Why Cafeteria Food Is the Best

New York Times ^ | December 22, 2014 | By JANE E. BRODY

[mylife]

“Schools can help by giving foods creative names and presenting them in fun ways.”

Why not hypnotize the little tykes and give them MRE’s?

[darkangel82]

NY Slimes is pig slop, and so is the supposed ‘food’ they write about. This isn’t newswriting, this is propaganda.

[Cboldt]

-- Why not hypnotize the little tykes and give them MRE's? --

Get 'em hungy enough, and you won't even have to hypnotize them.

[goodnesswins]

She’s still alive???? And a good little commie

[tinyowl]

They don’t even try to conceal the propaganda titles any more.

[posterchild]

“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,”

Halp uhs rubes! Weez two dum to kuk.

[mylife]

[SAJ]

Oh, you silly. Haven't you ever heard of tossed salad?

;^)

[exDemMom]

Really? Then why is it that as our society has moved away from home-cooked meals to pre-packaged food and cafeteria/restaurant meals, the obesity rate has ballooned?

Just maybe a large part of the problem is the convenience of food. If kids learn to take time to prepare it themselves, they appreciate it more. Plus, they learn about portion control and nutritionally balanced meals.

[Drew68]

“If you only expose children to chicken nuggets and French fries, that’s what they’ll like to eat,”

Seems they're looking at the food that obese welfare mammas feed their kids and assuming every child eats this way at home. If this were this case, yes, they'd be correct. But it isn't.

[mylife]

Now why didn’t I think of that?
We’ll all work harder with a gun in the back for a bowl of rice a day...

[Chickensoup]

My children had excellent packed lunches, both vegetarian and meat based. Not the lunchable things, real meals.

[Forgotten Amendments]

But that is exactly how we got to the dismal state of child obesity and the disease-promoting eating habits that too often carry over into adulthood. Many chronic ailments that currently trouble adult Americans originate with poor diets acquired in childhood.

Actually the obesity problem in the USA got worse precisely because of the unscientific fat/meat phobic obsession of the past 45 years. Something this hack apparently won't give up.

Everything about this makes my blood boil, including the very idea of "Pre-K".

[MamaB]

Thanks, I needed a laugh. Merry Christmas.

[Former Fetus]

For about 60 percent of those children, half or more of their daily calories are consumed at lunch.

Really? They must be literally starving!

/s

[lowbridge]

Look at who wrote an editorial for the jama network, one of the organizations cited for their study

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=182767

[upchuck]

Bump. Me too.

[Iron Munro]

[Kackikat]

They are and have said so and send pics of their food to Mooch. So sad that much of what they get is so bad they throw it away, and go hungry, it’s hard to learn that way.

[mylife]

The food pyramid is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American public.