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Food in Schools, What do Your Kids Eat?

Posted by Jeanne M. Schmit, Pharm. D. on Fri, Mar 26, 2010 @ 12:12 PM
  
  
  
  

Watch this video on the importance of what kids eat and are taught in schools, and how this affects not only their personal health but the health of the entire nation. Important information even if YOU don't have kids. 

Brain chemicals, neurotransmitters and hormones don't only apply to adults. What children eat and drink (and smoke) directly affects their ability to focus, feel well adjusted, happy and agreeable. It affects their likelihood of obesity, diabetes, ADHD, heart disease, depression and more.

MPR had a program on this same topic this morning. Click here or go to www.minnesota.publicradio.org for the online discussion forum on childhood obesity and school lunches in Minnesota.

Worth 19 minutes of your day. Listen.....

 

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Comments

Great talk. 
An article in this weeks Newsweek discusses Michelle Obama's mission to change our schools lunch programs also. She is a good role model for all of us. 
I like what Paul Chek says about what we put in our mouths and how since conception we are these cells that need to be fed right in order to work correctly. Now when I put food into my mouth, I think of all those little cells that need to be fed nutritious food and not junk!
Posted @ Friday, March 26, 2010 1:31 PM by Laura
I like her passion and just wish I had been more aware of these issues when my family's kids were in school. It is not too late and I am already starting to educate my family as I am educating myself. I think I will be addressing a letter to Michelle Obama to encourage her efforts.
Posted @ Friday, March 26, 2010 6:25 PM by Teresa
I was watching CNN last night and watched an interview with Jamie Oliver. He is committed to teaching people how to cook nurishing and affortable meals. He is concerned with the school cafeterias and goes into classrooms where young children cannot identify common vegetables. His book is about teaching good nutritious meals and how to prepare them.  
 
 
 
Jamie's Food Revolution  
 
by Oliver, Jamie  
 
Rediscover how to cook simple, delicious and affordable meals.  
 
 
 
Posted @ Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:25 AM by Melissa
Last night I watched Jamie Oliver's documentary "Food Revolution" and learned that first graders in West Virginia couldn't identify a potato as the vegetable from which we get the French Fries they were consuming. They also couldn't recognize a tomato when the vine ripe fresh version was passed around their classroom. So, perhaps for "Show & Tell" kids should simply be sent to school with a bag of veggies, it's such a novelty.
Posted @ Saturday, March 27, 2010 10:17 AM by Barb
Several years ago when my daughter started her high school career at SWHS, she came home after the first day of school and announced that she would never eat the school lunch again. This was from a typical teenager who ate more than her fair share of junk food. I was surprised and a little horrified. When the students taste the food and it is bad - that says a lot about the lack of quality in the lunches that is being consumed by our children?
Posted @ Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:54 PM by Doris
My daughter's school does not offer school lunches. They are in the process of trying to figure out how to offer organic/locally grown food for lunch with a $3 per lunch price point. They hope to be able to offer it next school year. If they are able to do this then maybe she'll start buying lunch at school.
Posted @ Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:26 AM by Tamara
What a great topic to think about... School lunches. I have two kids that I pack a lunch for every morning because otherwise they wouldn't eat. Ann's talk opened my eyes wider to what is lacking in School Lunch programs. Thanks for providing a link to her speech.
Posted @ Thursday, April 01, 2010 11:42 AM by Sue
I have also caught some of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution interviews and his new documentary-style television show. He was also mentioned on Gwyneth Paltrow's blog-style website GOOP newsletter this morning.  
 
It's amazing what's being served at schools. It blow my mind actually.... strawberry milk? Really?!? If I had a child eating school lunches, I'd be sending them with the brown bag everyday.  
 
Let's get the vending machines out - a good start!
Posted @ Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:13 PM by Cinda Pfeil
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