ResistanceMedia Wrote:
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> PDM4j Wrote:
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> > "Compared to children with a school lunch,
> > children with a lunch brought from home were
> > significantly less likely to have fruits (75.9%
> > vs. 45.3%), vegetables (29.1% vs. 13.2%), and
> > dairy (70.0% vs. 41.8%) (p < 0.001). Children
> with
> > a lunch from home were more likely to have
> snacks
> > high in sugar and/or fat (17.5% vs. 60.0%) and
> non
> > 100% fruit juice/fruit drink (0.3% vs. 47.2%) (p
> <
> > 0.001) than children with a school lunch."
> >
> > --
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22867076
> >
> > Mom does NOT know best. And
> ResistanceMedia.org
> > is a group of useless right-wing hacks and
> > airheads.
>
> Elitist troll, as I explained...
>
>
> "FCPS misrepresents reality by claiming that the
> statistics gathered in a study (which may not even
> exist -- FCPS did not provide a citation) allow
> them to give individual parents advice to buy a
> school lunch. Statistics refer to a general
> population, not to specific individuals. Even if
> the claim that lunches from home are, ON AVERAGE,
> less nutritious, is true, it does not follow that
> the solution is to buy a school lunch. There could
> be other solutions that parents could implement."
Thanks Oakton Mom for the publicity!