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Originally Posted by exitwound
I don't remember where, and I can't find it on Google, but there was a school who banned all soda machines and junk food vending machines from its hallways, edited its lunch menu with nothing but healthy foods, and grades across the board increased by a full letter grade. Saw it last year on TV somewhere.
It's not only making the kids physically ill, it's not mentally healthy either.
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I'd like to see this study if you find it. There's certainly a link between good nutrition and good mental acuity. Not to get OT, but there is a link between nutrition and the cycle of poverty. How can you learn and grow with a keen mind when you have no food or are eating junk?
Kids spend more time in their schools Monday - Friday than they do with their parents. Schools are an important (though not the most important) part of our nation's nutritional health.
If nothing else, schools should not be "fighting" any good nutrition message learned at home. It should be complementing it.