Apr 24, 2012 6:03 PM
The Sag Harbor School District last week, citing the need for further research, postponed a decision on whether to loosen its nutrition policy to allow foods containing sweeteners, such as high fructose corn syrup, to be sold in the schools.
Proponents say the policy change was intended to ensure that students without lunch money could still be served peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches without being turned away hungry. The jelly contains high fructose corn syrup, a highly processed syrup that has become a difficult-to-avoid staple of the American diet over the past few decades and has been blamed for a host of health ailments, including obesity.
But a majority of School Board members voiced concerns at a meeting last Wednesday night, April 18, that bringing back the sweetener would run counter to the district’s... more
Proponents say the policy change was intended to ensure that students without lunch money could still be served peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches without being turned away hungry. The jelly contains high fructose corn syrup, a highly processed syrup that has become a difficult-to-avoid staple of the American diet over the past few decades and has been blamed for a host of health ailments, including obesity.
But a majority of School Board members voiced concerns at a meeting last Wednesday night, April 18, that bringing back the sweetener would run counter to the district’s... more
Isn't a more centralized infrastructure a bit more prone to disruption anyway?
It starts at home, my dear. Quit expecting other people to do your damn job. You birthed them? You take care of them.
No reason for name calling my dear... That's a bit childish, don'tcha think?
Do you teach your kids that too?
Try ribose. It may work the best...
n This whole issue is about directing the school to do the right thing;now it's up to the public to weigh in and offer their suggestions.
"High fructose syrup", a.k.a. "corn sugar" (HFCS) is augmented with enzymes to create higher concentration of fructose, and it ain't "natural". It is a processed food.
Enzymes are used in a FACTORY to PROCESS glucose, and dextrose into fructose. It ain't natural, nor will it ever be.
It may as well be made with a home chemistry set.
1. Your body does not make corn starch, when you eat corn.
2. Your body doesn't use mold, to ferment corn syrup after you ingest it.
3. Xylose isomerase may be a natural enzyme, but your body does not metabolize xylose, unless you happen to be a eukaryotic variety of bacteria. It is a sugar derived from wood.
Savvy?
Or
Don't breed them if you can't feed them
What a terrific idea! If successful, it could spawn an entire new genre of police procedural dramas on TV: "Lunch Police".
Why don't you just support programs that will decrease the poors' dependence on food stamps ?
If a poor family doesn't get food stamps they either haven't applied, or they don't meet one of the other disqualifiers.
And no rent or house payments? So basically,if a family is hungry,and owns or rents,and makes more than $22,350/year,they are on their own-and we are not counting the costs of daycare for children while the single mother or parents are working,health insurance and medical expenses,transportation expenses to get to and from work,etc.
Here's the way I see it. It's lunchtime; some kids have no food (the reason is irrelevant.) GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO EAT.