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LETTER OF THE DAY
"We expect quality education in our schools. Why shouldn't we expect quality nutrition? Healthy kids learn better."
Ed Kast
Saginaw, MI
NUTRITIOUS AND DELICIOUS!
First Lady Michelle Obama has made childhood obesity her primary cause. She's now lobbying Congress to pass a child nutrition bill that would offer healthy alternatives as school lunches. But is more government intrusion the solution to childhood obesity?
"I don't know if this occurred to you, but people in poor circumstances don't necessarily eat what is good for them. They eat what they can afford. This is what they'll pass on to their kids."
Lawrence Calabro
Northridge, CA
"Government is not the solution. I agree with Laura. Whatever happened to PE in schools? Kids now sit around and play computer games all day."
Pam Reddick
Phoenix, AZ
"The biggest culprit in the explosion of childhood obesity is lack of exercise. Parents are afraid to let their kids play outside due to increased fear of sexual predators."
Joel Thimelll
Hermitage, TN
"As a cafeteria worker and mom, I can tell you that regulating healthy food won't work. Go to any fast food restaurant after school and you will see hoards of teens buying burgers for a dollar."
Debbie Caldwell
New Milford, CT
"If you don't like what the school has on the menu, pack your kid's lunch! The federal government should not be subsidizing school lunches."
Rich Bowyer
Sherwood, AR
"When you talk about a $4.2 billion lunch program being no big deal, please know it's that kind of attitude that got us into this fiscal mess. $4.2 billion here and $4.2 billion there adds up."
Paul Crist
San Angelo, TX
"In tough economic times, wasting billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce childhood obesity seems ridiculous. Better parenting is the solution, not bigger government."
Marco DiMichele
Pennsville, NJ
"As long as schools are under a federal umbrella, any funding that improves the lives of students in impoverished districts will assist in educating them. You can't fill the mind if the belly is empty."
Jason Bowles
Searcy, AR
"Tell Laura Ingraham that if you teach a child to eat mac and cheese, they'll eat once. If you teach a child to grow arugula and tend a garden, they'll eat for a lifetime."
Anna McAlister
Boone, NC
"I agree with you that the First Lady is selling a good message, but I trust parental responsibility over federal nanny laws."
Tanner Fields
Evansville, IN
"I have a 15-year-old son and he goes to school every day with a very nutritious homemade lunch. It's not the government's place to dictate what our children eat."
Gerry Weiss
San Diego, CA
"Kids won't buy tuna, pears and broccoli. They want pizza, French fries, more pizza and more French fries."
Mike Hoover
Port Clinton, OH
"High fructose corn syrup is what's causing obesity in our children. The other culprits are genetically modified foods, growth hormones, nitrites and monosodium glutamate."
Joan Dantin
Metairie, LA
"Being poor is no excuse for obesity. Play sports and avoid fast food. It's not so difficult."
John Downs
Port Orange, FL
"School lunches are generally nutritious and appealing. Responsibility for obesity lies with the parents who let their kids eat breakfast and dinner at fast food restaurants."
Emma Reardon
Alta Loma, CA
"Michelle Obama's crusade to offer more nutritious lunch choices at school is just another government intrusion into people's lives. The approach won't work."
Charles Knapp
Carson City, NV
"Today, many children and some adults live extremely sedentary lives. No matter how healthy the food, if you eat more calories than you burn, you will be fat."
Lauri Slater
Tampa, FL
HOW SCARY!
Author Stephen King takes a shot at Glenn Beck, calling him a crazy guy who says the world is going to end.
"Please tell Glenn Beck not to worry about Stephen King. He is so yesterday. Everyone reads Dean Koontz now."
Gary Koontz
Emmett, ID
"Stephen King is wrong. Glenn Beck may be a little over the top at times, but he almost always puts his ladder in the right place."
Jim Carroll
Clearwater, FL
"Stephen King has said he writes to retain his sanity. His comments about Beck suggest he's been away from his keyboard for too long."
Conrad Gabbard
Tucson, AZ
"Stephen King may know fiction, but Glenn Beck knows reality."
Thomas Peterson
Bay City, MI
"King's books border on perverse. I read some of them and think he is an articulate weirdo."
Gary Babington
Pleasant Prairie, WI |
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