There are
many suggestions on what to do. We all know them by heart. Eat right.
Exercise. What else is there? The military folks propose a revised
school lunch, citing that kids who have junk food at school put on the
pounds. I agree that nutritious, healthy food is best.
The
revised school lunch plan seems like good sense, but can the cause of
obesity be addressed through school lunches? When I went through grade
school in the 1970’s, our 40-cent lunches consisted of Sloppy Joes,
pizza, spaghetti, fried fish sticks, or cheeseburgers with French fries
and not much else that could be called healthy. Most of us dumped the
soggy side vegetables and went outside to the ice cream window to get
our 10-cent ice cream sandwich or fudge bar. We were not obese. None of
us.
What is different from then to now? For
starters, we didn’t have vending machines offering us junk food in
school. We were physically active, required to run, jump, skip, hop,
and climb on a regular basis through daily Physical Education and
recess. After school many of us walked or rode our bikes home. Then, we
played outside. We ran around, jumped rope, created things, rode
bikes, used our imagination, skate boarded, climbed trees and walls,
roller skated, and the boys set up sports games in the street. We were
on the move.
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