Michelle’s Not So Victorious Victory School Lunches

Nobody Wins

Alex, is a big boy for 14. I have watched him grow up, and fill out, and last summer he was what you could call..obese.  I’d always see him at the pool—he never swam. Puberty had hit him, and he was there for the girls. And every day, he would get a big Mountain Dew.

“Hey, Alex, if you would quit drinking  that big Mountain Dew each day, and swim a few laps, you’d be thin by the end of the summer!”

He smiled really big. “I know! But I can’t stop drinking Mountain Dew! I gotta have my Mountain Dew!”

Alex could care less. He was not about to give up his Mountain Dew.

My son, at 14 looked a lot like Alex. But, one day he found an old calorie counting book in my library and starting counting calories.  He lost all his fat. He learned so much about how to lose weight he now helps others do it. And he did it all by himself.

But not every kid, or adult is the same. We all have different metabolisms. Our food has changed. Even the healthy food we eat is deprived of nutrients because our soils have been depleted. We are not getting the nutrients they had so long ago.

And don’t even get me into Monsanto…but you can’t just blame it on the food.

When I was young, kids played baseball after school. We walked everywhere. Now it’s not safe anymore for the kids to walk to the parks or even to their friends homes.  Look around you, you hardly EVER see kids playing baseball or football in the parks. They are all playing video games….for hours on end.

And now, Obama and Michelle have decided that they know how to slim down the kids, and the kids are complaining about the new menu.  They hate it so much they are now throwing the food away,  and going hungry.

Under the new regulations, cafeterias are required to serve twice as many fruits and vegetables while limiting proteins and carbohydrates. For an average high school student, that means two baked fish nuggets, a cup of vegetables, half a cup of mashed potatoes, one whole grain roll and 8 ounces of fat free milk is the fuel that served to get them through their last four hours of classes.

“We hear them complaining around 1:30 or 2:00 that they are already hungry,” said Linda O’Connor, a high school English teacher at Wallace County High School in Sharon Springs, Kansas. “It’s all the students, literally all the students… you can set your watch to it.”

What does that tell you? These kids will store MORE fat due to stress.

Remember when Michelle starting planting gardens on the White House lawn? She didn’t start that. She stole that idea from Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor spurred 20 million home gardens by planting one on the White House grounds in 1943. But she didn’t go so far as to dictate the schools’ lunch menus.  Now we have millions of “community” gardens, thanks to Michelle. Commune living is being incubated all over the country…quietly.

So, what are they telling the kids that are hungry because a couple of carrots just doesn’t cut it for the whole day?

Snack.

Okay! Those kids will go to the nearest quickie mart and buy a nice big Mountain Dew  with some  Hostess Cupcakes, Twinkies, and Ding Dongs.

That’s what I would do, in fact, I used to do it. I never got fat from it. I walked everywhere.

Obesity is a problem, but everyone knows, the more exercise you get, the less you weigh.

Nobody Thinks they should put gym back into the schools.  When they took it out, all the kids started getting fat. Then the schools were so afraid of kids getting hurt, or bullied, or whatever—nobody was “equal” so they took it out.

The kids would lose weight, and not get hungry for cupcakes and soda. Their bodies would stop craving sugar. I know…Michelle got the “Let’s Move” program going—but how’s that working out? Like the rest of their big ideas…you see nothing.

You can’t tell people what to eat. They will rebel. Tell Michelle to keep her rules out of our schools.  It’s one thing to suggest healthy food, it’s quite another to control every single kid’s food intake for their whole day.

That’s a dictator. That’s not freedom…and Nobody Wins..

September 26, 2012 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Michelle Obama | Eleanor Roosevelt, History, life, Michelle Obama, Obesity, School Meals | 3 Comments