The government obsession of obesity and controlling student food choices may result in unintended consequences.
Producing fit workers for the society might just boomerang into producing a generation of children with increasing emotional problems. While the food police is obsessing about regulating calorie and nutritional intake, these nanny platoons may be creating needless anxiety in students.
From Education News:
A new report released this week by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
has suggested that the numerous programs implemented by schools across
the country designed to tackle childhood obesity could be going too far —
and could potentially cause eating disorders.

Not much to say...but,I could see this.....
ReplyDeleteThis is another across-the-board issue like SOPA.
ReplyDeleteHere is a petition:
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/i_support_farmers_vs_monsanto/?akid=472.348826.4i-Ulm&rd=1&t=1
and an Obama push for more "junk" food:
http://redgreenandblue.org/2012/02/22/obama-administration-wants-to-make-gmo-life-even-easier-for-monsanto/
Comment sections on other stories about this topic are filled with people who see the exact same potential and they would know. They all have been struggling with eating disorders.
ReplyDelete