We already know that students (and parents) HATE HATE HATE HATE First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch program.
But now a new study finds that not only do they taste terrible, the government lunches are also making kids fatter!
According to The Daily Caller:
First lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch program is making the poorer children it’s supposed to help more likely to become overweight, according to new government-funded research.
Virginia Tech researchers tracked financially vulnerable kids who got free school meals from kindergarten to eighth grade and found those feasting on government meals were more likely to become overweight. Children with the highest chance of being overweight or obese consumed one-third to one-half of their daily meals at school, according to the study, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“While well-intentioned, these government funded school meal programs that are aimed at making kids healthy are in fact making participating students more at risk of being overweight,” Dr. Wen You, a professor at Virginia Tech who authored the research, said in a statement.
The road to obesity is paved with good intentions, apparently.
Michelle’s lunch program has been a disaster. Kids aren’t eating Michelle’s restricted-calorie foods so schools are faced with a choice between losing thousands of dollars in wasted lunches for participating in the program or losing thousands of dollars in federal subsidies for dropping out of the program.
This is what happens when the government mandates a one-size-fits all solution to the entire country.
Parents and local communities know best how to take care of their children, time to let them – without penalty!
