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School lunches are also drawing scrutiny for posing long-term hazards to children's health. At a time when childhood obesity is skyrocketing--there has been an almost threefold jump in the number of overweight teens since the 1970s--some school cafeterias look little different from food courts at the local mall. Many serve burgers and pizzas rife with full-fat meats and cheeses or simply turn the prep work over to franchises like Burger King and Papa John's, which have a burgeoning side business in catering school meals. "If nothing changes, a generation will be having heart bypasses...
...process, which involves blasting meat with low-level radiation to kill bacteria like listeria, has its opponents, who claim it also kills nutrients. But serving meats spoiled during processing are only part of the food-borne--illness problem. The much more common causes are poor preparation in the cafeteria and poor hygiene among children, who often forget to wash their hands before picking at the salad bar. Many districts are following the lead of New Orleans, which after the Turkey Day incident required cafeteria workers to take refresher courses in food safety and several times a day test the temperature...
...eating junk. When the West Orange--Cove school district in southeast Texas started wrapping its part-vegetable-protein, part-beef "burgers" in foil marked CHEESEBURGER, sales tripled. Even some of the fast-food chains are getting in on the act. Kids who order Little Caesars from their school cafeteria are now buying a slimmed-down slice with part-skim mozzarella and fewer rounds of pepperoni. Frito-Lay this fall began delivering Baked Doritos to schools, and in January it will launch Cheetos Reduced Fat snacks, which contain 50% less fat and were developed especially for schools...
...real money--and calories--are in a la carte, branded items, which schools often mark up 50% to 100%, and sodas from vending machines. Consider the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, which managed to entice students and their pocketbooks into the cafeteria by offering Chick-fil-A, Subway and Papa John's products. While Northside's federal lunches sell for $1.75, a single 7-in. slice of Papa John's goes for $2, more than twice what the district pays...
...before," said a beaming Jose Gonzalez, 8, at P.S. 38 in East Harlem during a CookShop session last week. "Normally it doesn't have all these vegetables." The lesson seems to be sinking in: students in the CookShop program are more likely to pick healthier meals at the cafeteria. "It's not about vitamins and why you shouldn't eat fat," says the program's manager Lisa Kingery. "It's about cooking and tasting your own creation, and then we have them suckered into eating broccoli...