I'm currently working on a new entry all about food and nutrition during pregnancy, but while I'm working on it, this is a link to another blog that I've started reading about a teacher in Illinois who is eating school lunches for a year to prove just how horribly unhealthy they are for children.

http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/

A few months ago I saw a documentary titled Killer at Large, which explores the growing problem of childhood obesity. As a lover and advocate of children and young adults, this is something that was greatly concerning to me. Now as a soon to be mother, the importance is even greater.

It truly sickens me how little concern and care is given to the meals students in this country receive. There is definitely an issue of poverty in this as well, as students who come from low income families have no choice but to eat the lunches available to them as school. While getting some food is better than none, this poor nutrition only further serves to feed the system keeping lower economic classes down and dependent on the very system abusing them.

I always get upset when someone is not being served and supported by those in a position and with the responsibility to do so. This increases when those people are children, as I feel that children should be fully engaged with the experience of being children. That is, exploring, experiencing and learning about the world around them and the wonderment it contains. We as adults have a responsibility to ensure that children are given an honest chance to become fully developed, caring and critically thinking adults. When we do things like let our children be fed garbage that makes them unhealthy and unable to be full human beings, we are failing them, plain and simple.