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Sooo it’s not about enforcing proper nutrition so they can study...it’s about managing their lives.
Every child is the property of the state.
Fried platanos, and guineos.
“We have to educate children, but we also have to offer them the correct choices to avoid chronic diseases,” Arango stated.
Ah, so by removing the “incorrect choices” we are really just offering the “correct choices”. I guess that makes it easy for the kids to make the correct choice, since there is no other choice available to them.
By the same measure, one could say I’m pro-Choice on abortion. I believe that women should have the freedom to make the choice for themselves, but I just think we should remove the “incorrect choice” (abortion), so that women will be free to choose from the “correct choices”.
They didn’t have it when I went to school. I was shocked that you could buy Cokes and candy bars in my son’s elementary school. About all we could get was pencils and pens from vending machines.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
On a serious note, I think it would be interesting to see how many of the overweight kids live in the city, with access to electronic entertainment, and how many live up in the mountains where there is little Internet or electronic time wasters.
When I lived on the Island in the mid to late 70's, we were either snorkeling at the beach, riding our bikes through the sugar cane fields, playing basketball at an outdoor court, or walking through the woods. Nobody was fat.