The War on Fat is headed toward our schools--FINALLY!

I can already see how Texas parents will react to this. They'll be against it, the corporate food producers will fight it tooth-and-nail (bad for business etc.) to keep it from happening and more importantly, the kids won't want to eat the food and bring their own. Texas kids will still rank at the bottom of the achievement chain (and stay fat to boot).

How sad...I guess I am lucky...the small school my children go to has a fairly good breakfast and lunch program...in fact I go have lunch with my kids on salad bar day and pizza day every month ( pizza is made with whole wheat crust and real cheese). Personally I would be pissed if my kids were getting fast food for lunch...how insane is that!

Your body is a temple. It should be treated with respect. We need to teach our children to respect their bodies and that doesn't mean accepting that you are fat. It means treating your body with respect; eating well, getting enough rest, and exercising (it would probably impact teen sexual relations in a positive way too).

The best way to teach kids to respect their bodies, is to respect it for them when they can't: e.g. in what foods we provide them, in what activities we provide them

That's all, folks!

When I was growing up in Florida in the 70s we had to go outside every day for an hour. On the days we didn't have PE, the homeroom teacher had to take us outside sometimes for "free play" and sometimes an organized game, but regardless we had to exercise our bodies as well as our minds (we also had art or music daily ) as part of this "balanced curriculum" they taught us this was healthy. What happened to that ?