Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study

Re:Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of... by legitster on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @11:18AM (#30601637)

> As an aside, Michelle Obama's campaign when Obama was in office was about improvement children's health. Her focus was going to be on nutrition (lunch food). Shortly thereafter Coke and Pepsi came in with "donations" and the whole thing became about exercise, no focus on nutrition.

This isn't accurate. There were changes to the school lunch program, and by most accounts they were pretty effective: https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/news/obama-era-school...

The main takeaway is that the changes were fairly expensive, so lots of schools didn't participate.

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Re:Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of... by Spooky23 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:29PM (#30603774)

The rollback they did in 2020 is ridiculous.

My kids school lunch now is all packaged sugary crap. Corndogs, cinnamon buns for breakfast, Trix yogurt, etc. Even the milk is gross - lowest bidder swill that tastes like wax.

The hot food items are all oven-baked, in plastic wrappers. It’s essentially the same crap that you would see in a university vending machine.

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