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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The food quality issue is most important at Title 1 schools.  A school is determined to be Title 1 if they have a significant number of students whose families can not afford to feed them.  Thus the school takes on the responsibility for ensuring their nutrition.  [b]This is one of the most basic wrap around services that there is, and it isn't hard to do. [/b] Schools that provide nutritionally unsound choices are failing the students, both in terms of their nutrition and their nutritional education.  These are fundamental responsibilities of Title 1 schools.

Many of the families who need these services are not prepared to stand up for their rights on this.  They are, by definition, low income and the vast majority are out working hard to maintain shelter for their families.  They have neither the time nor the incentive to stand up for these issues.  Many are just happy that there children are not hungry.  It is the responsibility of the rest of society to insist that they not just be fed, but be fed in a nutritional way.  [/quote]

+1.  [b] We all know that food high in sugar results in hyper behavior that's hard to control.  [/b] Why give it to kids if all it does is create distractions in the classroom 1/2 hour later?  More importantly, school meals are the only meals many of these kids get.  Shouldn't one of the highest priorities be making sure these kids get food that will actually help them to thrive, rather than just get them by until they get diabetes?    [/quote]

Interestingly, sugar isn't really a cause of hyperactivity.  https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/growth-curve/sugar-doesn%E2%80%99t-make-kids-hyper-and-other-parenting-myths Parents are likely to perceive their kids as being hyper if they believe that they just ate sugar, though.  So don't ask your kid about the breakfast yogurt and just choose to believe they had something plain and organic.  [/quote]

Oh, yes it is:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/02/09/energy-drinks-significantly-increase-hyperactivity-schoolchildren

And, beyond hyperactivity, added sugar to food just isn't healthy.[/quote]

See also the sugar addiction study done at Princeton, http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/88/56G31/index.xml?section=topstories,  and read "Little Sugar Addicts." It is the withdrawal symptoms that are the bigger concern and none of the hyperactivity studies looked into that - -they were all about the immediate reaction, not the addiction and withdrawal, which can cause oppositional defiant behavior and ADHD-like behavior.[/quote]

That Princeton study is really interesting.  Clearly, we have so much more to learn about the harm caused by processed sugar in human bodies.  But for now, it should be enough to know that we get enough natural sugar in our diets for purposes of good health, and that adding even more sugar does no one any good, especially kids.[/quote]

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