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The athletic young men I coach can easily put away several “quad” cheeseburgers at one sitting - plus fires.

Not one of them is obese.

I had one fellow who could not make it through practice without eating a burrito during water break. He is now a starting linebacker for a Division 1 college football team.

These new meal rules seem to be designed to starve athletes into submission.

It goes beyond just calories, folks. My wife teaches and the cafeteria at her middle school has NO salt to be found anywhere. The food is barely seasoned, thanks to the new “standards”, which makes it even less appealing. It has gotten so bad there that the cafeteria has started charging teachers and kids for napkins because they are losing money so fast they can't keep up. Kids refuse to eat the crap. I have a 14 year old HS freshman who is just over 5'6" and barely over 100 pounds soaking wet. He eats like there is no tomorrow most of the time. he has been known to polish off half a large pizza by himself and is skinny as a rail. He has a very high metabolism, marches in band and walks everywhere. My 12 year old youngest son is a couple of inches shorter that his brother and about 90 pounds, plays football and every other sport and grazes all day long. He could blow through 700 calories in an hour at football practice. And you just wait. If they don't get rid of these asinine "one size fits all" regs, the nanny-staters will start pushing to inspect lunch boxes and brown bags. It has already happened here in NC before these stupid "standards" we're enacted The problem with childhood obesity isn't what kids eat at school anyway. It is what their lazy-arse parents feed them at home. Watch Honey Boo Boo and her dysfunctional family sometime to see what I mean. Most of these parents are too lazy to even pick up a pan, much less use one, so they drive through somewhere or pick up a microwave meal loaded with salt and fat and give it to junior to eat while he plays his X-Box for 6 straight hours to stay out of mommy's way until bedtime. You want to make a real change? Stop paying for some crack-whore and her sperm donor to spawn repeatedly and then throw money at them to buy junk to throw at the product of their copulation to keep him fed.