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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 353609" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I taught school for a lot of years and I noticed a definite deterioration in the quality of the food served over the years. Granted, when you are cooking for several hundred kids (or more), you can't please everybody. Also, school lunches have to be affordable; that means using lots of government commodities and keeping costs down otherwise. But the lunches they served in 1969 when I first started teaching were definitely healthier than the ones they serve now. </p><p>I certainly don't want the government or anybody else dictating what I can eat or what I can feed my kids but I do think that they have the ability to see that school lunches meet a certain standard, limiting fat and junk and providing decent nutrition. But then the problem becomes getting the kids to eat it. </p><p>Our whole culture has a schitzo thing about food; all of the models and actors we see and nearly or really anorexic, yet the majority of our population is overweight and the average is getting heavier. Portions are getting bigger and people are more interested in convenience than in nutrition. I am fully convinced that at least 90% of the fat kids we have now will grow up to be obese adults and will die young after costing the system megabucks for health care for conditions they brought on themselves. I have basically been on a diet or at least conscious of what I eat since I have been 12 years old. I've never been skinny but I've never been obese either. I've learned to live with being the size I am (I finally got to the point about a year ago where my body mass index is within the normal range, but just barely); I don't plan to get any smaller but I'll be darned if I'll get any bigger either. I've learned that the best way to maintain a decent weight is to eat healthy portions of healthy food. Yes, I splurge on occasion;life is too short not to but there is no use making in shorter by poor eating habits day after day after day.</p><p>I worry that the generation we are raising is not going to live as long or have the quality of life that even my generation has and I think it is mostly related to diet. We can't force people to do what is good for them but we can provide healthy lunches for our kids and we can provide a decent example for them to follow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 353609, member: 135"] I taught school for a lot of years and I noticed a definite deterioration in the quality of the food served over the years. Granted, when you are cooking for several hundred kids (or more), you can't please everybody. Also, school lunches have to be affordable; that means using lots of government commodities and keeping costs down otherwise. But the lunches they served in 1969 when I first started teaching were definitely healthier than the ones they serve now. I certainly don't want the government or anybody else dictating what I can eat or what I can feed my kids but I do think that they have the ability to see that school lunches meet a certain standard, limiting fat and junk and providing decent nutrition. But then the problem becomes getting the kids to eat it. Our whole culture has a schitzo thing about food; all of the models and actors we see and nearly or really anorexic, yet the majority of our population is overweight and the average is getting heavier. Portions are getting bigger and people are more interested in convenience than in nutrition. I am fully convinced that at least 90% of the fat kids we have now will grow up to be obese adults and will die young after costing the system megabucks for health care for conditions they brought on themselves. I have basically been on a diet or at least conscious of what I eat since I have been 12 years old. I've never been skinny but I've never been obese either. I've learned to live with being the size I am (I finally got to the point about a year ago where my body mass index is within the normal range, but just barely); I don't plan to get any smaller but I'll be darned if I'll get any bigger either. I've learned that the best way to maintain a decent weight is to eat healthy portions of healthy food. Yes, I splurge on occasion;life is too short not to but there is no use making in shorter by poor eating habits day after day after day. I worry that the generation we are raising is not going to live as long or have the quality of life that even my generation has and I think it is mostly related to diet. We can't force people to do what is good for them but we can provide healthy lunches for our kids and we can provide a decent example for them to follow. [/QUOTE]
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