The increased fruits and veggies was fine, but trying to reduce saturated fat greatly diminished a lot of protein sources, foods that are very filling and nutrient-dense. She basically tried to implement a low-cal vegan-ish diet for all school kids, with the support of the guidelines. RFK’s standards are still lacking, but a step in the right direction. I’m hoping the Pop Tarts/sugary cereals and juice that the low-income kids get for school breakfast can be replaced with sausage, eggs and milk.
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Check this out:
Since improved nutrition standards for school meals were put into action across the United States in 2012, children – especially those from low-income households – have been eating healthier school lunches with better overall nutritional quality, a study published July 28 in JAMA found.
The researchers, from the University of Washington School of Public Health, did not find the same positive changes in dietary quality among children who did not take part in the National School Lunch Program.
This is the first nationally representative study to assess specifically how the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act – championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and signed into law by former President Barack Obama – impacted the overall nutritional quality of school meals eaten by students, rather than meals served.
“The evidence suggests that the policy resulted in improved nutritional quality of lunches consumed by students who participate in the National School Lunch Program,” said senior study author Jessica Jones-Smith, an associate professor of health systems and population health, and epidemiology, at the UW School of Public Health.
“The reach of the program is tremendous. Pre-pandemic it served over 30 million children per day, so improving the nutritional quality of foods served in this program could positively impact millions of children, if children actually eat the foods served. Additionally, this policy holds potential to more positively impact lower-income children, so our goal was to look specifically at the impacts by students’ income,” added Jones-Smith, also core faculty in the Nutritional Sciences Program.
Kids (and adults) need fatty cuts of animal meat, and there’s just no substitute for that.
All forms of animal-based macros, micros, and trace elements are superior to their plant counterparts.
I don’t believe that Carnivore is the end-all, be-all of daily sustenance, and I don’t think people should necessarily be in Ketosis all year long, but any meat-based diet is far superior to the past 30 years of synthetic human feed people have been stuffing their subcutaneous handles with.
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That has never been true. There is nothing wrong with having choices for protein and there is nothing wrong with choosing plane sources for protein. Why would it matter to anyone which sources of protein other people choose?
The fascists are getting nastier. Perhaps deep down they know what they are supporting will eventually turn on them and their families. 
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Honestly, nothing is wrong with them choosing plant-based sources; to each their own. What is wrong is when those sources are touted by “the science” as superior nutritionally or when it comes to bioavailability because of the yearning to eliminate cows for gLoBaL WaRmInG.
How is Michelle Obama saying kids should eat more fruits and veggies any different from RFK saying kids should eat more red meat and eggs?
Results of the changes:
https://blog.csba.org/school-nutrition/
A new study examining the effect of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on children found that, since the policy was enacted in the 2012–13 school year, obesity rates for children in poverty decreased by 47 percent. While the study in Health Affairs, “Impact Of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act On Obesity Trends,” cannot definitively say the link is causal, no such change in obesity rates was found for children overall, suggesting that the new meal and snack standards for the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program and Smart Snacks guidelines available to low-income children contributed to the decrease.
You aren’t making Cinnamon Toast Crunch and goldfish better for you just because you call them made with whole grain and throw an apple and some fat free milk in the mix.
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Whole milk finally returns to school. Even my kids hate the watered down crap.
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Good. There is no point to that watery crap. I guess if you are eating Trix yogurt in your free breakfast the watery milk isn’t even a blip.
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This gets my support - Only drinks in schools should be milk and water.
Now lets get back to kids having PE every week. I was shocked to find that my kids only had PE every other semester.
Part of a rounded education includes health and fitness.
I hated PE at school but that was because all we did was football. Plus anytime we forgot our PE kit we had to run around the football pitch in our underwear. Yeah that would be illegal today.
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Anything they can do to get kids standing/walking/running is good. Games, sports, competition, whatever it takes.
Publicly humiliating kids is stupid though.
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Agree on both, when we finally got choices, i played basketball. I was crap at it but because I enjoyed it I got stuck in.
Catholic school mate it was all about shame and humiliation 
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On a related health note, I’ve been in ketosis for 2 weeks now, and my body is starting to reject nicotine again. I’m not doing the grunt work at the auction anymore either so I don’t have to worry about the euphoria. Good time to quit.
Day 2, my systolic is slightly elevated (by normal people standards) from light withdrawals, but my heart rate is slowing down again without it. My VA doc is prolly gonna freak out again.
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This statement and the likes for it made me smile.
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“Doing their own research”
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Measles are incredibly contagious, one person in a crowded room can potentially infect everyone in a matter of minutes. Imagine a carrier at a sporting event, and then everyone going home to infect others. You could literally infect thousands in a matter of minutes to hours.
We’ve been lucky so far due to having reasonable but not optimal vaccination rates, but they are plummeting at the moment and this kind of outbreak is becoming more and more possible year to year. Hopefully not this year, but it certainly could happen.