Fresh fruit in schools

[Guest guest]

About 21 years ago the Conservative govenment

took over running this country, they were in power for

18 years and were cutting government expenditure

like anything, that included education. The school

meals service declined drastically, nutrition of any

kind went by the board. As a result we have a greater

culture of children eating chips and burgers and other

similar things for lunch. The new government has only had

3 years to try and turn the clock back to any

semblance of a better diet, this free fresh fruit is a much

better idea than the previous milk they used to get. We

have to give them credit for starting out with the

right ideas.<br>Education was starved with cash and the

teachers were expected to take bigger classes, less

marking time more paper work and buildings were left to

rot too. Fresh fruit every day is a good START. I

hope that explains the situation <br>Teri. Chris .

[Guest guest]

I agree, getting fresh fruit everyday is a good

start, but why are they gonna wait until 2004 to

implement this first step?<br><br>Anyway, if I had kids,

I'd make it a point to pack their lunches every

morning. That way I'd know what they were eating and not

have to rely on the deficient school lunch programs to

feed my children. I wish more parents would do this

for their kids.

[Guest guest]

Hi Teri. The point is Teri YOU are a sensible

person. Most people are not. Only about 20% of children

eat enough fruit, most choose not to eat any at all,

at least not fresh. <br><br>Most children live on a

diet of sweets and pop and bugers and chips.. By

giving the youngest children fruit, they hope that they

will enjoy it and ask for more from their parents or

buy it themselves, if that's how they are fed.

<br><br>The year 2004 is not the start but by then all

children be gaving their free fruit. There has already

been a pilot scheme in two counties to see how it

works. It is this sucess that has decided them to

progress to the whole country. You wouldn't believe how

many people never eat a piece of fresh fruit. <br><br>

Even a lot of vegetarians don't eat much FRESH fruit,

I know, I have spoken to them, and have

successfully persuaded them to eat more fresh food, their

reports back have been good. <br><br>The rich world has

as you know gone mad on convenience foods, even

worse than home cooked foods. I think I've said enough

for now. Chris.

[Guest guest]

Hi guys,<br>frankly, I'm quite surpise with the

fuss the British Gov. (BG) decision raised. Seems to

me, BG read raw food premier magazine Just Eat an

Apple :-). No, seriously, will it ever help an apple a

day? Of course, not! Well, as a first step

(hopefully!) it's not bad, but as the second one the BG must

be told that school childern need rather nutrition

richer vegetable than cleansing fruit. Have you

considered what effect on the childern's parents will it

have? I guess the parents will think the fruit is the

key, the fruit is the main food. They will start

giving more fresth fruit to their kids. What does it

mean? They can overdose them with potasium and

phosphorus or, in the other words, they can underdose them

with sodium and calcium. The food one eats must be

well balanced. So potasium and sodium must be in

ballance. One of the sympotoms of overdosing with potasium

is laziness. Hahh, doesn't the BG want the kids to

be more powerful, successful? One of the symptoms of

underdosing with calcium is ...yeah, tooth problems,like

tooth decay or tooth sensitivness. And sympotms of

booth above at the same time? Speeding up detox process

acompanied with headaches and skin rushes. You know what,

check up the following link, where you can find more

about balancing food. I read the book and found it

amazing, eye-opening.<br>Here we

go:<br><a href=http://www.midcoast.com.au/~sbrook/eco-eating.htm

target=new>http://www.midcoast.com.au/~sbrook/eco-eating.htm</a><br><br>Tom.