Schools getting smart?

"Lictor" wrote in message
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"JMA" wrote in message
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There are a lot of places in the US that aren't urban and where access
to certain food items is limited at best. My point really is that some
people don't seem to realize that a lot of these more "exotic" (for
lack of a better term) foods are limited by *economics* not necessarily
ignorance or a lack of desire to expand ones horizons.

Someone else brought the point of "exotic" food, not me. The point remain
that even in these remote places, the choice of food ranges quite a bit
beyond potato chips and the like. There is a rural food tradition in the
USA, yet most people do not even go that far in their eating habits. A
growing part of the population seems to have banned vegetables and the
like
from their diet. Or even non-industrial food. It's not only a problem in
the
USA btw, we did have some kids who thought real fish is supposed to be
square too.

Proportionally
there are still way more people at the lower end of the economic scale
than at the other end in the US.

Maybe some of the large amount of money that is injected into funding
important studies like "does soda make you fat?" could be used to better
the
situation of these people. Like giving better access to healthy food to
really poor people (getting proximity groceries, funding farmers to come
sell their food in the area...).

To put down the US culture because
most teenagers haven't tasted pheasant, quail, or other foods that are
atypical of the stereotypical white, middle class, suburban lifestyle
is just narrowminded in itself.

I wasn't going that far. Just eating regular meat, whatever kind of fish
is
available, and a few vegetables a week would already be quite an
improvement. Yet, many people claim it's impossible to feed kids and
teenagers on anything but French fries and burgers, because they don't
*like* any other kind of food. That's just plain wrong. They don't like
the
other foods because they never tried them and never had their tastes
educated. That's a failure of the whole education system. Another area
where
money would be better spent than on yet another study.

btw, how's the teenage alcohol problem in France these days? I was just in
Europe and was watching a program on CNN that said it's the worst in France,
and that it's much worse in Europe than the US. So, has it improved in the
last month? So, maybe some French money can go towards solving that as well.

Martha