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The most politically feasible solutions to help I can think of are education and better school lunch policies. I'd think the food lobbies would love if we provi
by jay-anderson 9y ago
The most politically feasible solutions to help I can think of are education and better school lunch policies. I'd think the food lobbies would love if we provided free lunch to our students (other political factions maybe not so much). We'd of course need stricter guidelines to ensure the meals are healthy.
Another issue is it's expensive to eat healthier foods. Addressing income inequality feels like one aspect that could help as well. It's much harder to come up with a good, politically feasible solution to that.
- nradov 9y agoExpanding free school breakfasts as well would really help some students whose parents tend to give them sugar cereals and too much fruit juice.
- douche 9y agoHave you seen what is in the school breakfasts and lunches that are provided to students now? It's sugar cereal, donuts, pastries, and fruit juice. The only thing nutritious is the carton of milk, and three-quarters of them opt for the chocolate milk. Still, as bad as it is, it's better than nothing - I grew up in a pretty depressed, white-trash area where better than 50% of kids were on free-and-reduced lunch subsidies, and for not a few, breakfast and lunch at school might be the only meals they got some days. But for god's sake, we can do much better than we're doing, and it shouldn't cost any more than the sugar-blasted packaged garbage we're shoveling at kids today. Make a big batch of scrambled eggs, give them a piece of toast with peanut butter (although I supposed peanut allergies have ruined that), oatmeal, something with a little protein or complex carbohydrates in it, a piece of fruit. It's not rocket science.