Cafeterias Gain Wrath of Two Angry Moms
Prevention.com featured an article in this month’s (May, 2007) issue. 88 percent of children ages 11 - 15 were not eating their 5-a-day fruits and veggies. Susan Rubin’s crusade began with the candy wrappers in her first grader’s backpack. The Chappaqua, NY, dentist and nutritionist, 46, joined Weston, Connecticut film maker Amy Kalafa, to expose horrors in America’s cafeterias - like trans fat-filled snacks and lunches without vegetables. "Eliminating bad food is a start,"says Kalafa, 48, "but districts need help finding fresh, tasty options, too. "Their documentary, Two Angry Moms, aims to recruit 2 million moms to fight for healthy school menus. Website is at www.angrymoms.com .
And so America’s moms are on the march and armed with cameras to search out and change the unhealthy menus featured in school cafeterias across these United States.
They are tired of the nachos and cheese, hot dogs and French fries, pizza and pop, spaghetti and meatballs approach to proper nutrition. Vending machines with candy and pop, chocolate filled with sugar and milk and it is affecting the health and nervous system of our children. It is hyper-stimulating sugar that is causing the problem and it is not healed by Ritalin. It is the greed for the money that these vending machines produce that is causing the problem. As a teacher of 22 years, I saw the cafeteria menus with their greasy spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, sausage and sloppy Joe’s on a bun and wondered when this madness would stop. Do we really think that paying a dietician to approve of this menu is worth their salary? What kind of example are we setting for healthy eating? Will parents respond to these pioneers? Will our children continue to become so obese that type II diabetes overtakes them before they leave the eight grade? Will doctors, nutritionists, educators and dieticians begin earning their money by exposing the cafeteria menus for what they really represent? Your children may not live as long or retain their memories if we keep on filling them with trans fats, saturated fat, milk, sugar, fried food and sugar-filled beverages. It’s up to you to arm yourself with a camera and visit your local school with a mission to take pictures of the potato chips, pepperoni, hamburgers and gravy fat over sandwiches with bread made with hydrogenated vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup. Fresh lemon in purified water with a touch of honey would be a better option. Tea with honey and lemon is better than milk in tea. Milk tends to render a group of flavonoids in tea called catechins ineffective.
And so America’s moms are on the march and armed with cameras to search out and change the unhealthy menus featured in school cafeterias across these United States.
They are tired of the nachos and cheese, hot dogs and French fries, pizza and pop, spaghetti and meatballs approach to proper nutrition. Vending machines with candy and pop, chocolate filled with sugar and milk and it is affecting the health and nervous system of our children. It is hyper-stimulating sugar that is causing the problem and it is not healed by Ritalin. It is the greed for the money that these vending machines produce that is causing the problem. As a teacher of 22 years, I saw the cafeteria menus with their greasy spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, sausage and sloppy Joe’s on a bun and wondered when this madness would stop. Do we really think that paying a dietician to approve of this menu is worth their salary? What kind of example are we setting for healthy eating? Will parents respond to these pioneers? Will our children continue to become so obese that type II diabetes overtakes them before they leave the eight grade? Will doctors, nutritionists, educators and dieticians begin earning their money by exposing the cafeteria menus for what they really represent? Your children may not live as long or retain their memories if we keep on filling them with trans fats, saturated fat, milk, sugar, fried food and sugar-filled beverages. It’s up to you to arm yourself with a camera and visit your local school with a mission to take pictures of the potato chips, pepperoni, hamburgers and gravy fat over sandwiches with bread made with hydrogenated vegetable oil and high fructose corn syrup. Fresh lemon in purified water with a touch of honey would be a better option. Tea with honey and lemon is better than milk in tea. Milk tends to render a group of flavonoids in tea called catechins ineffective.
Black tea does best when you skip the dairy, advise researchers of Charite University in Germany. A group of flavonoids in tea called catechins can help arteries contract and expand with each heartbeat—resulting in healthier blood pressure. But milk protein renders them ineffective says leading researcher Mario Lorenz, PhD. A heart-healthier alternative: a touch of lemon or honey.
Is America ready for a revolutionary approach to eating healthy that can stop the assault on our children? We brought them up with pop and popcorn, hamburgers and French fries or high-sodium potato chips. Then we introduced them to subs with mayonnaise, hard salami, boloney, cheese and bread filled with unhealthy high-fructose corn syrup, high carbohydrates, hydrogenated oil and trans fats. We had birthday parties with cake, candy, pop, potato chips, hot dogs and sausage and now we are seeing the bodies we helped build. We watch on TV as members of law enforcement with pot bellies chase terrorists and killers. Bi-Pass surgery is at an all time high and the bill is in excess of $100,000 without the guarantee that you won’t die from the invasive surgery followed up by infection and pneumonia.
Think again America, you may want to start at the beginning and prevent our children from an early death or a debilitating disease. Fat build up in the arteries leads to poor circulation and less oxygen to the brain and more occurrences of Alzheimer’s Disease, knee and hip surgery, torn ligaments and strain on the heart and the joints and results in poor muscle formation and a tired, exhausted feeling resulting in avoidance of healthy exercise.
How about you? Are you interested in helping to change our rating by the World Health Organization and longevity that is now rated as 29th out of the industrialized nations of the world?
Is America ready for a revolutionary approach to eating healthy that can stop the assault on our children? We brought them up with pop and popcorn, hamburgers and French fries or high-sodium potato chips. Then we introduced them to subs with mayonnaise, hard salami, boloney, cheese and bread filled with unhealthy high-fructose corn syrup, high carbohydrates, hydrogenated oil and trans fats. We had birthday parties with cake, candy, pop, potato chips, hot dogs and sausage and now we are seeing the bodies we helped build. We watch on TV as members of law enforcement with pot bellies chase terrorists and killers. Bi-Pass surgery is at an all time high and the bill is in excess of $100,000 without the guarantee that you won’t die from the invasive surgery followed up by infection and pneumonia.
Think again America, you may want to start at the beginning and prevent our children from an early death or a debilitating disease. Fat build up in the arteries leads to poor circulation and less oxygen to the brain and more occurrences of Alzheimer’s Disease, knee and hip surgery, torn ligaments and strain on the heart and the joints and results in poor muscle formation and a tired, exhausted feeling resulting in avoidance of healthy exercise.
How about you? Are you interested in helping to change our rating by the World Health Organization and longevity that is now rated as 29th out of the industrialized nations of the world?
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