The food Nazis are at it again in schools...

[Archae]

You know what isn't mentioned in this article?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/chocolate-milk-debate-rages-schools-calcium-important-calories/story?id=13359739

How blithering LAZY kids have become, gym classes are being opted out of, recess is spent in the library to play games on laptops, etc.

The number of calories in chocolate milk could easily be worked off, just by having one period of gym class.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. *Some* kids. Some kids have become lazy.

Do not lump all children into this category. When my son isn't running his butt off in Athletics in school, he's at home...swimming, bike riding, and running some more. Does he have a laptop? Yes. Is he playing games on it at lunchtime? No.

[Archae]

4. I agree, some.

So we take away chocolate milk from ALL kids?

This is why I call the "nutrition experts" in that story food Nazis.

[xmas74]

2. Growing up we had chocolate milk in

our cafeteria every Friday. We always looked forward to Friday because it was chocolate milk day.

There are so many factors to the obesity argument and most consist of lack of exercise. Barring that, there is something to be said about considering chocolate milk as a treat instead of a daily drink. My daughter can have it every day at school and now refuses to drink "plain" milk. Why not go back to the weekly treat instead?

[napi21]

3. I remember when JFK instituted PhysEd as mandatory in all

schools. It was a great thing & I wish they'd bring it back.

[Iris]

5. In my county, they took recess out of schools. Hardly the choice of the children.

[Archae]

7. For what reason?

Budget cuts?

[Iris]

9. No. This was long before that became the issue. They just decided kids don't need it.

Officials thought it would be better for them to sit at their desks and "clap, clap, do a worksheet" (http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/why-nobody-watches-katie-couric/)

[Archae]

10. And then they wonder why the kids are getting fat?

"Them kids don't need exercize."

BULLSHIT!

[Iris]

11. my point, exactly.

And if you remove the exercise, eventually, you end up having to remove the chocolate milk. But, hey, it's all part of the America Eric Cantor wants to see - all of us cogs in an endless wheel.

[Mariana]

16. Probably so they could spend that extra time

drilling the kids for the NCLB tests.

[Nevernose]

6. Know what my school has served for 4 days running?

A slice of pizza, a side of baked tater tots, and a "fruit or vegetable." Thre days the veggie was corn, and one day it was a Hostess fruit pie. Apple. This District, the nation's 4th largest, offers no options.

Apparently, all of this met the federal government's super strict nutrition regs. The reason this crap is served every day? It's the one area, by law, in which the school is allowed to turn a profit and the money is returned to the District's general fund.

The food fascists piss me off more than most -- I can actually get fired for giving a hungry child a cup o noodles or rewarding someone with a tootsie roll, although no one would ever actually get fired over it. We can't even have a bake sale: not only does the food violate federal nutrition laws, but also violates federal, state, and local laws regulating the sale of prepackaged food, and schools here HAVE been fined by the health district. Not for anything dirty, but because the mom who baked cookies for the fundraiser didn't have a health card and the plastic wrap wasn't a commercial 0grad0e.0
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[Archae]

8. Where do you live?

[xmas74]

15. We can't have bake sales either.

I cannot bake cookies or cupcakes to bring to the school for parties. I cannot cut up fruit at home for a nice fruit salad. I cannot make a veggie platter with homemade dip. I cannot make lemonade from scratch to bring to the children and I cannot make air popped popcorn.

Everything at the school parties must come from a grocery store, prepackaged, or a bakery. This includes fruit must come from the prepackaged bags, instead of being picked off of a tree in a local orchard. What I bake at home is healthier than the lard and preservatives they put in a prepackaged box of cupcakes from Walmart, which is what is expected at school parties.

[Cresent City Kid]

12. It's all about education, for all of us

When kids, parents, and society in general are armed with the facts, we can get to where diets aren't controversial. But there's a snag. The truth can slow the flow of cash to those who are willing to make us unhealthy to keep it going.

When I was eleven, my family moved from New Orleans to Iowa City. We went by car past seemingly endless corn fields. I remember thinking, "Man, people eat a lot of corn." I could only imagine three ways to consume corn, on the cob, and canned in regular and creamed varieties (2 out of 3 ain't bad). I only learned later about corn syrup, and much later about the percentage of the corn grown for this purpose, and how much of the food industry uses it.

It's another sticky situation like tobacco and oil where it's not as simple as some greedy corn magnate keeping the system going, regular working people are entangled in it by working somewhere in the system or depending on the suppressed prices at the market. Of course they stay entangled because of magnates.

And like tobacco and oil, the truth is a bug in the ointment. The response from the industry is not to adapt to the facts, the response is to cloud them. So we have Palin bringing cookies to school to strike a blow for freedom. Her misinformed minions feel like they have to allow unlimited cookie consumption because Democrats want to preclude their parental freedoms.

We can't get to meaningful conversations about this or anything else. Drill baby drill should end at, "We only have 2% of the world's oil". Even people who see no harm in oil should understand the concept of 2%. It's like a prison break with guards infiltrating the escapees and talking half of them into turning around, "The way out is this way, c'mon!"

[Javaman]

13. Yeah, kids have it easy today, I had to walk to school uphill both ways

in a blinding snow storm all year long while pulling a sled of lead while wolves gnawed at my legs.

damn lazy kids! Get off my lawn!

:rofl:

[MadHound]

14. Except that thanks to nationwide education cuts, gym is no longer taught,

Or severely cut. Not to mention art, music and any other subject outside of those that are covered by the all pervasive tests.