from npr’s ‘marketplace’
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
While driving up to Chico State to give a talk last night in honor of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I heard this on the radio:
Kai Ryssdal’s final note…
Courtesy of the New York City school system… Officials there are rightly concerned about childhood obesity, which is why they’re set to approve a new rule covering what kinds of foods can be sold by student groups during the school day.
Homemade goods are out. No brownies or cookies or zucchini bread.
Because, the school says, it’s hard to get nutritional information for home-baked goodies.
Certain flavors of Doritos, though, are totally okay. Pop-Tarts, too.
So disturbing that our school systems prefer processed snack foods to homemade treats because they trust the nutrition information more than the body’s own ability to regulate hunger and satiety. People, we need to collectively make some change. This decision by the New York City school system is not going to make a dent in the “obesity epidemic,” believe me. Teach your children to listen to and honor their bodies, not to count calories.
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Peach, it is disturbing! If you haven’t heard already Jamie Oliver, who is a young British chef previously known as the Naked Chef, has a new TV show coming up on ABC called Food Revolution. It’s specifically about his recent mission that U.S. schools can serve fresh nutritious meals on their budget as opposed to the processed meals. I believe his show goes around and demonstrates to the schools how they can do this! Thought you’d be interested!
I heard that same report and almost threw something at my computer which was streaming it. It makes me so angry to hear that fresh baked items are being denied over store bought filled with crap, well, crap. You should also check out Jaimie Oliver’s TED talk from this year. It was fantastic.
Hey Peach,
I recently saw this fascinating discussion on sugar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM