Posted on 04/28/2014 4:02:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Schools across America will only be able to sell low-calorie healthy food, the Department of Agriculture announces.
The US is banning junk food in schools in an effort to cut the level of obesity in young people.
The ban by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will start on July 1 and will be nationwide.
According to the proposed ban, schools across the country will only be allowed to sell healthy foods such as fruit, dairy products, whole-grain foods, lean protein products and vegetables.
The staple food of a meal must not exceed 350 calories and snacks must be less than 200 calories.
All food sold in schools should not contain more than 35% sugar or trans fat - a type of artificial fat linked to coronary heart disease.
The ban will affect 100,000 schools across the country. In the past, only the states of California and Connecticut had similar rules prohibiting carbonated soft drinks and junk food.
The USDA defines junk food as being foods with a high calorie count and minimal nutritional value, such as candy, chips and french fries, according to nutrition expert Katherine Tallmadge
Parents warned the policy may prove unpopular with children, while some feel the rules go too far by banning all drinks over a certain size....
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Blatantly unconstitutional. The federal government has no such authority.
Does it really have this power? $$$
Who is going to enforce it’s edicts? $$$
Isn’t it amazing that radical Democrats claim that banning Darwinism in schools and alcohol distribution was evil moralism yet they see banning foods and cigarettes as “justified”. I know, I know it’s “for the children” (gag, gag). Don’t we all love hypocrites ? ( he said dripping with sarcasm)
while I share concern for the health of children, that’s mostly, primarily the parents’ responsibility...If any school lunches are to be served, the local school can decide the menu. I can find nothing in the US Constitution assigning this duty (as an enumerated power) to the federal government in Washington DC. Nothing.
So now... all good intentions aside, we American taxpayers will have to sit back and witness millions more pounds of perfectly good (presumably) food being thrown into school cafeteria garbage cans...from coast to coast.... as so many of the kids just do not like Washington DC’s “healthy lunches”
and Washington DC KNOWS this will happen, there have been news reports from all over America about it....
They already check the lunch boxes in some places.
Uh, oh. You’re right. Was that when the school provided the lunch and then told the mom she’d have to pay?
Government school is child abuse.
Me too. We had beef stew, chop suey, lasagna,probably all too fatty for today’s standards. Funny thing is there were very few fat kids. I thought teenagers were still growing. Don’t they need calories?
“My nephew’s inner-city district DOES NOT ALLOW Brown bags in the elementary.”
I was waiting to finish reading this and the reason being, someone was offended that it was a “brown” bag.
Time to drop out of the USDA program. The calorie needs of healthy active children should not be suppressed because of some obesity “crisis” being manipulated by those who desire more control over the lives of our children.
That would be freedom. Freedom is not allowed in government school gulags.
How about the meals for the school athletes? Another example of broad brush government meddling into stuff they can’t possible know anything at all about.
I ate at the training table in college. We basically ate the same thing the other kids did except we had steak twice a week and a few other perks.
I used to take six or seven ice cream sandwiches home with me every evening and eat them for breakfast. I lived off campus.
Yes! I loved the cafeteria rolls! Big fluffy goodness.
Yes the rolls stood out as the best. I remember they would still be warm and we would get little pats of butter to put in them.
Now that I think about it, I very seldom have gotten such good rolls in a restaurant.
My Mother was a great cook and made several different kinds of good bread but she never mastered making those great rolls.
They now have to make those wonderful rolls with wheat flour. Even the corn bread now has wheat flour. Instead of yellow, it is now the color of dirt.
When I started teaching in the early 70s, the school cooks cooked. Now because of the regulations (they have to document calories, fat grams, etc etc) the cooks thaw and reheat pre-prepared food. The people who sell this “food” are likely getting rich, regardless of how much of their product is thrown away.
They now have to make those wonderful rolls with wheat flour. Even the corn bread now has wheat flour. Instead of yellow, it is now the color of dirt.
When I started teaching in the early 70s, the school cooks cooked. Now because of the regulations (they have to document calories, fat grams, etc etc) the cooks thaw and reheat pre-prepared food. The people who sell this “food” are likely getting rich, regardless of how much of their product is thrown away.
Simple solution. End the government mandated PC Liberal indoctrination part of the curriculum. Restore a minimum of 45 minutes recess or P.E. which was ended in all grades so PC crap could be taught instead. Give the kids time to exercise then their food intake won’t be an issue. United States Federal Overlord Alphabet Agencies = Stupid Is As Stupid Does.
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