Btw, I wonder if the food servers at the schools are government employees with pensions too?

So a dish washer and bus boy can retire with a 2.5%@55 pension too?

Only breakfest and lunch for free, and in poor areas it is 95% of the students. You do not even want to ask what the costs are, and as far as nutrition, OMG is that a laffer, school breakfests and ESPECIALLY LUNCHES are nothing but high calorie, high fat, low nutrient garbage-like pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers…….the lumches most schools serve is garnage compared to a vending truck.

Unfortunately, no matter how much Assemblyman Monning caves on this, there is still one simple truth that invalidates the bill in its entirety: there is no data available whatsoever to prove that availability of unhealthy food (outside of the home) actually correlates in any statistically significant way with obesity. In fact, RAND recently found that that there no identifiable causal relationship between having food trucks around schools – or vending machines, for that matter – and students being overweight.

Californians should absolutely never stand for a law being introduced without any science – without even a shred of data! – to back it up. This is bad lawmaking and bad science, it’s anti-intellectual and irrational. There is nothing about this bill that can be accurately said to be helpful for anyone. The fact that Monning’s office and the CFPA have spent so much time defending something like this, without even the slightest understanding of the link between accurate scientific methods and lawmaking, is mind-boggling. It’s just a tremendous amount of waste by otherwise intelligent people who could be putting their energies toward helping Californians.

Childhood obesity is a serious issue. Let’s not try to deal with it by passing “feel good” legislation that does nothing to address its root causes.

What a bunch of saps!!!!

Name me one school that is in session from 6 am to 6 pm.

If students are leaving campus to go to food trucks, then I think the schools have a bigger problem. Why are they allowing it? What are they going to do when some child gets hurt or killed off campus during school hours? Sounds like a major lawsuit waiting to happen.

Are there not enough problems in the school systems for politicians and school officials to think about (like educating these kids) before they delve into the ridiculous stuff (like food trucks)?

Statins like Lipitor, and low-fat diets do not work, according to this doc. And much of this has been promoted by the government FDA, which also approved Lipitor.

This doctor said that he has done more than 150,000 open heart surgeries, and the real cause of heart disease is inflammation – much of it caused and increased by our current healthy heart diet.

“These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.”

He reported that a diet low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, causes repeated injury to our blood vessels. “This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.”
So much for government-approved health and dietary recommendations.
here is the link: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242516-Heart-Surgeon-Speaks-Out-On-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease

– Katy