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[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 think eating healthy requires either $ OR time. I fully agree with what you’ve said (eating healthy is MUCH cheaper if you know what you are doing) but a lot of times lower income homes also have a lot of family problems/instability and other issues such as lack of a car to transport groceries home, no fully functioning kitchen/storage, cooking knowledge etc. So, it is easier to just get frozen pizza, microwave stuff, snack food or whatever. [/quote]

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