Yesterday I was sent an interesting article about replacing junk foods in school with more nutritious foods. Amen! I can’t believe in this day and age it takes a panel of experts to decide that junk food is not good for children. Even though that sounds like enough fodder for a whole article on how stupid our nation is becoming about nutrition, that isn’t the point of my upcoming rant.
Read the last line of this article! Some fool, yes fool, disagrees with healthy food in schools because, and I quote…
“But J. Justin Wilson, an analyst for one food-industry group, the Center for Consumer Freedom, called the recommendations “misguided food regulation” that threatens to make class birthday parties a thing of the past.”
Justin…you misguided idiot! For the sake of a class birthday party we should load up vending machines with junk food and then send junior off into the world with diabetes and a busted thyroid at 18? Talk about have your cake and eat it, too!
You know, Justin, speaking for a lot of moms out here I wish classrooms didn’t have cake laden birthday parties. It’s those parties that sends my kid home screaming, jumping, and then crying for half the evening because you doped him up on sugar and lard late in the afternoon. Teachers have parties late in the day for a reason. They don’t want to deal with the aftermath of all that junk in their system.
Why can’t a birthday be celebrated with balloons, a fruit dessert, and a fun activity for the kids? I’ll gladly trade a piece of cake for a piece of sanity because my kid isn’t crashing from the sugar rush when he walks in the house.
Sigh…I’m really ranting today, but it just kills me that people miss the big picture. With schools cutting physical education to save money and childhood obesity approaching epidemic levels we still worry more about a birthday party rather than improving the health of the future leaders of our country. Wake up Justin…but I’m sure you work for a major snack food lobby.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042500762.html?hpid=sec-health