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Hunger in the Schools

Traveler

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Thanks Michelle.

http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2012/09/23/complaints_mount_against_michelle_obamas_new_lunch_menu
 

Mike

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I remember well during JFK's term, the goal in schools was to create a healthier student body through athletics and exercise.

All students were tested at the beginning of the school year for number of sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, timed in 50 & 100 yard sprints, etc.. At the end of the year we were tested again and the results were astounding.

I guess Michelle is preparing the kids to an impending 3rd world country status where food will not be nearly as plentiful?

If "health" were part of Michelle's goal, there would be an equal emphasis exercise program?
 

TexasBred

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Mike said:
I remember well during JFK's term, the goal in schools was to create a healthier student body through athletics and exercise.

All students were tested at the beginning of the school year for number of sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, timed in 50 & 100 yard sprints, etc.. At the end of the year we were tested again and the results were astounding.

I guess Michelle is preparing the kids to an impending 3rd world country status where food will not be nearly as plentiful?

If "health" were part of Michelle's goal, there would be an equal emphasis exercise program?

The only exercise Michelle gets is in her roll as a dark skinned, black headed, double breasted matress thrasher.
 

Mike

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TexasBred said:
Mike said:
I remember well during JFK's term, the goal in schools was to create a healthier student body through athletics and exercise.

All students were tested at the beginning of the school year for number of sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, timed in 50 & 100 yard sprints, etc.. At the end of the year we were tested again and the results were astounding.

I guess Michelle is preparing the kids to an impending 3rd world country status where food will not be nearly as plentiful?

If "health" were part of Michelle's goal, there would be an equal emphasis exercise program?

The only exercise Michelle gets is in her roll as a dark skinned, black headed, double breasted matress thrasher.

Funny! :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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Retired military chiefs: Obesity levels mean US is 'too fat to fight'

By Elise Viebeck - 09/25/12 04:13 PM ET


Spiking rates of childhood obesity are a threat to national security and demand government intervention, according to retired military leaders.

In a report entitled "Still Too Fat to Fight" that was released Tuesday, the advocacy group "Mission: Readiness" described obesity as an epidemic that poses a direct challenge to military effectiveness.

The group called on Congress to continue supporting stricter nutrition standards for school lunches — the kind that have become controversial among small-government conservatives.


"As retired admirals and generals, we know that America is not powerless in the face of this insidious epidemic," Mission wrote. "Getting the junk food out of our schools is the obvious next step in our efforts to address the childhood obesity crisis."

In one sense, the report states, obesity means the military has a smaller pool of eligible members because 1 in 4 Americans is too overweight to join.

Combined with other disqualifying factors — including criminal backgrounds and poor education — excess weight means that an estimated 75 percent of young adults could not serve in the military even if they desired to, according to the report.

But obesity poses what may be an even greater challenge to existing service members, whose performance the group believes is negatively affected by excess weight.

According to the report, many recruits have to undergo remedial physical fitness instruction prior to basic training, and excess weight also leads to more sprains and stress fractures in the field.

"All of these unhealthy situations can have an impact on military readiness," the report states. "Injured soldiers often cannot be deployed with their units and a soldier's failure to pass the military's physical fitness tests can result in discharge.

"Worse, more soldiers were evacuated from Iraq or Afghanistan for serious sprains and fractures than for combat injuries … While it is true that even fully fit soldiers suffer strains or fractures … overweight or less-fit young men and women are at higher risk for these injuries."

Members of Mission are senior retired military leaders who call for "smart investments in America's children."

Their report praised government action against obesity, specifically efforts by municipalities such as Philadelphia and New York City to reduce junk food in schools.


U.S. students consume 400 billion calories from junk food sold in schools each year, or more weight than the aircraft carrier Midway, according to the report.


"As Former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it’s clear to us that our military readiness could be put in jeopardy given the fact that nearly 75 percent of young Americans are unable to serve in uniform. We joined Mission: Readiness because we believe that investing in our children through early education is not a Republican issue or Democratic issue. It’s a plain common sense issue critical to our National Security."
- General Henry H. Shelton
- General John M. Shalikashvili
(General Shelton and the late General Shalikashvili helped launch Mission: Readiness)

http://www.missionreadiness.org/


Seems as tho our ex-military leaders agree with our First Lady- Mrs. Obama...
 

loomixguy

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Although my son, who, at 15 is over 6'2" and weighs 230, can eat his weight in groceries every week, comes home from football practice ravenous, it's not just his age laying the hunger smackdown on him. According to him, the kiddies in Kindergarten are receiving the exact same meal and portion size as the high school kids do at lunch.

WTF is up with that? Since when is Moochelle a nutritionist? For that matter, when was the last time she ever fixed lunch for her two kids? Wish the biatch would keep her nose outta where it has no business.
 

okfarmer

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So let me get this straight, the military can't get their recruits in shape, but because the college football players are so much faster, stronger and heavier from muscle mass that they have had to change the rules of the game due to the athletic ability of the players. Someone is full of BS and I have a hunch it is the people wanting to control others. If colleges can take kids out of the same high schools and do more with them than the military, maybe we should look at that. Also, your argument fails miserably when you look at caloric content of military meals. So, since lack of activity appears to be the main concern- maybe outlawing kids from working should be reconsidered. It is a matter of national defense. Your dear leader is jeapardizing our sovereignty at the same time of jeapardizing family farms, small businesses, and the kids themselves.
 

Bootheel

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I don't believe increasing or decreasing rations at school is going to make any difference whatsoever. If the youngin's are not fed at home, they sure aren't going to put on any weight with the food like product served at the cafeteria. My children come home weak, famished, grumpy....just like I did. And just like me, they eat when they get home and are skinny, what used to be normal, wormy looking kids that don't get fed processed crap, in a self feeder pantry, when they are home.
 

Steve

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In one sense, the report states, obesity means the military has a smaller pool of eligible members because 1 in 4 Americans is too overweight to join.

Combined with other disqualifying factors — including criminal backgrounds and poor education — excess weight means that an estimated 75 percent of young adults could not serve in the military even if they desired to, according to the report.

so which is worse?

1 in 4 can't join due to being overweight.. (25%)

including other disqualifying factors... 75%

or 50% are disqualified due to poor education and/or criminal backgrounds..

which is worse... overweight 25%, uneducated 25%,.. or delinquent 25%..

or 75% of the kids today are dumb fat criminals...

if the focus was on real education the other two may end up getting solved right along with it...
 

BRG

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If they want to help the obesity problem, have a combination of healthier food, not less food. Make the kids exercise, and take away the pop and candy machines.

The way Michelle is doing it now only makes them hungry all day, they then leave the school and go directly to the junk food and binge. Since the parents are working, no one is there to tell them to have an apple instead of a candy bar and pop.
 

Traveler

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But what a great way to teach children what a nanny state is! This is an excellent way for them to find out how the all-knowing left wants to control almost every facet of their existence, and that there are punishments if you don't obey. Might just end up seeing a surge in the Young Republicans over the deal. Wake up kids, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
 

TSR

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loomixguy said:
Although my son, who, at 15 is over 6'2" and weighs 230, can eat his weight in groceries every week, comes home from football practice ravenous, it's not just his age laying the hunger smackdown on him. According to him, the kiddies in Kindergarten are receiving the exact same meal and portion size as the high school kids do at lunch.

WTF is up with that? Since when is Moochelle a nutritionist? For that matter, when was the last time she ever fixed lunch for her two kids? Wish the biatch would keep her nose outta where it has no business.

I doubt she has much to do with the portions but she might in the future. I graduated in'68 and never had a pe test, I was 6'2" and 150 and we had great lunches at h school and 2nds at elelmentary school and I still came home hungry everyday. Genetics anyone?????
 
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Anonymous

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Traveler said:
But what a great way to teach children what a nanny state is! This is an excellent way for them to find out how the all-knowing left wants to control almost every facet of their existence, and that there are punishments if you don't obey. Might just end up seeing a surge in the Young Republicans over the deal. Wake up kids, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is comical-- now the Admirals and Generals are promoting a nanny state :???:

Lets see- the excuse for years that the far right has used to excuse anything they didn't want to agree to/with has been that all the media was liberals, all the education folks/teachers are liberals, all the scientists are liberals, and now the military leadership is liberals too ?

Must be hell being a rightwingernut and not having anyone educated agree with you ...
Must be those darn liberal military colleges like West Point- eh ? :wink: :p :lol: :lol:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Say Ot maybe you should volunteer at Gabes school and eat the same lunch he eats and see if you can lose some weight.

Could add 10 or 15 years of quality time with the young man. :D
 
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Anonymous

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Say Ot maybe you should volunteer at Gabes school and eat the same lunch he eats and see if you can lose some weight.

Could add 10 or 15 years of quality time with the young man. :D

You know- actually I've asked the kids- and they said they get plenty to eat at the lunchs- and have no complaints...And they are in football and volleyball... And my Granddaughter is taller than I am- well over 6'......
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Traveler said:
But what a great way to teach children what a nanny state is! This is an excellent way for them to find out how the all-knowing left wants to control almost every facet of their existence, and that there are punishments if you don't obey. Might just end up seeing a surge in the Young Republicans over the deal. Wake up kids, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is comical-- now the Admirals and Generals are promoting a nanny state :???:

Lets see- the excuse for years that the far right has used to excuse anything they didn't want to agree to/with has been that all the media was liberals, all the education folks/teachers are liberals, all the scientists are liberals, and now the military leadership is liberals too ?

Must be hell being a rightwingernut and not having anyone educated agree with you ...
Must be those darn liberal military colleges like West Point- eh ? :wink: :p :lol: :lol:

You and some of your group should pay heed to these military men's warnings of "Obesity". Maybe ya'll should have had a nanny to ration your food?

Or........................you could have worked harder to burn more calories?

The real reason Michelle is pushing the initiative is because of her inherent racism:
III. Measuring the Impact of School Lunches
Students who eat school lunches are more likely to be overweight than their
classmates who brown bag their lunch. But, as mentioned above, this correlation could
reflect other characteristics that influence both the probability of being obese and the
probability of eating school lunch, since of course children are not randomly assigned
into school lunch and brown bag treatments.

7
[An important recent paper by Bhattacharya et al. (2004) finds that the National School Breakfast Program
improves the nutritional quality of food consumed, but does not increase the number of calories consumed. ]

unobservable factors that predict the likelihood that a child will eat a school lunch – for
example, low-income, African American and Hispanic children are more likely to eat
school lunch. Unfortunately, many of these same observable and unobservable factors
are also associated with being overweight, so a naïve regression of school lunch on
overweight may overstate the causal impact of lunch if not all other related factors are
perfectly controlled.
[/b]
 

Traveler

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Oldtimer said:
Traveler said:
But what a great way to teach children what a nanny state is! This is an excellent way for them to find out how the all-knowing left wants to control almost every facet of their existence, and that there are punishments if you don't obey. Might just end up seeing a surge in the Young Republicans over the deal. Wake up kids, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is comical-- now the Admirals and Generals are promoting a nanny state :???:

Lets see- the excuse for years that the far right has used to excuse anything they didn't want to agree to/with has been that all the media was liberals, all the education folks/teachers are liberals, all the scientists are liberals, and now the military leadership is liberals too ?

Must be hell being a rightwingernut and not having anyone educated agree with you ...
Must be those darn liberal military colleges like West Point- eh ? :wink: :p :lol: :lol:
Do you remember ever taking a True or False test? The word "all" is a dead giveaway to the statement being false, as you have just proven. Am also not going to reciprocate your name calling. I do however, find it interesting that a report receives wide coverage in favor of school lunch takeover, just when the first lady needs it most. The ballooning obesity problem would likely better be controlled by limiting the food items that food stamp vouchers can be spent on, which have snowballed under Obama's Presidency, and let the states and school boards set the guidelines for the schools in their districts. Wide sweeping government control over most anything ends up as a disappointment.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
Retired military chiefs: Obesity levels mean US is 'too fat to fight'

By Elise Viebeck - 09/25/12 04:13 PM ET


Spiking rates of childhood obesity are a threat to national security and demand government intervention, according to retired military leaders.

In a report entitled "Still Too Fat to Fight" that was released Tuesday, the advocacy group "Mission: Readiness" described obesity as an epidemic that poses a direct challenge to military effectiveness.

The group called on Congress to continue supporting stricter nutrition standards for school lunches — the kind that have become controversial among small-government conservatives.


"As retired admirals and generals, we know that America is not powerless in the face of this insidious epidemic," Mission wrote. "Getting the junk food out of our schools is the obvious next step in our efforts to address the childhood obesity crisis."

In one sense, the report states, obesity means the military has a smaller pool of eligible members because 1 in 4 Americans is too overweight to join.

Combined with other disqualifying factors — including criminal backgrounds and poor education — excess weight means that an estimated 75 percent of young adults could not serve in the military even if they desired to, according to the report.

But obesity poses what may be an even greater challenge to existing service members, whose performance the group believes is negatively affected by excess weight.

According to the report, many recruits have to undergo remedial physical fitness instruction prior to basic training, and excess weight also leads to more sprains and stress fractures in the field.

"All of these unhealthy situations can have an impact on military readiness," the report states. "Injured soldiers often cannot be deployed with their units and a soldier's failure to pass the military's physical fitness tests can result in discharge.

"Worse, more soldiers were evacuated from Iraq or Afghanistan for serious sprains and fractures than for combat injuries … While it is true that even fully fit soldiers suffer strains or fractures … overweight or less-fit young men and women are at higher risk for these injuries."

Members of Mission are senior retired military leaders who call for "smart investments in America's children."

Their report praised government action against obesity, specifically efforts by municipalities such as Philadelphia and New York City to reduce junk food in schools.


U.S. students consume 400 billion calories from junk food sold in schools each year, or more weight than the aircraft carrier Midway, according to the report.


"As Former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it’s clear to us that our military readiness could be put in jeopardy given the fact that nearly 75 percent of young Americans are unable to serve in uniform. We joined Mission: Readiness because we believe that investing in our children through early education is not a Republican issue or Democratic issue. It’s a plain common sense issue critical to our National Security."
- General Henry H. Shelton
- General John M. Shalikashvili
(General Shelton and the late General Shalikashvili helped launch Mission: Readiness)

http://www.missionreadiness.org/


Seems as tho our ex-military leaders agree with our First Lady- Mrs. Obama...

I call BULLCRAP on mission readiness, our ex-military leaders, and the old windbag on this one.

Are these folks trying to tell us the US military can't whip into shape in 6 or 8 weeks a group of pudgy OT look-alikes?

Pathetic if that's the case.
 
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