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General: School lunches are U.S. national-security issue - 0 views

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  • hundreds of retired admirals and generals joined Mission: Readiness to show strong support for the 2010 Child Nutrition Act, which seeks to improve school meals and snacks. Thanks to bipartisan leadership in Congress and can-do school food-service professionals, school foods are no longer laden with fat, sugar and sodium. Instead, schools serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
    • landonolson
      landonolson on 10 Mar 16
       
      Even admirals are joining the program
  • The good news is that it’s working
    • landonolson
      landonolson on 10 Mar 16
       
      The OPAA food program is working
  • 90 percent of the nation’s schools are serving healthier meals
    • landonolson
      landonolson on 10 Mar 16
       
      90% of schools are doing this so it must be working
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  • If you’re wondering why a retired general cares about school lunches, know that childhood obesity is a serious national security issue
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      true very true
  • That is why I am alarmed that nearly one in three young adults ages 17 to 24 is too heavy to serve in the military.
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      School lunches are bad so bad kids can't serve in the army. 
  • In addition, though many recruits may suffer injuries to muscles, tendons and bones, people are at far greater risk if they have excess body weight, poor calcium intake or years of inadequate exercise in childhood. The Veterans Administration pays more than $5 billion a year to military personnel disabled by musculoskeletal injuries.
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 11 Mar 16
       
      sad people are in greater risk of dying from being fat not getting murdered. 
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Farm to School - 0 views

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  • Thanks to OPAA! Food Management, children all over Missouri can bite into a fresh, juicy apple straight from a Missouri farm each fall
  • Their mission statement, “Make Their Day,” reflects the company’s desire for the school meal to be the highlight of a child’s day
    • alyssastewart
      alyssastewart on 11 Mar 16
       
      Over exaggerating. 
  • OPAA! achieves this by using quality, fresh food and local food when possible,
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Parents Support Healthier School Food Policies by 3-to-1 Margin - 0 views

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  • “Smart Snacks in School”
    • arianareyes
      arianareyes on 10 Mar 16
       
      The claim is that the Department of Agriculture is trying to set a basic limit on fat, salt, and calories in foods and drinks at school 
  • Most parents hold a mixed or negative opinion of the nutritional quality of snack foods and beverages traditionally sold in schools and consider them to be only somewhat or not at all healthy.
    • arianareyes
      arianareyes on 10 Mar 16
       
      evidence
  • To meet the standards, a snack food must be a fruit, a vegetable, protein, dairy, or whole grain; have fewer than 200 calories; and be low in fat, sodium, and sugar.
    • arianareyes
      arianareyes on 10 Mar 16
       
      resonsing
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Photos Of School Lunches From Around The World Will Make American Kids Want To Study Ab... - 0 views

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  • Parents could model better eating habits and stock their crispers with fresh fruit and vegetables, but a viable starter solution might begin at lunchtime. Sweetgreen, a healthy quick-serve restaurant that values local and organic ingredients, clarified disparity between American student lunches and those of other countries by photographing typical school lunches from around the world. The visuals are eye-opening.
    • alyssastewart
      alyssastewart on 10 Mar 16
       
      The claim is that schools are getting healthy ingredients.Another reason is that the author told use that the kids parents could be role models for their kids by eating healthy food and stocking up on healthy food. And without the healthy lunches kids are becoming over weight.
  • The U.S. government acknowledges that our nation's children should not go hungry, but there's less of an emphasis on what exactly our children are being fed
    • alyssastewart
      alyssastewart on 10 Mar 16
       
      Evidence for the claim is that  New York public schools were equipped with fresh salad bar in their cafeterias.  
  • That's not to say the country is apathetic: U.S. government sectors are making strides to improve the current condition of the food we're serving to our youth.
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  • with a fresh salad bar in their cafeterias
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school lunches in the US compared to other countries - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • that's a problem: It's been found that students who eat school lunches are at a higher risk for being an unhealthy weight.
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      The claim: Kids are at higher risk of getting over weight eating school food.
  • These problems drove Sweetgreen, the rapidly growing chain of salad restaurants that's making a quite a buzz, to start its Sweetgreen in Schools initiative.
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      This is important evidence because it's showing that Sweetgreen is becoming a new food program for schools around the US. 
  • To get a better sense of how unhealthy food given to US schoolchildren really is, Sweetgreen researched what a school lunch looked like in eight other countries. The differences will surprise you.
    • jettmc
      jettmc on 10 Mar 16
       
      This is important reasoning because it's showing that the food program now is not as good as Sweetgreen.
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