I just finished watching Jamie Oliver's 'Jamie's School Dinners' on TV. The show is essential about the poor state of school lunches in England and how kids won't eat anything other than processed foods.
So this episode, Jamie takes over one class and near the beginning gives them a vegetable identification quiz. For example, here's what the kids said when Jamie showed them a:
rhubarb = onion
leek = potato
Really - do kids not even know what an onion or potato look like these days? Has all familiarity with raw ingredients been lost in a single generation?
They even had a dietician on the episode who said at a local doctor's office they have constipation clinic for these elementary school kids and that 'some of them don't go to the loo for 6 weeks'. That is extremely scary. I realize they are mentioning the bad examples to identify a concern. But I wonder if similar things are happening in Canada? Do we have a problem dealing with children not receiving proper nutrition, especially in schools .... in schools where they meal they receive might be the only meal they get that day?
So what is it that we need to do now? What will you do?
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:: Posted by Sally (June 18, 2005 7:47 PM)
Yeah, I can finally comment! My cousin (with a couple grade-school aged children) was telling my mom that she can´t send her kids sandwhiches b/c it isn´t cool. As far as I have heard, this is also a problem in Canada. No poop for 6 days, that is so sad! I guess we can blame our rushed lifestyles and the food coporations for making all this junkie food avaliable.