The U.S. Army gets plenty of new recruits every year with the amount of fitness that is required to sign up. They're now realizing that in the future, that may not be so. We feed school children with very unhealthy food, and we notice that obesity rates are going up, so we tell them to eat right. Oh, and we keep feeding them unhealthy food. There's an article about all of this and what retired military officials want to do right here.
On the other end of things, there's someone who actually cares about the health of the kids, rather then the health of the army. Jamie Oliver has been taking the time to go school to school individually, making his own dishes, teaching them how to cook it, and providing some fresh food to kids before they get diabetes. He works with kids one on one and teaches them how to cook as well. You can sign his petition here.
The worst part about all this, is we teach them how to eat healthy. We just .. don't .. feed them healthy food. Why is that? Well, there are several reasons, such as low budgets, laziness, and misinformation. When you've set a standard, why change it? When you don't have a budget, how can you? It's a problem that needs fixing, and this is the project I was talking about in my post "Website Blocking in Schools". Next year I'll be making a petition, with as much information as I can possibly fit on how to solve the problem, rather then just asking them to fix it themselves.
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