NYC public schools are terrible! they are loaded with sugary snapple machines. for lunch they serve fries, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers and pizza everyday. they have lunch lines with fatty ice cream sandwiches and snacks. in the vending machines are unhealthy pop tarts. kashi please bring your food into nyc public schools!!

My children are both young men in their 20’s. Even as children when we would grocery shop; I taught them to look at fat content, calories, sodium, by products, etc. Our “family activity” time was to climb ropes, bicycle, etc. Snacks were always healthy fruits, all natural products to the best of my ability. As a result, both boys now have incorporated a natural habit of reading ingrediants on everything they buy as far as food goes. No, they still eat junk food here and there; but alternate that “treat” by eating a healthy meal next. I did go to the childrens schools, spoke to the PTA admin. about incorporating a class, or “fun activity” time to teach children early about the importance of fat grams, calories, exercise, etc. The schools principals as well as teachers as well as PTA members said that the children were too young, children should just be having “fun” and enjoying life. I DO believe this learning process should be incorporated into the school curiculums immediately and for the life of our future generations. My young nephew even now, when I cook for him I make a game of pointing out calories, energy from what he eats, “non-fattening”, etc. No I am not “uptight” or overzeolous nor too thin. But when his parents weight both combined over 580 pounds, his extended family memebers are all over 280 to 300 pounds, I would like to encourage his life to be extended further than theirs; then to hopefully incorporate this into his own family someday. Sorry for the long entry; I know it was supposed to be short. Couldn’t help it though. thanks for reading and allowing me to post this.

My childs school makes sure that breakfast is free to all students and encourages the children to eat breakfast. The students are not allowed any sodas during lunch and they stoped selling them at the schools snack shop. Instead they sell gatoraid, capri suns or some other drink.

I work in a public high school. I know exactly what is being taught and modeled for energy in/energy out…nothing. Our district thinks it is a big deal that they reduced the number of soda machines and replaced them with sports drinks and enhanced waters…..still loaded with calories!