Sunday, March 23, 2025

Healthy lunches: Michelle Obama's lunch program and now RFKJr.

a lot of junk advertisements in this video, but if you forward to 28 minutes they discuss healthy foods in the schools initiative sponsored by Michelle Obama, that failed due to politics, but also because those who chose the foods didn't understand you have to make the food palatable for the ones eating it (i.e. theoretical knowledge on healthy food, but not cultural knowledge of how to make it taste good, or to introduce food that will be accepted by children raised in a different culture than upper middle class elite women).

Sigh

one does hope that RFK Jr will ask Michelle Obama to help out in this project.

but if they do, they need to include people knowledgeable of the culture: When I worked in the IHS we didn't introduce foods from the fancy elite dietary types, but we taught how to make their favorite foods in a healthy way: Whole wheat for fry bread, less sugar and less salt in the diet, use vegetable oil instead of lard, include more vegetable dishes, include fruit as snacks, etc.


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