School Lunch Food

[hhcash]

School lunch food has been a problem at many schools. I have to eat it too, and some things don't taste at all like they are supposed to taste like. Its creepy.

[Me-Patch]

Just don't eat it. I smoke during lunch, why not try that.

[HighlyIllogical]

School lunch standards are supposed to ensure proper nutrition. I doubt that they do.

[fli]

Eating is for fat people--
I like to spend my time in front of a mirror seminude while purging out wicked sin--

[JMHX]

At 5/17/06 06:04 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote: School lunch standards are supposed to ensure proper nutrition. I doubt that they do.

Oh yeah, they're far from nutrition.

[arz756]

Then learn to not eat until you get home...
What does this have to do with politics?

Government Schools should have companies competing to ensure that the best food is served instead of there poorly designed monopoly made food!!!

[JMHX]

At 5/17/06 06:10 PM, arz756 wrote: Then learn to not eat until you get home...
What does this have to do with politics?

Government Schools should have companies competing to ensure that the best food is served instead of there poorly designed monopoly made food!!!

There has recently been a law - or an agreement through the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation - to get rid of non-diet drinks and most sugary sodas in school vending machines. I don't think that goes far enough -- vending machines in general ought to have healthier choices, if we're going to start dealing with that problem.

[hhcash]

i need to have hot lunch on wedndays and fridays. There is Jimmy John's on monday, Tasty Dog on tuesday, and Subway on thursday. The food is the only good thing about my school.

[HighlyIllogical]

At 5/17/06 06:05 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote:

Oh yeah, they're far from nutrition.

I'm just throwing the idea out there.

Wasn't it Reagan who said that ketchup was a vegetable?

"School lunches must meet the applicable recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans, which recommend that no more than 30 percent of an individual's calories
come from fat, and less than 10 percent from saturated fat. Regulations also establish a
standard for school lunches to provide one-third of the Recommended Dietary
Allowances of protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, iron, calcium, and calories. "
(http://www.fns.usda...ch/NSLPFactSheet.pd
f)

Not very nutritious. Max 5 miligrams cholesterol should be mandated, for one. Oh, and milk should not be required. Milks that are available should be low/no fat only. Also, non-meat foods (i.e. meat alternatives...) should be pushed. More vegetables too.

Eat your damn GREENS!

http://www.healthysc..report2004_card.html

[JMHX]

I loved looking back on high school records and seeing how incredibly awful the cafeteria food was for me.

[HighlyIllogical]

That's a bad thing. We should improve it.

Childhood and adult obesity rates are THROUGH THE ROOF. Hell, I live in a low-weight district, but we have P.E. 4 times a week in high school. Is it surprising to anyone that weight seems to be in inverse proportion to income? (meaning, if I've phrased it right, income up lowers average weight?).

[JMHX]

PE in my school was twice a week, three times a week on some weeks, for about fifty minutes, and half of it was swimming for a few months out of the year. We're growing these adult-onset type 2 diabetes, 500 pound mack truck fourth graders, and I can't get behind that shit at all. Credit to Bill Clinton, who at least seems to care about changing it given his experiences in youth and adulthood. The same for Gov. MIke Huckabee of Arkansas, who is taking similar efforts.

[hrhomsar]

My school has gym every day. If you ever watched super size me, it was my school with the gym program and fitness center. Because of that there are like 3 fat people in our school so we're pretty lucky.

[Frenzy]

I don't eat in a cafeteria, sorry.

[KWAS71KCK]

At 5/17/06 06:05 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote:

At 5/17/06 06:04 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote: School lunch standards are supposed to ensure proper nutrition. I doubt that they do.

Oh yeah, they're far from nutrition.

I'm a cook/chef and i've seen some of the stuff they sell in school cafertia's, including the highschool that i attended and unless they consider McDonalds-style food nutrition, it sure isn't nutrition. You had may as well just go to any burger joint and eat the same food and for a lot cheaper too.

[Demosthenez]

At 5/17/06 06:11 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote: I don't think that goes far enough -- vending machines in general ought to have healthier choices, if we're going to start dealing with that problem.

Kids arent fat cause of candy and soda machines.

Kids are fat cause of the shit they eat at home. Blaming vending machines is a cop out and punishes the kids that arent total fatasses. I loved my Coke or Hershey Milkshake during lunch and the occasional Honey Bun during gym. I would have been pissed if they took those machines out.

[Levia]

just get your mum to get you McDonalds, luckily i don't go to school in America where they give you crappy food! I live in New Zealand and you bring your own food!

[Kenzu]

School food is like a restaurant here.

But then, I don't live in the States, so maybe that's why

[Elfer]

If you want to eat healthy, prepare your own damn food.

Take responsibility and put in the effort to maintain your own health, wuss.

[HighlyIllogical]

At 5/18/06 02:02 AM, FAB0L0US wrote:

Kids are fat cause of the shit they eat at home. Blaming vending machines is a cop out and punishes the kids that arent total fatasses. I loved my Coke or Hershey Milkshake during lunch and the occasional Honey Bun during gym. I would have been pissed if they took those machines out.

Correction. If parents could make homecooked foods like they have in past years, tuna casserole, meatloaf etc., then kids wouldn't be TOO fat, just like they weren't TOO fat in past years. Parents need to take control. They need to stop letting their kids eat fast food etc. at home.

[JMHX]

At 5/18/06 02:02 AM, FAB0L0US wrote:

At 5/17/06 06:11 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote:

Kids are fat cause of the shit they eat at home. Blaming vending machines is a cop out and punishes the kids that arent total fatasses. I loved my Coke or Hershey Milkshake during lunch and the occasional Honey Bun during gym. I would have been pissed if they took those machines out.

You do what you can in the public sphere and acknowledge that parents have to deal with that at home.

[arz756]

lol personal responiblity doesn't exist in politics.

[RedScorpion]

At 5/18/06 03:09 PM, GSgt_Liberal wrote: Correction. If parents could make homecooked foods like they have in past years, tuna casserole, meatloaf etc., then kids wouldn't be TOO fat, just like they weren't TOO fat in past years. Parents need to take control. They need to stop letting their kids eat fast food etc. at home.

Agreed. Parents set the guiding role for whether a child eats unhealthy or not. The way a child is raised has a direct effect on them to eat more or eat less. Some kids (not all) eat because they're unhappy, and not because they're unaware it is unhealthy

I also think that weight is not inversely proportional to income... poor kids don't have the luxury of spending tons of money on candy, and parents usually teach them to be more conservative (because of said lack of money). The middle-class spectrum seem to hold the most potential for 'fat' kids...

Why am I thinking of kids who live in Suburbs?...

But then again, I'm not sure that they would gather on the lower end of the spectrum. Kids just need to be educated and motivated to keep healthy, without going to the extreme of de-moralization (such as - "You must become a supermodel!")

Kids need to be kids.

[SenorPresidente]

Yeah comments like "school lunch are disgusting" goes to show that you dont know anylhing about the world out side america.

[Dash-Underscore-Dash]

At 5/17/06 06:11 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote:

There has recently been a law - or an agreement through the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation - to get rid of non-diet drinks and most sugary sodas in school vending machines. I don't think that goes far enough

Fuck that, I want my motherfucking Coca-Cola and Snickers.

[peedee]

Schools shouldn't have to provide lunches. Especially in high school. Get a fucking job and make your own lunch.

[hhcash]

Going to fast food resturants is too expensive.

[MortifiedPenguins]

50 years ago, the only fat kids were from rich familys or just genetically fat. Parents made home cooked meals, children were outside working or playing outside.

50 years later, Parents don't cook meals, children don't play outside.

I think we can see the basic problems.

[Monocrom]

At 5/18/06 06:24 PM, hhcash wrote: Going to fast food resturants is too expensive.

Sadly, for a lot of kids, the free meal at school is the only decent food they get all day.

[The-5th-Commandment]

At 5/17/06 06:11 PM, --Judge_X-- wrote:

There has recently been a law - or an agreement through the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation - to get rid of non-diet drinks and most sugary sodas in school vending machines. I don't think that goes far enough -- vending machines in general ought to have healthier choices, if we're going to start dealing with that problem.

I think thats bullshit they took all the "junk" food out of our school like the snickers and sodas but they still serve us french fries three times a week. We should be allowed to eat whatever we want in school if you have no self control and dont no how to eat right that shouldnt be goverments problem go eat until you cant get up then die.