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Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
08/11/09

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Are Obama's daughters in public school or private school?
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BreeDMN
08/11/09

@Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.:
Private, Sidwell Friends I believe. Doesn't matter though, my daughters have been through private and public schools and the lunches are bad universally. So I don't know how fair this ad is.
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funnyface
08/11/09

@BreeDMN: When the girls first started going to the school they were posting the school's menu on the news. It's pretty well known for having fancy pants organic food.
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funnyface
08/11/09

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I'm always so confused by studies like "food stamps linked to weight gain in women." Could it not be that poverty is stressful, and stress causes weight gain?

Also, my husband and I each identify looks and personality with one of our dogs. I'm the skinny, bouncy, slightly crazy one. He's the slightly chubby (his words, not mine), laid back, loyal one. (You can see them in my avatar, red one=hubs, black one=me.)
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zpmadd
08/11/09

@funnyface: or, you know, the fact that a. inexpensive food is usually less healthful and b. the food programs, mostly run by the USDA, are inherently tied to corn subsidies, and thus to foods high in corn and corn byproduct?
Yes, those things, too.
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funnyface
08/11/09

@zpmadd: Absolutely. Big Corn is EVIL.
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zpmadd
08/11/09

@funnyface: oh it's one of my pet issues, so here we are!
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CurtCole
08/11/09

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You can drive a big truck, but the physicians suck--CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP--Deep in the heart of TEXAS!
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
08/11/09

@CurtCole: Yeah yeah, you're not the one with the uterus who has to try and con a vaccination out of these people sometime in the next 3 years while not having health insurance!
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badmutha
08/11/09

@CurtCole: They get a big fail, if you're a female - CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP- Deep in the heart of TEXAS!!
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CurtCole
08/11/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yep, Texas, my Texas...you fail as a State. Maybe Gov. Rick Perry was right.
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badmutha
08/11/09

@CurtCole: It is my Texas too brother. And Perry is an idiot, except when he tried to mandate that all eligible females get the shot. I swear his wife came up with that idea. She is a former nurse.
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labeled
08/11/09

@CurtCole: Dude.. the FUCK? Don't ever utter his name out loud unless you want to summon it.
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labeled
08/11/09

@badmutha: I agree with you - I imagine quite a standoff at the supper table.
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CurtCole
08/11/09

@badmutha: Only joking.
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DangerMouse
04/29/09

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I am late to the game here, but if this means that 4th grade boys will be eating beans at lunch, heaven help everyone around them.
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Mafalda para Presidente
04/29/09

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Yeah, school meals need to be healthier, but even if they were (based on what I saw on my own time and now with my younger brother) I doubt many of the kids would eat them. Good eating habits begin at HOME.
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FashionShowAtLunch
04/29/09

@Mafalda para Presidente:

That is so so true.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
04/29/09

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So more stuff for kids to throw into the trash at the end of lunch period?
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stinkfactor
04/29/09

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the name wyntergrace makes me think of wintermute, which makes me think of peter riviera and totally throws me off track.
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bananastand
04/29/09

@stinkfactor: It makes me think of chewing gum.
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Rare Affinity
04/29/09

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I switched off reading the moment I realised she was Montel William's daughter. This has daddy's fingerprints all over it. I wonder whether the Physicians rep would be interested in the girl if her father was some ordinary joe.
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EKane
04/29/09

@Rare Affinity: I knew she looked (and sounded) familar... I doubt they would pay any attention to her if she was just Winter Grace Williams from Indiana.
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portia_sue
04/29/09

@Rare Affinity: FWIW, when I knew her, she had almost no contact with Montel Williams. He is her father biologically, but that doesn't mean he has anything to do with her.

I last saw her two years ago, so maybe things have changed, but I doubt it. Her parents weren't together.
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
04/29/09

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I hope they do make school lunches healthier. However, given the sorry state of elementary education in many neighborhoods getting some textbook and making sure 4th graders can read is also important.

I feel the two go hand in hand. It's hard for Jane and Johnny to focus in class when they are eating nothing but junk.

An expat blogger in Le Marche. Italy posted a typical weekly school lunch schedule for an elementary public school in her area. Tons of veggies, some fish, of course pasta, plenty of fruits, etc.

Then she posted the lunch served at her old school back in the States. Lots of processed and fried foods and no veggies or fruit.
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gherkinfiend
04/29/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Here in the UK Jamie Oliver has been running a huge campaign to improve school meals to make them healthier.

I don't know if there's more veggie options or not, but it has been hugely successful even though costs have gone up.

[www.jamieoliver.com]
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chatterboxwriting
04/29/09

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I was just thinking about my school lunch options when I was a kid and, even if vegetarianism was not an issue, they could definitely stand to be healthier. The hot lunch was usually something with a cheese sauce or fried dish (fish patty, chicken patty, mac and cheese, etc.). You could get a peanut butter sandwich on white bread as an alternate selection. The snacks available included chips, pretzels, soft pretzels, and nachos. Soda machines were outside of the cafeteria for our use. I think they added a side salad as an option my senior year, but the "salad" was like 3 lettuce leaves with two tomato wedges on top.

I am glad this girl is using her energy to do some good.
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JinxyMcDeath
04/29/09

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When I was in middle school, I wrote a letter to Chelsea Clinton when her dad was first elected (we are around the same age, give or take a year or two), essentially offering to be her best friend. I lived in DC at the time. She never wrote back. Chelsea, the offer still stands.
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SpicyTamale is a GA peach
04/29/09

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we had an open campus in high school. So yeah I had the ability to go home and eat a healthy, well balanced meal but i usually would hit up Sonic for a coke and a burger.
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Iris Murray
04/29/09

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I hope this young lady succeeds in her campaign to get vegetarian, healthy options for school lunches...it would make it easier for my meat-eating daughter to kick those broccoli eating kids asses!

Meat rules!
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pinkyBella
04/29/09

@Iris Murray: Huh?
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bananastand
04/29/09

@Iris Murray: That comment is just idiotic.
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meritxell: an erotic life
04/29/09

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Montel, I love you, but Wyntergrace? Yikes.
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Rare Affinity
04/29/09

@meritxell: I went off Monetl when he made a fawning presentation to John Travalota's wife for her work on green issues. This for a woman whose husband parks his jumbo jet next to their house!!
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meritxell: an erotic life
04/29/09

@Rare Affinity: Bwah! Well I used to watch him after school when he was T to the RASHY so I will always have a soft spot for him.
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Mrs. Stephen Fry
04/29/09

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I have two young cousins who have been forced to be vegetarians since birth, and they are two of the weediest, sickliest looking children I've ever seen. I don't think children should be forced to be vegetarians. I think they should make that decision for themselves when they are old enough.

By the way, I'm a vegetarian, too.
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Liz11685
04/29/09

@Mrs. Stephen Fry: I had a friend who grew up eating almost all meat dishes, and she was also sickly looking. Perhaps they aren't getting the proper nutrition, but that can fall on either side of the spectrum.
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FashionShowAtLunch
04/29/09

@Mrs. Stephen Fry:

I've never had a piece of meat in my entire life, and I am a-okay.

Any parent is technically "forcing" the kid to eat a certain kind of diet, as they are the ones preparing the food.

I don't think children should be forced to eat processed fast food products, but unfortunately many are.
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