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It's good to have a tool like GLP-1 in the quiver. But we really need to start focusing on childhood weight stats/obesity. School lunches are often disgusting,

It's good to have a tool like GLP-1 in the quiver. But we really need to start focusing on childhood weight stats/obesity. School lunches are often disgusting, if offered at all. "Lunch food" served at grocery stores is often more like candy. Whole cohorts of kids enter and leave the public school system with poor diet and nutrition habits that will persist for life, with the high likelihood of corresponding lifelong health problems as well. I feel it is a social and moral imperative for everyone to take a hard look at the future many of these kids will have. This is not even mentioning the growing sedentariness of many young people's lives. This stat explodes as people enter the workforce. Simply going for a 30min to 1hr walk once a day can give you more exercise than enormous swathes of the population.

DavidPeiffer 2y ago
> School lunches are often disgusting, if offered at all. Are there any instances where school lunches are not offered at all? I believe it's a requirement for public schools across the US, but I'm not sure if that requirement would extend to private schools.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
  It is a requirement to offer lunch in public schools in the US. Very few states are free. Some kids qualify for "reduced" cost depending on the district and their parent's income. The variance in the quality can be huge depending on the district. I was in school in the 2000s. My school's food was almost always more like fast food than actual meals. Fruits and vegetables were not a big component, or weren't available at all, and the food never seemed "fresh". A lot of kids were kind of embarrassed to be seen eating the food. I know some kids that often skipped meals to just eat candy or went to cheaper vending machine fare.
  - snapcaster 2y ago
    Had same experience, and was in a well funded upper middle class school district so have to imagine it's even worse in other places

DavidPeiffer 2y ago

> School lunches are often disgusting, if offered at all. Are there any instances where school lunches are not offered at all? I believe it's a requirement for public schools across the US, but I'm not sure if that requirement would extend to private schools.

beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
It is a requirement to offer lunch in public schools in the US. Very few states are free. Some kids qualify for "reduced" cost depending on the district and their parent's income. The variance in the quality can be huge depending on the district. I was in school in the 2000s. My school's food was almost always more like fast food than actual meals. Fruits and vegetables were not a big component, or weren't available at all, and the food never seemed "fresh". A lot of kids were kind of embarrassed to be seen eating the food. I know some kids that often skipped meals to just eat candy or went to cheaper vending machine fare.
- snapcaster 2y ago
  Had same experience, and was in a well funded upper middle class school district so have to imagine it's even worse in other places