At least she is being really proactive in trying to implement healthier eating in the schools and around the nation.. I commend her for taking a step forward in trying....
Hi Alex!
To toss in my two cents...
I agree that attempting to provide healthier food choices to children in schools is a commendable thing.
At least the children that have been taught to enjoy more wholesome food, will have it available.
However, the childhood obesity problem starts (and will have to end) in the home.
Children have always brought their eating (and other) habits and attitudes from home to school.
Eating "healthy" at school and poorly at home will not not solve the obesity problem.
I will admit that the kids may get a few more vitamins and minerals... That's a good thing.
But just imagine how lousy the F2S lifestyle would work out if it were practiced only part-time?
Also, consider the government's high-carb "food pyramid" promoted to us and our children as "healthy".
Living the F2S lifestyle, we know that it's a surefire roadmap to obesity in children as well as adults.
Even if those so-called "healthy" high-carb choices were available, we know the obese kids would not become skinnier eating them.
In far too many cases, such as this one, the government gets involved but doesn't know what it's doing.
Ignorant intervention is a good way to aggravate, and not solve, problems.
Which, in turn, fosters even more government involvement... The vicious cycle is obvious.
The solution lies in changing our cultural values, which would our change families, which would lead to healthier kids.
