I'm not gonna read all the bickering about what causes obesity, but here is my real life experience.
When I was a kid my family was below the average income level so I received reduced or free lunches. This helped my family a great deal as we couldn't afford even new school clothes.
Now on to the obesity, I was a healthy kid until I started eating what the school provided and my parents stopped packing me lunch. I went from healthy to an obese child in 2 yrs. I was active as schools required gym classes and I didn't get back to normal weight until college.
My family isn't in the same situation now, but having those lunches did help even though they made me fat. Looking back at it now as an adult, those school lunches was one less thing for me to worry about and one less thing for my parents as well.
There are people who take advantage if the system, but there are those who really need/benefit from the system too like my family.
When I was a kid my family was below the average income level so I received reduced or free lunches. This helped my family a great deal as we couldn't afford even new school clothes.
Now on to the obesity, I was a healthy kid until I started eating what the school provided and my parents stopped packing me lunch. I went from healthy to an obese child in 2 yrs. I was active as schools required gym classes and I didn't get back to normal weight until college.
My family isn't in the same situation now, but having those lunches did help even though they made me fat. Looking back at it now as an adult, those school lunches was one less thing for me to worry about and one less thing for my parents as well.
There are people who take advantage if the system, but there are those who really need/benefit from the system too like my family.
