“Do you want your anti-war Dems with secret sauce or flame-broiled in a sesame seed bun?” asks Jules. A difficult question, indeed.
Archive for July 9th, 2007
Joanne Jacobs points to a report that yet another big government program doesn’t work. The headline is, and I do quote with great relish, “School child obesity programs are failing, experts say.”
The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education
Dear editor: I believe you meant to say “waste,” and not “spend” in the above sentence.
It emphasizes fresh carrot and celery snacks
Were these idiots ever kids? When was the last time you heard of a predator luring kids with celery snacks? Never? Don’t you think there may be a reason for that?
videos of dancing fruit, and hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
Wait. Stop. You mean watching apples and bananas bopping around doesn’t turn kids into little chocolate-hating vegans? And hundreds of hours of lively lessons doesn’t sound too awfully attractive. Still, it should have turned all those kids into a bunch of little Ingrid Newkirk zombies.
Then, there are the things anybody with any common sense could have predicted, such as:
In Pennsylvania, researchers went so far as to give prizes to school children who ate fruits and vegetables. That worked while the prizes were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later, the kids had reverted to their original eating habits.
Let’s see, you bribe the kids to eat rabbit food, and then you take away the bribe — and they go back to eating what they want. Hmmmm. There are at least fifteen dissertations there, I’d say.
Or this:
In studies where children tell researchers they are eating better or exercising more, there is usually no change in blood pressure, body size or cholesterol measures.
The emphasis speaks for itself, I believe.
This is just downright shocking:
The studies don’t tell Leticia Jenkins anything she doesn’t know. She gave her seventh- and eighth-graders knives to chop vegetables for a lesson on salsa and nutrition
Whoa. She gave her students knives, and she wasn’t fired or disciplined? What happened to all those zero tolerance policies? Oh, back to the point:
but she understands the futility of the lesson.
“ … Sometimes I take a moment, I think, ‘Gosh, I did all this, and we still see them across the street picking up the doughnuts and the coffee drinks,’ †she said.
Really? You offered them filth, and they preferred food? That’s at least another fifteen dissertations. And speaking of dissertations, here’s a shocker:
School programs that increase physical activity are also more likely to have an impact.
You don’t say. Somebody should do a few multi-million dollar studies on why that might be the case, don’t you think?
But wait. That’s not the only example of bone-headed, common sense-challenged food nazis in today’s news. That obnoxious Brit on the Food Network, Jamie Oliver, is another self-righteous crusader — and the kids don’t seem to be impressed:
When Jamie Oliver revolutionised school meals he was lauded by teachers, health-conscious parents and politicians keen for some reflected glory. His campaign has, however, proved less popular with the children. There has been a 20 per cent fall in the uptake of secondary school meals since Jamie’s School Dinners was screened two years ago, according to official figures. Numbers have reportedly fallen to about four in ten pupils – thought to be the lowest level since provision became mandatory in 1944. Older pupils in particular are rejecting the organic and healthy meals in favour of packed lunches or takeaways.
Raise your hand if you’re mystified by this. You two, back there, you two with your hands up, you’re blithering idiots — just like the crusaders who think they can get kids to prefer a handful of sprouts to a Snickers bar.
Here’s a question: Why is it the school’s or government’s place to deal with this, instead of the children’s parents?
Global warming causes midgets! And poison ivy too!
Wait. I’m not allergic to poison ivy. I’m allergic to cats, though.
Global warming causes cats!
Hey, CCDS is fun!
Live Earth Johannesburg Officials Blame Climate Change For Poor Turn-Out
Climate Change Derangement Syndrome!
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