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LeftyMom

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10. If hungry kids are the problem, wouldn't serving a greater quantity of healthy food solve it?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Jan 3, 2014, 11:30 PM

Jan 2014

The problem seems not to be that most kids aren't getting enough calories, it's that a fair portion of kids won't eat anything that isn't bleached white, fried, or covered in cheese. If you doubled the vegetable portion and offered unlimited access to fresh fruit those kids would still be "starving" because they refuse to eat actual food.

FWIW, if you can afford to send your kid to a parochial school you can afford to pack a snack.

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Senators: Are schools starving kids in the name of reducing lunch calories? [View all] RandySF Jan 2014 OP

Oh for pete's sake, they are hardly "starving"! femmocrat Jan 2014 #1

A snack bar? RandySF Jan 2014 #3

Pennsylvania. femmocrat Jan 2014 #6

And that's not a really old prohibition, I'm guessing. Igel Jan 2014 #13

Read the article...so what are the changes? flvegan Jan 2014 #2

I found a better article. RandySF Jan 2014 #4

Most of those senators are repukes and conservadems. femmocrat Jan 2014 #9

Our local news said they could have larger portions of "lean protein" and carbohydrates. femmocrat Jan 2014 #8

My reading is that it's lifting maximums, quite the opposite. NYC_SKP Jan 2014 #5

Kids are "starving," yet childhood obesity is at an all time high. 1000words Jan 2014 #7

If hungry kids are the problem, wouldn't serving a greater quantity of healthy food solve it? LeftyMom Jan 2014 #10

One of the provisions of the nutrition act was that the kids could have "seconds" on.... femmocrat Jan 2014 #11

We send snacks RandySF Jan 2014 #12

The meals have specified calorie measures, and they'll still have to comply with that bhikkhu Jan 2014 #14

regulation in food service is necessary pipoman Jan 2014 #15

my pub;ic school son d_r Jan 2014 #16

OMG RandySF Jan 2014 #17

3:00 d_r Jan 2014 #18

When I visited the Bible Belt Le Taz Hot Jan 2014 #19