Packed lunches 'have poorer nutritional quality' than school lunches

Medical News Today ^ | November 7, 2014 | by Honor Whiteman

[bubman]

Ooookkkkaaaay, Government study to determine if government programs i.e. lunches at school are more nutritious than what mom packs. Conclusion, mommy knows nothing about the eating habits of their kids....conclusion technocrat knows wha't best for your child better than you....conclusion, parents are harming their children by not adhering to government initiatives, conclusion, parents are now required to submit to government program or risk punitive damages. Conclusion, parents are now required to submit to Child Protective Services menues offered to their kids. Conclusion, Governments will now require all parents submit inventory in cupboards and fridge to see if they are following government dictates. Conclusion, government will require 200,000 new nutrition and enforcement specialists to mandate the success of the new lunch program...Obama will tout the initiative as a success in creating new jobs for the economy and provide a healthy lunch menu for millions of malnourished children across the country. Republicans will be accused of obstruction and starting a war on children by not voting for the bill

Welcome to the abc's of tyranny!

[Hegemony Cricket]

"And they know what these kids are eating how?"

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

What a stupid premise. So EVERY packed lunch, all of them; whether it is parboiled tree-bark or a hard boiled egg, is less nutritious than school lunches, any of them. Only a complete fool would make such a statement.

[DoughtyOne]

9/10ths...

[Arm_Bears]

And sic the IRS on Alisha R. Farris, Virginia Tech, and the Journal of Nutrition, Education & Behavior.

[cloudmountain]

I grew up eating a packed lunch, and yet I somehow managed to survive. Go figure.

Ditto. I am UNREASONABLY healthy for my age.

[SES1066]

The research team, led by Alisha R. Farris of the Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Exercise at Virginia Tech ...

Would anybody care to wager against me as to the source of funding of this study being from a government grant? Possibilities are almost endless as to a specific source but none-the-less it does put a place-holder in the concept that parents are dangerous to their children, does it not? Taking this concept to its logical conclusion would probably result in bag lunches being banned and lunch room monitors forcing the students to eat their 'healthy' school lunches! Paging the current FLOTUS and overflowing waste cans at schools everywhere!

[cloudmountain]

Is he packin’ a pistol in his Superman lunch box?

[Sacajaweau]

I agree absolutely.....

[Steve_Seattle]

I guess we can’t do anything at all anymore without instructions from the government. How did those of us born before 1980 survive?

[Don Corleone]

Cut the entire government by 1/3.

8/9ths, 9/10ths, 99.9/100ths?

[DJ MacWoW]

No. Just a sandwich from home that isn’t government approved.

[SunkenCiv]

> “We found that both packed and school lunches almost entirely met nutrition standards, except school lunches were below energy and iron recommendations, whereas packed lunches exceeded fat and saturated fat recommendations,” says Farris.

[Chuzzlewit]

yep... me too.. for almost a whole year, I ate Reeses Peanut butter cups and Snickers bars, washed down with a Coke..

did much better the next year and ate school lunches..

still here... and I’m thin.. I eat very well.. excersise, etc

[SpaceBar]

Fresh out of the Journal of Pure and Applied Medical Propaganda.

[Cicero]

"I approve this study! Now, gimme my 5%!"

[Rusty0604]

The smart TV in their house.

[mulligan]

Doubt that. Would prefer home cooking.

[SpaceBar]

Cut the entire government by 1/3.

2/3, perhaps more.

[Chode]

a poor nutritional lunch actually EATEN, is better than a great nutritional lunch thrown into the garbage...