Healthy Eatingin schools? too over the top?
952704
that's a drag for sure. when my daughter was in middle school, all she wanted to eat for lunch was the salad bar...the lunch lady told her she could not have salad unless she had at least 2 items off the regular menu...gross out fried food she wasn't used to eating. so she refused. and believe it or not, they put her on salad bar restriction!!!! she just started taking her lunch to school forever after that. you might just hafta brown bag it in order to eat what you like and what is healthiest for you.
1120241
i think you would have to set a standard of what you would call healthy then... i think youd be better off teaching what healthy eating is, and then let people make up thier own minds
142931
I think so. I also feel its wrong for our culture to promote extreme dieting when there are people starving to death all over the world. Ironically, we are spending huge amounts of money and time to try and achieve the same emaciated look that people all over the world are trying to escape having. Our culture really just needs to look sensably at food, it is a gift and we should eat enough to make us full and keep us healthy.
749728
Obesity\n\nDiabetes\n\nCardiovascular disease\n\nDental Caries\n\nCancer\n\nMetabolic Syndrome\n\nADHD\n\nDepression/Affective Disorders\n\nAlzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases\n\nOsteoporosis\n\netc.  \n\nEvery chronic disease is related to poor dietary choices.  Schools should not be supporting poor health habits that cause major health problems by selling junk food.
1097857
I worked at a place where a class like that was taught!!  It is called Family Life Seminar and teaches life skills like budgeting, organization and nutrition.  It was put on by Parkview Hospital and Habitat for Humanity.  If you have either of those associations in your area, ask them.  Or try your county's Youth Services Bureau, it was part of their classes they provided for the community.  Don't get me wrong, it SHOULD be taught in schools, but it isn't at least not in my area anyways.
517443
Yes, because there are many children out there for whom school lunches are the only decent meal they receive all day.  Some may question the nutritional benefits of the meals. I believe it is every concerned parent's responsiblity and right to check into the nutritional values of these meals.  They can then weigh their options whether to let their children eat the school lunches or rather pack a lunch for them.
844337
Yes, make sure you exercise a lot, but not so much that it stresses you out. Eat healthy stuff of course. Stay away from sugar as much as possible. I'm sure you can figure out yourself what is healthy and what is not. Eat at the same time every day so you get into habit (like breafast, lunch, and dinner). I hope this helps!\nPS: It's good to eat a big breafast, and smaller lunch. It helps with school too! I'm not kiddin
264025
Discourage it... kids need to learn how to eat better..... dieting has a negative connotation.  Kids need to learn about portion size, moderation, and what foods are good for their body.
970696
well for starters you need to eat more than just when you come home from school.  starving ones self does not cause you to lose weight... it causes the body to go into starvation mode and slows down the metabolism.  it is important to eat breakfast.  actually healthy people tend to eat six small meals a day and example would be a bowl of healthy cereal for breakfast with low fat milk, piece of fruit for a snack, lunch maybe say low fat yogurt and an apple, then a snack of veggies, then dinner maybe a tuna sandwich made with out mayo or butter on whole grain low fat bread with a side of veggies, and then for a later snack a healthy granola bar... something along those lines figure in probably a few more calories than what i listed... just make sure you are getting the right amount of calories. probably about 1400-2000 depending on your activity level.  you can find out how many calories are in any given food by looking at the side of it or for fruit and veggies you can look up on line.  remember to consider portion size.  also cut out any soda, juice or other sugar based drinks.  also remember the food pyramid suggests that most of our food comes from veggies/fruit and whole grains. you really need to exercise too not just to lose weight just to be healthy.  exercise does not need to be really hard it could be a brisk 20 min walk everyday with a friend after school.  maybe you could talk to your school nurse or the school health teacher about healthy eating habits and how they effect your body.
877643
yes of course! it's important to eat healty food, to keep shape. don't worry: i don't eat vegetables evey lunch, i not a cow! but,it's true i hate soda and coke, i prefer orange juice.\nmy parents didn't serve it up to me when i was young, especially about coke and soda, but, now they do. it's important you know. and with good food, few illness.
917096
As a health and phys ed teacher and nutrition nut - I would answer yes. The only thing I would really say is that it shouldn't be the whole day. Try to make it one a meal. You don't want to sabotage a whole weeks worth of great progress. One meal is totally except able. Its even mentioned in a very good book called the ABS Diet. Not eating these foods is to deny yourself. If u have nothing to look forward to in your diet than your setting yourself up for failure.\nModeration is ok - Remember 1 MEAL and that's it.
232167
I guess they are, the commercials do not lie. (lol) but I think the idea is totaly fake because you get distracted by so many other things while ur learning @ home. You could be in the middle of a lecture or something, and then decide that u need a snack. Real school are just so much easier
857350
I'm a high school teacher, and I think it would be interesting to look at eating disorders among high school athletes, particularly wrestlers.  There is tremendous pressure on these young men to maintain their weight and ranking.  There has been enough written and research regarding young women, but I think that school-sanctioned disordered eating patterns in wrestlers and football players needs to be investigated.
572557
I know that a lot of snacks are already outlawed in schools, and with the way Government seems to be going, I wouldn't completely rule it out, but I'm figuring the snack food industry makes a lot of revenue, revenue that the government would not get their share of if they did outlaw snack foods. Therefore I would say that even though the possibility is there, the probability is not.
457921
It's complicated. Teachers need to find the balance between installing good values while not contradicting what the children are taught at home. I would say that teachers should protect the children from harm when they are in their care. Although the teachers can educate the children on healthy eating, they can not control what parents actually choose to feed them.
524867
I am currently in med school, and my limited experience has shown that you can eat whatever you can tolerate. At the very worst you may end up with some fatty stools or pain. whatever you can tolerate you can have. just make sure it doesn't hurt the Diabetes or BP :)
543302
One of my friends used to be anorexic. She went to the doctor one day for headaches and come to find out, she had a brain tumor because of it. If you are still in school, go to the guidance counselor or talk to her parents. Definitely not healthy.