So what you all think about pizza being a vegetable?Follow

I'm having chili, so I guess I'm having 2 vegetables right now.

It is estimated that this % has no quantifiable impact on whether or not schools should be the ones required to handle the diets of children. Especially when healthy options exist presently. This number does signify however that Americans in general either,

A. Haven't got as much time to prepare healthy meal choices and instead opt for quicker meals, be they fast food, or microwaveable meals in a box. This is symbolic of the current economical situation where families often work varying shifts, or multiple jobs, just to keep a roof over their heads, clothes on their back, and hopefully food on the table.

B. Are to lazy to care for themselves, and opt to have food made ready to eat, from similar sources to the above.

While it is unfortunate that Americans are getting fatter, the onus to change shouldn't be placed on the government, it should be placed on the people. If a parent wants their kids to eat a salad at lunch then they should send their kid with salad, or hope the kid makes the proper choice in their eating habits when getting food from a cafeteria.

Hey don't paint me as a piece of sh*t. I think that eating right starts at home. If all a kid sees is MCD's and Pizza then obviously they will think of that as good food. The issue lies in education of good/bad food, at home and in school. Money i probably better spent telling kids why eating the chicken fingers is probably better than eating the mexifries.

(i m also hoping i missed a joke, because 25% of americans being to fat to join the army is an arbitrary number.)



Edited, Nov 19th 2011 7:39pm by rdmcandie

The western world is fat? Watch Wall-E, its a clever story that portrays well what automation is doing to us. We are getting fatter because we have made our lives easier. The Automobile, Fast Food, Debit, Computer/TV/Phones. We have made the world so accessible, and it requires us less effort physically, and mentally to do stuff. The world is getting fat and dumb the further we advance our obsession oh having our menial tasks completed for us so we have more free time to do nothing.

You got a **** in your pocket?

This is what happens when you cut spending on technology. We should be getting our food Jetson style by now.

This morning on the radio was a story about chocolate milk. Many schools are cutting it from the lunch menus because of the sugar. Apparently runners and other endurance athletes, however, have taken to drinking chocolate milk as a recovery beverage after work-outs.

Chocolate milk works the same as any sports drink, like Gatorade, except it has far far less salt.

They'll make it up in pseudo-pizza.

I've started watching the Jaime Oliver food revolution TV series now. I couldn't fffing believe they were serving kids pizza for breakfast... just nuts.

And the family that ate chocolate covered donuts for breakfast. omfg

Diabetes?

Nevermind that the family in question was morbidly obese.

Edited, Nov 21st 2011 10:05am by Olorinus

Donuts for breakfast aren't going to get you diabetes, there's far more to it than that. Besides, maybe the donut was made with whole wheat flour instead of white and maybe the
chocolate dip was made with splenda. At that point, it would actually become a recommended breakfast item.