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I couldn't pick 3, so I went with "other".
I believe students are fed nutritional meals in school. Only because there is an authoritive standard that must be met.
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I wish this were the case. Sadly, it is often - even usually - quite the opposite. Strongly recommend: the documentary
Super Size Me. Soda and candy machines are the norm in school cafeterias. Choices include pizza, fries, and too many low nutrition/high-fat and sugar foods.
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Parents not only should monitor, and prepare healthy, balanced meals for their children, they should also monitor what children watch on television, and motivate them to get outside, and burn off the excess energy.
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Hard to eat real well in front of the computer and TV where we spend more and more of our time. Or when we go out to eat - and the portions are huge.
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Parents and school teachers alike, should hold themselves to standards that would instill proper eating habits, and exercise.
A healthy mind goes with a healthy body, in most cases. Education is crucial in all aspects of healthy living.
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Schools are often cutting back on arts, music...even physical education.
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"Obesity" is a catch word...a politically correct term used in describing 'Fat'. Obesity is actually a inherited disease. Being fat is not an inherited disease, rather an instilled weakness.
These are some of my thoughts, and understandings...opinions, if you will.
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"Obesity" is fat, morbid obesity is 20% or more over ideal body weight. Our diets and lifestyles have changed so much in the last hundred years our bodies aren't keeping up. The average American eats something like a
hundred pounds a year of refined sugar. And we've gone indoors and gotten sedentary.
The norm is beginning to change at fast food franchises. The documentary noted above helped get McDonalds to stop super sizing us.
It's funny. Open up a lot of newspapers and magazines or watch a TV show and half the ads are for big burgers, awesome deserts and the like - the other half are for weight loss products and programs...and the articles show way too skinny celebs and models.
Oh well.
Regards,
Keith
