Potato in school lunches

"Our ignorance is just as valid as your science," Congress said to us on November 14, 2011 when it blocked the USDA starchy food recommendation for school lunches. Now, french fries can be served as often as the school food police and food service companies want them served. Because potatoes are loaded with easily digested carbohydrates the body responds to the consumption of this food the same way it responds to eating table sugar. Here is Dr. Willett's MD response to Senator Collins of Maine and Senator Udall of Colorado. "Unfortunately, Congress embedded their changes to the school lunch plan in a broad spending bill that President Obama could not veto. This is a short term victory for potato growers and narrow parts of the food industry, but the losers are our children who will pay in shortened lives and suffering. In the debate about foods in schools, Senator Collins from potato-growing Maine argued that our country could not afford the cost of approximately one billion dollars a year to feed children healthy vegetables instead high-starch foods. This is amazingly short-sighted, because the costs of the obesity epidemic already raging in our children's generation will be many hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming decades. In reality, we can't afford a society burdened with disability at what should be productive ages and ever escalating medical costs." Read our response on the dangers of the frequent consumption of easily digested carbohydrates. See: http://www.starchildscience.org/children'.html

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• potatoes school lunches
• table sugar
• starchy foods