Posted on 10/06/2012 5:15:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which required public schools to follow new nutritional guidelines this academic year to receive extra federal lunch aid, has created a nationwide version of the age-old parental challenge: persuading children to eat what is good for them.
Because the lunches must now include fruits and vegetables, those who clamor for more cheese-laden nachos may find string beans and a peach cup instead. Because of limits on fat and sodium, some of those who crave French fries get baked sweet-potato wedges. Because of calorie restrictions, meat and carbohydrate portions are smaller. Gone is 2-percent chocolate milk, replaced by skim.
“Before, there was no taste and no flavor,” said Malik Barrows, a senior at Automotive High School in Brooklyn, who likes fruit but said his classmates threw away their mandatory helpings on the cafeteria floor. “Now there’s no taste, no flavor and it’s healthy, which makes it taste even worse.”
Students organized lunch strikes in a suburb of Pittsburgh, where in late August the hashtag “brownbagginit” was trending on Twitter, and outside Milwaukee, where the Mukwonago High School principal, Shawn McNulty, said participation in the lunch program had fallen 70 percent.
“There is a reduction in nacho chips, there is a reduction in garlic bread, but there’s actually an increase in fruits and vegetables,” Mr. McNulty said. “That’s a tough sell for kids, and I would be grumbling, too, if I was 17 years old.”
In New Jersey, more than 1,200 people have joined a Facebook group that urges Parsippany Hills High School students to boycott the school lunches. Despite the enticement of a Chinese-themed lunch a week ago Friday, the first day of the strike, only a few students bought anything from the cafeteria, according to the strike organizers.
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There is hope for the next generation. May they nurture the budding spirit of rebellion against the nanny state that will soon tell them which hand to wipe with.
Oddly enough - this may actually HURT Obama. At a school in my area, as I walked through the hall, a student walked toward friends and complained, “Michelle Obama has ruined it for everybody - there is nothing good to eat in the cafeteria anymore!”
This administration is micro-managing the population in so many ways that they may find they have lost “splinter groups” which, in a close election can make a difference.
Isn’t this one of the activities of the federal government invisioned by the Founding Fathers?
“If our task is to get young kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, we have to be willing to put up with the waste,” he said
Boy, that just says it all! I think that is their motto for everything.
ABC ran this story as well.
NO mention of Michelle Obama! This was her initiative.
Can you imagine if a Republicam First Lady had a program that flopped?
Yes. She’d be in the headline.
“There is hope for the next generation. May they nurture the budding spirit of rebellion against the nanny state that will soon tell them which hand to wipe with.”
—as long as they don’t tell them to give up on teepee and to use smooth stones.
Anyway, I think this plan is brilliant; the food is now so vile that the kids won’t eat, and then they won’t get so darned fat. Yes, it seems wasteful, but it supports farmers and knocks down future medical costs.
/sarc
Those kids need to hire that news/weather woman as their spokesperson. She’ll tear those busy-body health nuts a new one.
and that should mean we need to send less funding for school breakfasts, lunches, and dinners....
I’m all for kids eating good healthy food but its not the job of the schools to determine. That’s something that my parents enforced at home.
People know they can’t live forever so they try to leave their mark on the world. What a bunch of losers. Celebrity wannabes.
When my kids were growing up, they liked green vegetables, salad and fruit. They also liked junk food, but we made them eat the healthy stuff first before they could have the junk.
A lot of this goes back to what’s been offered at home throughout their lives.
There are a LOT of adults who will not touch healthy food even though they know they should. That’s the example set for a lot of kids.
If kids have not been served healthy food at home as the primary part of their diet, they are certainly not going to eat it at school.
Next step - government monitors coming into your homes to control what you feed your family. First victims - the families of the school kids who are throwing the peaches into the garbage at school. At least one school has mounted cameras near the garbage cans ostensibly to see what and how much food is being discarded. But it wouldn’t be a stretch to think that the families of the kids who are throwing the stuff away will be called into the principal’s office for a scolding.
If all else fails, just strap a straight jacket on the kids and force feed them. “You will obey.”
Calorie restrictions on teenagers makes no physiological sense!!!!
This is when lots of growth occurs, including critical brain growth that makes such functions as reasoning possible! That’s why teenagers eat parent’s refrigerators “out of house and home”!
Michelle obama is a Nazi with no real understanding of nutrition, physiology, or obesity. Anyone who doesn’t know that ALL diets eventually fail is living in la-la land, and should just SHUT UP and STAY OUT of any policy role!!!!
The worst part of this new program is the calorie restriction, as though every one of our young people need to lose twenty pounds!
As usual, government’s ‘one size fits all’ solution doesn’t fit anyone.
I’ll bet the food is tasteless too. I’m sure those veggies are steamed with nary a bit of salt or butter.
I learned about good nutrition in “health” class in jr. high. Don’t the schools do that anymore?
“Can you imagine if a Republicam First Lady had a program that flopped?
Yes. She’d be in the headline.”
More like her head would be dropped into a basket.
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
The new nutrition standards have been a major cause of First Lady Michelle Obama in her fight against childhood obesity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy,_Hunger-Free_Kids_Act_of_2010
Nothing healthy about ANY of the bullsh&^ these commies are dishing up! The fruit is in a syup laden with sugar, the beans are processed to the point where they are void of vitamins. Rice (whether it’s brown, white, blue whatever) is one of the worst foods you can consume.
Most parents are too stupid to know any of this as they were raised on the “governmant food and nutition chart” that claimed that 11 servings of bread and rice were good. It promoted “cereal” as well. ALL processed foods are bad.
This has already happened!!!!
Some ‘official’- still unnamed- took a child’s lunch away in NC, saying it didn’t meet gov’t standards for nutrition. If I recall, there was a turkey sandwich, an apple, fruit juice and something else in the lunch her mother packed at home. The child was REQUIRED to PURCHASE the pink slime FRIED chicken nuggets the school was SELLING.
THAT PERSON WHO MADE THAT STUPID CALL WAS NEVER NAMED.
They probably understand that they might lose elections because of this nanny state stuff, but they can’t help it. It’s stronger than them. You see, they are so sure they know better, it’s against their principles to even slow down. God help us from the perfect utopians. History is littered with dead bodies due to them (example - Mao’s preferred agricultural methods that caused millions to starve).
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