Why American kids are obese: pizza is a vegetable
The cause of childhood obesity in America? Food companies (via Congress) are making sure that American school kids eat white flour pizza and french fries every day. For drinks? Probably soda.
It’s the easiest way to obesity: too much sugar, too much refined starch. And the kids often have nothing else to eat.
Presumably no one would argue that 100 grams of tomato is not a vegetable so why should not 30 grams of (good quality) tomato paste, being equally nutritious, not qualify to be accounted for as "a vegetable"? Fibre and/or water content of course, but come on...
concentrate and perform well after lunch!
If only parents would protest enmasse - otherwise it's hard to see what will make this
change?
With that kind of thinking, pretty soon, a can of soda will be a fruit.
"With that kind of thinking, pretty soon, a can of soda will be a fruit."
I thought it was actually, since you have made that comparison on numerous occasions if my memory doesn't fail me... ;-)
The government needs to stop meddling they know nothing about nutrition. This is coming from the very people who tell us to eat 6 - 8 servings of whole grains and eat zero fat! The USDA is slowly killing us.
In Chicago public school children are no longer allowed to bring home lunches!!!!! That is mind boggling insane! Because again the government our mother knows more than we do. We are stupid people there for mommy has to come to the rescue. IDK what I would do if my city did that. I would go on some sort of crusade or pull my child out and go broke putting him through Catholic School. I would rather have no money but at least my child would have some freedom.
Hehe, touché. ;)
They contain about the same concentration of sugar (and about the same percentage of energy from sugar = 100%). But no, a soda and a fruit is still not quite the same.
I never drink soda. I occasionally eat a fruit.
I no longer eat floury pizzas anyway (now my 'dough' is made of cheese and egg).
School lunches are federally subsidized, and as long as the USDA allows that small amount of tomato paste to be counted as a vegetable serving, what you WON'T see on a school lunch tray is another, healthy serving of vegetables.
This decision had nothing whatsover to do with the nutritional needs of children, it was all based on corporate profits.
would tomato paste served on toiletpaper also be counted as a vegetabel serving?
BTW, you do know that all words are made up, right?
" tomatoes are fruits as they grow on trees"
Really? In sweden tomato is a plant and a close relative to potato
My guess is that the oregano growers lobby has a lot to learn from the tomato growers lobby :-)
And if you add onion, peppers, olives, mushrooms and artischokes... then abracadabra - you have healthfood on your plate ;-)
At this time, for me, and after personally researching for the past several years, it seems clear to me that a LCHF diet and especially avoiding fructose consumption, along with moderate exercise is the best way to maintain health and is the winning vehicle for minimizing the chance of metabolic syndrome issues. I wish the agencies that come up with food guidelines and policies for our populations, including children school food programs, would come to the same conclusions.