This is the
title of one of the latest videos gone viral created by teachers and students
in response to new school lunch programs, which spawned from the Healthy
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. These new programs are being implemented across
America in an effort to stop the childhood obesity epidemic. Like all the other
incorrect beliefs about nutrition this Act is even more egregious because it
now allows Government intrusion at the level of our schools, and forces our
students to eat the wrong way. If schools fail to introduce lunch policies
based on this Act they will lose state and federal funding; thus the schools
are literally being coerced to adopt these incorrect dietary beliefs into their
lunch menus.
This ‘Act’
unfortunately focuses on the incorrect premises that eating fat makes us fat,
that eating fat & cholesterol is dangerous & that calories are
important in human nutrition.
Does
everyone remember my counters to the 3 big dietary myths?
Let’s see,
it went something like this;
1) Eating fat makes us fat; Wrong, eating fat
DOESN’T make us fat or fatter,
2) Eating saturated fat & cholesterol containing foods increases our
risk for heart disease; Wrong; eating more saturated fat & cholesterol
containing foods LOWERS one’s risk for not only heart disease, but for obesity
and diabetes and
that
3) One needs to count calories in order to be healthy or lose weight; Wrong, the whole concept of a calories is IRRELEVANT and actually
dangerous in human nutrition!
The only
thing these school lunch programs are going to do is make our kids heavier,
increase the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and heart disease in our children,
create a whole host of diminished cognitive abilities which will manifest as
worsening test scores; and will also put at risk the ability of school athletes
to perform at their optimum and at worst could put their lives at risk when
performing at athletic meets.
I cannot
over emphasize the seriousness of this new school health initiative. I have
already made it known at the national (and Global) level my major problems with
the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines. The guidelines then & still adhered
tenaciously to the converse of the myths above; i.e. eating fat makes us fat,
eating saturated fat & cholesterol is bad, and calories are important in
human nutrition.
When are we going
to start basing the way we should be eating on nutritional, biochemical facts?
When will the term ‘nutritional science’ no longer be an oxymoron? Why are we
allowing beliefs, opinions, theories and suppositions to dictate how we should
be eating and when will it end?
How about
some facts…
When are
these self-proclaimed ‘experts’ and I use that term loosely, going to
understand that it is the sugar molecule, be it glucose or fructose, that our
bodies use to make plaque forming deadly cholesterol and fat. When are they
going to realize that sugar is sugar is sugar NO MATTER where the sugar
molecule comes from?
How about
the FACT that our skeletal muscles, myocardium (our heart muscle) and renal
cortex (part of our kidneys) PREFER free fatty acids for fuel; that our brains
prefer not glucose for fuel but ketone bodies, which interestingly come from
the breakdown of free fatty acids.
These are
facts…not beliefs…and anything contrary should not even be entertained as
remotely resembling science.
Btw, I came
across the video above as a result of the USA TODAY article entitled ‘KIDS PUSH
BACK ON NEW SCHOOL LUNCH,’ which was featured today.
OK, so a few
people have already said to me ‘calm down Dr Jim, all the students have to do
is bring lunch from home.’
Ummmm, not
so fast. Remember the elementary school student in Florida whose lunch bag was
searched and then seized by school ‘officials’ and then forced to eat from the
school’s lunch menu. Not only was this an obvious 4th Amendment Constitutional
violation (as well as a 5th, 14th and probably even an 8th,
but I’ll take my legal hat off…for now), but it underscores what I think is the
fact that schools may well start ‘inspecting’ lunches brought from home. I see
this happening because one way the schools are being ‘forced’ to implement
these new guidelines is via the receipt of state and federal funds, and don’t
tell me for a second that if the schools fear that students are bringing in
food which is against the school’s forced policy, the schools wont fear the
loss of these funds; believe me, it will start happening.
Let me take
time out to say that if my child’s lunch bag was inspected, child protective
services would be called immediately to inquire why would I allow my child to
eat sandwiches (which btw are on low carb bread) with double-triple the amount
of meat and wait for it, wait for it….2 pieces of cheese and surrounded by…can
we hear a gasp from the audience…an abundant spreading of real mayonnaise! I can hear them saying ‘Put the cuffs on
‘em, lock him up and throw away the
key…’ followed by the quintessential pirates mantra ‘har,har,har, we got ‘em’…
I know I am not
the only one who understands why we have an obesity pan(epi)demic and why we
are seeing type 2 diabetes & heart disease in our children; and as I’ve said so many times before and now
this is directed to the ‘Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010’….Congratulations
for forcing our kids to get heavier, for increasing the probability that our
children will suffer cognitive decline and guaranteeing our school athletes will perform poorly; and
for obvious and not so obvious
violations of our Constitutional rights! Great job….
dr jim
P.S. Congratulations
to the teachers and students involved in the creation of the video! Last check
it had received 251,203 hits, pretty awesome! Loved the video! Great lyrics!
Just a little advice for the singer, do the words American Idol, X-Factor, or
The Voice ring a bell? Go for it! Great work everyone and I take my hat off to
you all for having the courage and wherewithal to create such an important
video! I am in full support!
