"Food coaches push nutrition in US schools; Workers try new strategy for better health" by Kristen Wyatt | Associated Press, August 22, 2012
DENVER — Barb Mechura, head of nutrition services at schools in Hopkins, Minn., [and her] school district recruited parent volunteers to be elementary-school food coaches, touring cafeterias and handing out fruits and vegetable samples. The food coaches also demonstrate eating them. Food coaching may seem silly, but children who have had chicken only as nuggets or patties may not know how to eat bone-in chicken and need to see how a grown-up eats it before trying it.
You know, I think the kids will figure it out. People have for thousands of years.
As the children graduate to middle and high schools, and grown-ups aren’t as welcome in the cafeteria, schools can tap student ambassadors to be food coaches, perhaps asking the baseball team or a popular student athlete to dish out veggies. Or, high school seniors might give underclassmen samples of a new vegetable coming to the cafeteria.
And you wonder why our society and its priorities are all fucked up?
School cafeterias also are using cutting-edge market research. They film what kids eat, test-marketing new products before they go on the line, and doing menu surveys to find out what students think about a dish’s taste, appearance, and temperature....
What's the expiration date on that anyway?
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When does the totalitarian tyranny end in this land of freedom, kids? I'm not saying you should at McD's every night, but
Also see: Colleges doing more to help students eat healthy
You kids really must be idiots.
