I'm watching The Wright Stuff at the moment (it's a British tv show where they discuss current issues, and you can phone and text in your opinions)
At the moment they're discussing the relatively new government drive to put healthy meals in schools (which was very publicly kicked off by Jamie Oliver's tv show - to be honest I can't believe that it took television to push them to do it, but there you are) and the fact that so many children refuse to eat the meals, that they're considering scrapping them.
This is so stupid, it really is. Most parents won't be bothered to cook their children healthy meals, and a lot of these kids aren't really getting healthy food whatsoever, children barely eat any fruit, vegetables, decent-quality meat. The amount of additives in preservatives in school is not healthy for children; they've been shown to aggravate behavioral problems and particularly been linked to conditions to ADHD (which can be controlled by diet). A lot of teachers have noticed their classes being better behaved since the healthy meals have been introduced.
Then you have problems like the women who used to sell crisps and sweets through the school gates when the 'threat' of healthy meals of introduced in their children's schools. They say that children should get what they want, when really... the opposite is true. Children rarely know what's good for them, and encouraging them and helping them to defy school rules is definitely going to insight them to eat unhealthily, if only for the sake of rebellion and the feeling that they're doing something 'a bit naughty'. If you undermine authority figures and let children do exactly what they want, they're always going to have the idea that there's a way around the rules, they won't respect authority and in general they'll become badly behaved (and if the old school meals return, obese).
When I was a kid, I had school meals, and I ate them no matter what. They weren't particularly healthy (or nice, for that matter) but I still ate them because I was supposed to, I think really the issue around this isn't that the new, healthy meals are awful (largely, they're not) I think it's a matter of discipline and a lack of respect for authority figures like your parents, like your teachers.
Giving up a perfectly good healthy eating program because stupid children are complaining is utterly pathetic and it shows a complete lack of sense and perseverance. This is important, we want the best for our children and healthy eating is hugely important, to give up so soon after it's been introduced because of a bit of whinging is giving children too much control and it will severely affect their health now and in the future. If we don't budge on the issue, they'll get used to it, realise that it's not all that bad, and carry on a better pattern of eating in the future.
I'll stop ranting now, I just think that people are idiots and it annoys me. ^-^
xx x
At the moment they're discussing the relatively new government drive to put healthy meals in schools (which was very publicly kicked off by Jamie Oliver's tv show - to be honest I can't believe that it took television to push them to do it, but there you are) and the fact that so many children refuse to eat the meals, that they're considering scrapping them.
This is so stupid, it really is. Most parents won't be bothered to cook their children healthy meals, and a lot of these kids aren't really getting healthy food whatsoever, children barely eat any fruit, vegetables, decent-quality meat. The amount of additives in preservatives in school is not healthy for children; they've been shown to aggravate behavioral problems and particularly been linked to conditions to ADHD (which can be controlled by diet). A lot of teachers have noticed their classes being better behaved since the healthy meals have been introduced.
Then you have problems like the women who used to sell crisps and sweets through the school gates when the 'threat' of healthy meals of introduced in their children's schools. They say that children should get what they want, when really... the opposite is true. Children rarely know what's good for them, and encouraging them and helping them to defy school rules is definitely going to insight them to eat unhealthily, if only for the sake of rebellion and the feeling that they're doing something 'a bit naughty'. If you undermine authority figures and let children do exactly what they want, they're always going to have the idea that there's a way around the rules, they won't respect authority and in general they'll become badly behaved (and if the old school meals return, obese).
When I was a kid, I had school meals, and I ate them no matter what. They weren't particularly healthy (or nice, for that matter) but I still ate them because I was supposed to, I think really the issue around this isn't that the new, healthy meals are awful (largely, they're not) I think it's a matter of discipline and a lack of respect for authority figures like your parents, like your teachers.
Giving up a perfectly good healthy eating program because stupid children are complaining is utterly pathetic and it shows a complete lack of sense and perseverance. This is important, we want the best for our children and healthy eating is hugely important, to give up so soon after it's been introduced because of a bit of whinging is giving children too much control and it will severely affect their health now and in the future. If we don't budge on the issue, they'll get used to it, realise that it's not all that bad, and carry on a better pattern of eating in the future.
I'll stop ranting now, I just think that people are idiots and it annoys me. ^-^
xx x
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I never ate heathy stuff when I was a kid
I know they say 'obesity' is a common trend in todays youth
but is it really about diet?
Growing up we stayed out of the house for the most part
running about you know, Now I look at my sisters kids and
they sit in front of the TV all day playing games,
comes to mind that phrase-"kill your TV"