Childhood Obesity are school lunches to blame?

the school lunches are laden with fat and starches, yes, I agree with you that they share in the blame of childhood obesity. For instance take a peanut butter sandwich - they have to use a 1/4 cup of peanut butter on it! that is enough for several sandwiches! gag. Also, the meal is too big at school lunch - then the kids go home and eat a big meal for dinner.

I don't think it's all the problem. They eat pretty much what was on my lunch schedule when I was a kid too. They do however, lack in Physical Education. When I was growing up, we had P.E. all year round and it was hard. We had to do so much. Now they have P.E. maybe twice a week for 30min. They also have less free play time outside at school. Being in a winter climate (just got 6inches of snow yesterday YUCK !!) doesn't help any either. Then they get home and want to veg out watching TV or playing video games. You see less and less kids riding bikes around, skatind, etc. I know parents are worried about their kids safety more now too. If they can't be there to watch them, they must stay inside. And with both parents working, coming home, cooking dinner, etc. It gets harder and harder to watch them outside.

I look at my kids lunch schedule and it's all chicken nuggets, pizza and hamburgers but I think thats only a small part of the problem. The TV, computer, video game generation has kids stuck in front of the television way too much instead of being outside playing and getting exercise. Also, with a lot of families having both parents working it's just too easy to go the fast food rout rather than make nutritional meal choices.