ScienceDaily: This interesting study has found evidence that the stereotype of homeschooled kids being less active and more overweight because they are at home all day may be upended. It turns out that homeschooled kids and traditionally schooled kids are equally as active but that at traditional schools, kids are eating more calories, more sugar, more salt and more fat during lunchtime. This indicates what I have always thought after my kindergartener spent 1 year in private school with a full lunch served daily. While not having to cook lunch as a mom is nice, they were overfeeding her and feeding her a lot of heavy, starchy foods that led to constipation and rashes. So we really need to rethink what we offer kids for school meals and allow kids if they aren't hungry (which my kids are rarely hungry during the day until dinner time) to not eat until they want to. School lunch programs have really been a government subsidy program for agriculture and now food processors...not the people we should necessarily trust to know what and how to feed our kids.
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