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Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Which would you rather have:
Choices that might be wrong.
Dictates to ensure you live "right".

There's no 'force.'

Parents can send the kids in with their own lunches.
 
I think the goal is probably complete nutrition but again, is it the school's job to provide complete nutrition for lunches or just healthy food?

Again, school is not the only source of food for kids. If they get little food or junk food elsewhere, at least this is a boost.

It's not a good idea for politics to project their ideology into all facets of our lives. Well balanced meals with the 3 food groups is still a superior model to the adult diets. Encouraging more physical ed and activities for children, will go a long ways in attaining healthy physiques.

They seem to be swinging from one extreme to the next with political philosophies, and trying to apply them to everyday life. Just compromise by giving the kids some healthier choices that at least taste good. Meals consisting primarily of fruits and veggies simply won't get eaten.
 
How were they unhealthy?

Too many carbs, too little meats. Filling the menu with things that say "low-fat" or "zero calorie" or "sugar-free" does not automatically make the menu "healthy."
 
Post some facts that say a majority of children like those new meal guidelines?

Since when do we let children dictate what is best for them?
 
Too many carbs, too little meats. Filling the menu with things that say "low-fat" or "zero calorie" or "sugar-free" does not automatically make the menu "healthy."

Do you have links that show such meals are the norm in these programs?
 
It's not a good idea for politics to project their ideology into all facets of our lives. Well balanced meals with the 3 food groups is still a superior model to the adult diets. Encouraging more physical ed and activities for children, will go a long ways in attaining healthy physiques.

They seem to be swinging from one extreme to the next with political philosophies, and trying to apply them to everyday life. Just compromise by giving the kids some healthier choices that at least taste good. Meals consisting primarily of fruits and veggies simply won't get eaten.

And there have been changes to the nutritional value in those food groups. The new lunches do not diverge from what is nutritionally sound and are not some boutique or trendy agenda.

There's nothing about nutritional 'philosophy' here. And I didnt see where meals were primarily fruits and vegetables.

If kids throw it away, let them go hungry. Either they'll change their behavior or they'll go hungry. Or mom and dad can provide what they will eat.
 
Look at the program and make your own judgement.

As long as they are 'healthy' foods I'm not real concerned. Again...this is not meant to be complete nutritional content for children...it's one meal of the day.

I realize that this is unfortunately probably the most healthy...even the most food period....that many kids get.
 
I have no problem with healthier meals at school. The problem is that a lot of kids won't eat it. They'll throw away good food --- money --- and just eat something crappy when they get home. Maybe there should be some system where if you keep throwing the majority of your food away, your parents have to send a lunch with you.
 
It's not a good idea for politics to project their ideology into all facets of our lives. Well balanced meals with the 3 food groups is still a superior model to the adult diets. Encouraging more physical ed and activities for children, will go a long ways in attaining healthy physiques.

They seem to be swinging from one extreme to the next with political philosophies, and trying to apply them to everyday life. Just compromise by giving the kids some healthier choices that at least taste good. Meals consisting primarily of fruits and veggies simply won't get eaten.

So less fruit, less veggies, and less carbs.

That leaves meat. Do you really think kids todays are lacking meat in their diets?
 
Since when do we let children dictate what is best for them?

We don't, but we also allow them the choice to throw it away because we don't have the manpower to have them watched and forced to eat what is put on their plates.
 
We don't, but we also allow them the choice to throw it away because we don't have the manpower to have them watched and forced to eat what is put on their plates.

Did we ever? They've been throwing away perfectly good food for generations. And for this last one at least, I've still been paying for it, healthy or not.
 
Here's what I don't understand...

The recent scuttlebutt is that there are more *starving* and *hungry* children than ever before, who aren't receiving adequate nutrition at home. Because of these poor starving children, we have been getting foodstamps out in record amounts, because everybody is so ashamed that as a nation we are starving our children.

So...how does the increase in childhood obesity work with that dialogue? And if our children are starving and school meal programs are more important than ever to make sure they don't starve to death...then WHY are we reducing the 1. Calorie count, and 2. protein amount, in those meals?

And could someone please direct me to a study that links OBESE CHILDREN with STARVATION?
 
So..why are we reducing caloric intake in school cafeterias at a time when (allegedly) childhood hunger is at an all-time high?

This does not compute.
 
Did we ever? They've been throwing away perfectly good food for generations. And for this last one at least, I've still been paying for it, healthy or not.

Heh, is that the argument? They're going to throw it away anyway why not make the nascent garbage healthy? :lamo

The point is, they haven't been throwing it away for generations, NOT anywhere to this degree.
 
Apparently not all kids are spoiled brats whose parents let them eat what ever they want and many other kids do like healthier food.

Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches - WSJ
When the federal government implemented new school-meal regulations in 2012, a majority of elementary-school students complained about the healthier lunches, but by the end of the school year most found the food agreeable, according to survey results released Monday.
The peer-reviewed study comes amid concerns that the regulations led schools to throw away more uneaten food and prompted some students to drop out of meal programs.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago surveyed administrators at more than 500 primary schools about student reaction to the new meals in the 2012-2013 school year. They found that 70% agreed or strongly agreed that students, by the end of the school year, generally liked the new lunches, which feature more whole grains, vegetables and fruits, and lower fat levels.

I would like to know where the grant for that so-called study came from.
 
Apparently not all kids are spoiled brats whose parents let them eat what ever they want and many other kids do like healthier food.

Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches - WSJ
When the federal government implemented new school-meal regulations in 2012, a majority of elementary-school students complained about the healthier lunches, but by the end of the school year most found the food agreeable, according to survey results released Monday.
The peer-reviewed study comes amid concerns that the regulations led schools to throw away more uneaten food and prompted some students to drop out of meal programs.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago surveyed administrators at more than 500 primary schools about student reaction to the new meals in the 2012-2013 school year. They found that 70% agreed or strongly agreed that students, by the end of the school year, generally liked the new lunches, which feature more whole grains, vegetables and fruits, and lower fat levels.

why didn't they ask the kids themselves?
 
I would like to know where the grant for that so-called study came from.

It came from Reublicans-Я-e-vile.com and the center for republicanscansuckit group.(sarcasm)
 
why didn't they ask the kids themselves?

They are going to interview over a couple thousand or hundred thousand school kids?
 
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