http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/health/research/08childhood.html
The above New York Times health article is an important battle I fight in our local school cafeteria. I wrote about this last year in my online Clarion Ledger Op-Ed column. Parents should also get involved, as it is an issue and affects so many, from food choices to the number of extra food sales offered.
Those "extra" food items offered in addition to the purchase of a cafe tray are often laden with fat, sodium and sugar grams. Food effects performance. No way around that.
Parents are not always aware of the problem as the extras are deducted from a child's account without parent notification. At our school, kids can get as many extra Snickers ice cream bars as their pocketbooks allow. So often, I see the kids eat the extra chips and ice cream bars without touching the tray food.
Food service administrators are quick to say the extra food sales fund worker salaries and equipment. They are not funded from the state but are self supporting. And the kids love it and the freedom to buy without abandon. That doesn't work for those who eat nothing but the snacks without the tray food.
It happens everyday in a school cafeteria near you. And by the way, or weigh, we still have that nasty little obesity problem in Mississippi.
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