"SchoolFood" news and stories

Mind control over our juveniles as the UK government considers giving food supplements to pupils in England in an effort to improve behaviour and performance. It is true; it is on the BBC so it must be.

OK, so at the moment it is not quite as Big Brother as it would seem. No heavy sedatives to numb the rowdy into submission for example, but there is a report due from the Food Standards Agency about the effects of diet on behavior. This will include such things as Omega-3 and -6 oils that could boost learning ability. Several schools are already experimenting with trials that look into the effects of diet, exercise, control of sugar intake and the like. Studies on the Omega-3 and -6 supplements have received mixed results.

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Food in elementary schools has been quite the hot topic lately, with questions about nutrition in school lunches, and even the proposed legislation to ban all "bad" snacks from school grounds. This week in a conference in New York, the Executive Director of food for the city's schools presented apples slices packaged in plastic bags. He said they were the school's effort at making food healthier.

However, the apples are meant to have a long shelf-life in the bags, so they are injected with a preservative. Additionally, the apples come in plastic packages, which have to be disposed of, that have images of bagged apples on trees. Bagged apples don't grow on trees. 

Whatever happened to the idea that maybe school children could just eat...an apple?