@lyndal1838 wrote:
@4channel wrote:
Chips and some soft drinks are still sold at school canteens I have heard.. So are those disgusting mince pies.
"I have heard"......so when were you last in a school canteen to see for yourself.
As far back as when my children were in primary school (they are now 47 and 51) the canteen was banning junk food....pies were only available one day a week as a treat and soft drinks were long gone.....it was all milk and fruit based drinks.
It was even stricter when my grandchildren were in school....they are now at University.
Schools can only do so much to educate children in nutrition. If the parents don't carry on that education there is not much more that the schools can do.
We are now into the 3rd generation of students who are being taught to make healthy choices at school but how many have the same choices at home or do they just have to eat what their parents provide?
Primary school - junk food was not on the order menu - either commercial or byo
High school - junk food was a small bottle of soft drink or a meat pie
College - guilty ( including mandatory caked on salt ) but not ever over weight nor were my peers
As I recall there were very few obviously overweight fellow students, and of those they were kind of agile fatties - why? more modest meal servings , high kenetic lunch time sports , pre-flouride , who knows ?
