Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

health hippy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:42:19 GMT

The problem here is, is that kids will always take the rubbish food over the good food, even if the odd kid doesn't , the majority will. Also even if u completely take away all bad foods and drinks from the menu, the older kids will go to the local chip shop or sweet shop, and the younger kids will bring there own rubbish. Parents are the problem mainly. They eat just as much rubbish as there kids, so the kids grow up on the crap there parents eat, and the parents think theres nothing wrong with wat there giving there kids, either that or there just bad parents who can't controll there kids. the focus should be on the community of parents. Maybe do a campaign one street at a time. And focus on parenting. although saying that, im a libertarian, and don't agree with goverment in peoples houses at all in any way, so the idear would have to be run by the good parents in the community. I think this would be good, because it would make bad parents feel like outcasts if they didnt join in and it could do a lot for peoples social skills to.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

Freedom — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:43:27 GMT

Great Britain is now suffering from Obese children, grossly overweight, who prefer to eat junk food.

It is reported that if the nation continues as it it going on, becoming fat, then children of today may not see 40 years of age because they will be suffering from heart disease, diabetes and other medical problems.

The big food companies are to blame, using sugar and salt and dangerous fats to tempt the consumer with their manufactured products.

Added to this, is the keyboard generation, who sit at home, no exercise, before the PC and TV......a recipe for disaster on biblical generation proportions, if not stopped.

I do feel that as technology moves forwards in leaps and bounds, homo sapien takes one step backwards into oblivion.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

AnnaVon — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:11:19 GMT

What ever happened to lunches brought from home? I hated most of the school lunches when I was growing up, except the day they served spaghetti because it came with a green salad. I learned to eat veggies at home and I loved them. We always had salad and raw veggies at lunch and dinner. I would even trade my dessert for more salad. I think that the whole thing needs to start at home. If they are brought up with good food, they will make good choices on their own. I think having them to offer is great. I remember struggling in high school and college to find something healthy to eat when I didn't have time to pack a lunch.

I think the home schooling idea is great for those who can. I know several families in my church who home school and the kids are the best behaved and best educated kids I have ever known.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

curious7 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:30:33 GMT

When will realize that in order for our children to make healthy food choices, we as parents have to start out by making healthy fodd choices before our children at a very early age. Show them, rather than tell them. Start very early, and be consistant. Kids imitate what we as parents do. If we have poor food habits so will they.

We all know the Government is "out to lunch" when it comes to doing the right thing, so we as parents need to study all available resources and understand what constitutes a good balanced diet, traditional, and otherwise. Some of our children have decieded to be vegetarians, or vegans, so as responsible parents it is up to us to guide, no condemn our children when they deciede to go flesh free. Only the uninformed have died from a vegan, or vegetarian diet.

On the other hand many of us are dying daily because of what we put into our mouths,or refuse to put into our mouths. We need Adam, and Eve's diet, Gods original diet for mankind.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

m5th — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:26:05 GMT

Hi all, My oldest didn't have sugar until she was almost 2. After that it was rarely. She would choose frozen peas (on her own) over ice cream. My MOTHER would sneak her taboo foods and then argue with me and make a big production over the issue. I teach and the high schools have the fast food places cater their lunches. Teachers give candy as rewards, and why they need rewards like that, I don't know. It is hard to get a school to change. I don't know that this new dietary rules will matter. I just send my kids' lunches with what is healthy and that they like. I had parents ask me how I got my kids to eat healthy. Most kids that brought lunch from home would have candy, cookies, pop and lunchables because they packed it themselves. A lot of it does come from home, but the schools need to make it available. Isn't it a teaching opportunity??

Mary

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

samurai — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:37:41 GMT

I HAVE FLAT OUT GIVEN UP ON THE TEXAS SCHOOLS. I ASKED SOMEONE ONCE (WITH WHOM I HAD TO COMMUNICATE IN SPANISH BECAUSE THE EMPLOYEES DON'T KNOW ENGLISH) ABOUT THE "HEALTHFUL" PARTS OF THE LUNCHES. SHE SHOWED ME A CAN OF PEACHES WITH SLIMY, SUGARY, HFCS ALL OVER THE PEACHES.

I GUESS MY CHILD HAS TO EAT CRAP IN THE DAY, AND WELL AT NIGHT.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

Komic Kaze — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:11:43 GMT

If you embrace a healthy lifestyle as a parent, you children will pick it up. When I went to school, from kindergarten until 12th grade, I always had a bag lunch. Sure, people made fun of me sometimes, but I knew on s subconscious level that the foods provided were not of any nutritional or sensical value. I was sitting there with a whole grain sandwich and 100% juice boxes while the children who had unfortunately grown up in poverty were forced to eat the rubbish that was churned out through the public school system. You could say it is not in the budget, but how important is the health of our future? Can you really put a price on that? Is it really necessary to keep feeding them yellow cheese and nutrition-stripped buns?

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JoelMeyers — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:10:17 GMT

It is good to see concern about nutrition in school food, at long last. However, I have some doubts about hummus. Hummus is basically mashed chick peas or garbanzos, and as such are largely starch and extremely carbonaceous. Too many students, hummus will contribute to obesity tendencies. Legumes combined with grains can provide proteins, but, like soy beans, chick peas contain larger amounts of protease inhibitors than most other legumes, making the protein they contain bio-unavailable. Hummus may be considered with more positive respect because it is relatively newly introduced into American eating habits, and because it has a multicultural appeal. An exotic quality may often help overcome the contempt of familiarity. But these considerations have nothing to do with nutritional merit, which has to be analyzed scientifically. A scientific analysis may well determine that hummus is just another junk food, tempting for its cheapness from budgetary calculations.

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Sray — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:33:39 GMT

I was raised in public schools, am age 60, and my mother was a sugar-lover. To be honest, it has been a real battle, all these years, to motivate myself for real learning - by myself - and to continue with even a reasonably sugar free diet. Sugar foods are something i go back to as "mother's milk" in times of stress, and this seems to be a very difficult obstacle. I have a copy of my birth records from 1946 with a handwritten note from the MD telling my mother to add a high percentage of Karo Syrup, for God's sake, to my baby formula. So, I had sugar from day one, or before (in utero). Strangely, I have found that going to extremes, like following Gabriel Cousins GREEN CUISINE which is very low glycemic and 100% raw diet, seems to work, if and when I can muster the will to get through the first week. A time comes after awhile on that diet where my cravings subside and I seem to enter another world. It has become a sort of refuge today, I stay close to that, otherwise I don't sleep well, I get energy swings etc. As far as vaccines go, before I went to Vietnam (I was drafted) , I was required to walk through a little room where 4 to 6 men were standing, 2 or 3 on each side. They had air powered hypodermics and each one gave me multiple shots. In a matter of maybe 2 minutes I had maybe 25 or 30 or more shots. Today, about 38 years later, both my upper arms still continually ache, where those shots went in. There is no moment, day or night, when I am free from that upper arm pain. While I wonder what they gave me probably I don't want to know. 20 years ago I was naive enough to believe that long fasting, Bikram yoga, marathon running, using wheatgrass, doing raw foods and colon cleansing would take away that arm pain. I did many years of those things, the arm pain never changed. Anybody have ideas?

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c.j. — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:59:43 GMT

My daughter's school didn't even offer any healthy choices. It is all junk food and it is microwaved. They had a central kitchen and sent it to the schools and then was reheated in a microwave. Talk about unhealthy. We recently moved to a new school system and when signing her up, I asked about the food and pop machines. You would have thought I was the devil. I was told that they did turn the pop machine off at lunch but was on the rest of the day. Also they said that there was juice in the machine, I asked what kind 100% or junk juice drink? They told me that juice was juice there was no difference. I said well where is your machine I looked and there was not even one good juice. They looked at me like I was stupid when I said this is not good to drink. There was no bottled water to choose from except from the drinking fountain and they acted like i was from another planet for even suggesting it -They do have drinking fountains, duh. I said sure tap water. i don't allow my daughter to drink tap water. They then informed me that she could not bring her own bottled water except one for lunch and would have to drink from the fountain if she got thirsty any other time of the day. now is that even trying? no, I have an answer though with her medical conditions, I had the doctor order her to have bottled water with her at all times in school and the scholl is not happy about it one bit but have to comply.

re: Hummus -- One Healthy Food Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

Patty D — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:15:18 GMT

Maybe they should ban junk food commercials on TV like they banned cigarette adds. After all, they are killing even more people than cigarette!

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Ber — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:28:17 GMT

Hummus is a regular snack in our school and my kids either eat what we have or go without. They never or rarely choose that option. Yes, we are homeschooled but I feel that is the way we should do our Public schools too.

I am not an advocate for closing the public system but it does, IMHO, need a huge overhaul. I pay my taxes willingly and yet do not use the system. I have that choice, some do not. We have a responsibility to make sure every child in this country gets a good education. That education should not be limited to academics but health and safety and common sense.

Our children should not be a place for selfish gain, politics, and big business. Companies should not be allowed to use those facilities to condition our children to perfer fat, fried, poison foods. I also believe that it is going to get worse before better.

Ber

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seg — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:11:38 GMT

Nowadays, If we look around us we can see more junk than anything else on this planet and not only in cafeterias. The media, one of the biggest culprit out there, especially in the last few decades, have done so much harm to our kids with all their deceptive marketing, it'll take generations to correct this evil. Yes all in name of the almighty dollar.

It's so bad that even parents are so caught up with this crap. In some cases i have to say and based on what I'VE seen, some PARENTS are worse than their kids, so kids do what they see their parents do, as the old saying goes monkey see , monkey do.

Parents keep the kids away from this marketing deception, which is mostly via the tube and start educating yourself by making healthier choices, in short start setting good examples for your kids to follow. You'd be amazed how much kids will learn if you start setting good examples for them to follow.....

re: Hummus Among Healthier Foods Fighting for School Cafeteria Space

jennifer howard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:34:13 GMT

I know that I we are not the only ones going "why are you giving school children choices about eating garbage or healthily?!". For goodness sakes, have some common sense. At the end of Supersize Me there was a company shown that provides schools with whole, fresh foods for the same amount of money as it costs to feed kids conventional school lunches. Therefore, the "it's more expensive" excuse does not fly. Also, giving kids less unhealthy versions of unhealthy food will not work and is not worth the effort. Does this not send the message that "you should be eating pizza"? Have some backbone and take the initiative, don't give children the choice. Adults are authority figures for a reason, they know better sometimes.