Natural Ovens and the 'Healthy Lunch Program' Revoluti

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Natural Ovens and the 'Healthy Lunch Program' Revolution

A MIRACLE IN WISCONSIN

by Jon Rappoport

Monday, October 14, 2002

OCTOBER 14 -- In Appleton, Wisconsin, a revolution has occurred. It’s taken

place in the Central Alternative High School. The kids now behave. The hallways

aren’t frantic. Even the teachers are happy.

 

The school used to be out of control. Kids packed weapons. Discipline problems

swamped the principal’s office.

 

But not since 1997.

 

What happened? Did they line every inch of space with cops? Did they spray

valium gas in the classrooms? Did they install metal detectors in the bathrooms?

Did they build holding cells in the gym?

 

Afraid not. In 1997, a private group called Natural Ovens began installing a

healthy lunch program. Huh?

 

Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared

with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to

the menu. Good drinking water arrived.

 

Vending machines were removed.

 

As reported in a newsletter called Pure Facts, “Grades are up, truancy is no

longer a problem, arguments are rare, and teachers are able to spend their time

teaching.”

 

Principal LuAnn Coenen, who files annual reports with the state of Wisconsin,

has turned in some staggering figures since 1997. Drop-outs? Students expelled?

Students discovered to be using drugs? Carrying weapons? Committing suicide?

Every category has come up ZERO. Every year.

 

Mary Bruyette, a teacher, states, “I don’t have to deal with daily discipline

issues…I don’t have disruptions in class or the difficulties with student

behavior I experienced before we started the food program.”

 

One student asserted, “Now that I can concentrate I think it’s easier to get

along with people…” What a concept---eating healthier food increases

concentration.

 

Principal Coenen sums it up: “I can’t buy the argument that it’s too costly for

schools to provide good nutrition for their students. I found that one cost will

reduce another. I don’t have the vandalism. I don’t have the litter. I don’t

have the need for high security.”

 

At a nearby middle school, the new food program is catching on. A teacher there,

Dennis Abram, reports, “I’ve taught here almost 30 years. I see the kids this

year as calmer, easier to talk to. They just seem more rational. I had thought

about retiring this year and basically I’ve decided to teach another year---I’m

having too much fun!”

 

Pure Facts, the newsletter that ran this story, is published by a non-profit

organization called The Feingold Association, which has existed since 1976. Part

of its mission is to “generate public awareness of the potential role of foods

and synthetic additives in behavior, learning and health problems. The

[Feingold] program is based on a diet eliminating synthetic colors, synthetic

flavors, and the preservatives BHA, BHT, and TBHQ.”

 

Thirty years ago there was a Dr. Feingold. His breakthrough work proved the

connection between these negative factors in food and the lives of children.

Hailed as a revolutionary advance, Feingold’s findings were soon trashed by the

medical cartel, since those findings threatened the drugs-for-everything,

disease-model concept of modern healthcare.

 

But Feingold’s followers have kept his work alive.

 

If what happened in Appleton, Wisconsin, takes hold in many other communities

across America, perhaps the ravenous corporations who invade school space with

their vending machines and junk food will be tossed out on their behinds. It

could happen.

 

And perhaps ADHD will become a dinosaur. A non-disease that was once attributed

to errant brain chemistry. And perhaps Ritalin will be seen as just another

toxic chemical that was added to the bodies of kids in a crazed attempt to put a

lid on behavior that, in part, was the result of a subversion of the food

supply.

 

For those readers who ask me about solutions to the problems we face---here is a

real solution. Help these groups. Get involved. Step into the fray. Stand up and

be counted.

 

The drug companies aren’t going to do it. They’re busy estimating the size of

their potential markets. They’re building their chemical pipelines into the

minds and bodies of the young.

 

Every great revolution starts with a foothold. Sounds like Natural Ovens and The

Feingold Association have made strong cuts into the big rock of ignorance and

greed.

 

Go for it.

 

More info at: http://www.lauralee.com/stitt.htm

 

 

 

 

 

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