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Parent-packed lunches often not healthy, study says
Orlando Sentinel ^ | , August 12, 2014 | Leslie Postal

Posted on 08/12/2014 8:08:54 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

Edited on 08/12/2014 8:22:35 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The lunches students bring from home are often filled with unhealthy packaged foods and sugary drinks and little that would win any nutrition awards, according to a new study by university researchers. Missing from those lunches, they said, were fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy, whole grains and, nearly 25 percent of the time, anything that resembled an entree.


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TOPICS: Education; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: education; florida; nannystate; publicschools; schoollunches
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To: Slyfox

I would also follow you into battle for a meatloaf sandwich, LOL!


21 posted on 08/12/2014 8:31:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: joshua c
All this low fat nonsense is bad for the brain.

Public schools are bad for the brain.

22 posted on 08/12/2014 8:31:55 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BuffaloJack

Agree. Its none of their business. And this story about non-healthy parent packed lunches is pure propaganda to prop up Mrs. Obama’s lunch program.


23 posted on 08/12/2014 8:32:40 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: moonshinner_09

They are probably getting some of the same stuff they eat when they eat at home. Back in the sixties when I was in school, we had good school lunches that kids actually would eat. They also resembled the good meals we got at home. Lunches from home were good too. All of this amazingly without government intervention. The world has changed a lot since then, so I think the answer to today’s problem is for the government to choose and supply three meals a day for all households with school-aged children.


24 posted on 08/12/2014 8:36:10 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Say, that is troubling. Perhaps we should pass on all of our childrens’ nutritional responsibilities to the State.


25 posted on 08/12/2014 8:36:11 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No kidding, The Great Mother indeed. So she thinks! How dare she!!!


26 posted on 08/12/2014 8:36:18 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: moonshinner_09
Parent-packed lunches often not healthy,
&
Vice Versa

27 posted on 08/12/2014 8:42:58 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Program. Plan. Leader. Winner.)
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To: moonshinner_09
So humans who have babies are stupid, therefore other humans who work
for the Government know what's best?

People who make this crap up need to be shunned by society and sent packing
to live under a bridge somewhere far away from populations.

28 posted on 08/12/2014 8:45:22 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: doc1019

“Healthy” meals in the trash don’t help anybody. Moochelle’s lunch crusade is classic over reach. It is no business of the federal government what kids eat.


29 posted on 08/12/2014 8:48:13 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

U got that right.


30 posted on 08/12/2014 8:49:05 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

While we ate breakfast, my Mom stood at the kitchen counter and packed us a home-made lunch containing a) one sandwich of whole wheat bread, bologna, cheese, lettuce or peanut butter b) one apple c)and one home made oatmeal cookie. Also a thermos of milk. All in a lunch pail or paper bag.
Thank you, Mom.


31 posted on 08/12/2014 8:50:49 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: moonshinner_09

How is it that parents of young children are still allowed to do their own grocery shopping? They should have to obtain approved food packages from the central distribution center. Otherwise they may conclude they are capable of deciding what is best for their own child. Heresy!


32 posted on 08/12/2014 8:50:54 PM PDT by lastchance (People)
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To: joshua c

Our government wouldn’t have any reason for not wanting our brains to grow and develop, would they?


33 posted on 08/12/2014 8:52:09 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: moonshinner_09

Funny thing. Our local school district is serving “free” breakfasts and lunches this year via a federal grant. If a child brings her lunch from home and wants school milk to go with it, she has to pay $.50 for the milk that comes free with a tray of school food. I suggested on a school Facebook page that the children who want milk but not the food put their lunches down at their table and then go through the lunch line and take the tray and milk. Then eat the lunch from home and return the tray of food to the cafeteria at the end of lunch. Someone removed the post. Lol. Typical government stupidity in action. I am sure it is due to federal rules that the school must charge for the milk.


34 posted on 08/12/2014 8:54:56 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: lepton

“For an active kid, high fat dairy is preferable.”

Kids aren’t allowed to be active. The boys are drugged so they’ll act like girls and just sit quietly.


35 posted on 08/12/2014 8:58:15 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: moonshinner_09
"Parent-packed lunches often not healthy, study says"

I wonder if they've done any studies on why student test scores have dropped, literacy has dropped, math skills have dropped...

36 posted on 08/12/2014 8:58:49 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: ArmyTeach

Please don’t tell Moochelle, but MY Mom also let us drink coffee and cream with our breakfast while she packed our lunches!

If it was good enough for her as a child, it was good enough for us. The horror! The horror! *SMIRK*


37 posted on 08/12/2014 9:00:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: moonshinner_09

There is nothing wrong with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made with Wonder Bread. A thermos of milk and some walnut cookies made with oatmeal was everything you needed.


38 posted on 08/12/2014 9:01:12 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: moonshinner_09

It is just sad and pathetic that the a-hole liberals have politicized school lunches. I pray for the day that all liberals die.


39 posted on 08/12/2014 9:04:16 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
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To: jonrick46

“There is nothing wrong with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made with Wonder Bread.”

You are right-—my kids loved them. I made 10 a day and those “kids” are now in their forties and fifties-—and quite healthy.

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40 posted on 08/12/2014 9:06:05 PM PDT by Mears (thanks !)
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