The 'food gestapo' no bark all ruffage- strikes again

Ban on so called unhealthy food- and LAUSD still hasnt fully implemented PE after NOT having it for 12 yrs.

Our new school and playground has PE 1 or 2 days a week for 20 min with no shade anywhere on campus (they've played 4 square 7 times ans handball once) now theirs some variation for you

Supersize me was disturbing but a learning experience... Yuck

random thoughts:
and of course, you dont have to be overwt to be unhealthy.
and just cuz something is lo in fat, doesnt mean it contains the healthy kind of fats. check the ingreadient list of the foods your school serves......i have seen many PHO type fats (trans fats) in the products served our kids every day.
and the school lunch menu where i am seems not changed one iota this year, only the soda/candy element of the discretionary snack bar has changed, and foods parents can or cant bring to class parties.

so far from what i can see, all the hoopla seems to have curbed the snack bar/junk food/vending machine revenue the schools were using to cover other deficits and the cafeteria line foods have not been affected...so now schools have to find alternate funding....crazy world.

Originally posted by <beignets&coffee>:
part of the discrepancy may come from this: the wellness policy is govt issued, political, 'face saving' ie look how hard we are trying to combat obesity etc etc etc and the school lunch program is heavily influenced by agribusiness, lobbies, and the convenience food industry trying to brand or groom the next generation. at least, the latter is what the movie SUPERSIZE ME would have one believe. its at the public library, check it out! eyeopening movie, NOT for kids.

I agree. Meanwhile, they get 20 min. of PE a week. I know there are a lot of classes to fit in in a week, but come on! As sort of an aside: My son is 5 & perfectly normal size, but at his last dr. visit, his weight/height ratio was weird. He is sort of bordering on under weight. He has a VERY rigorous appetite (he is constantly eating), but I to feed him nutricious food & he loves to play outside. One of my girlfriends is a FNP & she said they keep changing the norm for w/h ratio because so many kids are getting so heavy. This disturbs me.
I have seen SUPERSIZE ME and was disgusted. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate our school lunch program a 7. They do ok, but could do so much better. They offer some healthy choices, but also use the excuse that they have to serve what the kids will eat. I think that is total &%*#. Kids will eat what you give them, for the most part.

ps- my kids like choc. milk, but they only get it as a treat, every now & then, and they know it is a treat. Of course if you give them a choice between white & choc. & their parents aren't there kids are going to pick choc! By the way, my kids love white milk, but I have no doubt about what they would pick when I'm not around.

Our school used to have a candy cart selling snacks to kids after lunch. I think a lot of schools in our district did. Parents complained and so our school started selling only healthy snacks on the cart. This brought in a nice little bit of revenue for the office. Now our district won't let schools sell any snacks, healthy or not. And now guess who the office is looking to, to replace that lost revenue? The PTO.

lucella, yes, with their cup o ice cream at mid morning, they get chocolate flavored milk, contains of course added sugar or HFCS. i had to FIGHT to get WHITE milk on offer. they said, kids dont drink white milk, so we dont offer it, i said, if you dont offer it, they wont drink it. after my kid left K, they went back to only chocolate milk on offer. so, i cant complain, they did offer white milk to my child and i provided a home brought snack becuase i could not stomach the ice cream and RICE KRISPY TREATS they would give them. just mindboggling. yes thier food budgets are tight, but cheese cant cost that much more than the ice cream cup, yet, they never offered even string cheese. oh well, thats what paretning is for, to do (or undo sometimes!!) what school does as far as food info and habit instillation, goes.

part of the discrepancy may come from this: the wellness policy is govt issued, political, 'face saving' ie look how hard we are trying to combat obesity etc etc etc and the school lunch program is heavily influenced by agribusiness, lobbies, and the convenience food industry trying to brand or groom the next generation. at least, the latter is what the movie SUPERSIZE ME would have one believe. its at the public library, check it out! eyeopening movie, NOT for kids.