The Terrifying Truth Of The "School Lunch" — Real Chalk #72
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
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🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
5 billion lunches are served annually through the National School Lunch Program.
In this podcast we touch on the quality of food that your kids are actually eating at school, the macros in the food, and the terrifying statistics that follow when digested.
Obesity rates have tripled since 1980. Something needs to be done. At the current rate, 40% of girls in elementary school right now will one day be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. About 3 out of every 4 students is either overweight or obese right now and they will retain that weight as they get older.
In addition, students who eat school lunch are more than 4 times likely to obtain significantly less information than their healthy lunch brining counterparts. They are less likely to want to do physical activity. And they downright just don't have the same brain development as kids who are eating healthy.
I'm personally sickened by this. I'm hoping this podcast will help educate many and scare them just enough to do something at your next school meeting or force parents to help meal prep for their kids.
YOU are helping create your children's future by the food you feed them everyday.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright guys, I'm really excited to get into today's episode because we are talking about |
| 0:05.6 | the school lunch that you used to eat when you were a kid or maybe the school lunch that |
| 0:09.8 | your kids are eating now or maybe the school lunch that your future kids will be eating. |
| 0:14.6 | It's so important to have this knowledge because I did a bunch of research. |
| 0:20.4 | I brought in this guy Dan Mar who is a member of my gym. |
| 0:24.0 | He does meal preps and he's trying to get into schools right now and we basically just |
| 0:29.4 | throw back and forth a bunch of knowledge that we have on the food that's in the schools |
| 0:35.0 | right now and the stuff that he's seeing right now and then a lot of the statistics that |
| 0:38.4 | I brought up and yearly we're looking at about 5 billion lunches that are going out and |
| 0:44.4 | those 5 billion lunches are not very good. |
| 0:47.6 | Not only that but with the current eating regimen right now that kids are having at school |
| 0:53.2 | 40% of the women will actually become type 2 diabetics. |
| 0:59.1 | So almost half of them just by eating the food that is currently in our you know, either |
| 1:05.1 | future children or current children's lunch every single day and I mean you guys know |
| 1:11.8 | I like to joke around a lot and you guys know that you know I have different parts of |
| 1:15.3 | my personality but something like this is really disturbing to me. |
| 1:18.8 | I really wanted to hit this topic hard today and I wanted a lot of people to learn some |
| 1:22.6 | stuff and here's some frightening statistics that really start to make a change. |
| 1:27.5 | I want people to you know go to these you know meetings at the school I'm not sure what |
| 1:32.9 | they're called anymore but you know all the parents go and talk to the teachers and all |
| 1:37.1 | these things and really start to lay the law down. |
| 1:39.6 | I'm like what are these kids eating? |
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