(February 20, 2012 at 9:54 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: 5th, it's a kid. If the kid has a normal metabolism and gets exercise, that lunch is perfectly fine.
Perish the day our kids have to go on low-carb diets. Jesus.
That is not an argument.
And the day has come and gone already for that. I await your banishment of the day itself. You're a few years too late, however.
REF: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/303/3/242.full
(February 21, 2012 at 12:11 am)padraic Wrote: Finicky eater? Bullshit. It is the parent who decides what their little nose miner(s) will eat. Won't eat X or Z? No probs; she may get pretty hungry,then she will eat what is put in front of her. (unless she is allergic and goes into anaphylaxis)
Many parents don't have the spine to tell their spawn 'no'.
(February 21, 2012 at 12:11 am)padraic Wrote: As for US school nutritional standard; this is the authority which has declared pizza sauce to be a vegetable.
That was an act of congress, not an act of the USDA. And congress is proving to be quite the opposite of progress alright.
(February 21, 2012 at 12:11 am)padraic Wrote: Recently an Australian child psychologist observedQuote:about 20% of parents have the parenting skills of an avocado.I have no reason to suspect things are any better in the US.
Increase that number to at least 40% and you got a model of the US.
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