Katie Couric's Notebook: Food Fight
A food fight is emerging in school cafeterias.
The School Nutrition Association says with the economy sinking, there's a 16-percent increase in students who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches. But it comes as others kids are saving money by brown-bagging it instead of buying lunch.
That means schools are paying more for food, but taking in less money. Some districts are being forced to revert to cheaper, less-healthful menu choices. These are small changes - canned fruit instead of fresh; white bread instead of whole grain - but they take our kids in the wrong direction.
School lunch programs have made great strides the past couple of years, offering more healthful options and cutting out the processed products.
The budget crunch is a real problem, but so are childhood obesity and diabetes. In the long run, a healthy lunch line can be good for a state's bottom line.
The School Nutrition Association says with the economy sinking, there's a 16-percent increase in students who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches. But it comes as others kids are saving money by brown-bagging it instead of buying lunch.
That means schools are paying more for food, but taking in less money. Some districts are being forced to revert to cheaper, less-healthful menu choices. These are small changes - canned fruit instead of fresh; white bread instead of whole grain - but they take our kids in the wrong direction.
School lunch programs have made great strides the past couple of years, offering more healthful options and cutting out the processed products.
The budget crunch is a real problem, but so are childhood obesity and diabetes. In the long run, a healthy lunch line can be good for a state's bottom line.
Katie, you are right again!
On the day that you were born,
The Angels got together,
and decided to create a dream come true!
Mom care about if the food is healthy or not for children in the house.
The people cared about if the bailout was healthy or not for the economy in the House.
In the end, the adult health and disease has affected the child ones.
The miserable is child or adult?
Also, if this poor person can''t pay his utility bills, partially because of paying overdraft fines. The million dollar utility companies slap a late charge on you. If you can''t pay all of it. They disconnect the poor families water, electricity, phone service. With that being said, they have the nerve to charge the poor family a reconnect fee. And if, that''s not bad enough, they force the poorer family to pay a deposit. In the mean time, the poor family goes with out. I can''t imagine a well off person being subjected to this inhamane way of treating their fellow man