Modern Health Education Act (Final Vote)

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The thing is, almost (but not every) food is healthy and even required in some amount, and unhealthy in another.

Perhaps the best way for schools to get kids eating well is a limiting of there choices. So every child chooses certain sides, a fruit, a dessert a main and so on. That way we can ensure everyone gets a balance in their diet without too much of anything. It seems to me perhaps the best way is to allow only a limited amount of food, so it's not just a case of buying as many sweets as you can.

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Why are we changing the on school property part? Schools shouldn't have vending machines which just sell sweets

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Well if we just strike the lunch and breakfast line then it will stop vending machines and lunches and breakfasts but not bake sales

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That looks good, apart from the extracurricular typo

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Isn't this one of those issues where we know it when we see it? We know fried food is not good for you, and salad is. But we also know that chips every so often is not harmful.

There is nothing wrong with a school having chips, say, once a week on a friday, while having other types of food on different days, in fact that should be applauded, and I think one blanket ban on anything below a certain amount would be a bad idea, because food is neither healthy nor unhealthy on its own, but becomes so based on how often it is had.

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Isn't this one of those issues where we know it when we see it? We know fried food is not good for you, and salad is. But we also know that chips every so often is not harmful.

There is nothing wrong with a school having chips, say, once a week on a friday, while having other types of food on different days, in fact that should be applauded, and I think one blanket ban on anything below a certain amount would be a bad idea, because food is neither healthy nor unhealthy on its own, but becomes so based on how often it is had.

     What I am proposing actually lines up pretty well with what you are saying; that is, we can have less healthy food as long as we balance it out with more healthy food.

Well we'd need to clarify that the balancing exists over days and not just for a meal. So the average for a week, or even a term, is 30, but individual meals can be above or below that.

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