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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These rules are in place because some people really don't know about healthy eating.  When I was a high school teacher, I can't tell you how many students I saw eating flaming hot cheetos and a coke for breakfast.  Healthy eating habits are established at a young age.  Kids that eat cheetos and coke for breakfast in high school probably ate something equally appalling in elementary school and middle school because their parents either didn't know better or weren't around to fix them a proper lunch. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  I lived on those things in high school, as did most of my friends. I ate them because they were yummy, quick, easy, and as a teenager earning my own money no one was really picking out my food so I bought the stuff I wanted.

Growing up however, my mom cooked very healthy foods, simple meals, often veggie, always lots of fruits and vegetables.  We might have fast food or restaurant food maybe once a month to celebrate someone's birthday or the first day of school and sweets truly were a treat.  If I ate at home as a teen, it was the same healthy fare.

Given the choice as a young adult, I picked junk, in spite of how I was raised.  (Think of how so many teens make [i]many[/i] bad choices in life,[i] in spite [/i]of what their parents taught them.  Food is no different than drinking, smoking, speeding, sex, staying out past curfew, etc.)[/quote]

Right. But that doesn't mean we should just stop trying to be a positive influence.  So according to you, we shouldn't bother making rules to encourage healthy eating because they will just end up making bad choices anyway.[/quote]

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