“Kids are adaptable and sometimes need repeat exposures to new foods,” Dr. Cohen said. “Given enough opportunity, they can learn to like them.”

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.