A nutritionist she ain't. In fact, Michelle Obama, with hips two ax-handles wide, could vie with Hillary Clinton for Mrs. Pear-Shape of 2014. Yet our know-better First Lady and her new National School Lunch Program diet has driven one million students off of school lunch programs in the last two years ... and cost school districts over $1 billion in thrown-away food. And school district after school district are opting to forgo federal food subsidies rather than give their students meals that they won't eat. Even hummus, yogurt and hard-boiled eggs are verboten under Michelle's new guidelines. The second largest school district in Illinois gave these new imposed federal standards short shrift in order to get their students back consuming real food .. see: EAG News Story.
It would seem to this simple-minded observer that "good nutrition" doesn't amount to (excuse the expression) a hill of beans if it isn't consumed. Unfortunately, Michelle Obama must, like her husband, turn a deaf ear to any critical feedback. It is clearly likely that one-size-fits-all federal food mandates may also cut across the grain in many areas of our country ... where more traditional regional foods have been and are preferred by their students. This program, like Common Core, needs a rethink.
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