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Originally Posted by JaneB
You can't blame it on fast food anymore. Most fast food places have come out with healtheir options. When I eat at McDonald's I eat the grilled chicken sandwich without bacon and the yogurt parfait. It is up to each person to watch what they eat and to work out.
It was also never up to the schools to teach us about nutrition. That was our parents job to do. The school may have briefly covered it, but it is not hard to figure out what is and isn't healthy. The schools now are serving pretty healthy foods.
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You are right that in the end it is up to people to educate themselves and parents to educate their kids. But that is not reality. The reality is that half the parents in this world are too consumed with their own lives to give half a shit about what their kids are doing. From what I understand there are healthier options at a lot of schools, but there is still pizza and burgers and many of the kids pick them. Most fast food places do offer healthy options, but many people don't realize what they are really getting. For example you can go to McDonalds and get some salads. One of them has bacon on it. If you get a chicken salad they ask if you want it crispy or grilled. So if you get it crispy with bacon and add a bunch of regular dressing on it, it really isn't any better for you than a big mac.
I would love to see schools have a nutrition course (and maybe they do now, I graduated in 1989) where they spend a week or two just going over food types and explaining why some things that seem like they might be healthy really aren't. Most of the kids will ignore it, because eating healthy is something you have to learn and commit to, but some just might get it and make a few small changes in their lives while they are young that will help them greatly as they get older.