in a recent speech, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) assailed new federal regulations that improve the nutritional standards of meals served in schools. He called the new standards, which come from the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, rationing:“This is the nanny state personified,” the Republican from Kiron said during a noon speech to about 20 people at the Webster County Republican Party headquarters. [...]He said parents have approached him and have said things like “My kids are starving in school. My kids are being rationed on calories.”Though King says calories are being limited, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) actually expands student access to food by promoting breakfast programs and providing nation-wide funding to after-school programs that serve meals and snacks for at-risk kids and teenagers.Prior to the act, only 13 states and Washington, D.C., had funding for such programs. The healthy kids program improves nutritional standards for school lunches from “science-based standards” and recommendations from the Institute of Medicine. Such improvements are necessary.According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), childhood obesity has tripled in the last 30 years, and more than one-third of children and adolescents were obese in 2008.
do republicans really feel any legitimacy in these over the board bills and idiotology? IMO they seem to be on a self destruct path and that is find with me more power to 'em.
Mrs. Obama is for nutrition and eating at home and in school is this just something they can knit pic from the good side of the fence, who would vote again against their own health and well being and now also their kids, id hate without reason more important than your children and family? looks like some do. are those the ones he throwing the bone to the lazy don't care parents, yeah they have them more so than we.
