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At my huge public middle school, overcrowding was addressed by serving school lunch in 25-minute rotating shifts. The earliest group, A Lunch, had to shovel down their chicken fingers and green beans at 10:30 a.m. By 3 p.m. everyone was starving again, just in time for the school to turn on the vending machines full of Coke and Butterfingers. Not exactly your model of healthy, mindful eating.
Now, some people are advocating higher-quality, less-rushed school lunches as a key to lifelong good health habits. In the New York Time's Well column, health writer Tara Parker-Pope talks with Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist and creator of the South Beach Diet, about promoting better childhood eating habits through better school lunches. "I think having the kids sit at a family table and get used to it at schools - and then bring the parents in to encourage that at home - that would be huge," he says.
What were your school lunch experiences like? How do you think they affected your current eating habits?
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2-20-2009 @8:36PM alilz said... It's been awhile since I was in middle school, I don't remember having lunch that early but I do know after waiting in line to get food and find a table sometimes there was only 10 minutes to eat. So you scarfed it down.
I still eat very fast and I'm sure it's because of that.
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2-21-2009 @10:00AM Emily said... My school had about a 25 minute lunch period, nearly 20 minutes of which was spent attempting to get food and a seat. I have since maintained the ability to eat almost any meal in record time.
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2-21-2009 @12:02PM Alexander said... Often at my high school, the cafeteria was so over-crowded with students that at least 2 dozen people did not have the opportunity to eat the lunches that they'd stood in line for 20 minutes for.
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2-21-2009 @10:18AM LizAndrsn said... Lunch was stressful. Stand in long lines, hope they weren't out of anything, pray you don't have to sit next to the School Geek, slam it and rush to put the garbage away all before the bell rings again. Oh - and do this QUIETLY. Yea, right.
No one I broke out in zits these glorious years.
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