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Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

Excon said:
Wrong. Not the healthy "better" that you suggest. But the "like" as in "like" the food better, as in taste.
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So your utterly retarded argument is that they've been told that they like it therefore they like it? :lamo
 
Cardinal said:
From the OP:

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.
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Reading is gud.
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Yes, reading is gud. Further reading is better. As it clearly indicated that that is nothing more than the opinion of the administrators, of what they think the kids opinions are.
Not actually the kids opinions.
 
ObamacareFail said:
I do not have a problem with healthy eating. I just do not feel that it should be pushed or mandated by a nanny state government. What's next? Will Michelle decide which brand of toilet paper is used in the schools?
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But that they should mandate unhealthy food?

So stupid...
 
clownboy said:
Experience with kids and a whole bunch of studies on the subject.

Study: School lunch veggies, fruit end up in trash - Connecticut Post
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If true, and I think it is changing, a reeducation is in order. My kids were given fruits and vegetables from day one. No corn would have ever been thrown from my son's place (though not the best vegetable). It's not evil to want kids to eat better, especially with the weight issues we face. Kids are not forbidden from bringing their own. So, we're only talking about what the school provides.
 
Tucker Case said:
So your utterly retarded argument is that they've been told that they like it therefore they like it? :lol
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Not too retarded when it's an adult with a bias surveying children. In fact, it's how you get the answers you want. Of course the trash can was filled, but let's ignore that so Michelle can have her win, right?
 
Tucker Case said:
So your utterly retarded argument is that they've been told that they like it therefore they like it? :lamo
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You are confused.
Go back and start from the beginning.
 
ObamacareFail said:
I do not have a problem with healthy eating. I just do not feel that it should be pushed or mandated by a nanny state government. What's next? Will Michelle decide which brand of toilet paper is used in the schools?
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There's no such mandate. Only that what we provide with tax dollars be healthy. You can choose to bring a can of grease if you so choose.
 
Excon said:
Yes, reading is gud. Further reading is better. As it clearly indicated that that is nothing more than the opinion of the administrators, of what they think the kids opinions are.
Not actually the kids opinions.
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Or that complaints and food thrown away had dropped, as we all knew would be the case.
 
jamesrage said:
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.
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They must have gotten the good stuff because I had to force myself to eat school sandwhiches with what I thought at the time and still do today think was chemical meat (like our hot dogs that used to bounce up from the ground at incredible heights).
 
Boo Radley said:
If true, and I think it is changing, a reeducation is in order. My kids were given fruits and vegetables from day one. No corn would have ever been thrown from my son's place (though not the best vegetable). It's not evil to want kids to eat better, especially with the weight issues we face. Kids are not forbidden from bringing their own. So, we're only talking about what the school provides.
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And for the kids that don't face weight issues? And since we're restricting this to only the kids who can't or don't bring their own, don't you suppose a larger percentage of those kids might be hungry? Why feed them diet food.
 
Boo Radley said:
There's no such mandate. Only that what we provide with tax dollars be healthy. You can choose to bring a can of grease if you so choose.
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I love how he argues that when in our school it was kind of the opposite where if you didn't bring lunch you were almost forced to eat unhealthy. Can these conservatives and libertarians fight for the other sides rights as well?

All of your opinions of school food are still probably stuck in the 80's or before, granted school food probably hasn't changed a single ****ing bit it's good to have fresh not-even two years old information coming in.
 
Boo Radley said:
There's no such mandate. Only that what we provide with tax dollars be healthy. You can choose to bring a can of grease if you so choose.
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It's already been shown that's not always the case. Regardless, not a federal decision, nor is it something the feds should be involved in. The local parents and schools should work this out. Michelle should stick to her inane food commercials on the Disney channel.
 
Boo Radley said:
There's no such mandate. Only that what we provide with tax dollars be healthy. You can choose to bring a can of grease if you so choose.
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You just contradicted yourself.
 
Cardinal said:
Guess they didn't need the extra calories.
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Yup. It's a large group often conflicting needs you're serving. That's why this lite menu is an utter fail. We're not all fat, in fact it clusters. That's why the locals should be handling the menu.
 
clownboy said:
Not too retarded when it's an adult with a bias surveying children. In fact, it's how you get the answers you want. Of course the trash can was filled, but let's ignore that so Michelle can have her win, right?
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That doesn't imply indoctrination, that implies researchers lying about the data. That's a very different thing altogether. Thus his argument remains utterly retarded.
 
clownboy said:
Yup. It's a large group often conflicting needs you're serving. That's why this lite menu is an utter fail. We're not all fat, in fact it clusters. That's why the locals should be handling the menu.
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You need to get your cause and effect straightened out. If kids are throwing away portions of their meal the fact that it's "lite" is obviously not a failure. What would support your position is if frigging nothing were thrown away, because that would suggest that a significant number of the students may very possibly not be getting enough calories. Food thrown away = not too few calories. Get it?
 
Cardinal said:
Or that complaints and food thrown away had dropped, as we all knew would be the case.
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:doh
1.) Underlined. Still speaking to the opinion of the administrators.

Nationwide, participation in the school-lunch program fell by 1.2 million students, or 3.7%, from the 2010-2011 school year through the 2012-2013 year after having steadily increased for many years, according to a Feb. 27 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. State and local officials reported the drop was due in part to the new standards.

The study released Monday shows that schools in which two-thirds or more of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch had higher participation and left less food on their plates than schools with fewer students qualified for the meals. In addition, administrators at rural schools reported more student complaints and wasted food, as well as participation drops, as compared with urban or suburban schools, according to the report.​

2.) As I have already stated. Kids usually give up complaining when they know it isn't going to do any good. And they had sufficient passage of time for them to stop.
Combined with those who drop from the program, there is your administrators perceived drop in complaints.

3.) Leaving less food on their plates is not an indication of less food being thrown away. It doesn't address that or what the student took for you even to make such a claim, though it does address rural schools as having both more complaints and more waste.
 
Tucker Case said:
That doesn't imply indoctrination, that implies researchers lying about the data. That's a very different thing altogether. Thus his argument remains utterly retarded.
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Tucker my friend, you've obviously never surveyed children. :mrgreen:

And of course the researchers had their preferred answer before the survey even took place.
 
Cardinal said:
You need to get your cause and effect straightened out. If kids are throwing away portions of their meal the fact that it's "lite" is obviously not a failure. What would support your position is if frigging nothing were thrown away, because that would suggest that a significant number of the students may very possibly not be getting enough calories. Food thrown away = not too few calories. Get it?
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It certainly implies that the kids doing the throwing away are not underfed or hungry.

It does imply that kids waste food, though, which implies their parents aren't doing a good job instilling good eating habits in them.
 
clownboy said:
And for the kids that don't face weight issues? And since we're restricting this to only the kids who can't or don't bring their own, don't you suppose a larger percentage of those kids might be hungry? Why feed them diet food.
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No, because a hungry kid will eat. And it's not like there won't be meat and such.
 
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