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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"So schools are supposed to prevent children from being fat, as well as educate them in academic subjects? Isn't anything the parents' job nowadays? You'd like the schools to serve as fat camps as well?

No it is not the job of the schools."

[b]Of course it is.  Why do you think we adopted universal free education in this country?  It wasn't just to educate people in academic subjects; it was to form good citizens to benefit our society and shore up our democracy.   
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In any event, I'll throw in another culprit, which is how our food is grown and processed in this country.  It isn't easy to eat really clean food - food that hasn't been genetically modified, hasn't been processed with chemicals.  Think about cooking oil - the molecular structure changes when it is made through a warm pressed vs. cold pressed method, which is the cheapest and most common way to do it.  So even people cooking from scratch made be using oil that has been processed in a way that our bodies are not used to.  Same with so many other ingredients.  Grain fed vs. grass fed beef differ nutritionally.   My theory is that we're not getting the nutrients we need, which makes us crave more/eat more food in general.  Couple that with the wide-scale availability of foods that we know are not good for us but we want anyway, and it is really hard to maintain a normal weight.[/quote]

Schools can serve healthy food, talk about nutrition, and [i]run[/i] kids for hours, but when the kid comes to school with a Coke in one hand a bag of Cheetos in the other (bought by a parent at the hot dog stand down the street), the whole "healthy food" message is diluted. [/quote]

I don't get it why American schools serve [i]any[/i] food to begin with. It really amazes me. I am an immigrant and went to school in Europe. There was no kitchen in my school. Some students ate snacks during recess (that they brought from home or purchased in neighboring stores) but most children didn't eat anything. You ate before you go to school and then when you get home. It's not like you anybody starved though there were very few (like 1 per 30) overweight children.[/quote]

My kids get on the school bus at 8:30 am and off about 4 pm.  [b] I can't imagine not feeding them for 7.5 hours...[/b][/quote]

But why? What would happen if they didn't eat for 8 hours?[/quote]

They would be so hungry they wouldn't be able to concentrate on their work.[/quote]

Nope.  They'd probably eat every morsel of whatever healthy thing you put on their dinner plate.  And maybe even ask for seconds.  Yep, lima beans, tomatoes, kale, fish, chicken and all.[/quote]

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