It seems like a no-brainer, and it is: Take the junk food out of school vending machines and cafeterias, and kids will eat less junk food, according to a new study that took place in Connecticut.
When schools started removing low nutritional value snack foods and soft drinks as options, some claimed there would be a "forbidden fruit phenomenon" and that kids would go home and eat twice as much.
Instead, "we found that when you take soda and high-fat snacks out of schools, students did not compensate at home. Instead, they ate better at school and no worse at home," said lead study author Marlene Schwartz, Ph.D., deputy director at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
Kids eat less junk food when middle schools stop providing it
Yep, I lived through going to school and not having the junk food readially available. I still have my teeth as well!
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I think parents like to make excuses for why their kids eat the way they do. When my girls were young (they just turned 31 and 35 last month) I seldom ever saw an obese child. Now I see them all the time!
Brenda
I agree with Brenda. I never used to see overweight kids. Is it such a challenge to provide healthy foods at schools? It is a no brainer – for people who have minds and actually use it!
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