Posted on 10/21/2013 2:43:49 PM PDT by Zakeet
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extolled a local elementary school in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for making its students try broccoli gratin, Tuscan kale, and beet hummus, as an example of the department’s efforts to fight obesity.
Clinton Elementary School held a “taste test” to preview food that will soon appear on the lunch menu, and was highlighted by USDA for its healthy eating efforts.
The Poughkeepsie City school district received a $100,000 grant from the USDA for its “farm to school project,” which it is using to add items such as “butternut squash puree” to school menus. The funding was authorized by the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which was championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Kane said kids enjoy the healthy eating “tests” much more than learning math.
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I absolutely guarantee that every one of you Freepers will loose a lot of weight ... if you would only paste the above picture of Aunt Esther on your fridge ... and then eat a heart healthy diet of broccoli gratin, roasted root vegetables, carrot and butternut squash puree, Tuscan kale, white bean ragout, and beet hummus!
You ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
I was just thinking about the school systems which are sending home BMI letters to parents. Perhaps what we ought to insist is that school boards recognize that teachers are role models and that every teacher’s BMI be posted on the school’s web site. Maybe that will help fight obesity.
They taste best with bacon, or ham.
This one REALLY needs a “barf alert”!
Eat your peas.
These are all very good foods. Lots of water-soluble vitamins. But damned-near no calories, and no fat-soluble vitamins.
How about some healthy egg yolks, beef, butter, and lard?
The liberal food-nazis still claim those are bad for you.
I particularly loved the concluding paragraph.
“There’s usually a little wave of anxiety when a math test gets handed out,” she said. “But when the test involves tasting different heirloom apples, describing the subtle variance between three varieties of strawberries, or discovering that butternut squash pureed with carrots is sweet and delicious, well, kids are lining up for those tests and passing with flying colors.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise. Kids enjoy tasting stuff they hope they'll never have to eat more than they enjoy taking a math test. To a bureaucrat, that's success!
Cook them up with some 'streak o' lean' and serve them with pepper sauce, and I'll be happy to eat a mess of them.
I’m completely in favor of this, with a few conditions: THE STUDENTS MUST KNOW EXACTLY WHY THEY HAVE TO EAT THIS, WHOSE IDEA IT WAS, AND HOW MUCH IT COST.
I’d consider it “training for the future”. This generation of adults is beyond hopeless.
I sort of love all those things. Does that make me a liberal? I had kale for dinner. Lightly steamed in a little olive oil. I also really am fond of butternut soup and pickled beets? Yum.
Collard greens are good with fried or roast chicken.
I love turnips and greens but could never acquire a taste for collards. My parents loved them.
My health Nazi mother used to brow beat my grandfather for eating bacon and eggs every morning. He was 93 and still riding motorcycle.
Veggies are really good, when cooked correctly. Kale and collard green chips,fresh picked and made are much better than anything from the store!! My guys can’t get enough. Fresh picked veggies are proof that God loves us!!
We’ve spent the season eating most dinners from out garden!! Food is so good fresh picked. Nothing like a just pulled carrot or radish, or a salad of just picked greens with a little extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and some tomatoes!!!
I hate BO and Moochelle because, by forcing things on people, they are giving veggies a bad name!! I have living proof that if you offer tasty veggies to kids at mealtime, they will eat them. Kid went for thirds on celery gratin (home grown celery) at dinner last Sunday.
And Moochelle is NOT a gardener. The stories out there about what happened to the White House garden when the government was closed down proved that Moochele just uses the garden s a photo-op.
As an avid veggie gardener, I would be out there harvesting and weeding before I let the garden produce go to waste!!! Old big butt just believes in gardening for propaganda and controlling the proletariat.
That's the key. However, schools serve canned veggies which are already cooked to death and taste like ick. Greens need to be cooked fresh. I don't think, Moo would approve of my squash puree soup. Puree the squash, add butter, heavy cream, chicken boullion, and seasoning, yummmmmy comfort food! She wouldn't approve of a thick sliced tomato fresh from the garden sandwiched between mayo slathered cheap white bread either and eaten over the sink to catch the drips, my oh my.
Fried pork chops, collard greens, mashed potatoes and gravy, purple hull peas, cornbread, iced tea. The ultimate meal.
How about some healthy egg yolks, beef, butter, and lard?
The liberal food-nazis still claim those are bad for you.
The relative risk (RR) of CHD mortality was reduced in the mid and upper tertiles of dietary menaquinone compared to the lower tertile [RR = 0.73 (95% CI: 0.45, 1.17) and 0.43 (0.24, 0.77), respectively]. Intake of menaquinone was also inversely related to all-cause mortality [RR = 0.91 (0.75, 1.09) and 0.74 (0.59, 0.92), respectively] and severe aortic calcification [odds ratio of 0.71 (0.50, 1.00) and 0.48 (0.32, 0.71), respectively].
In case that's not clear - they divided a population into thirds, based on amount of K2 in their diets, and looked at how many developed coronary heart disease. The middle group had a 27% lower risk of developing heart disease than the lowest, and the highest had a 57% lower risk. These are huge numbers. Statin drugs have a much smaller effect.
And what foods are high in menaquinone? Egg yolks, butter, and fat from animals who are eating green grass, or certain fermented products, like brie, gouda, or natto.
Why do the French have such a low incidence of heart disease despite eating such a high-fat diet? Because the fats they are eating - cheeses, pates, etc. are protective. Why do the Japanese have such a low incidence of heart disease, despite eating such a high-carb diet? Because the fermented bean curds they are eating are protective.
Both sides were looking at the wrong side of the problem, and asking the wrong questions. It wasn't what they were eating, but what they weren't.
Why did we have such a sudden increase in atherosclerosis, in the 1940's? Because that's when we moved to large-scale feed-lot operations, raising our beef and chickens on grain, rather than grass and green plants.
It turns out atherosclerosis is primarily a deficiency disease, and we created the deficiency. We did it to ourselves. And Weston Price was right, all those years ago. His "Activator X" is K2.
So now comes the fight - because there are powerful commercial and political forces who have a vested interest in our remaining sick.
“Veggies are really good, when cooked correctly.”
Veggies are really good, when swimming in butter.
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