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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach in a high poverty school and by 5th-6th grade, nearly every student is overweight. It's sad. Some of them stayed overweight as they grew but some of them were a normal weight and then just packed on the pounds.[/quote]

Schools are a huge part of the problem.  Our high poverty school has free breakfast and lunch for all. It’s all garbage food. Considering the high obesity rate-kids aren’t starving, they are overfed. Schools need to keep it simple, have a couple heathy options and that is it. White milk, apples, peanut butter/cold cut sandwich. And no chips/candy as prizes and incentives for everything 
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You just made it clear you don't actually understand what food insecurity is like.  It is not wasting away into thinness.  It is the inability to afford healthy food.  That can come with a lack of TIME as well.  Shopping, cooking and food prep takes time, which many struggling families don't have.  Have you ever thought about what the food in your house would look like if you have to take public transportation to collect it?

It is not simply "lazy poor parents feed their kids chips and soda all the time".  It's much more complicated than that.  But it gets you all off the hook to vote for people who might actually HELP these children if you can just blame their lazy, fat parents.

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No, sorry, that is BS. Basics are cheap.  Eggs, milk, oatmeal, beans are cheap. Immigrants and poor people in less developed countries manage to cook basic simple food on a tight budget.  But American poor people can’t manage this.  Easier to hit up the drive thru. It’s easy to eat a lot of junk when using the government money and free school food[/quote]

I don’t know.  I remember around 2008 when the housing crisis hit and my husband lost his company and left with some big debt.  I could no longer go to the store and just buy groceries without looking at the prices.  One time, and I’ll never forget it,  I had $18 and some change to get two or three days worth of food.   The generic whole wheat bread was twice as expensive as the generic white bread so I got the cheap white bread.    I had to think of food that fills a stomach not quality food.   Basic pasta with cheap tomato sauce, they had buy one hot dog pack get one free.  No snacks or deserts.   No fresh vegetables.

This lasted about three months of a very limited budget. I can’t imagine a lifetime.   I suppose there are smart cooks out there who can take the basics and make something appetizing out of it but I couldn’t.  [/quote]

Poor quality low nutrient food can absolutely negatively impact your health in the long term.  It will NOT, however, make you obese.  Unless you eat TOO MUCH of it.  Unless you think that a slice of white bread contains substantially more calories than wheat bread?  (Hint: it doesn’t- maybe 10-20 calories per slice depending on the brand.)[/quote]

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