Holy Cow! Florida May Ban Chocolate Milk From Schools

Since when is diet soda ,laden with artificial flavours and sweeteners, a healthy menu option? There's no more nutrition in that than in plain water, and much more potentially harmful stuff.

Scientists should be researching the human gene that allows people to feel that they have the right to run around telling everyone how to live their lives, raise their children and what they eat, drink or smoke. The amount of righteousness it takes to do this can only be mustered up by a bunch of pseudo-intellectual progressive elitists. Get your filthy, greasy little hands away from me and my children.

Most kids wont drink any milk if it is taken out. I feel that the schools and the government are going about the "obesity "problem the wrong way. We are looking at the problem from the food point. If you remember back to when we were kids in school, how many recesses did you get? What did you do in gym class? What was your lunch like? What did you do when you went home? How much homework did you get? When I was a kid in primary school, and I am 42, so I went to school in the 70's and 80's, graduating in 1986, I had four recesses, a twenty minute in the morning, a half hour after lunch, a fifteen minute in the afternoon, and one lasting from any where from fifteen minutes to a half hour before we went home, while waiting for the buses. Now, at least in our school district and a few others that I know about, have one recess, and it will last any where from fifteen minutes to a half an hour. That is all the activity the kids get all day while in school. We had a full hour of gym class once a week, and we played hard, ran around playing games, not realizing how much exercise we were getting. Now they jump rope do calisthenics, wheel around on a little scooter thats something like a skate board. The kids aren't as active or are bored in gym class. We use to look forward to gym class every week, it was for most of us, our favorite class. My kids are so bored with gym class. My middle school child gets an inter mural break, once in a while, what do they do, walk around and hang out talking to their friends. Not exercise! They don't do organized games or activities. Our teachers use to throw inter murals in a few times a week for something extra when I was in school, if it was nice out, or if we had a good snowfall for winter activities. The lunches were very good tasting, fresh, homemade, and filling. Not now, everything comes from a can, tastes terrible, and they hardly get any food at all. Our school has instilled a policy of, you can not send in any food to share with the class, no snack, no food for parties. NOTHING is allowed to be brought in, unless your child packs their lunch! All the kids I know of, come home starving, and it's a fight to keep them from snacking and filling up on quick foods and junk when they get home. The kids complain that the food taste so bad, that they can't eat it, most of it is processed food, because it is more convenient for the cooks, and what they do get is in such little amounts that they aren't able to fill up. Well if you don't eat well, you can not work well, think well, perform well! The processed food is very fattening, as we all know, but for some kids this may be their only meal, but thats not the intent of this. Then when the kids come home, other then filling up on junk or quick foods, the kids don't go out and play like we use to, these days the kids really can't in alot of areas safely. The kids sit in front of a computer, play video games, text on cell phones. They don't go out and use their imaginations to play games, go out and get a baseball game with the rest of the neighborhood kids. They don't get exercise any more. They sit, just like they do all day long. Then they start the homework! Some kids, including primary age kids, will sit for an hour to up to three hours doing more school work. What do the kids and the teachers do all day? It seems that more and more, the teachers are sending the work home for the parents to do with the kids. I am a firm believer that they should not have homework, with the exception of studying for a test, once a week, or a spelling test. But the pages of math and other subject that come home, and a lot of days there are at least three to four subjects every night, are taking away from family time. Nowadays both parents are out working, sometimes two jobs, or even long hours, so the time spent with your kids and spent as a family are precious! By the time the kids come home, get their homework done, eat their dinner, get showers it's in a lot of homes time for bed. This is why I think the food that the school are giving our kids is not the problem! Its the amount of exercise the child gets in and after school. Studies have shown that if a kid gets to play throughout the day, they are more attentive in class. So why are they not allowing it in school? Like I asked before what are the teachers doing in school, why is there so much homework coming home at night? Yet they are saying the kids aren't learning as much! WHY?

Yes here is a great idea! Rather than our kids get sugar, lets pump them full of fake sweeteners that cause cancer. This will help them to focus as they battle chemo and killer headaches! They are just trying to save money in the long run. Http://www.savecreatively.com/freestuff.aspx has free samples and more.