Federal snack program does not yield expected impacts
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...70817131134.htm
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I think a 100 percent compliance with "healthy" snacks would likely lead mostly to students not buying snacks at school. Which might not be the worst thing in the world. For somebody whose just completed study showed this intervention to be just about effectless, Serrano is wonderfully supportive of the program. It's good that she has her feelings to guide her in this. Maybe next time instead of funding a study, the government should just consult an empath. Quote:
Yes. Maybe what counts as "health food" because it's low in fat, or at least saturated fat, and salt is indistinguishable from junk food. Maybe the problem never was that kale wasn't an option. Make nine out of ten snack options as appealing to kids as kale, and you'll find kids making a lot of their choices from that last ten percent. |
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Wow, a study driven by emotion and the intuition that it's just right for the kids. Sad that the healthy whole grain, low fat, low salt substitutes simply fuel the carb addition already reinforced by eating and snacking outside of school. Unfortunately, the concept of healthy is distorted, and this, once again, loose epidemiological "study" is unlikely to provide any significant change, even if it can be claimed to be "less bad" than the standard snack food previously served: Quote:
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:lol: If I remember correctly, that strategy was employed by the White House in the '80s. Maybe instead of a study, the government could do this one simple step: 1. Only provide healthy food at schools. No need to do a study about what kids are eating at school then. As long as they're eating from the food provided, it's healthy. |
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But there's no agreement on what healthy food even is. There were plenty of people outraged at Mrs. Obama trying to instill certain food into schools on principle , as well. "Who is she to tell us what our kids should eat?" I remember when Jamie Oliver instituted a healthy meal program as a pilot program, I think it was, in a school and parents were throwing packages of snacks over the fence for their kids. I don't remember vending machines in schools when I was a kid, but we used to flock to nearby stores for candy, a bakery and an ice cream shop. |
How about no snacks, just a water fountain?
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That's the good old days, when I went to school. No vending machines just water fountains. Jean |
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Yeah, I know, so step 0 would have to be that the government would adopt my understanding of what healthy food is. :lol: My kids' elementary school had a 'no candy/junk food' policy. But they couldn't enforce it because if they confiscated candy, the parent would complain that the school had taken away their child's 'food'. However, a group of enterprising parents did manage to get chocolate milk removed from the cafeteria. I don't know what the current status is. Maybe by now another group has counter-petitioned to get it back on. The other horrible thing is just the sheer amount of food waste going on. And it's often the relatively good food that is thrown away. One smart thing the school did was to take all the fruit no one ate at breakfast, slice it up, and serve it at recess. By then all the kids who had only eaten the breakfast 'cookie', (which gets nothing but scorn from me for the disgusting concoctions these companies devise to be able to claim to be meeting federal guidelines, and for instilling in children the idea that a cookie is a healthy breakfast) were hungry and had no other options, unless their parents had conspired to provide them with candy. My schools, forty years ago, didn't have vending machines either. But there was ice cream for sale in the cafeteria, at least in middle school and up. And of course teens can sometimes walk somewhere local to get junk food. I'm fine with that. I just don't want the school to be providing it. |
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