Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.
This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.
The food is definitely terrible, but the parents contribute to make it even worse. I was giving my kids a small pack of goldfish and a banana for snack. Their friends are almost uniformly bringing skittles, pockies, gummy bears, and other bullsh*t so I'm constantly getting told how I'm such a strict parent. I pointed out that like half the kids in their school are fat and they rebut with "not in our class" (they are in the AAP class where somehow the kids eat garbage for snack and are still thin). My response is that their friends will have diabetes soon after college. It's so unfortunate what we are doing to our kids in America. I went to school in Germany as a kid and the food there is actually like a home-cooked meal with actual food groups compared to what we get in the US.
So, the AAP class and the “other” kids all eat the same snacks, AAP is thin, other kids are fat. Why are you still convinced the school snack is the issue?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it make you sad? Unpack that.
Not OP but I find it sad too. It is gross that people have let themselves get like this.
Why is it gross?
Honestly. Some bodies are bigger. It does not effect you AT ALL. You have been culturally brainwashed to hate fat people. THAT is the main problem. Thankfully, it’s also a problem YOU can fix.
Because obesity is an illness that causes us all money.
Ok. So are you attacking the cultural institutions that CREATE obesity? Or are you saving all your outrage for the most vulnerable in society?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it make you sad? Unpack that.
Not OP but I find it sad too. It is gross that people have let themselves get like this.
Why is it gross?
Honestly. Some bodies are bigger. It does not effect you AT ALL. You have been culturally brainwashed to hate fat people. THAT is the main problem. Thankfully, it’s also a problem YOU can fix.
Because obesity is an illness that causes us all money.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it make you sad? Unpack that.
Not OP but I find it sad too. It is gross that people have let themselves get like this.
Why is it gross?
Honestly. Some bodies are bigger. It does not effect you AT ALL. You have been culturally brainwashed to hate fat people. THAT is the main problem. Thankfully, it’s also a problem YOU can fix.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why does it make you sad? Unpack that.
Not OP but I find it sad too. It is gross that people have let themselves get like this.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.
This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.
The food is definitely terrible, but the parents contribute to make it even worse. I was giving my kids a small pack of goldfish and a banana for snack. Their friends are almost uniformly bringing skittles, pockies, gummy bears, and other bullsh*t so I'm constantly getting told how I'm such a strict parent. I pointed out that like half the kids in their school are fat and they rebut with "not in our class" (they are in the AAP class where somehow the kids eat garbage for snack and are still thin). My response is that their friends will have diabetes soon after college. It's so unfortunate what we are doing to our kids in America. I went to school in Germany as a kid and the food there is actually like a home-cooked meal with actual food groups compared to what we get in the US.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.
This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.
This is what they offer to ALL kids at ALL public schools now.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
I work in a Title 1 school and see what they serve the kids for free breakfast, lunch, and snack. All microwaved processed foods like hot dogs, cheesy pretzels, chocolate milk, nachos with cheese dip, etc.
Anonymous wrote:Compare the Sidwell lunch menu to your local public and you have your answer. Add in food deserts, too.
Anonymous wrote:Go to any area where the average income is under 70k. This is absolutely believable.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This I definitely believe. Once I leave the DMV area, I end up looking downright skinny with my 5'4" 170 lb body.
I'm originally from the Bay Area, grew up in Socal coastal area, and when I moved to the DC area we went to a fair, and omg... I was shocked at how there were so many obese people.
Large metro areas tend to have less obese people. Once you get out of the large metro areas, it's really shocking.
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Anonymous wrote:This I definitely believe. Once I leave the DMV area, I end up looking downright skinny with my 5'4" 170 lb body.
