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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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DP.  I didn't read PP as blaming the parents. The government chooses what it will subsidize in school breakfasts and lunches.  For example, large corporate  food producers got the government to count pizza as a vegetable in school lunches.  It's all politics and it's all about the money.  Even if you take the parents out of the equation and the school is providing 2 of 3 meals, the kids aren't always getting healthy food.

On another note, there are food scientists who are PAID to make food as addictive as possible.  And it's not the healthy stuff.

This country will never get healthy until food producers are held to better standards.  And that's never going to happen.[/quote]

It can happen.  But you have to vote for it.  Do you do that?  Do you vote for the party that reels in corporations with regulations or the one who enables them to make us sick while they get rich?  (I will not pretend either party is perfect at this, but one is certainly better than the other)[/quote]

Neither party cares about this. It's free market capitalism. Michelle Obama, to her credit, tried her best. [/quote]

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