Wednesday, November 2, 2011

School Lunch Proposals Set Off a Dispute - NYTimes.com

So does this imply that the school lunch program is to blame making kids fat? We can address it by trusting parents to be able to feed their own kids. Our school simply didn't have a cafeteria; we all brown-bagged it (or lunch-boxed it) and nobody starved.

School Lunch Proposals Set Off a Dispute - NYTimes.com: A third of American children are obese or overweight, according to the government, and roughly 40 percent of the calories they eat are consumed in the school lunch period. Nutrition experts say if the nation wants to make progress on the obesity crisis among children, what they eat at lunchtime has to be addressed.

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