Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches

[CowboyTed]

I find it amazing that with epidemic obesity levels and a national disaster coming that some would side on doing noting.

Kids today are bombarded with ad after ad for cheap unhealthy food. Healthy food requires getting use to as your palette has to mature to receive it.

Michelle's program is a start and not nearly enough. Europe who have 1/3 of the problem compared to US are going far further with far more popular support. It is widely said that we don't want to be fat like the yanks.

The US's biggest enemy is not a guy called Mohammed with a dirty bomb, it is corruption (due to lobbying) and the Sugar lobby is one of the most powerful.

What surprises most by people from outside looking in at America is how the US spirit has been compromised. The guys who won WW2 and went to the moon. US used to be able to solve problems by deceive action.

This is a no brainer, there are interests in US society who are going to kill your kids to make a profit, cop on.

 

[S.J.]

I find it amazing that with epidemic obesity levels and a national disaster coming that some would side on doing noting.

Kids today are bombarded with ad after ad for cheap unhealthy food. Healthy food requires getting use to as your palette has to mature to receive it.

Michelle's program is a start and not nearly enough. Europe who have 1/3 of the problem compared to US are going far further with far more popular support. It is widely said that we don't want to be fat like the yanks.

The US's biggest enemy is not a guy called Mohammed with a dirty bomb, it is corruption (due to lobbying) and the Sugar lobby is one of the most powerful.

What surprises most by people from outside looking in at America is how the US spirit has been compromised. The guys who won WW2 and went to the moon. US used to be able to solve problems by deceive action.

This is a no brainer, there are interests in US society who are going to kill your kids to make a profit, cop on.

What is "deceive action" and "cop on"?

 

[flacaltenn]

Are vegetables crap?

You ever had to face collard greens 3 times a week that apparently had be cooked for days?

My high school put up a suggestion box in the lunchroom... That's where the collard greens mostly ended up.. (and in those days, beyond the bad prep and the cooking errors, they were so loaded with salt that they were inedible anyways.)


You are probably KILLING a lifelong desire for vegetables by equating them to the slop that serves in schools !!!!!
Hell --- what they called pizza would have protected me from eating it for life -- if it wasn't for the REAL pizza that parents could find to feed me..

My daughter brought home a tortilla wrap mostly covered in green mold. That's when we realized we were responsible for her lunches..

 

[flacaltenn]

I find it amazing that with epidemic obesity levels and a national disaster coming that some would side on doing noting.

Kids today are bombarded with ad after ad for cheap unhealthy food. Healthy food requires getting use to as your palette has to mature to receive it.

Michelle's program is a start and not nearly enough. Europe who have 1/3 of the problem compared to US are going far further with far more popular support. It is widely said that we don't want to be fat like the yanks.

The US's biggest enemy is not a guy called Mohammed with a dirty bomb, it is corruption (due to lobbying) and the Sugar lobby is one of the most powerful.

What surprises most by people from outside looking in at America is how the US spirit has been compromised. The guys who won WW2 and went to the moon. US used to be able to solve problems by deceive action.

This is a no brainer, there are interests in US society who are going to kill your kids to make a profit, cop on.

Leftists just don't get it.. What passes as a govt approved meal does NOT RESEMBLE real food. Give it up.. You are RUINING the kids perception of a healthy meal by DEMANDING cheap "simulations" of healthy foods be forced on children hungry at lunchtime..

You have to be a truly indoctrinated leftist to spin an OP like this one..

 

[cnm]

Lucky ketchup is a vegetable. Not like anyone's lobbying to make a profit out of selling junk to your kids.

 

[Jantje_Smit]

Leftists just don't get it.. What passes as a govt approved meal does NOT RESEMBLE real food. Give it up.. You are RUINING the kids perception of a healthy meal by DEMANDING cheap "simulations" of healthy foods be forced on children hungry at lunchtime..

So, why not just demand real, healthy food instead?

Or is that a problem because it would be expensive and those $$$ can be used for some more peace & democracy bombing on the other side of the world?

 

[The Rabbi]

StinkProgress=automatic fail.

 

[konradv]

Spoken like a true liberal nazi. If they don't do what you tell them, FORCE them.

That's right, potato chips for everyone! You do realize they're children and should be guided, right? Do you let yours just run amuck and do whatever they like?

 

[Obiwan]

Trashed: Study finds students toss veggies mandated by federal school lunch program

So? They're children with a free choice, many are still eating healthy and have the option.

I don't know about you, but if I throw it in the trash, it ain't much of a lunch.

 

[Ernie S.]

I find it amazing that with epidemic obesity levels and a national disaster coming that some would side on doing noting.

Kids today are bombarded with ad after ad for cheap unhealthy food. Healthy food requires getting use to as your palette has to mature to receive it.

Michelle's program is a start and not nearly enough. Europe who have 1/3 of the problem compared to US are going far further with far more popular support. It is widely said that we don't want to be fat like the yanks.

The US's biggest enemy is not a guy called Mohammed with a dirty bomb, it is corruption (due to lobbying) and the Sugar lobby is one of the most powerful.

What surprises most by people from outside looking in at America is how the US spirit has been compromised. The guys who won WW2 and went to the moon. US used to be able to solve problems by deceive action.

This is a no brainer, there are interests in US society who are going to kill your kids to make a profit, cop on.

What is "deceive action" and "cop on"?

He's Irish.... I love it when Europeans come here and tell us how to run our country.
Hey Ted! Is there a discussion board discussing Irish politics that I can go fuck up?

 

[flacaltenn]

Leftists just don't get it.. What passes as a govt approved meal does NOT RESEMBLE real food. Give it up.. You are RUINING the kids perception of a healthy meal by DEMANDING cheap "simulations" of healthy foods be forced on children hungry at lunchtime..

So, why not just demand real, healthy food instead?

Or is that a problem because it would be expensive and those $$$ can be used for some more peace & democracy bombing on the other side of the world?

I really don't think the government can do an excellent job of making lunch for schoolkids.. Certainly shouldn't be a FEDERAL priority at all.. I want the money spent on assuring clean and fair elections, ballot access, and border security.. I can send a lunch with my kids..

You can DEMAND all you want.. Doesn't make the bureaucracy any more responsive or productive right now.. They NEED the kind of incentive that Amazon has to figure out how to move stuff to your door for cheap 7 days a week.

 

[flacaltenn]

If y'all are soo concerned about obesity -- how come kids can't play tag in the schoolyard anymore? How come phys ed classes and gym showers have been cut? If the kids were really hungry --- you might get them to eat arugalla at lunchtime..

 

[BluesLegend]

Trashed: Study finds students toss veggies mandated by federal school lunch program

Liberals celebrating their failures again I see.

 

[The Rabbi]

StinkProgress is a fail. Attempts to impose better living on kids in school from DC are never successful.

 

[bripat9643]

Trashed: Study finds students toss veggies mandated by federal school lunch program

So? They're children with a free choice, many are still eating healthy and have the option.

They don't have a free choice. Their choices are restricted to eating what the government gives them or going hungry.

 

[guno]

This doesn't surprise me.
Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches

As another academic year kicks into full gear and students across the country return to school, longtime supporters of a 2010 law that updated nutritional standards for cafeteria meals have reason to remain calm amid uncertainty about its future.

A national poll shows that more than 80 percent of Americans support healthy school meals consisting of more fruit and vegetables and less high calorie and sodium food choices, requirements outlined in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — a law that authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to set nutritional standards for food sold and distributed in schools and expanded access to healthy lunch to more than 115,000 U.S. children.

The survey, conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, debunks the primary argument against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, one of the central policies at the heart of First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to address childhood obesity. Two-thirds of respondents rated the nutritional quality of cafeteria food as “excellent” or “good.” Additionally, more than 90 percent of those surveyed said it’s somewhat or very important to serve nutritious foods in schools and strengthen children’s cognitive abilities.”

“Our survey found that people in the U.S. overwhelmingly support strong nutrition standards and believe school meals are healthier and on the right track because of these standards,” La June Montgomery Tabron, president and chief executive of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, told the New York Times.

If lawmakers reauthorize the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act next month, schools would receive $4.5 billion over the next decade. With time dwindling before it’s set to expire, its supporters and challengers have scrambled to make their case, drawing out a battle that started shortly after its passage and holding nothing back in the process.

Since the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act’s inception, the program has expanded, serving more than one million students across the United States not only lunch, but dinner too as part of its after-school snack offerings. The UDSA also rolled out $5 million in grants to fund programs that connect school cafeterias with local farmers. The 2014 grant cycle supported more than 80 projects in 42 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In total, more than $385 million in locally grown produce has entered school buildings across the country.

But GOP lawmakers remain unsatisfied, calling the law an example of executive overreach and a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Opponents also argue that adhering to the law has financially burdened some school districts, passing legislation that would allow states to opt out of changes for a year. The School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national lobbying group, called for changes including the reduction of whole grain rich from 100 to 50, stalling of changes to sodium levels until 2017, and elimination of requirements that students have a half cup of fruits or vegetables with every meal.

While SNA and other Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act opponents say that reauthorization would allow for these revisions, proponents say the law in its current form prevent students from spiraling down a road of unhealthy diet choices.

A growing body of research support such calls to keep the status quo. Last year, researchers at Ohio State University found that high consumption of fast food — often replete with salt and sugar and low in calcium, iron, Vitamin C, and zinc — causes some memory loss and slows down cognitive development in children. An unbalanced diet can also widen waistlines, especially among young people. Rates of childhood obesity have more than doubled in the last 30 years, bringing with it additional instances of cancer and higher hospitalization costs.

Imagine that healthy food for kids thus lowering medical problems like diabetes down the line and controlling medical costs

Yes very Un American!

 

[SassyIrishLass]

This doesn't surprise me.
Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches

As another academic year kicks into full gear and students across the country return to school, longtime supporters of a 2010 law that updated nutritional standards for cafeteria meals have reason to remain calm amid uncertainty about its future.

A national poll shows that more than 80 percent of Americans support healthy school meals consisting of more fruit and vegetables and less high calorie and sodium food choices, requirements outlined in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — a law that authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to set nutritional standards for food sold and distributed in schools and expanded access to healthy lunch to more than 115,000 U.S. children.

The survey, conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, debunks the primary argument against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, one of the central policies at the heart of First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to address childhood obesity. Two-thirds of respondents rated the nutritional quality of cafeteria food as “excellent” or “good.” Additionally, more than 90 percent of those surveyed said it’s somewhat or very important to serve nutritious foods in schools and strengthen children’s cognitive abilities.”

“Our survey found that people in the U.S. overwhelmingly support strong nutrition standards and believe school meals are healthier and on the right track because of these standards,” La June Montgomery Tabron, president and chief executive of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, told the New York Times.

If lawmakers reauthorize the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act next month, schools would receive $4.5 billion over the next decade. With time dwindling before it’s set to expire, its supporters and challengers have scrambled to make their case, drawing out a battle that started shortly after its passage and holding nothing back in the process.

Since the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act’s inception, the program has expanded, serving more than one million students across the United States not only lunch, but dinner too as part of its after-school snack offerings. The UDSA also rolled out $5 million in grants to fund programs that connect school cafeterias with local farmers. The 2014 grant cycle supported more than 80 projects in 42 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In total, more than $385 million in locally grown produce has entered school buildings across the country.

But GOP lawmakers remain unsatisfied, calling the law an example of executive overreach and a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Opponents also argue that adhering to the law has financially burdened some school districts, passing legislation that would allow states to opt out of changes for a year. The School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national lobbying group, called for changes including the reduction of whole grain rich from 100 to 50, stalling of changes to sodium levels until 2017, and elimination of requirements that students have a half cup of fruits or vegetables with every meal.

While SNA and other Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act opponents say that reauthorization would allow for these revisions, proponents say the law in its current form prevent students from spiraling down a road of unhealthy diet choices.

A growing body of research support such calls to keep the status quo. Last year, researchers at Ohio State University found that high consumption of fast food — often replete with salt and sugar and low in calcium, iron, Vitamin C, and zinc — causes some memory loss and slows down cognitive development in children. An unbalanced diet can also widen waistlines, especially among young people. Rates of childhood obesity have more than doubled in the last 30 years, bringing with it additional instances of cancer and higher hospitalization costs.

Imagine that healthy food for kids thus lowering medical problems like diabetes down the line and controlling medical costs

Yes very Un American!

If the food is so nasty the kids won't eat it's sort of defeating the purpose.

 

[guno]

This doesn't surprise me.
Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches

As another academic year kicks into full gear and students across the country return to school, longtime supporters of a 2010 law that updated nutritional standards for cafeteria meals have reason to remain calm amid uncertainty about its future.

A national poll shows that more than 80 percent of Americans support healthy school meals consisting of more fruit and vegetables and less high calorie and sodium food choices, requirements outlined in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — a law that authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to set nutritional standards for food sold and distributed in schools and expanded access to healthy lunch to more than 115,000 U.S. children.

The survey, conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, debunks the primary argument against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, one of the central policies at the heart of First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to address childhood obesity. Two-thirds of respondents rated the nutritional quality of cafeteria food as “excellent” or “good.” Additionally, more than 90 percent of those surveyed said it’s somewhat or very important to serve nutritious foods in schools and strengthen children’s cognitive abilities.”

“Our survey found that people in the U.S. overwhelmingly support strong nutrition standards and believe school meals are healthier and on the right track because of these standards,” La June Montgomery Tabron, president and chief executive of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, told the New York Times.

If lawmakers reauthorize the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act next month, schools would receive $4.5 billion over the next decade. With time dwindling before it’s set to expire, its supporters and challengers have scrambled to make their case, drawing out a battle that started shortly after its passage and holding nothing back in the process.

Since the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act’s inception, the program has expanded, serving more than one million students across the United States not only lunch, but dinner too as part of its after-school snack offerings. The UDSA also rolled out $5 million in grants to fund programs that connect school cafeterias with local farmers. The 2014 grant cycle supported more than 80 projects in 42 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In total, more than $385 million in locally grown produce has entered school buildings across the country.

But GOP lawmakers remain unsatisfied, calling the law an example of executive overreach and a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Opponents also argue that adhering to the law has financially burdened some school districts, passing legislation that would allow states to opt out of changes for a year. The School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national lobbying group, called for changes including the reduction of whole grain rich from 100 to 50, stalling of changes to sodium levels until 2017, and elimination of requirements that students have a half cup of fruits or vegetables with every meal.

While SNA and other Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act opponents say that reauthorization would allow for these revisions, proponents say the law in its current form prevent students from spiraling down a road of unhealthy diet choices.

A growing body of research support such calls to keep the status quo. Last year, researchers at Ohio State University found that high consumption of fast food — often replete with salt and sugar and low in calcium, iron, Vitamin C, and zinc — causes some memory loss and slows down cognitive development in children. An unbalanced diet can also widen waistlines, especially among young people. Rates of childhood obesity have more than doubled in the last 30 years, bringing with it additional instances of cancer and higher hospitalization costs.

Imagine that healthy food for kids thus lowering medical problems like diabetes down the line and controlling medical costs

Yes very Un American!

If the food is so nasty the kids won't eat it's sort of defeating the purpose.

Because they are used to this

 

[S.J.]

Spoken like a true liberal nazi. If they don't do what you tell them, FORCE them.

That's right, potato chips for everyone! You do realize they're children and should be guided, right? Do you let yours just run amuck and do whatever they like?

They may need to be guided but not by you. It's not your job or anyone else's but the parents. Mind you own fucking business, you're not a nutrition expert and neither are the assholes in Washington (especially fat ass Michelle) who think they can dictate to everyone else how to raise their own kids.

 

[bripat9643]

This doesn't surprise me.
Americans Actually Like Michelle Obama’s Healthier School Lunches

As another academic year kicks into full gear and students across the country return to school, longtime supporters of a 2010 law that updated nutritional standards for cafeteria meals have reason to remain calm amid uncertainty about its future.

A national poll shows that more than 80 percent of Americans support healthy school meals consisting of more fruit and vegetables and less high calorie and sodium food choices, requirements outlined in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act — a law that authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to set nutritional standards for food sold and distributed in schools and expanded access to healthy lunch to more than 115,000 U.S. children.

The survey, conducted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, debunks the primary argument against the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, one of the central policies at the heart of First Lady Michelle Obama’s effort to address childhood obesity. Two-thirds of respondents rated the nutritional quality of cafeteria food as “excellent” or “good.” Additionally, more than 90 percent of those surveyed said it’s somewhat or very important to serve nutritious foods in schools and strengthen children’s cognitive abilities.”

“Our survey found that people in the U.S. overwhelmingly support strong nutrition standards and believe school meals are healthier and on the right track because of these standards,” La June Montgomery Tabron, president and chief executive of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, told the New York Times.

If lawmakers reauthorize the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act next month, schools would receive $4.5 billion over the next decade. With time dwindling before it’s set to expire, its supporters and challengers have scrambled to make their case, drawing out a battle that started shortly after its passage and holding nothing back in the process.

Since the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act’s inception, the program has expanded, serving more than one million students across the United States not only lunch, but dinner too as part of its after-school snack offerings. The UDSA also rolled out $5 million in grants to fund programs that connect school cafeterias with local farmers. The 2014 grant cycle supported more than 80 projects in 42 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In total, more than $385 million in locally grown produce has entered school buildings across the country.

But GOP lawmakers remain unsatisfied, calling the law an example of executive overreach and a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Opponents also argue that adhering to the law has financially burdened some school districts, passing legislation that would allow states to opt out of changes for a year. The School Nutrition Association (SNA), a national lobbying group, called for changes including the reduction of whole grain rich from 100 to 50, stalling of changes to sodium levels until 2017, and elimination of requirements that students have a half cup of fruits or vegetables with every meal.

While SNA and other Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act opponents say that reauthorization would allow for these revisions, proponents say the law in its current form prevent students from spiraling down a road of unhealthy diet choices.

A growing body of research support such calls to keep the status quo. Last year, researchers at Ohio State University found that high consumption of fast food — often replete with salt and sugar and low in calcium, iron, Vitamin C, and zinc — causes some memory loss and slows down cognitive development in children. An unbalanced diet can also widen waistlines, especially among young people. Rates of childhood obesity have more than doubled in the last 30 years, bringing with it additional instances of cancer and higher hospitalization costs.

Imagine that healthy food for kids thus lowering medical problems like diabetes down the line and controlling medical costs

Yes very Un American!

Imagine the federal government keeping it's nose out of everyone's business and allowing them to make their own choices. That's American, not taking orders from Washington DC.